Cafe Mary Grace

If not doing instagram and having dormant tweeter acct. would  mean living under a rock. Then I plead guilty, haha. No one cares anyway. I don't, haha. As I mentioned   here, I've started cleaning up my phone. Some more from my poor photo overloaded phone :

Looks like somewhere nice but not in a mall , right? It's Cafe Mary Grace at Southmall ( Las Pinas ).




Tables are quite interesting.. No, the letter was not from me.




Again I lost track of the date here, but I'm sure it was earlier this year, based on my hair, haha. I don't like the light here thu'. Not working well with my cam phone, my age is showing here, haha.




I had my favorite prawn salad with mango papaya vinaigrette ...

.. split with my date, older daughter.  We both love this salad. I could eat this everyday.

And a slice of mango bene which we shared. yum!

We only had those two and we were contented. We took home a box of brownies for the younger daughter at home. I love Cafe Mary Grace.

Can't Connect With Adobo Connection

I thought I'd help my phone breathe by deleting pictures. Couldn't believe myself to find thousands of photos+some videos in it. Dominated by food photos ( story of my life:)), obviously they belong here.



Let me start with this one which was in Adobo Connection. I lost track of the date but it was definitely early this year when this local food chain had just newly opened in SM Center in LasPinas. I just tried it once then and never came back since. I was happy thu' about it as addition to very few eating places At SM Center which by the way not really my favorite  grocery but the proximity helps.




Older daughter had adobo flakes plate. I tasted it and it's like tapa (dried/cured meat) that's best when dip in vinegar. It was ok except for the overwhelming taste of cooking oil.

Younger daughter ignored adobo dishes and went for a favorite beef karekare. She liked it. She likes all karekare in the country, haha.

I had mix adobo sa gata ( pork & chicken in coconut milk). I don't remember that I had liked it. I thought it was lacking in flavor and simply forgettable. Sad cos it's my favorite adobo variant.

This chain also offers  "rice all you can", which is the hype in most pinoy fast food chains. But we are not big rice eater. We could hardly finish a cupful.
I thought I could enjoy adobo outside my kitchen, but I didn't.

Almon Marina

Happy CNY2013!!!

Ok few days late:)). We were at SM Southmall that day and looking for a place to eat at Food Street.
People were enjoying photo ops with the beautiful CNY decors and mascots.
It was past lunch at 1:30-2 pm., I think. Almost every resto there was full. Especially the relatively new Korean buffet there with the longest queue which to date we haven't tried yet .

We saw  Almon Marina Sandwich Bar and Deli as the most uncrowded among all restos at SM Food Street, so naturally we chose it. Yes, that's our first & most important criterion in choosing a place to eat_ that it must not have a headache q just to get a table. It's simple math! Qtable + Qservice + Qfood = 3rd degree, haha.

Actually, I love Almon Marina. We don't frequent it thu' cos my girls preferred the commercial fast food chains when they were younger so I would eat here when with husband only.




my plate
I had a plate of  Crab Louis Salad. Yes_ only. For me it's a complete meal. It has protein (egg, crabstick? not counted, maybe carbo, haha), fruits and veggies. I finished the whole plate clean and I was so full and satisfied. Without the guilt. Alright, must admit with a lil' guilt. Cos I used thousand island as dressing instead of healthier vinaigrette, haha.
I made a mental note to copy using papaya as a fruit in my salad at home. The other time I ate at Cafe Mary Grace ( which reminds me to do a post on that, later :) and I love the Prawn Salad w mango & papaya vinaigrette there. I realized papaya tastes so good in seafood & greens salad.

And for few good years now my already budding teens, finally got bored with those fast foods and somehow always on the look out to try something new which makes them my favorite foodie buddies in the whole planet. They are the My3rd7thSense, actually.




younger daughter's plate

6" Farmer's Ham & Cheese Sub With Pasta. Atleast it's not a fastfood chain's burger sandwich for her. She liked the sub sandwich so much. I'm always happy when I see her eating some greens & some veggies ( like tomato & onion ) which she only does when in a sandwich.




older daughter

Double Pasta With 1 Pc. Roast Chicken & Garlic Bread. The chicken looked so black and not pleasing , agree? But daughter said it was yum. Ofcourse younger daughter helped her finished the two pasta. I like the red sauce over the white. The latter was a tad bland for me.

We didn't have our sweets at Almon Marina cos right outside the door was a bakeshop kiosk where my girls    ' favorite cookie sits in jars_ oreo cheesecake cookie of Sophie's Mom.




When we stepped out of Almon Marina, people were still busy... haha.

Belated Happy CNY !!!

Flavors of China

Often, grocery task makes us so hungry and we resolve to running to the nearest food establishment.



















Flavours of China can be found at the mouth of SM grocery we frequent.




Although we pass by this establishment quite oftenly, it was the first time we would be trying it out. Not a good timing thu'..it was jam-packed and we waited too long for hungry tummies such ours.


The food arrived but accidentally dropped by the server_ oh no! all of them!!! My hankering stomach wanted to confront and scold the assassin but my human heart went to the person considering a bigger trouble he had to face . So we patiently waited to replenish our orders but we shorted the list to shorten the waiting.



- honeyed lechon


- crispy noodles


- yang chow


- flavor-satisfied customers x- outing the 10 years waiting :D