YakiMix

Too much of YakiMix. I had it 3 in a row this week. Mad food trip! Now showing. . off to my friggin' piggy cheeks.



*waiting for the queue to be manageable. @Yakimix MOA
Not planned ofcourse. It just happened that different set of friends were coming by and all they wanted was YakiMix!!! wt#!!

Can't blame them. YakiMix is fun. .but not for daily consumption!!



The other night was the most recent. It was with my bfs since birth - Maricor and  Lulu (NY based, on  her annual visit ).  Hence it was my 3rd this week , I wasn't so stirred anymore.

 Therefore, I had time to play with my friend's point 'n shoot  (dlsr left at home, #_#). You can also check how lame my plate was  :

1 single oyster shell, leaves, makis. . all stayed forever in my first plate. oopss, yeeps, didn't have another plate after this.

Lou hauling for pinoy dish?? I thought there was only one there- lechon kawali. Everything was Asian fusion, I guess.



She did however enjoyed the grilled seafoods and look at her shameless first plate, haha!!!

. .and she went back & forth to the buffet spread, haha. Have I mentioned already that this lady is one hell of an excellent cook? She is! She knows food so well.

 to grill plate.



on the table grill - yakitoris, shrimps,bacon wraps.



cooked.

desserts. lots of them. cakes, icecream scooping station, pastries,fresh fruits. .



to which I could never ever say no. No matter how full or frequent I've been. yes.yes.yes.



By now Lou is on her trip back to New York. See you soonest Lou. mwah!

El Prado

El Prado is the signature restaurant of Berjaya Manila Hotel. Located at the mezzanine floor of the hotel, it offers Asian and International cuisines.



A visiting friend stayed in this hotel and wasn't so pleased finding out the familiar Asian dishes from her home- based country in the menu. She had enough of those you know. The pinoy in her was actually craving for our Filipino dishes.

So glad she was to order our local beef sinigang.



I,on the other hand, had too much of sinigang as part of our weekly menu at home.

And opted to try their satay chicken. I was actually expecting this dish as a barbecue like the ones I had tried in Malaysia. It came as rice toppings but good as well.



watermelon and mango shakes

The girls came down for lunch  late. They had fun in the pool and had buckets of nachos which delayed their lunch to 3pm .

If you left these girls on their own_expect that they would order either pasta dish or if they go rice meal, kare-kare rules the table.



Satisfied.

Mongolian Barbecue Quick Stop

Yesterday was another Saturday grocery day. We arrived at the mall a bit an hour and half passed 12 noon. Although we had a late filling breakfast, everyone was already too hungry to argue with me when I led them to Mongolian Barbecue. I really wanted to eat quick vegetable meal and to the rest I knew they always like barbecues. Fair enough?!



Never mind the seemingly confused theme of the interior_ balloons and bamboos? fiesta ba ito??



I was not actually familiar with the menu. I dined here maybe once and couldn't recall how long ago it has been. On the contrary, my girls, surprisingly knew right away what to order.Or was it_the ranting tummies who ordered quick?



While the not- so- starving tum-me, proceeded to the bar to fill up my veggie bowl.




In a minute, I got disoriented. I didn't know what to make up of my bowl..



( hey,another minute had taken me by and I was still at the " start here") I got stuck at the first phase of choices..










Rice or noodle? Noodle_which one?, the flat or the thin? I put them both, the flat and the thin.











I was now at the second level_ the veggies. No sweat here, I put them all.The more the merrier, I mean_ healthier.








I advanced to the spices rounds. Another "all in" choices. I put garlic, spring onion, chilis, peanuts, all together in sync!



About to graduate, I reached the meat society_ shrimp, squid, chicken, pork, beef and two others. Well, it was a party, I let them all in to my bowl!



..And finally the colorful condiments. Oh, don't make me try naming each, they are too plenty to mention. Each one of them, took its righteous place on my now loaded bowl. I passed it on to the server for cooking. haay!
I went back to my family's table and found them already with their plates.


On the table :


The youngest Kyla's mongolian bbcue.



Szechuan (*not sure of the spelling) spicy beef rice toppings.



My older girl Myka's fried chicken. haha! What's new? Whenever we eat in a fastfood she eats nothing but rice and f chicken.



My girls took a fancy with the packaging of this canned pepsi. They said it (the design) looked like more of an air freshener than a softdrink.They think it's cute thu'.



..And now presenting..my mongolian bowl !which took my multiple choice strenght to a test, all ended well with all of the above in .hehe!

The verdict: luvluvluvit. Definitely, we'll come back here. Healthy, tasty, and cheap_ in a nice way. ;)