I've always been curious about Kanto Freestyle Breakfast. They serve stuff that the snooty, glitzy-patooty food blogs don't write about, LOL. Think about blueberry pancakes, eggs benedict and croque monsieur served at dirt-cheap prices. Meaning....below one hundred pesos! Fortunately, I was in Eastwood City a few days ago. Their branch at the Intrepid Plaza in C5-Libis is right before the entrance to Eastwood. I was happy as bee because finally, I was going to try something that my friends have been recommending to me for a long time (one of those instances where I ... Continue Reading...
Archives for December 2014
Air Asia QZ8501 lost & why 2014 was a bad year for aviation
Developing news: an Indonesia Air Asia Flight QZ8501 is believed to have hit the waters off the island of Pulau Belitung after being stalled in bad weather. On board were 155 passengers composed of 138 adults, 16 children and 1 infant. (image via The Aviation Herald) The captain of the aircraft, an Airbus A320-200 is reported to have 6100 hours of flying experience while the first officer had 2,275 flying hours. There were also four Air Asia cabin crew on board when the accident occurred. The breakdown of nationalities onboard includes 157 Indonesians,3 ... Continue Reading...
@CloseupPH Ultimate Quiz Night at Relik Tapas Bar
I've always liked hanging out at Relik Tapas Bar in BGC. Where else can you find a mezzanine place that opens up to a parking area??!! The best deal about the place is that you can sing the night away, get good drinks and even greater food. So I was kinda elated that Relik was the venue of the first-ever Closeup Ultimate Quiz Night! It was a fun, fun event that gathered together radio jocks, magazine editors, bloggers and influencers for the challenge of having the most knowledge about pop culture, showbiz and other trivia bits. The grand prize was nothing to be ... Continue Reading...
Kick up your holiday dishes with California cheese
A few days before Christmas, we received this fantastic gift from the California Milk Advisory Board. It was in the form of a variety of cheeses and grapes coming all the way from California! Thanks to the wonders of free trade, these high-quality stuff are now available in the Philippines. They are now being carried by leading supermarkets like Robinsons and S&R. There's something special about California cheese because they come from 'happy cows.' Hah! According to Ms. Reji Retugal-Onal, country representative of the CMAB, “The climate of California and ... Continue Reading...
Mechado recipe using fresh tomatoes!
Mechado, a Filipino-style beef stew, is another one of those dishes that's good to prepare during the holidays or bring to the potluck. Guess what? This dish was actually the star of our humble family pre-Christmas dinner tonight. I loved that the mechado is good to pair with both rice and bread, like a French baguette. Reason being the sauce was very savory. What sets this mechado apart is that it only used fresh tomatoes crushed by hand, and not the commercial tomato sauce variety.To balance the acidity, a little 'panutsa' was added. Note: panutsa is a lump of ... Continue Reading...
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