Shinjuku & Hana

11 Sept

Shinjuku Ramen House
&
Hana located inside Little Tokyo
along Chino Roces st. (formerly Pasong Tamo) in Makati


Shinjuku is well-known for their authentic tasting ramen and most especially their gyoza


Inside the restaurant


Spicy Tuna Maki


Chicken Teppanyaki


Gekikara Ramen (Regular bowl) Spicy!


Chicken Ramen (forgot the exact name) (Regular bowl)


Gyoza (8pcs)


Gyoza in the dipping sauce


Ebi Tempura (6 pcs)


Hana in Little Tokyo


Outside


Cooking takoyaki


At last, 6 pcs of Takoyaki (P100)

I must say that this is the best tasting takoyaki in Manila, somewhat close to Gindaco's. The difference is that they scrimped on putting various ingredients such as the octopus bits, red ginger, and katsuobushi flakes. It was quite dry and it didn't taste fresh as i expected, even though they cooked it upon order.


Gindaco's Takoyaki Boat with Egg Salad (SG$8)

Hana is the only Japanese restaurant in Little Tokyo which offers cook-as-you-order takoyaki balls, almost close to Gindaco's. Price is pegged at 100Php for 6 medium sized balls.



Shinjuku Ramen House
2277 Don Chino Roces Avenue (formerly Pasong Tamo), Makati City
(beside Makati Cinema Square)
(02) 8191242
Open from 10am – 8pm

Hana
Little Tokyo, Don Chino Roces Avenue, Makati
(02) 339-3855
Open from 10am to 11pm

Chicken Charlie

right after exams with car, nats & jess :D

Hailed as the "Bonchon Chicken Shop" in Manila. Wings & Drumsticks!



Menu


Chicken Charlie Rice bowl= perfect lunch for 59Php


Chicken Wings and Drumsticks. in Soy garlic and sweet chili (those with tooth picks are the chili ones)

It is cooked upon order, so you get the freshest and juiciest tasting piece of chicken ever. The method of frying the chicken pieces were beyond the usual. I think they fry the pieces twice, then lathered it with their signature sauce of soy garlic and sweet chili.



It was great since it was not ordinary, it was different from the other shops that sell chicken wings. the skin was crunchy and crispy in a different way. You don't even need sauce to accompany your wings.


Chicken Charlie façade

Overall the chicken experience was delightful since it was beyond the ordinary chicken wing shop in the metro.

pardon the photos, all were taken using my phone's built-in camera :(

Chicken Charlie
Owner: Ifore Yu
592a N.S. Amoranto St. Cor. Banawe St. Quezon City
(02) 742-3333
chickencharlie.net

Mien San & Ersao

after school food trip in Mien San Noodle House & Ersao
with car, nats, jess, aidz & sah

first seven photos in Mien-San, the rest are from Ersao



Spicy Beef Tendon Noodles (Mien-San)


Dumpling Noodles (Ersao)


Spicy Chicken Chop (Ersao)


noodles, chicken chop & milk tea! yeah

Mien San Noodle House
36 Villa Ortigas II, Granada St., Quezon City
(it's renovated now)
Tel. (02) 721-7594

Ersao
17A Araneta Ave. cor.
Tuazon Malabon, Quezon City
(02) 364-4886 • 447-0621

PhPhoto EB (15th Graphic Expo 2010)

19 June 2010

at SMX, Mall of Asia

PhPhoto meet up for Photographers Move (PhPhoto's version of Photographers Ignite) It was a very informative and fun session featuring the country's leading photographers in their fields.

Jay Tablante (Anime/cosplay), Ken Go (lights/shadows), Edwin Tuyay (photojournalism), Lito Genilo (wedding), Jun Miranda (of PCCI), Raymund Isaac (fashion), Anton Shecker (travel), Harvey and John Chua (advertising - adphoto), Jay Jallorina (landscape travel), and John Javellana (photojournalism).

