Sousaku: Japanese Dining Without The Steep Price

Great-tasting Japanese food at a price range of P70-100?

If you’re in the Makati area and hankering for a good Japanese meal that will not make a hole in your wallet, head now to Sousaku on Salcedo St. Legaspi Village. It’s a small affair seating only 50 or so people but you’ll know it’s worth trying considering that 1) the chef & owner is a Japanese; 2) no less than the Japanese dine here.
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Midnight snackin’

Our company’s pantry is just a few steps away from my official workstation and expectedly you’d see me hopping from one point to another. We have a couple of home cooks who are always busily working in the kitchen, either chopping vegetables, spooning soups into bowls and mixing all the food. Meals are buffet-style and eat-all-you can, which explains why am having a ridiculously hard time losing weight.
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LP 10: Food memories of a picky child…

The monthly Pinoy food blogging event Lasang Pinoy focuses this month on Food Memories From Your Childhood hosted by Mr. Cocinero. After a long absence, I thought it best to join even though I have vague memories of this period, having been a picky eater. This is probably the reason why I was lanky/reed-thin as child. Of course I’d do everything to bring back this physique, but I can very well imagine how frustrated my aunt and grandparents must have been to have a housemate who hardly touched her food at the dinner table.
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A Walk On the Wild Side

In a post not too long ago, Oz-based Pinay blogger Shai generated ideas from her readers about some of the wild things they’ve done in their lifetime. I would like to know about yours though am not sure if anybody will come out totally in the open about those things. Do give it a try and I’ll make my own rundown here.

Reminiscing about my own wild and crazy times make me smile. Reaching this age, I believe I’ve become tamer which doesn’t really equate to good news. Tamer = boring. Those were the days:
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Pagsanjan Cheap Thrill: Aling Taleng’s Halo-Halo

Naturellement, I research about a place before going there and one of the fruits of my snooping about Pagsanjan was Aling Taleng’s Halo-Halo. Pagsanjan is a small town anyway and Aling Taleng’s is a legend in the area, even if its address is quite inconspicuous. Summertime finds Aling Taleng’s enjoying long lines and they sell more than 100 glasses of their bestseller per day.
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Pagsanjan: lovelier the second time around

More of our summer family outing.

From Lipa City, we again traversed the Star Tollway and headed towards Pagsanjan which prides itself as the “Tourist Capital of Laguna.” Except for the monstrous traffic in the crowded university town of Los Banos, our ride proved to be enjoyable as it provided scenic views of various Laguna towns with its giant trees, rice fields and quaint food stalls. Driving through the Philippine countryside just makes my knees weak and leaves me in awe at the beauty around me. It is in times like these that I forget the beautiful tulip gardens of Holland or the lushness of the American Midwest. Pilipinas all the way!

Photo shows our group posing in front of the old arch which welcomes visitors to Pagsanjan.
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Lipa City & Death By Bulalo

Am on a road trip to Lipa City to accompany my balikbayan auntie & her family. I don’t know if it was my dour mood brought about by the pressure of looking after my three hyperactive kids sans the nanny, but I found Lipa City unexciting. Until we went to dinner tonight and my jaded senses were suddenly awakened with a sampling of the best-tasting bulalo soup this side of Luzon, not to mention the yummiest grilled spareribs and freshest, most perfectly – roasted tilapia stuffed with generous amounts of onions, tomatoes and chilies.
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How happy can I get? Lemme count to 10

I am tagging them pretty bloggers Jane, Vina Noemi and Iska (ditto with all the beautylicious women out there) on this ongoing meme which asks you to describe 10 of your life’s simplest pleasures. I am so (in) famous that nobody tagged me but I am doing this just the same. The trick is to be original with your answers and not repeat those which have already been written by your circle of friends….now go!
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‘Life is a box of chocolates…’

Isn’t it ironic how

people are actually doing you a big favor

by not giving you

what you want??
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‘On Bullshit’

My officemate has lent me a book attractively titled “On Bullshit.” It’s a very slim volume, all of 67 pages, in the size of a mini-notebook which makes the P819 price tag rather steep. Having browsed through the pages, I think it’s a “bookshit.” Except that the author is purportedly a “renowned moral philosopher and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus” at Princeton University.
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