As a person relying much on public transportation, I find that I spend a lot of time walking around the metro.  Hoping to get the most of out of walking, I got really curious with the new footwear around the market that will supposedly enhance your walking experience by toning, shaping or improving your health overall.  From Skechers’ ShapeUps, ToneUps, to FitFlops, I wondered for months until my love gave me her Christmas...

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One Chinese cuisine I never get tired of eating the simple, spicy mapo tofu.  Mapo tofu, also spelled mabo tofu or mapo doufu, is a Sichuan cuisine composed of tofu, chili and bean-based sauce and minced meat.  I liked it so much that sometimes, we have this dish at home albeit in a non-spicy form. Whenever I'm in a Chinese or Chinese-inspired restaurant, the first item I look for is this simple dish.  Strangely...

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Let’s face it, healthy food products normally cost a bit higher than regular “not-so-healthy” options.  Yogurt, or frozen yogurt in this case, falls into this healthy item list making its price quite higher than regular ice cream.  Apparently, there’s a high price tag attached to be healthy. I Heart Froyo wants to change all that by catering to an untapped sector of the frozen yogurt industry, by offering this frozen...

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Ahh yes… shawarma. Sometime in the 90’s, this Arabian wrap became the highlight of one’s lunch or merienda hours in the country.  Stores serving only this delicacy were found in every corner back then.  It got so popular that it was mentioned in a song by Eraserheads, franchises were owned by actors, and became an actual word in the English dictionary. Nowadays, one can still find Shawarma stalls in major malls and...

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Christmas season is over and if you’re a coffee lover, you most likely would have gotten a planner or two from the major coffee establishments in the country.  Apart from having a beautifully-designed planner to use in 2011, another perk that comes with it are the handful of coupons that would get you discounts and freebies in that coffee shop. In this battle, we will pit the planner coupons of Starbucks versus the ones included...

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I can’t remember being in a Le Ching Tea House before, but my friends tell me it is one of the oldest and most popular restaurants before tracing its roots to its first location in Greenhills Shopping Complex, Shoppesville Arcade in Ortigas Avenue.  It was there way before any of the other Chinese restaurants like North Park and Mann Hann popped up.  Since then, Le Ching has branched out to three other locations in...

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“Italian passion food” This is the phrase that the store boldly places on their menu, flyers and even on their store to describe their food.  Piadina Italiana, or simply, Piadina, is an Italian restaurant inside Greenbelt 1 in Makati.   Offering pasta, pizza, and of course their piadina bread, Piadina prides itself of their freshly and healthy prepared Italian food. Their name, Piadina, comes from the piadina bread...

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A strip of bacon, two different types of cheese, two fried chicken fillets, secret sauce -- this is the Kentucky Fried Chicken Double Down. Since it was very popular across the world and even here in the country (it quickly sold out in most KFC branches during its first month), I dared to try it even if it looked like it was a "heart attack" without a bun since it wall posts and tweets saying positive things about the product...

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My love and I have a sweet tooth (or is it supposed to be sour tooth?) for frozen yogurt.  We often get one for dessert after a big meal and have a constant urge to try out different yogurt places all over the country.   From well-known yogurt shops like Red Mango and White Hat, lesser-known ones like I Heart Froyo and Fling, to even restaurants who added frozen yogurt to their menu like The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf...

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In a world where fried chicken meant a piece of chicken smothered by breading, choked in batter or drenched in oil, Bonchon shows us another way to enjoy our chicken by frying it twice! Frying twice, a Korean style of fried cooking, separates and "burns" the chicken fat away from the skin.  For the chicken lovers who tend to remove the skin first before eating since most of the fat is locked in there, this frying technique...

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Due to the emergence of different types and styles of serving coffee here in the country, a lot of cafes have popped up ranging from the ever popular group of Starbucks Coffee, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Seattle's Best Coffee, UCC and Mocha Blends to small, more intimate ones like our featured one in this post, Caffe Ti-amo. To distinguish itself from the hundreds of cafes sprouting around, instead of the usual baked goods like...

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Nothing says like a fresh meal than a one that's cooking in front of you! My love and I arrived in Pepper Lunch located in Greenbelt 5 Makati just in time as they were already taking the last orders for the day. Famished and tired from a long, eventful day, we decided to take advantage of their weekday lunch & dinner special where their standard pepper rice mixes (beef, curry beef, pork and chicken) cost Php 198 instead of...

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Happy new year to everyone! I hope everyone had a enjoyable start to 2011 so far.  Over here, I had a very enjoyable New Year's celebration with the family and relatives at the stroke of midnight to start the year.  The Christmas ham that my love gave me starred in our dining table, and it was the first one that was completely consumed as well!  Delicious! A brand new year awaits us all for us to make the most...

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