Chinoy Eater

Internet Police

07 January 2012 09:52:30

What's your New Year wish?Mine is for an internet police to take down obvious clone sites like those that I mentioned in http://chinoyeater.blogspot.com/2011/03/cloned-again.html.I had considered blogging here because, despite the clones and my not blogging here so much, I got more than 107 hits yesterday.I had considered posting dots in every post, to destroy the clone sites. I guess it would be like being asked what you wanted, but that your enemy gets twice of what you get, and asking for the cutting off of your own hand so your enemy gets both hands cut off. Is this from the Bible?The Chinoy Eater

Mama Sita Sauces

10 December 2011 05:28:14

I said in a previous post (http://chinoyeater.blogspot.com/2011/03/cloned-again.html) that I would try to post old-fashioned links instead of hyperlinks.So I'm back here on experimental basis, to thank my friend for giving us three variants of Mama Sita oyster sauce: mushroom, garlic and less sodium.

Nasi Lemak Clams

16 August 2011 12:24:01

Thanks to HK Tan for treating my friend and me to Roti, Char Kway Teow and what CdA calls XLP: Xiao Long Pao. Thanks, too, for lending me your hard drive for your music, although I can't figure out which folder has the music! BTW, when I told my mom that you are opening in two months' time, she said that she hoped that it would open for her birthday, October 29. Anyway, after all my Nasi Lemak stories, my friend got curious even though my family might not go to the Galleria branch because we felt that 8 Spices and Banana Leaf offered more value for money, not to mention ambience and service. It didn't help that the last time we went there, the Tom Yum Seafood (Tom Yum Talay) was too spicy, we ate in a table in the corridor, and Galleria's A/C was not working properly. We were in Galleria to look for Olga bra, which had disappeared from SM Megamall. I was in Ortigas Center hoping to get my tanggera giveaway, but I had not given her advance notice that I would be in the area. So I was in Galleria mostly to walk and maybe get a pair of skorts. I had merienda but was still hungry, as I had not had lunch. My friend had lunch already. HK was talking with a customer when we arrived, but he urged me to get a seat. The aircon was working. My friend commented that the booth was not too comfortable. I told my friend to order what she wanted, since I had been to Nasi Lemak often. She wanted the Clams in Mild Singapore Chili Sauce, which we both like. I still prefer Banana Leaf's Curry Clams, which my friend also loved so much she cooked her version of it at home. She let me order the second dish, but I deferred to HK, who had joined us at the table and had asked the waiter to bring us the Xiao Lung Pao that he had wanted me to try a few weeks ago. HK and my friend wanted to steer clear of overly spicy food for my sake. I explained to HK that I have learned to eat slightly spicy food because of my friend, and that it was my parents who could not take spicy food. My friend was the opposite, she often found, say, KFC Hot and Spicy Chicken not spicy enough, the only exception being BBQ Chicken's spicy chicken, which was too spicy for her. Yummy, though. Incidentally, BBQ Chicken Jupiter has changed its name, although it looks the same from the outside. My friend pointed out that BBQ meant 'Best ______ (help!) Quality' and that BBQ was the first resto to bring in Korean chicken to the Philippines. HK asked her which Korean chicken she likes the best. She said that she likes Chicken Charlie (Quezon City). I have not tried it, but of the Korean chickens I've tried, I like BBQ the most, followed by Mannang's. Chicken Charlie San Juan and Bon Chon were just ok for me. HK asked me where Manang's Chicken is. I told him that I had tried it at Mercato Centrale, but that I had seen a branch in Ortigas Center. My brother-in-law said that it is on Garnet Road. I also told HK the good news that the World Bank was moving to BGC. Photos: It was raining, so HK cancelled his trip, and my friend and I decided to watch Ang Babae sa Septic Tank instead of being trapped in traffic. I forget which bread HK likes the best, but I told him that I like Italian bread. He likes Italianni's bread. Bellissimo complimentary bread and spreads photo is too pretty to have been taken by me. I think that Mamameow took the photo. We got to talking about how Pinoys like ambience. I told him that Mamameow and I plan to go back to Omakase Il Terrazzo even though the food was so-so, much worse than the Greenhills branch. I told HK that from Il Terrazzo, we walked to Fleur de Lis where Mamameow fell in love with the macadamia pie. Apple pie also in photo. Chicken curry was not too spicy. Told HK that I had one overcooked bite. My friend invited HK (in blue) to her resto, Reyes Barbecue at Bonifacio Stopover. I told HK about Pancake's The Best Taco in Town and Fiesta Taco Salad. In my to-eat list is Mercato's tacos. Mondo Juice in Megamall has pretty sandwiches in its display case. HK, I need help with the beef dish.

