Showing posts with label Dinner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dinner. Show all posts

Saturday, 25 June 2011

Dinner Alone on A Monday

I went on a date with myself last Monday. I had to buy  a few stuff (particularly makeup—since it’s been a while since I went makeup shopping) and had dinner alone at The French Baker. I wasn’t in the mood for anything heavy so I opted for Fettucini ala Carbonara and tried out their newest pastry—the Cream Puff Chocolate which was priced at 25.00 a piece. The fettucini tasted absolutely creamy and tasty! I love the bacon strips on top of it. The cream puff is absolutely THE BEST cream puff I have ever eaten!!! It’s like a heaven inside my mouth! I nomnomnomed all the way…IMG_2033IMG_2031IMG_2032Look at all that Parmesan cheese and strips of bacon!!!IMG_2035IMG_2030This thing is absolutely heaven.IMG_2028All in all I just paid PHP 165.00 for my dinner. The French Baker will always be my #1!

Oh and look what’s new in SM Department Store…

ARDELL LASHES!IMG_2020-horz

Arrivederci!

Saturday Night with Lareina, ChickChat, X-Men First Class

Last June 18, I went to have dinner and watch the last full show of X-Men First Class with Lareina. We actually agreed on meeting every Saturdays, kind of our way of catching up on each others’ lives! My classes ended at 7PM, I went home to change into something comfortable & check my accounts online (Smart Broadband finally fixed their shit after 4 days of unbelievably slow internet connection) since Lar was still in church. We met up at around 7:30PM and checked out the newest Singaporean fast food @ SM City Manila. ChickChat. We actually doubted to eat at this place before…I believe I didn’t want to go in since the exterior and interior didn’t appeal to me—in Marketing, ChickChat should amp up their servicescape; but since my sister told me how great their chicken tastes like, I told Lareina we should give it a try. ChickChat is a Singaporean fastfood chain, famous for their cereal chicken and fragrant rice! All their meals are very affordable, as well. I took the liberty of taking a huge photo of the menu for the sake of my readers who would want to try this place out. Click on the image if you want to see a much larger view.IMG_1882IMG_1883IMG_1888-horzIMG_1887-horzIMG_1906-horzThe interior of ChickChat…a little bit “blah”, honestly speaking. Jollibee looks much more homey in my opinion. But I do love the red walls on the dining area on the right. I don’t think I can hate anything red.

IMG_1896-horzLareina is totally familiar on how I take photos before, during and after eating! So here we are after ordering our food!

IMG_1893-horzLar had this chicken dish with Hainese Rice and soup. I actually forgot what this is called! I’ll do the necessary editing soon. Lar saved me a piece of chicken and it totally tasted SOOOO GOOD! The soup was absolutely delish, too! She only paid PHP 65.00 for this meal.

IMG_1901I had the BBQ dish with plain rice. I don’t know what it is they put in the chicken and the sauce, but I absolutely loved it. Chickchat has this distinct taste that you can’t find in other fast food chains. I swear! This dish totally gets 5 out of 5 stars!

After eating, I told Lar we should transfer to the table with the red wall to take photos! IMG_1920-horzIMG_1916-horzIMG_1912-horzOh and Lar gave me a birthday gift!!! I opened it while we were at ChickChat. Here it is! Bath and Body Works Night Blooming Jasmine Body Lotion. Ahhhhh it smells absolutely amaaaaazing. Thank you Lar!!!IMG_1964-horzAfter having dinner, we went to get tickets to the last full show of X-Men First Class. There was a bit of a commotion in the line since the ticketing person was really slow…and this enraged a lan nang couple. SM should work on this issue. They can’t have like 1 ticketing person serve like 20 people on the line! They have 4 areas in there. There should be 4 ticketing persons, too. I was on the verge of getting angry and complaining as well, but the poor girl was kinda shaken up so I cracked a joke, instead. Anyway, the movie started at 9:30PM. Lar and I went to get drinks, popcorn, and candies before heading in the theatre. IMG_1947-horzHere are my favorite candies: gummy bears, chocolate raisins, chocolate caramels, chocolate almonds, sunflower bits, and chocolate rocks!

IMG_1942-horzIMG_1960-horzX-men took about three (3) hours to finish!!! Didn’t enjoy it as much I enjoyed Insidious! Nevertheless it was a good movie! Got home at around midnight. On the way home from Lareina’s place, I saw a motorcycle accident. The man was still sprawled on the floor! It was a scary scene. Thank god for 0% blood. And there were security guards helping him. I think they called an ambulance. I hope he’s okay!

For that night’s outfit, I just wore this chiffon top from Pines Shoppe. Paired it with a black brassiere from Bench Body, jeans, and my Verbena heels from So Fab. Thanks to my sister Iza for lending me her gorgeous studded bag!IMG_1880-horz

Arrivederci!

Sunday, 29 May 2011

Surprise Birthday Dinner @ Amici with Long Time Friends ♥

May 29, 2011 (Sunday) We are still on Sunday, my dear readers! Upon getting home from the mall, I felt extremely sleepy. I wanted to do my workout already since I’ll be out for dinner in about 3 hours, but I couldn’t help but sleep. I promised I’d wake up at 4:30 to do my hair and makeup. But I woke up at 5:00PM to my horror! Good thing Amici was like 25 minutes away from where I lived. On the way to Amici, we passed by this beautiful looking house. I thought to myself, “What a beautiful place to live in!” And then towards the end,  I read this in big cursive letters: “ARLINGTON”—the fuck. I forgot we were along the street where funeral homes stood. Damn. How mindlessly stupid of me!IMG_0909Anyway I got to Amici late, obviously. They were already eating! I gave Ady the box of brownies that I bought for her earlier (didn’t get to take a photo of it, though) Her whole family was there. Auntie, uncle, her ahia and shobe who looked soooo grown-up already!
It was great to have dinner with my longtime friends again! The last time we were all together was during our milk tea session at Chatime in Banawe. Clearly, I wasn’t able to take decent shots of the food we ate because I was late—and I don’t think it was a good idea to make everyone wait for me to take photos of the food first before letting them eat! IMG_0902-horzI had this delicious slice of pizza, servings of the reaaaaally yummy and overly cheesy lasagna, spicy pasta and clams. I was stuffed! And by stuffed I mean filled up just fine. Everything tasted muy bien bien bien…IMG_0916-horzFor dessert we had gelato from Caramia! I had Cookies and Cream and it tasted really good. This is my second gelato serving for today. The first one was from Caffe Ti Amo this morning! Eeek. Good thing I workout 5-6 times a week.DSC01985DSC01980-horzCaramia has tons of delicious looking cakes! If I’m not mistaken, they also have gelato-cakes. Ahhhh! It’s Bon Appetit for everyone!
Here are some of the photos I captured during the dinner…IMG_0928-horzIMG_0935-horzWe had a great time catching up and it’s just too great that even after almost, what, 6? 7? 8 years, we’re all still good friends!
Sarah had to leave early, so I asked the waiter to take a photo of us—just look at all the blur!!! He did take a second shot, but it’s still all blurry! What the heck. This is a clear reminder for myself to TAKE MY TRIPOD WITH ME WHENEVER I EAT OUT WITH FRIENDS. The three-legged biatch is much more reliable than a waiter with shaky hands. DSC01974DSC01975To my dearest Ady, happy happy birthday!!! You deserve all the good things in this world. I’m always gonna be here for you! I love you forever!
Arrivederci!