Boracay Food Diary

May 1
Breakfast at home
Omelette with mushroom and tomato
1 pc toasted bread

Lunch at the Cari Lounge by the bay
Adobo
Fish Sinigang
Rice

Refreshments at Starbucks
Iced venti white chocolate mocha because it was too hot and we were so dehydrated

Dinner at Frypan
Rolled egg.
Just rolled egg because the beef bulgogi was too eeww for words.

May 2
Breakfast in bed (Tapa King)
Tocilog in bed because the bff was too nice to buy me breakfast in bed.  

Breakfast # 2
Buffet breakfast c/o hotel
Scrambled egg
Cereals with milk
half toasted bread

*okay. I ate more than what I can remember. For sure that's not just what I ate.

Lunch at Pamana
Sinigang
Pinakbet
Kare kare
Sugpo
Crispy Pata
Grilled boneless bangus
Rice

Dinner at Yellow Cab
Shrimp and garlic pizza
Spicy chicken wings

May 3
Breakfast at Andok's
lechon manok
sinigang
Dokito
rice

Refreshments
Mango shake from the hotel. BESTEST SHAKE IN THE WHOLE ISLAND IF NOT THE WORLD.
Mango ice cream from Mangoholic

Lunch at The Cari Lounge by the bay
Bopis x 2
Tokwa't baboy
Beef nilaga
Afritada
Left over from breakfast
rice

Refreshments at Crazy Crepe
Pistachio Freezee

Dinner at some Mexican restaurant in D'Mall 
chicken fajita
calamansi juice

May 4
Buffet breakfast at the hotel
*I decided to follow my heart and eat to it's desire because heeey I'm going home.
garlic rice
misua soup
scrambled egg
hotdog
chicken and potatoes in gata which I loved a lot I had to go back for round 2
pansit
koko crunch and milk

Lunch at Tinderbox, Mactan airport
Pasta with sausage!! Forgot the name!
Iced cafe latte

Dinner at home
Alaskan king crab legs with lemon butter sauce
bacon flavoured lechon kawali with fresh garlic in oil
rice porridge in crab broth
rice (LOL at carbo loading)

NO breakfast food photos today

I didn't bother to take photos of my breakfast today because I had breaded chicken again but this time the breaded chicken was not as good as before. Why? Because Ate Mila is unpredictable like that and it's okay because I like unpredictable. It takes you away from the safe and the known. The sometimes unpredictably good food gives me joy because I'm weird like that. 

I'll just give you a glimpse of the food we had yesterday at the lunch meeting. 

Ate Mila's Pork Adobo

The dish looked so good I swear I was so close to cheat again. So glad I resisted the urge to eat this!!

Nukos Adobo

Nukos adobo! Another favorite! Don't know how I managed to not eat these but hey, I did! :)

Chopseuy

And of course the last but definitely not the least..

PLAIN RICE!!!!

I don't know why I do this to myself but I kind of feel like I torture myself while doing this. Taking photos of the food they eat and posting them. It's making me hungry!! It somehow motivates me more though, to do better in my diet so that someday, I can start eating whatever I want. Hope so!

But I'm not as good in my diet though because last Monday (Jan 28), my high school classmate, Billy came to town and I had to play tourist guide and met up with them after work to eat at STK ta bay! Paolito's. I originally planned to behave and stick with my diet but later on decided that the food was too yummy to resist! Ended up eating with them. :s 

Menu for the night:

Fish Kilaw with Gata (no photo)

Hot ans Spicy Calamares ( no photo)

Grilled Tuna Panga (Left)

Baked Scallops (Right)

Plain Rice

My cheat meal at STK ta bay!

We finished dinner at 8pm and was in a little hurry to rush to the airport since my friend has a 10:15pm flight back to Manila. We picked up La Marea warm brownie cup and white chocolate brownie cup on the way and ate it in the car. Got a free dessert pa gyud! Hihi. I wouldn't buy one for myself because I'll be really guilty to cheat more! They liked everything we ate and said they liked my recommendations!

Before that cheat meal, I also had another cheat meal so I gained a total of 2 lbs!!!! :( 

So I promised myself to be good this week before the weekend comes...... before my next cheat meal which is totally not allowed! 

But you can't stop a foodie from eating or thinking about food!! Can you??

