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Looks like more food tours for bloggers are upcoming. Remember the Trinoma Food Tour for Bloggers, the Trinoma Dessert Haven, and Taste of Asia Blogger Event? This time it will be sponsored by TriNoma mall, Ayala Malls, Serendra, and Bonifacio High Street. So when will it be?

When: April 25 at TriNoma Mall and and April 28 at Serendra and Bonifacio High Street
What Time: 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM but be there by 1 PM at Krispy Kreme outlet to register. (you have to confirm attendance)

If you’re interested in having fun and eating till you drop, just go over to Spot Pass website to confirm your attendance and view the mechanics.

Here are the participating restaurants.

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I just had a feeling good moment with my Lipton Milk Tea. Imagine this scenario….

You go to work and open your computer and you are greeted with dozens of emails all needing urgent responses. You dash from meeting to meeting, encountering heavy traffic in between. You sigh and say to yourself that the time wasted in transit could have been better put to use crafting and drafting the many presentations and reports your boss is expecting you to submit by the end of the day! Before you even jump to your next thought, you receive several text messages from people following up your deliverables. Just another typical day in your own private hell–work. And, you go through it every single day, five times a week, sometimes even more. You cry out, “I need a break!”

Break Time Magic

And Lipton couldn’t agree with you more. Yes, you need a break. With today’s fast-paced lifestyle and cutthroat competition, more and more people are getting the feeling of always being on-the-go and being constantly pressured to rush from one task to the next. They are required to perform more tasks and deliver these in lightning speed. Studies conducted worldwide have consistently shown that employees need to go on breaks. But, if that vacation leave is short of a miracle for the time being, a simple 15-minute break will do.

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Despite all the health benefits tea has over coffee, I’d much rather have a cup of coffee over a spot of tea any day. To me, coffee has this rich, thick flavor and aroma that no other (non-alcoholic) beverage can compete with; not to mention that the caffeine boost is the only thing that jump-starts my engine every morning. At the Tea Appreciation Seminar at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf (CBTL), however, I got to try out some tea blends that I otherwise would never have tasted. I’ll still probably order a coffee instead of tea the next time I go to CBTL, but I did gain a better understanding of how quality tea should taste like.

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Remember your first date over soul-warming cups of Chai Latte? Or when you landed that important business deal over Cappucino? And how relaxing your me-time felt curled up in the couch with your Double Vanilla Ice Blended?

The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf invites you to share your most memorable experiences at The Bean online by joining the My Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf Story. Whether it’s about a beautiful moment shared with someone close to your heart or an interesting event that happened over coffee, we’d like to know what your favorite Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf memory is. Tell us what’s brewing and get a chance to win a trip to Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA for 4 days and 3 nights, with accommodations and pocket money.

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In a world where the hierarchy of taste is usually determined by what’s brand new – nothing provides more satisfaction than classic flavors delivered with a distinct twist.

This is why, nearly 50 years since its inception, the distinct blends, down-home flavors and cozy ambiance continue to remain the main draws for The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, who has gone on to indulge the palate of millions across the globe.

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While some claim that they can tell the future using tea leaves, David DeCandia can do so much more—he can tell you what the future of tea is.

His arrival was a response from The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf’s recognition of the burgeoning appreciation for the diversity of tea in the Philippines. “The Tea Appreciation seminar is our way of introducing Filipinos to the range of flavors that they can have with tea—and what better way to introduce them to this experience than through a renowned tea connoisseur like David DeCandia?” says Marketing Director of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Paolo Del Rosario.

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Whenever I travel to the US, I never miss an opportunity to eat at a Filipino restaurant. It’s something about being in a foreign land where Filipino food taste a bit more different or is it nostalgia. My favorite city in California is San Francisco because that’s where two of my sisters live for the past twenty years. My sister, Lorna compiled a list of Filipino Restaurants in the San Francisco Greater Bay Area in case you are like me who tend to visit these places just for the food, of course.