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Feb

On my last post, I shared about our family dinner last Valentines Day and to continue sharing foods from there…without further ado, here are the foods at the buffet table:

Deep fried fish with black bean sauce…

Deep fried fish with Thai herbs / Stir fried squid with salt eggs…

Vegetarian…

Green curry with beef / Stir-fried chicken with cashew nut…

Fish…

Stir-fried mixed vegetables with oyster sauce / Stir fried pork with oyster sauce

Fried Rice with Chinese sausage / Steamed Rice…

The above pictures was on one table they said Thai Foods. And sharing next are the foods on the other table, they said to us as an European Foods…

Poached Cod with Lemon Butter Sauce…

Raymond Blanc’s Cassoulef…

Baked Chicken with Cheese & Cream Sauce…

Summer Fish Stew with Quick Rouille

Pork Noisettes with Charcutiere Sauce…

While having all the foods from my precious post and the foods above, they also have these fresh ones for BBQ…

Prawns…

Meats, Fish and Satays…

And to make above foods more great they have sauces like White Wine Sauce, Mushroom Sauce, BBQ Sauce and Pepper Sauce…

Does it makes you hungry now? Maybe not…or still not enough, yeah? Well, watch out on my next post…its all about the desserts that they had then. See you around…

Oh, wait—before I forgot, let me share with you our family picture at the dinner table! *smile*

Father and Son…

Mother and Daughter…

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Category: Buffet, Family Time, Food and Cuisine, Restaurant, Valentine's Day, Yummy Sunday 2 Comments

Feb

Dinner with Family…

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Few days before Valentines’ Day, K and I were contemplating if we will have Valentines Dinner offered by the nearest hotel in our area and leaving kids behind in our little room with a hotel staff to look after them…

But we decided not to go for that, for having the kids with us on that day will be more great. So, we just went to an International Buffet offered by Windsor Suites Cafe in Windsor Hotel. Last minute, I made a reservation for the four of us. Windsor is just beside our current place and we passed by to this hotel few times a week to go to the next street where some restaurants are also located, infact some of the staff there knew us already.

Anyway, we had family dinner…not so many people on buffet but many avail the Valentines’ Dinner.

So, we started going around the buffet tables and see international cuisine, sumptuous seafood and B.B.Q. with the full buffet…plus the desserts!

We had bread, soup and salad bar to start with…

Then they have mixed salad to choose from…

Chickpea Salad

Pork Salad

Chicken Salad

Coleslaw

Beetroot Salad

Smoked Ham

They also have, Boat Noodle with assorted Thai Spices, Dried Pork, and Fresh Green Leaves with Authentic Dipping and Condiments…

And yes, this part of the buffet area is the one we had most…

few Japanese delights, mussels, oysters and shrimps

All these plus the main course, bbq’s and desserts complete the dinner that night but I will be sharing more of it next time for now I need to go to bed…its late, really late. Lucky no school tomorrow, AISB’s having 2-days break making it long weekend.

Well, I actually never tasted it all…but we had great time having kids with us, complete the night! And thanks to CJ for taking some pictures! Here’s the happy kids of us…CJ and Isabelle!

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Category: Buffet, Dine-in, Food and Cuisine, Food Trip Friday, Meme on Friday, Restaurant, Valentine's Day 3 Comments

Feb

Sweets…

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Sharing some sweets for everyone…I sometimes get this for take-away!

Baby Castella…that comes in different flavours, I am usually getting cheese and custard cream, kids loves it! Available at 5th Floor, The Emporium…

They also love churros of Chu that come with Chocolate Sauce…available at Chu, 2nd floor, Exchange Tower, Sukhumvit Road..

They also enjoy having bavarian munchkins from Dunkin’ Donuts…

I also get this Japanese Sweet with custard and chocolate sometimes…its really yummy!

Mini-cupcakes is also one of my options…that comes in different flavours, just yummy!

I also get bread/pastries from BreadTalk and one of it is Pretzel Strawberry few times…don’t yo love the pink of it?

And my current favorite…Mr. Cup T Milk Tea, I love Vanilla Milk Tea with pearl jelly!

All these plus more makes my kids happy…I always get something small for them each time I will be out, whether small or big, cheap or expensive as long as they will be happy! If I can’t get any of these, for sure I have something for them like a stamps, notebook or a small toy.