MORE FOOD RELATED RANTS:

Here are my CRAVINGS this week:
1.) CREPE!!!!
Everybody has a food craving phase and I'm definitely on my crepe phase now.

Savoury and sweet crepes. Please come to me! 
Soft crepes, crispy crepes, French crepe, Filipino crepe, Chinese crepe! I want them all. Okay. I don't know if there's such thing as Filipino crepe or even Chinese crepe but I tasted a crepe in China once and it was sooooo good, I miss it now! I want to fly everywhere and eat a lot of different kind of crepes!

I think I have a picture of the "Chinese crepe". Wait. I don't have a picture of it in my iTouch anymore because apparently, I found the picture useless and deleted it waaaaay back.

2.) Pancakes and Waffles

3.) Pork adobo and all the yummy home cooked meals of Ate Mila

But for now, will just have to stay away from all yummy food. :(

xx,

Annie

Diet Foodie

Since I have been (on and off because of Sinulog weekend) dieting for 3 weeks now. I decided to just share what my favorite low calorie healthy food are and since I will be posting more photos of the food that I eat, I will try my best to take good photos to give them justice. I know I suck big time at taking photos especially food photos so this is my pledge to give more effort. :p

Today's breakfast is one of the yummiest meal I have ever had while on diet. Breaded chicken breast!

Breaded chicken has always been one of my favorite diet food but today, I had experienced a very different breaded chicken from Ate Mila. Maybe it was the way it was cooked that made it special. I saw her use the air fryer today and I immediately ate it right after it was served. The chicken breasts were so tender and the breading was so crispy and it was sooooooo unexpectedly good. I loved it a lot.

Breakfast today was breaded chicken + mixed veggies.

For lunch:

Chicken curry + mixed vegtables (not in the photo) and Jacob's Low sodium Hi fibre crackers.

News: Remember my post about my favorite cracker? Click here. Well, they have it here now. Last Friday, we went to SnR Cebu and to our surprise, they already sell Jacob's Low Sodium Hi Fibre (old name Low salt hi fibre) but it doesn't taste as good as I remember it or maybe the ingredients are not the same since it has a different name or maybe it's really not the same crackers since I just assumed they're of the same kind (blabbing now).

I felt so bad this morning because as I stepped on the weighing scale, I saw that I had gained 1.4lbs from the last time I weighed which was just yesterday morning. UGH! I'm the only one to be blamed though because I was so hungry last night I decided to cook instant noodles with veggies and mushrooms for myself. The noodles was sooo good but definitely not worth it. Now I'm back to square 1. HATE HATE HATE!

Anyway, the diet is killing me making me weak. I've been feeling so weak the whole week. I've been depriving following the diet so much, which was a shock to the family because it's the first time I'm this behaved, I feel like I deserve a break once in a while (or not?).

Some time last week, I had this for lunch.

Sauteed Tofu and cabbage, golden mushroom with green bell pepper and tomatoes. I swear it was SO good even if it only had ginger in it.

If you guys want recipes, comment below and I'll try to list them down.


xx,

Annie

Guilt-free Snacking

Ever since I found out that I can actually order my coffee "light", I always went light. Meaning, they put low-fat milk instead and I ask them to skip putting the whip cream. The only reason is because I'm a health freak paranoid. Don't you think so too? I am always guilty for eating the yummy food a.k.a the fatty food. Oh well.

Today, I had "free" time on my hands because I have to wait for a few hours to pick up a person at the airport. I just sent one few hours ago and I'll pick up another later so to save gas, I just decided to stay in a coffee shop and do my work here instead.

I love coffee shops. I love how it makes you masipag and you can actually accomplish a lot of work here. Sad that I only discovered this on my last few terms in college. Could have been Cum Laude if I knew this from the start. I would have been the tambay of every coffee shop in town. Ha Ha Ha. That was a joke or not.

Anyway, I decided to do some guilt free indulging today. I did not just order coffee, I also ordered Belgian Waffle (with whip cream, oooops!) I don't know what is it with me and whip creams but I just don't like it. I wince at the sight of it. I just can't stand to put it inside my mouth all the time. I don't like my coffee or frapuccino topped with whip cream, it's like it's spelled F-A-T all over it and I hate fat. I hate me. 

