Mel and the New Normal

Choco-late de Batirol has been long on my must-try list of places to try when I returned to Baguio. I didn't know what to expect, I just knew I had to try it! That's Josh's snake from his horse ride. It's not part of the menu, haha. This is the Cacao fruit. I really don't know what was running through our minds when we impulsively purchased this. It's like, I expected the whole fruit to taste like chocolate or cacao! (Of course it didn't!) They advised on to suck on the seeds. Erm. Honestly it was not good at all. The ladies in the next table were peering at the fruit curiously, so we gave them some. They though we were being generous, but honestly we couldn't eat any more. Hahahaha! This is the famous chocolate de batirol (hot chocolate) of the place. It was good. However, I was expecting it to taste like Mary Grace's hot chocolate -- thick and goey. It wasn't, it was milky but still chocolatey. It was a good drink for the cool weath...

Grace Park has been around for quite a while now, but I never got to try it because I'm rarely in Rockwell. I love Margarita Fores' restaurants though, and as we passed by One Rockwell on the way to a meeting, I was reminded to try Grace Park. Was so very glad that we did! 2nd Floor, the smaller room

I was busy last week, so just had the chance to post this now. My Baby turns 1 today. If she was alive, we'd probably be having an uber cool, super-fly party for her. Because, well, that's what we do for a living. Extra special because she would have been a survivor. But, since we're corny and she's not here with us, we just styled her grave in a super cheesy manner! FUNNY, CHEESY, CORNY, GOOD VIBES! (FYI when we got there her "caretaker" had taken it upon herself to put those white flowers on her own, haha. She was expecting us because we're there almost every week, so she anticipated the date.)

My friends and I, we're avid bazaar shoppers. Living in Alabang, every weekend of November and December is filled with awesome shopping choices in the Cuenca bazaars. I personally used to buy most of my clothes in bazaars! In the last few years, my friends and I anticipated the presence of H Cuisine in the Cuenca Bazaar, for their one, delicious specialty -- Beef Belly. I never knew they had a restaurant. So imagine my surprise when I took J to eat in RUB in Timog, and H Cuisine was suddenly right beside it! Since I wanted J to try RUB (I had gone there by myself and ever since I've always wanted to bring J), we pushed through with RUB. Last week, we ended up in Timog after a purchase meeting in QC. And we knew we would eat here this time!