Oatmeal Prawns of Nasi Lemak

19 June 2011 03:07:56

I've been wanting to bring 3ima to Nasi Lemak, as she is sensitive to MSG.So when we decided to have a little Father's Day dinner tonight, I thought of it. The other choices were:Alex III--not sure about the vetsin there, although I don't mind going there, as the last time I was there was when I gave Butterfly a San Juan food tour around 2009. Actually, we were even in a sister resto next door.Aquaknoxthe tofu resto at Northeast Square8 Spices, the best resto in Robinsons Galleria--fully booked tonightthe ex-Beijing Hand-Pulled Noodles which has a new lookLa Nuova, which AMYC wanted to go to, but ASUY was against it because it's too chaotic.I made a reservation for 8 pm, because the Cs were going to a 6 pm Mass. There's a 30-minute grace period, said May, and the resto closes at 9.So I'm going over all the Nasi Lemak dishes that we've tried, and the ones that got good press.So this is my new Nasi Lemak order plan:Popular dishes online:Honey glazed spareribsOatmeal Butter PrawnsFor ASUY:Hainanese ChickenMeatball Soup Japanese siomaiCrispy roast porkPomelo saladMalaysian fried riceExcluded due to probable spiciness, which EFY and 3ima cannot eat:Thai Green Chicken curryMalaysian curryWhile we're there, I hope to try Chatime.Pandan chicken: 8 Spices: February 13.Other photos: Nasi Lemak seafood soup, curry, April 17.Source: Nasi Lemak menu provided by H. K. Tan

