Chicken Charlie

Chicken Charlie, BGC The Fort

Chicken Charlie is the home of the soy garlic double-fried chicken that’s lip-smackingly good. In 2010, Chicken Charlie was the first brand of double-fried chicken to be introduced in Manila. Inspired by similar restaurants in the U.S. and Korea, it offered Filipinos a unique take on a favorite dish. Before long, one store became two, then four, and then even more, reaching a grand total of 16 stores by the end of 2012.

I Like the Wall…

Value Meal C (Php 115)

3pc wings, rice and drinks (MJ loves the chicken charlie compare to bon chon

Cute ceiling

Family Value Meal (Php 483)

4 wings, 4 drums, 3 rice, 3 iced tea and a basket of fries

Crazy shots with Popo, MJ and Jelai… Of course I’m the one whose taking the picture.

Chicken Charlie 

Bonifacio Global City

G/F Grand Hamptons Tower, 31st St cor 1st Ave

Fort Bonifacio, Taguig

(02) 804-2409

(02) 551-1131

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Casa Verde

Casa Verde, Cebu City 

Casa Verde was established in August 2002, is a chain of family-owned restaurants in Cebu City. Spanish for 'green house', Casa Verde's name was influenced by the owners' Spanish roots and the color of the Ramos Branch, which used to be one of the family's ancestral homes.

We ate here twice, we ordered the house special Brian’s Ribs and it was delicious. The meat is so tender and the servings are huge.  We also tried their death by chocolate dessert. The second time Popo still ordered the ribs and I tried the shrimps and steak! Hands down for their super affordable menu.  Service is fast and the crew is efficient. Money spent well, definitely will be back if we visit Cebu City again!

Brian's Ribs

If you taste me you'll never forget me... Their best seller! Baked pork ribs with a sweet, tangy piquet sauce served with rice and corn and carrots. Imagine this 2pcs. ribs for only 220, If you had this in Manila it would cost you at least 1,ooo.

The Dax

Do you want a piece of me? A combination of USDA round steak drizzled with brown sauce and onions with a catch of tavern shrimps paired with tartar sauce and served with harvest rice and vegetable medley.

5pcs shrimp and 1 medium well stake… oohh yum!

Death By Chocolate

This dessert is to die for—chocolate and nutty rocky road ice cream mixed with chocolate bar bits on a bed of chocolate cookie crust. Drizzled with chocolate syrup.

Have you been to Casa Verde? What's your favorite dish?

CASA VERDE IT PARK BRANCH
A104 The Walk
Asiatown IT Park, Cebu City
+63 32 2536471

CASA VERDE RAMOS BRANCH
# 69 Lim Tian Teng St.
Ramos, Cebu City
+63 32 4123336

CASA VERDE THE TERRACES (AYALA) BRANCH
Stall 304, 3rd level, The Terraces
Ayala Center Cebu
Cebu Business Park, Cebu City
+63 32 2338885

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Toast Box

Toast Box

Toast Box was developed in October 2005 to recreate the warm atmosphere of local Nanyang coffee shops of the 60s and 70s. It serves up traditional favourites like peanut toast thick, mee siam, kaya toast and soft-boiled eggs. South-east Asian coffee, the mainstay of the concept, is made the traditional way where it is ‘pulled’ to bring out the flavour. Toast Box started as a food-stall unit of Singapore’s Food Republic Wisma Atria. The first branch in the Philippines was opened in TriNoma last September 2007.

 Mee Siam and Nasi Goreng

Toast Box Set (Includes 2 Eggs, Kopi or Teh)

Nasi Goreng (Php 185)

Nasi Goreng, literally meaning “fried rice”, can refer simply to fried pre-cooked rice, a meal including stir fried rice in small amount of cooking oil or margarine, typically spiced with kecap manis (sweet soy sauce), shallot, garlic, tamarind and chilli and accompanied with other ingredients. There is also another kind of nasi goreng which is made with ikan asin (salted dried fish). If your a fan of “dilis and bagoong” you should try this.

Mee Siam (Php 195)

Mee Siam , (麵暹) which means “Siamese noodle”, is a dish of thin rice noodles (vermicelli) in spicy, sweet and sour light gravy. It is one of the popular one-dish meals in Singapore and Malaysia. Not my kind of food >_< kinda weird taste.

Floss Thick Toast Set (Php 160)

Pork Floss on toasted bread with condensed milk drizzled on top. Ooohh so yummy! ☻ Popo loves pork floss this is one of her favorites.

Kaya Toast Set (Php 145)

Kaya toast is a popular snack amongst Singaporeans and Malaysians. It consists of kaya, a spread of eggs, sugar and coconut milk and flavored with pandan on toasted or fresh bread.

Iced Teh (Php 95) 

Nanyang Milk tea Cold.