Interestingly, Fiona won a lens dry case & I won a hefty leather wedding photo album from Albums & Co. :)

Last Hurrah

14 June 2010

Last one for the summer, first for the academic year. The night before classes start. Met up with the college blockmates for bbz in Grilla since many of us are going to be busy in the next couple of weeks.


Good times :))

Anawangin Cove Adventure

04 to 05 June 2010

DIY aka. Man vs. Wild Anawangin Trip with Daph, Fx, Abby, Anma, Den, Mon, Les & Russ.

For God so loved the world, it rained almost non-stop during the whole trip. Going to Anawangin requires one to ride a motorized boat (or for the more adventurous type, a 4 to 5 hour trek via the mountains of Anawangin from Pundaquit). We braved the waves splashing directly to our faces. Daig pa ang Jungle Log Jam ng EK. :)) Though it rained, it didn't stop us from having a great slash grand time. Twas really fun!

Pitching tents pa lang, adventure na eh, pano pa yung iba :D

click here to view the **HI-RES/ LARGE** photos.



Dreamy dreamy

Anawangin Cove - right

View from the mini lagoon

View of the mountains of Anawangin

photogenic ang Anawangin ah!

the beauty of having a tripod :)








merong photobooth pa :p


next year ulit! :p

Five Days in Singapore

05 to 10 May 2010

Roaming around SG using the trains (SMRT), buses and the ever reliable shoes :)
This is the tour edition. Sorry, no more food. :))



Riverside Point



Marina Bay Sands



Esplanade Theaters at the Bay


Merlion Park

the Thursday shuffle (new songs)

I just found out a while ago that uploading slash posting music is disabled. Multiply mukhang patalo ka na talaga‽ tsk.
 

Anyway, I just finished organizing, and updating my zuneHD, from the specific album to the year of release, and down to the specific track number of each song. Haha, biglang umiral ang ocpd ko. It took me two & a half days to do it, having one to two hours break, per six hours. A great way if want to skip meals :)


I sort of arranged it by genre, rather that doing it by playlist. I only have 32gb storage (sayang, may 64gb na yung zuneHD). So, with limited storage, I deliberately deleted some of the hiphop songs na walang kakwenta na na na-download ko dati (ung mga puro shawty, booty, in the hood, ganstah shit, at kung ano pang walang ka-kwenta-kwentang lyrics). Well, I still retained the 90's Rnb songs by Jay-Z, Another Level, TQ, Mase, Blackstreet, 112.

What I did really, was to organize the songs according to their respective genres: Indie, Indie Pop, Electro Pop, Contemporary Christian, Oldies + Boybands, and Classics (Canon in D type of music :p)

Well here are some of the songs I really enjoyed listening to while doing the aforementioned task, & might as well share it:


1.   Heart it Races (Architecture in Helsinki Cover) by Dr. Dog
2.   A Teenager in Love by  The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
3.   Mushaboom (The Postal Service Remix)  by Leslie Feist
4.   The Lucky One by Au Revoir Simone
5.   <3 by Butterfly Bones
6.   U-N-Me by The Watson Twins
7.   The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth by Clap Your Hands! Say Yeah!
8.   Best Friend by The Drums
9.   Mrs. Cold by Kings of Convenience
10. Stay by Safetysuit





no copyright infringement intended. Songs are owned by their respective labels.

Attachment: 036 - Dr. Dog - Heart It Races.mp3
Attachment: 08. A Teenager In Love.mp3
Attachment: Feist - Mushaboom (Postal Service Remix).mp3
Attachment: Au Revoir Simone - The Lucky One.mp3
Attachment: 002 - Butterfly Bones - Heart.mp3
Attachment: 111 - The Watson Twins - U-N-Me.mp3
Attachment: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth.mp3
Attachment: The Drums - Best Friend.mp3
Attachment: Kings of Convenience - Mrs Cold.mp3
Attachment: Safetysuit - Stay.mp3