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Category: Desserts, Food and Cuisine, Random Things, Snacks 8 Comments

Feb

Chesa – Swiss Cuisine

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We love to try different cuisine from time to time and our current location now is surrounded by nice restaurants of all sorts. And one of it is CHESA, its a Swiss Restaurant in a beautiful teak house with white-tone interior accented with red color that creates elegant but relaxed atmosphere that serves authentic Swiss Cuisine. They got Swiss Cuisine on their menu, no Thai food so diners can really enjoy the delicious Swiss food.

Photo: Chesa Swiss Cuisine

Anyway, to start with—we ordered Thurgauer Kase Fondue or Mild Cheese Fondue of Gruyere and Emmental Cheese and Kirsch (traditionally served with one day old bread)…

Then K got Capuns Auf Chesa Art or Swiss Chard Dumplings with bacons, onions, and cheese in a creamy sauce…

I got Gebratene Egli Filet Mit Mandeln or Pan-fried Perch Fish Fillet with Roasted Almond and Butter…served with rice!

While kids both got Penne Pasta with Tomato Sauce…

And here’s K and CJ enjoying their Cheese Fondue, Isabelle and I is not fan of it…

Cheese Fondue’s very filling, I almost got full even before my order came although they are really fast in serving dishes. And yes, there are lots of choices in their menu, from appetizers to desserts…Chef’s fondue specials, set lunch and they also have special menu, together with a wide selection of wines and drinks! I am sure you will find something you like.

All-in-all it was a great time, simply wonderful place to dine-in, relaxing Switzerland ambiance with great dishes was surely a memorable dining experience for our family….I just hope we can afford it always! Lol. We love the food and staff’s are friendly, its a family-friendly place…even the Owner/Chef (we not sure) are nice too, very accommodating especially for first timer like us! Hope to be back sometime soon…

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You can visit their website HERE for more!

CHESA – SWISS CUISINE

5 Sukhumvit Soi 20, Sukhumvit Road, 10110, Thailand
Tel: 02-261-6650

Open from 11 am to 11 pm

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Category: Dine-in, Family Time, Food and Cuisine, Food Trip Friday, Meme on Friday, Restaurant 16 Comments

Feb

Busy Weekend…

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Yes, busy weekend and I missed posting on those days! So, it is really busy and we are seriously looking for a place already. Thanks to Home Connect – Thailand for helping us to do the job easier…Fon’s been great agent plus a service to go around from one apartment to another is a lot of help! We are learning here and we are enjoying. So far, we got two favorites and will be doing the last check again later today, just waiting for Fon’s call. I am ready to do booking for the apartment. I cant wait…

Anyway, for now let me share to you what we had one weekend at Kalpapruek Restaurant in Emporium located at the 1st floor of the mall.

Pork Fried Rice

Steamed Rice and Pork Stew with Sausage

Fried Morning Glory with Oyster Sauce

Soft-shell Crab with Peppers…

Thai Milk Tea

I am sorry for I have already forgotten the exact name of some of these meals but the taste for sure we will never forget, its just perfect for us—simply delicious! This is the second time we ate here, the first time deserves its own post…and from then on, they got us come back again and again!

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Feb

Dinner at Leslie’s Restaurant…

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Last December 27, 2011 after an afternoon trip in Tagaytay, our family decided to have dinner in the area. So, I suggested right away that we will eat at Leslie’s Restaurant. I know the food there is delicious, I’ve been there few times during college days and my working days. Luckily, no one disagree. So, Papa drives us to Leslie’s…

And because we are all hungry and I am craving for some Filipino foods already plus the cool weather in Tagaytay, I’ve decided to just get the package for 5-6 people and added Beef Kare-Kare…

So, here what we got…

Crispy Pork Sisig

Filipino Style Chicken Barbeque

Laing con Hipon

Tilapia

Bulalo Special ~~(sorry, they are faster…)~~

Beef Kare-Kare at Bagoong

Leslie’s Creamy Leche Flan

and

lots of rice and drinks…softdrinks for us and coffee for Daddy!!!

Here we are as a happy diner…Kent, kids and I together with my Papa, brother Gelo and Tita Lynne…unfortunately, Mama cannot come with us because they are busy at work (she works as a cashier in our baranggay), we just g0t her something from Leslie’s.

Gelo and CJ…

Isabelle and CJ

And last but not the least, my pretty charmer!