My "guilt-free" dessert

Don't get me wrong, I know it tastes good and when you top your favorite food/dessert with it, it magically tastes 100x better but I don't let myself take so much calories just for it. It's just not worth it. To make the long introduction short, I ate Belgian waffle with whip cream and strawberry syrup and a cup of grande Caramel Macchiato, light but I forgot to tell them to skip the whip just because I thought it was understood. I felt so bad when I opened my cup of coffee and saw the foamy and melted cream on top of it. :( But ohwell, I decided that today will be my first cheat meal of the week. I hate how I always try to diet and eat healthy food but always end up eating a lot of junk food on the side. :/ It's like I'm trying to compensate and I skip eating rice just so I can eat other (junk) food I love. I still eat rice but I just don't eat it every meal.

I woke up today wanting to do Juju cleanse so bad. :) But since I live in Cebu and it will be pretty hassle to have the juice ship here, maybe I'll just do my own one day cleanse soon. Maybe I can do it next week after my mom goes back to Manila. :)

The main purpose of this post is to actually convince myself that I DO NOT FEEL GUILTY for eating waffle with WHIP CREAM and for drinking my Machiatto with WHIP CREAM but it's not working. I actually still a bit guilty. Hihi. Ohwell, I'll get over it later. :)

Early bird catches the worm. Seated in a 4 seater couch  and it's the only  couch set here. :) 

xx,


Annie

Favorite of the Week: Tian Seng Ube Hopia

I did not plan for the favorite of the week segment of my blog to be all about food but I just can't stop having new food favorites! The next post will be non food, I promise.

One pack of Tian Seng Ube hopia for 18.75 pesos

This week's spotlight goes to Tian Seng Ube Hopia! Since I moved work place, I now temporarily work in a non-office setting and that makes me hungry all the time because of the heat and constant moving. My sister bought snacks for the Chinese engineers who came here to install our machines and I find myself reaching for Ube Hopia almost everyday. I feel guilty for this because as I always say, I'm the Queen of binge eating so obviously, I can eat a whole pack of ube hopia in one sitting less than 10 minutes.

Finished a pack in lass than 10 minutes! Gluttony!

It's not the best tasting snack but I find myself craving for it every day and today, I promise that it's the last day I'll be eating ube hopia as my snack. I promise to stick to my diet and never deviate again or eat unhealthy food. No unnecessary snacking again!

Singapore Feb 2012 I

Day 2 (agad agad?)

Day 4

Serves the BEST Prawn soup I ever tasted.

the BEST Prawn soup!!
Soya milk, radish cake, prawn soup and rice. Foodgasm. 

Steaming hot, authentic Malaysian Bak Kut Teh

Boiling hot stewed spareribs! Click here to watch it boil. :)

Day 5

Day 6

Went to Singapore last February 6 to 12 for a business trip and I tasted the best food I have ever tasted in my life. From day 1 to my last day in Singapore. Was not able to take pictures everyday. I was trying my best to take pictures though. I was with our machine supplier most of the time which explains why I was almost always alone in my pictures. I just didn't feel it was necessary to have our pictures taken together. Lol

Went to Singapore alone and my brother-in-law joined me on the third day. I love travelling alone! It makes me feel so independent, which in reality, is very far from how I am. I still feel that I have a long way to go before finally being independent.

Day 2

Tasted the best Wan Tan Meen (Wanton noodles) located at 62 Joo Chiat Place. I swear it was so good I think anyone visiting Singapore should try this! Promise talaga ang saraaaap. 

I think I might be a little redundant if I keep saying it's the best (insert food name here) I've ever tasted but everything I posted just tasted so good. I think I ate the most delicious food this trip. Every meal was the best. I must say that I have the best tour guide, he told me he even researched in the internet for local Singaporean food so he can tour me around Singapore and have a taste of the authentic local food. 

Nasi Lemak from Fei Fei was also good. We bought it just to taste how authentic Nasi Lemak tastes, we did not finish this. 

Oh and as you can see, there were some of the days I wasn't able to take photos too because:

a.) I was too lazy to take out my camera

b.) We were with other businessmen or my brother-in-law's friends and I was too shy to take pictures of the food in front of them. Lol. It's bad enough that they think I'm a girl and is too young to be in this business. 

