Organic Sunday Market

There's a Saturday market at Salcedo and there's this Sunday market at Legaspi. Both at Makati which by now, I think, are equally popular weekend markets.I guess, it depends on which day you are available_Saturday or Sunday?

As for me,I frequent more the Saturday at Salcedo. This was actually my first at Legaspi, although a friend has been mentioning this to me for the longest time.

So.. what dya' have here?

- Dried fish sans the foul smell

- Fresh fruits, premium quality

- Organic fruits

- Organic vegatables

- Organic sugarcane shakes

- Organic chicken essence, bottled?

- Organic farm carabao cheese

- Freshly baked breads, usually healthy whole wheat

-Chocolates, organic, in varied forms (powder,bars,cakes)

-Cooked Filipino dishes, ready to eat or take home to your lunch table

- Dimsums, yum!

- More dimsums

- Sausages, his favorite at Salcedo and how glad he was to find them here too

My kids found their favorites too and had to ask money from me to indulge

- Cotton candy,organic too?

Food tasting (common in all weekend markets like this)still rules as a marketing tool here. This works well, that many times I would end up buying on the spot when I shouldn't.

- Yogurt smoothie, such a delight to find one here

The highlight of our Sunday market at Legaspi was the eat- all-you- can-buffet lunch.Not bad for P200 only, you get to taste all the vendors' cuisines. All 60 entries, that was if you could put them all in one regular paper plate! It was just one way round.

With the plate came a plastic cup for a drink and a plastic bowl for the soup.

-My his plate. haha! In it were his favorite Filipino dishes. I told him_"sayang you have to try those international cuisines". Then bragged to him my plate.

-My plate. I put anything that were not familiar. At the end, sayang pala was my plate. It was hardly touched. My gustation was not working right

The place was jampacked with people, so we had to share a table with these strangers from Middle East who where raising their eyebrows while looking to my untouched couscous ( did I spell it right?)








See yah!

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. ;)

Tokyo, Tokyo

I confess : I'm not into Japanese cuisine. No matter how extensive my exposure to this particular cuisine had been, still my taste buds deny the fact that sushi, maki,tempura, etc. are delicious, still I hold only two reasons why I enter a Japanese restaurant or a Tokyo, Tokyo fast food chain_1. to accompany friends and 2. I love Japanese resto/fastfood interior art.







So while my friends would order for big plates of sushi, I would settle for small bowl of teriyaki beef rice which is one of the few Japanese dishes I could tolerate. The others are noodles and this

On the table :




tadaahh: ninja wraps with beef teriyaki fillings. You see, I love wraps sandwiches in any variants. Anything in pita or tortilla bread, I enjoy.



Only this one from Tokyo2x is a bit heavy on the bread. It was really filling.



I paired it with a snack size yakisoba and hardly I finished the pair.



The verdict : well, better than Jollibee :))))))