Our dinner was great, we all enjoyed the food even K, he likes sisig, laing con hipon and bulalo…we like them all! Hehehe! We are lucky that the assigned waiter to us was alert, so that’s pretty good! The time we were there, its full…but lucky to get a table in the main building where nice music is being played. The architectural structure’s mainly built from wood and stone that highlight the modern Filipino theme that the restaurant has together with a blend of Spanish style! And since its night time already, we wasn’t able to see the view of Taal Volcano but we really enjoyed the cool breeze of Tagaytay. We love it…and I hope to be back soon!

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Leslie’s Restaurant, Tagaytay

Aguinaldo Highway Crossing, Silang

Tagaytay City, Cavite, Philippines

(+6346) 413-1065

6:00am – 12:00am

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Category: Dine-in, Food and Cuisine, Food Trip Friday, Meme on Friday, Philippines, Restaurant, Tagaytay 18 Comments

Jan

American Breakfast…

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…in a German Restaurant named Old German Beerhouse at Soi 11 last Saturday was a good start for our busy weekend!

American Breakfast: toast with butter, cornflakes, fried egg, bacon, and German fried potatoes with onions and bacon bits; served with coffee and orange juice! It only cost 99 baht…

Three of us ordered the same, so Daddy got 3 coffees…Isabelle just ate cornflakes and some of potatoes! Here’s our happy kids with their thumbs-up sign…

And this how our Saturday started…a yummy breakfast in a cozy and friendly place! Then we headed for a walked around Soi Arab and Nana area! Our next stopped was another pub, Soi 8 Pub, to have some drinks—after long walks! But it was great morning…

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Jan

Fresh Natural Cream Puffs…

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…from Beard Papa, I’ve been seeing this store around but I never had the chance to tried it until today when I was looking for something to bring for the kids.

I got two of their product for take-away, I got their Eclair and Blueberry Cheese Cream Puff…

Beard Papa’s (ビアード・パパ) is an international chain of cream puff stores started in Japan by the company Mugino Co., Ltd. (株式会社麦の穂).They have hundreds of stores in Japan and wordlwide. They are famous with choux pastry shell filled with whipped cream custard available in vanilla, chocolate and specialty flavors.

Well, kids love it. Infact, I was not even able to take picture of the eclair. But yes, they like the taste and I am sure I will be buying it again, it will be one of the request next time I will be going to the supermarket!

Its a great day and looking forward for a wonderful week…but my eyes today’s itchy and in pain, I hope it will get better soon for I am taking care of 2 beautiful kids plus one! I hope Visine will help me…and please God, I don’t need sore eyes now or later, please help me—Thank you!

Category: Desserts, Food and Cuisine 2 Comments

Jan

Turon Split…

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Hi everyone, joining Food Trip Friday…and I hope to be back each week again. Anyway, this post will be just short but sharing you something that I ate during our vacation in Manila last Christmas Holiday…

TURON SPLIT at Mang Inasal

Made of 2 small turon (banana springroll) and 3 scoops of ice cream in the middle with chocolate sauce! Its fine for me but better if you will try it!

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Category: Desserts, Filipino Food, Food and Cuisine, Food Trip Friday, Meme on Friday, Restaurant 18 Comments

Oct

Favorite for Lunch…

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Having lunch these days is sometimes late for me specially if Isabelle have something else, unlike before that I am cooking and K used to go home for lunch, we are eating together! But now that we are here in Bangkok that routine changed. We cannot have lunch together on weekdays…CJ’s also in school and he has his own set of lunch provided to them.

Buying packed foods or eating-out is our only option for now because we don’t have our own kitchen yet, I cannot cook anything (I really miss it!). And since we are having complimentary breakfast everyday…sometimes, I still wait for CJ for all of us to have lunch together. CJ finished school by 2pm so, its either we go straight from school to somewhere or go home and I will just get take-away or just depends to the weather! Its been raining here in Bangkok…

Anyway, one of those not so lazy days to go to The Emporium – Food Hall, we usually have these two lunch favorites:

Stewed Pork Leg with Boiled Egg…

HongKong Fried Rice…

We really love it, I can’t count how many times we had it already but yes, stewed pork leg is really delicious and we just love how tender the pork is…plus the fried rice is already enough for a meal, these two always makes us full and what great is Isabelle loves it, too!

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P.S. I havn’t visited entries lately, I am sorry but I will be there on your page sooner than you thought, just too bad because my internet connection these days are not as great as before but yes, your visits are very much appreciated. See you around and thanks heaps!

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Category: Dine-in, Food and Cuisine, Food Friday, Food Trip Friday, Meme on Friday 12 Comments