Looking for the Best Restaurant in Trinoma

31 March 2011 10:57:18

After giving up on this blog because of the clone sites, I'm finally back here due to the prodding of Don Uy, who said, after seeing the new blog that I had set up, sayang naman yung following ng blog. Probably my biggest fan, Maven Secrets classmate Jinkee Umali, also had similar sentiments.What really changed my mind was Don's brother's Mike's solution to the cloning problem. Through Don, Mike told me that I could use the clone traffic to my advantage. I could put links in my blog posts that refer to my other posts. Mike said that this will take months to remedy the problem. Heck, I gave up this blog for good. What's a few months?First of all, Don said that the last site that I had accused of cloning had not really cloned me, that it had posted a link to my blog. I pointed out that a word-for-word post would make me the clone site, and would affect my Google rankings. At least that's what I understood from Anton Diaz of Maven Secrets.If you want Don's help, you may email him at sterlingeuy@gmail.com.Anyway...We're going to Red Box Trinoma because I'm tired of Worldmusicroom and I'm not driving hehe.We're singing from 4 to 6, the Joe Hour, at P 149 per head, no drinks or anything else, then dinner where?My friend said that the best resto in Trinoma is Cyma. Gosh! It is the one restaurant that almost everyone loves that I like only a little. To top it all, it is not cheap.I've been to the Shangri-La Plaza branch a couple of times. I've also been to the Greenbelt and Eastwood Mall branches. The Greenbelt branch was so hot that Maven Secret 3's Meg Koh suggested that we eat outside, which was even hotter, but not as hot as the Eastwood Mall branch, where we dined al fresco cigarillo.AYL also suggested that we go to the Boracay branch, and even though Butterfly said that the Boracay branch was the best one, we still went to other restos.I've had Tzatziki at both Greenbelt and Eastwood branches. I wanted to order a different salad at Greenbelt, having had the Horiatiki Salata at Eastwood 16 days earlier, but Meg said that it was the best. We also had Giant Shrimp with Dill and Ouzo, and the Cyma Lamb Chops. I wanted to order the smaller Shoulder Loin Chop, but Meg insisted on the Loin Rock Chop. We ended up with doggie bags. The best Cyma dish that I've had is the Kalamarakia. I think that we had a watermelon frappe at Eastwood. It was ok.I really want to go to Crustasia, but Anton's post is discouraging.Like I told Carol of Carol's Texan 5 today, branches are not alike. My mom used to be happy with the barbecue at Reyes Barbecue Theater Mall, but after tasting my friend's Bonifacio Stopover version, she didn't like the Theater Mall variety anymore. I'm not so keen on Five Cows Resto and Ice Cream Bar, either, but this review was discouraging. The other choices are Congo Grille, which was good at MOA,and the first defunct branch in Quezon City, where owner Melvin Esteban had given us discount cards when it opened; Chicken Bacolod; Super Bowl of China; and Pho Hoa.Sizzling Pepper Steak is too ordinary.Pepper Lunch postAnton's other choices do not interest me. PB Co. was nothing great and expensive. My friend and I had sesame burger--a little different, but not craveable, pb and j and pasta.Toast Box is too simple. I can't imagine how it can be much better than Kopi Roti--I tried almost everything in their menu in two visits to the Kat and Morato branches, Roti Mum, and Ya Kun Kaya at NAIA.They're all just toasts.CrustasiaPhotos: Astoria Plaza Boracay, Pepper Lunch Rockwell, Reyes Barbecue sotanghon soup, Pho Hoa Crustasia buffet dessert photo courtesy of MF, yummy noodle dish and so-so strawberry ice cream, Carol's Texan 5 pasta,function room, couch with magazines, washroom and Elba microwave oven.Peanut Butter Company food styling by my friend.

Cloned Again

05 March 2011 11:02:00

I stopped writing in this blog because I was cloned. Today, I found another site that cloned this blog again.What is it about Chinoy Eater? Does it have a sign, 'Clone me?'

Reporting Clones to the FBI and the NBI

08 November 2010 06:29:58

As per Jayson Biadog's advice, I'm reporting the spam site to both the NBI and FBI.Jayson's blog was hacked, so that he could not access his blogspot for a week. The viewer gets directed to another site instead of his blog.After he reported the incident to the NBI and the FBI, his blog was back to normal.Jinoe Gavan said that he decided not to report the spam site to DMCA because other spam sites might spring up too. He has taken some measures, which he said that he had detailed in an email he sent out to the Maven Secrets yahoo groups which I haven't read.Atty. RRR has advised me that I own the copyright to my blog from inception, even though I did not register it.After the spam site copied my last 19 posts, whenever I would search for my blog posts, the blogger index cloned version would surface instead of chinoyeater.blogspot.com.

387 P. Guevarra St.

13 August 2010 19:58:47

MA called me up this morning to ask me where 387 P. Guevarra is. I told him that this was the place that I was telling him about. I told him that maybe this is the spa place with outdoor fine dining that I had just mentioned to him maybe a week ago.Is this a house? I asked him.He said that it was a party, and yes, it could be the spa place.I wondered how someone can just give the address of a long street like P. Guevarra and not give any additional instructions. I pass P. Guevarra all the time, but I don't know the exact addresses of Everything at Steak, Red Prawn or the corner of Luna Mencias.He said that maybe the person who texted him didn't know the place, too.Sure, but the host could at least say that it's Tian-Di.Anyway, I sent him the Inquirer link, and told him how Tian and Di are pronounced in Mandarin, that they mean "heaven" and "earth," so it probably means heaven on earth.When I saw the photo/s, I thought that it was in Europe. The .joBeat. map is wrong. First of all, from Ortigas, Wilson does not stop at P. Guevarra, but extends beyond Ahavia.My friend, who plans to bring her ex there, told me that Wilson and P. Guevarra intersect twice, and Tian-Di is at the second intersection coming from North Park, past Cafe Ysabel. After the second intersection, it's near the Addition Hills sign and a preschool that I pass from Shaw going to O. Arellano.According tothis, Tian-Di is right at the Golden Angels Montessori School! Did I get that right?Sorry, no photos here. No luck uploading photos here today.

