Foodies

Salcedo Market on a Saturday morning

Riz looks like she's enjoying her Wagyu shawarma too much! She's oblivious of everything else that's happening around her.

I got the spicy pad thai from Thai Foods :) my friend Seesee prepares the food with her mum each week and they have so many vegetarian goodies!

woman who always gets bored with her hair.... She dyed it an awesome blue which I've always wanted on my hair!

What Paulo had (Wagyu burger and some lechon) PLUS a Wagyu Shawarma. He tells me it's normal cos he's 6'3"!

baby Nathan is the cutest!!!

with mommy Tin

watching them make the Wagyu burgers

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John & Yoko at Greenbelt 5

Paulo's Venetian Rolls which was merely Vienna Sausage cuts rolled in rice and nori. :))

i got crunchy maki rolls. Nothing special.

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the Stock Market at Bonifacio High Street

Was irrirated since their servers were slow... There was a point when I asked the waitress clearly (and I'm saying that since my father and sister were there and attested that I did, too) "Do you guys put MEAT in your tacos?" since the menu only said "filled with pineapple relish"- to which she confidently replied with a "No, ma'am!"

30 minutes later, this shows up and I'm surprised that it did have meat, so I told them that I wanted to send it back since the girl told me it wouldn't have any meat in it and I was strictly a vegetarian, plus Riz and my dad were really full already.. The same waitress comes to the rescue and says "I thought you asked if the tacos had MILK?" --This was when I rolled my eyes and literally started SMH-ing. Milk in tacos, seriously?!?!? Do I look stupid? AND they wouldn't accept it so we ended up having to pay for it anyways and had it packed up since they wouldn't send it back... Nobody ate it at home afterwards. Only in the Philippines- restaurants and servers will NEVER admit to their mistakes and the motto "the customer is always right" DOES NOT exist!!! Servers beg for you to pay for it since they're always "scared that they will get charged for it."

Now I know why the Stock Market's one of the really few restaurants which never gets full on Sunday nights (Riz and dad chose this resto since the ones we wanted to go to were really packed last night). They really have to train their crew better cos I can see them closing in the near future... I'm usually really nice to restaurants on my blog but this is the nth time we've experienced bad service so I just had to blog about this.

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Pia y Damaso (Greenbelt 5)

Lang-lang

My omelette was so delish! It had spinach, eggplant, mushroom, and other veggies.

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Cibo

both were Pau's orders... I had my usual verdure tartufato sandwich...

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Foodtrippin on a Saturday at Salcedo

Finally got to meet our long-time online friend, Tin! She had a shawarma.

Issa had a shawarma, too!

I had some super delish eggplant lasagna! The ladies at the booth commented that they loved my hair and makeup... Which is quite a compliment since the makeup look I had on was my everyday/rushed makeup routine :D

Issa captured me powdering my nose... I love Make Up For Ever's DUO MAT powder foundation, by the way. It's the closest thing to oil-blotting powder they have. It's a foundation when used with a sponge, but works really well as a loose powder when applied with a brush. I love it. Good value for your money!

OH, and look at my damn hair! Just 2 days after my haircut and it already feels longer :( I am addicted to the sharp newly-clipped feel of hair and now it's too soft! Call me obsessed, but Issa can relate!!!

If mum or Gigi went with me, I would've brought home tons of fresh produce... I didn't have much cash and enough hands to carry so many stuff.

"benignit" as we call it in Cebu! (the ube/purple-lookiing one)

I LOOOOOVE baklava, but was too full already when I passed by this stall.

Yes, Cebu lechon's popular here... They get sold out by 1 PM every Saturday!

Bought 2 mangga-flavored ones, one langka (jackfruit) and one ube with langka BudBuds for Dad but I ended up helping him with them! LOL. Loved all of em especially the mango-flavored ones (real fruit stuffed inside the sticky rice! YUMMM)

These sugar-free pastillas were quite good, too!

The pretty girls with their sausages on a stick! Behind Issa is the French chef who made them and the galettes.

I wanna try the kimchi rice next time, even if I must be the only Asian who isn't a fan of rice.

Issa's "Tumblr-worthy" awsome chocolate-bar notebook!

I think only my high school batchmates and a few Cebuano people would get that phrase on the poster... It can sound like "Nganung buri mo?" LOL

And finally, we bumped into Kate Torralba! So funny how she was trying to tell Issa to watch our gigs (she was supposed to play for Heima that night, too, but she had a wedding to attend). She's actually Issa's godsister (if that makes sense) and had no idea that Iss and I were almost like sisters :)) Met her during a couple of gigs and she said she liked my new haircut. Yay!

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Planning on visiting again next Saturday, with some friends or my mom this time... She's visiting and bringing along my brother for the long weekend. Can't wait!!!

The Salcedo market happens every Saturday

from 9 AM to 2 PM at the Salcedo Park, Makati.

*all photos taken with my new Panasonic Lumix GF1, Pancake! :)