Horlicks Dinosaur (Php 115)

A conventional Horlicks served with lots of Horlicks powder on top. Horlicks is the name of a company and of a malted milk hot/cold drink, which is claimed to promote sleep when consumed at bedtime. Popo’s favorite! ☻

Milo Dinosaur (Php 115)

A chocolate and malt powder, this is just Milo served with lots of Milo powder on top. YUM! super like like ☺♥♥♥

This is a  relaxing place to have breakfast. We love toast box because of the furnishings and almost everything were painted white, so simple but elegant looking. The food is a bit expensive though.  I’m not a fan of Singaporean food, but I love their Floss toast, Horlicks and Milo Dinosaur. Will definitely go back for more Horlicks and Milo Dinosaur. ♥♥♥

Have you been to Toast Box? What is your favorite dish?

Toast Box
Taguig
E-Commerce Bldg, 31st St cor Rizal Drive
Fort Bonifacio, Taguig

Operating Hours:
Mon-Thurs: 8:00am – 1:00am
Fri: 7:00am – 12:00am
Sat-Sun: 9:00am – 9:00pm

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Tuesdate @ IHOP BGC

After shift we decided to have  breakfast and try the pancakes of IHOP. Since saturday I'm asking popo that we should check out this new  resto  but the location is in BGC and we live in QC. Thinking twice why not wait 'till monday so we could have breakfast there. We could save some cash paying a roundtrip cab. Instead we could walk from office to IHOP, Nice right?! haha.. Oh well, I ordered New York Cheesecake Pancakes while Popo tried the Breakfast Sampler.

New York Cheesecake Pancakes (Php 285)

A taste of New York! Stack of two fluffy buttermilk pancakes is loaded with rich cheesecake pieces and crowned with cool strawberries, powdered sugar and whipped topping.

Breakfast Sampler  (Php 395)

With the sampler, two is the magic number! That’s two eggs, two crispy bacon strips, two pork sausage links, two pieces of ham, two fluffy buttermilk pancakes and our golden hash browns.

Splashberry (Php 175)

Sparkling, fruity and refreshingly delicious, A blend of IHOP's juicy red strawberries, lemon-lime soda and premium orange juice.

Have you been to IHOP Restaurant, share us your story. What's your favorite IHOP  dish?

IHOP Restaurant

Bonifacio Global City
Ground Level, W Global Center
30th St. corner 9th Ave., Bonifacio Global City
Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines

Operating Hours:
6:00am to 12:00am Sunday to Thursday
24 hours Friday and Saturday

Budget: P200 - P699

Related Links:

• http://food.clickthecity.com/b/kP57b48/ihop-restaurant-bonifacio-global-city
• http://www.ihop.com/

IHOP - International House of Pancakes

IHOP Philippines is Now Open

IHOP is now in the Philippines, opened last February 15, 2013 located at the W Global Center on 30th and 9th Ave. in BGC The Fort. 

IHOP, is owned by DineEquity, with 99% of the restaurants run by independent franchisees. IHOP Restaurant was founded by Jerry Lapin, Al Lapin and Albert Kallis with the help of Sherwood Rosenberg and William Kaye since 1958 in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, California U.S. with 1,550+ locations across the world.

photo credit www.annalyn.net

This is the 1st store in Asia. I saw this on Instagram and the food looks delicious that's why I immediately search for the location and what is IHOP? IHOP, formerly known as The International House of Pancakes, is a United States-based restaurant chain that specializes in breakfast foods. The first branch is located in The Fort, I can't wait to visit and try. IHOP's focus is on breakfast foods such as pancakes, French toast, and omelettes, it also offers a menu of lunch and dinner items too.

New York Cheesecake Pancakes (Php 285)
A taste of New York! A stack of two fluffy buttermilk pancakes is loaded with rich cheesecake pieces and crowned with cool strawberries, powdered sugar and whipped topping.

Breakfast Sampler (Php 395)

With this sampler, two is the magic number! That’s two eggs, two crispy bacon strips, two pork sausage links, two pieces of ham, two fluffy buttermilk pancakes and one golden hash brown. (you can have the eggs scrambled or sunny side up.. your choice)

Splashberry (Php 175)
Sparkling, fruity and refreshingly delicious, A blend of  IHOP's juicy red strawberries, lemon-lime soda and premium orange juice.

If you have a plain buttermilk pancakes you can enjoy their 4 kinds of syrup. They have Butter Pecan, Strawberry, Blueberry and Old Fashion. I poured little amount of each so I can figure which one for me is the best. Hmmm its hard to decide but I'll stick with Butter Pecan. Popo loved the strawberry though. You can also try to mix it, have fun with it, after all they all taste great for my sweet tooth.