Ultimate Taste Test 4.0

08 August 2010 08:27:35

It's only today that I read Didi Paterno's email thanking us for going to UTT 4.0. She said that our suggestions for improvement are welcome.First of all, I love how Teacher Anton Diaz labels his projects .0, as in Maven Secrets 2.0 (my batch) and 3.0 (my adopted batch).It was our first time to go to an Ultimate Taste Test.I was in Bonifacio Global City early for a client call. Incidentally, do you feel that so many offices are moving to BGC already? General Milling, law firms, IT companies, PhilPlans and PhilCare.When I was done with the meeting, the friend I was going to UTT with, was not yet ready to meet me, so my client-friend said that I could hang out in her office.Like other people I had told about the Ultimate Taste Test, my client was excited to go to UTT but it could not accommodate any more people.And I'm glad that Ultimate Taste Test didn't accept any more people, because I felt that there were too many people already.I met my friend in the Bonifacio Stopover area, as we didn't think that both of us could park in the NBC Tent area. She ended up parking at Bonifacio High Street, which she said was as almost far away from NBC Tent as Bonifacio Stopover!By the time we arrived between 7 and 8 pm, there was a line that almost reached outside the NBC Tent.I was with Tita Angie, who wanted to be given priority because she was a senior citizen. I didn't see a senior citizen's line, so I suggested that we line up like everyone else. She didn't budge, so I didn't, either.Suggestion 1: Have a senior citizen's line.We ended up lining up at the shortest line, which was not a ticket line. Was it an info line? I don't remember now. So we had to line up again. We later found out that the lines were alphabetical.Suggestion 2: Post the lines at the entrance, something that I learned from Ateneo's registration.The ushers, the boys of the MASED Foundation, the UTT beneficiary, was supposed to handle the crowd, but I don't think that they helped much.As I encountered one issue after another, I could not help thinking how smooth Ateneo's registration has been, even during my time, when the tuition was unspeakable. People have tried to guess the tuition during my time, kept on guessing downwards, but I kept saying lower.Suggestion 3: Get a member or ex-member of the Ateneo Reg Com (Registration Committee) to help with systems.I also noticed that as people lined up to present their tickets and get their boxes (which served as plates) and rate sheets and San Miguel stubs, they would go back the way they came, creating two lines of people per group of letters, one going towards the table, and another going back. Suggestion 4: Put the end of the lines near the entrance of the tasting area, so that people go into the tasting venue immediately, instead of creating more lines. I guess this is the logic of having Colegio San Agustin near the Arnaiz entrance. Instead of having cars going all over Dasmarinas Village creating traffic, the traffic is limited to a smaller area.(To be continued)Photos: Tita Angie with Rev. Father Arnold T. Eramiz, Parish Priest of St. Michael the Archangel Parish Church in BGC. He heads MASED, or Macario Arnold for Social Development. Wency Cornejo, I think.

AM Top

06 August 2010 19:41:30

I tried to join Ayala Malls' A. M. Top promo, which is giving away P 5,000 gift certificates.The mechanics said to register, login then vote. After registering, I didn't get any feedback from the site, saying that I'm registered, or to check my mail for the password, or anything like that. I logged in but was told that my password did not match my email address. I also clicked on "forgot password" but was told that my email address was not registered.Has anyone tried registering? What am I doing wrong kaya?Last day for voting is August 15.Photos: Dexter Matilla eating special congee at David's Tea House Greenbelt 1. Not bad, but it had been better. April 20. Gelatississimo at Greenbelt 5 was great! We had pistachio, chocolate truffle and strawberry. January 10.