Afternoon snacks at Thasevi Food located at 237/239 Jalan Kayu Jalan Kayu. I loved their Indian food. We actually ordered too much for 2 because the rotis were very filling and we wanted to taste so much of the food there.

It was actually a bad idea because we had brunch at Fei fei then late lunch at Thasevi Food around 4pm so when it was dinner time, which I wasn't able to take pictures of for the reason b stated above, I was still so full. Bad bad bad because we had good chili crabs that night. It was also my first time to taste the salted egg prawn and I fell inlove. Another must eat food on my list when I go back to Singapore. There was another tofu dish that caught my attention, I just wasn't sure what the dish' name is since I wasn't the one who ordered, I wasn't even able to grab a menu. Dinner was at Jumbo seafood restaurant. 

Day 4

This was the best PRAWN SOUP ever tasted and possibly the best SOUP tasted ever! So sad I don't know where this was. :( I think it was near the border of Singapore and Malaysia. I was able to take a picture of the stall though, it was the stall with "Hao Chi" name. Very yummy brunch. We actually wanted more but Kk, our machine supplier, kept on stopping us from eating more because he will take us to a good Bak Kut Teh place for lunch. So there, we had Malaysian Bak Kut Teh for late lunch. The stewed spareribs was very delish I was the suki of the dish. :p  I didn't like the Bak Kut Teh because the taste was too strong and it was more herb-y than spice-y and it has so much intestines in it which made me think CHOLESTEROL with every sip, doesn't taste like my favorite Bak Kut Teh which is Song Fa Bak kut teh by the way. 

Anyway, click the video embedded above and see how the stewed spareribs was still boiling when it was served. Amazed me so much I had to take a video. Sometimes I find myself am weird.

Day 5

Went to Thomson Hawker Center to grab lunch and then went out with the businessmen. We had an awesome dinner. Awesome. My brother in law and I were impressed with the food they served us. We are Chinese and we eat a lot of Chinese food so if we were impressed with the Chinese food they served us, then trust me, it was really good. Sadly, I don't remember the name of the restaurant anymore. LOL I'm a bad the worst food blogger. It was in Clarke Quay, this I am quite sure because it was in front of a famous hotel in Clarke.

We went to a karaoke place after dinner and a friend/client/person we met that day insisted that we go clubbing after. It was 1AM and I was with 3 men over forty inviting me to go clubbing. The man was so funny because he was insisting but Kk didn't want to go anymore because he's too tired already and a bit drunk. He was accompanying me to visit different companies from Day 1 so I had to grant his favor to insist we go home already after a little bit over 30 minutes inside Attica. Attica is located at Clarke Quay.

Day 6

Second to the last day in Singapore which was practically our last because it was the last day we can do our shopping and roam around Singapore for leisure and not for work. I met up with my sister's friends Mimi and Wilson. They were so nice!!!!! I swear! Thank you for adopting me for a day and touring me around Orchard road and Marina Bay Sands and oh, for sending me back to the hotel. 

Did not allow this trip to pass by without eating cereal prawns!!! Met up for lunch at Wee Nam Kee at Novena Ville since it was near both where we're staying at. The chicken rice was not as good as I first tasted it anymore but the cereal prawns was beyond words (OA much). 

Wasn't in the mood to shop because I'm not a fond of shopping and the 5 days of work drained my energy so I had little energy left to walk around Orchard road just enough to go to Sephora and to pick up some clothes in H&M. 

I didn't get the chance to visit Marina Bay Sands the first time I went to Singapore so they took me there for dinner at Din Tai Fung. Yummy xiao long bao and spicy wanton. I'm a sucker for anything spicy. Life without chili sauce is boring. 

Oh, we waited or the last light and water show in MBS which was at 1opm.

Day 7

Our flight back home wasn't until 1pm so we still had time to eat brunch! We ate at a bak kut teh place beside Boon Tong Kee. We took home 2 whole chicken and chicken rice from Boon Tong Kee and we ordered 2 set lunch to eat inside the plane. 

ANG SARAAAAP!!! Grabe! For a while nakalimutan ko pangalan ko. Hihi. My new favorite chicken rice place! whoo.

Boon Tong Kee is located at 401 Balestier Road, Singapore.

We also actually ate at a Japanese place which was superb I decided to make a seperate blog post about it. :) Stay posted!

xx,

Annie