It's 6:30AM when we reached IHOP, We were ushered by the host upstairs and to our surprise there were already numbers of people having breakfast at that time knowing that they just opened at 6:00AM. As we sat the host gave us the menu and wait for the server to get our orders. After 15 mins. of waiting, I raised my hand for them to notice that we are ready to order. Few servers pass by our table not pro-actively ask what do we need.. Then finally our order was taken & excitedly waiting for our food to be served. Lalalalala... an hour passed by were pretty hungry, Popo and I convinced ourselves that we understand their job, the place was packed with customers and besides they just opened 4 days ago. But to wait  for an hour is no joke! Some customers were already complaining for the same reason. Finally our food has arrived. While we gobbled our food I asked where are the drinks and the other pancake? Moving on, I enjoyed my food while Popo said there is nothing special about the food she ordered. Haha. But I like the hash brown and the bacon =) Now its time to ask for our bill. I raised my hand again and no one seemed to notice, then the supervisor came and ask what do we need? I asked for the bill,  It took for about 30 mins. to get the bill and another 15 mins to get the change. Phew! We left IHOP by 8:30AM, can you imagine how long it took us just to eat pancakes. Hahaha.. Even with the bad service experience, I can't wait to come back and try their other dishes. I will recommend this to my friends, hopefully their service will improve.

http://www.ihop.com/

Have you been to IHOP? What is your favorite dish? We've love to hear your dine-in experience with IHOP.

IHOP Philippines

W Global Center

30th St. corner 9th Ave.

BGC The Fort, Taguig City

Contact no.: 687-5611

Operating  Hours:

6am till Midnight (Sunday to Thursday)

24 Hours (Friday to Saturday) 

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Mondate @ Shakey's Tomas Morato

 

 Around 6:30AM Popo suddenly crave for Shakey's Mojos, she kept on bugging me singing "Shakey's Mojos Mojos"! so we headed to Tomas Morato to have breakfast.. luckily the resto is open 24 hrs.

Margherita Thin Crust Pizza (Php 218)

Classic Italian pizza topped with fine mozzarella and cheddar cheeses, oregano, basil and fresh tomato slices. First time to try this and it's good it taste like margarita. If you like no meat in your pizza then you should try this vegetarian style.

Chicken and Mojos Buddy Pack (Php 435)

5 pcs. Chicken with Mojos. You can never go wrong with chicken and mojos. Gravy and ceasar for dips. What a way to start the day... yum!

Rootbeer FLoat (95)

Old fashion Root beer and a scoop of vanilla ice cream is heaven. My comfort drink "Root beer Float"

Here's my temporary Pizzanatic SuperCard, permanent card will be delivered through mail within 30 days from my application and it's valid for 1 year.
 

Pizzanatic SuperCard (Php 299)

We've availed the Shakey's Pizzanatic SuperCard. It's a discount & loyalty card. Shakey’s has upgraded its Pizzanatic card to a leaner, meaner, version! Good thing about it is that time we got the card we can already used it to avail a 10% discount for our dine-in, great right?! Also a free Coca Cola tumbler is up for grabs with the card. (we had the yellow one with the red print.. sweeeet)

Shakey's SuperCard Benefits

1. Free pizza for every pizza delivery order with drinks to match.

2. Birthdays are special treats for Shakey’s Pizzanatic SuperCard owners.  On the day of your birthday (up to 7 days after), all you have to do is visit a Shakey’s restaurant, have your Shakey’s Pizzanatic SuperCard swiped and, voila, you can claim the FREE Large Pepperoni Thin Crust Pizza!

3. Redeem points, Every 100-peso for dine-in and carry out transactions, earns 1 point which can be accumulated and used as cash in any Shakey’s restaurant.Points earned are not convertible to cash.

4. Gives 10% discount on cash or credit card purchases, for non-promo items eaten at any Shakey’s restaurant nationwide. Valid for dine-in and carry out.

Have you been to Shakey's, tell us your story? What's your favorite Shakey's dish?

Shakey's

Tomas Morato

284 Sct Rallos

Sacred Heart, Quezon City

Philippines

(02) 777-77

Operating Hours: Mon-Sun 24 hours

Related links:

• https://www.shakeyspizza.ph/

• http://www.munchpunch.com/shakeys-tomas-morato

Sundate @ Kowloon House

  

Every time I hear the name Kowloon House, the first thing that comes to my mind is their siopao. Kowloon is one of the longest running Chinese restaurants located in Quezon City. My family and I used to buy asado siopao just around the corner for our midnight snack, good thing about kowloon it's open 24 hours.

Shredded Jellyfish (Php 180)

A cold side dish. It's sweet, salty and crunchy. Not as slippery as you'd guess. I like this dish compare to Hap Chan's and North Park's Jellyfish.

Hakaw - Shrimp Siomai 4pcs. (Php 95)

A dimsum with shrimps inside. I'm not impressed with this one. For me the best hakaw I've ever tasted was Wai Ying's, It was freshly made.

Sliced Beef with Ampalaya (Php 230)

Beef and ampalaya with black beans.

Yang Chow Fried Rice (Php 180)

A popular Chinese style wok fried rice with green peas, ham, chinese barbecue, carrots, etc. This is already a complete meal itself although it may be eaten with other dishes.

Have you been to Kowloon House? What's your favorite Kowloon House dish?

Kowloon House

Diliman
20 Matalino Street
Diliman, Quezon City
Philippines
(02) 922-2811

Operating Hours: Mon-Sun 12:00AM - 12:00MN

Related links:

• http://www.munchpunch.com/kowloon-house-diliman/menu