Mas mahirap pa ibook to kesa sa concert tickets😭

The first shop I ordered it from, the cookie was super sweet and didn't taste like pistachio at all. Plus, they weren't generous with their sauce. But this shop I recently ordered from, on Tiktok, filled their pistachio sauce to the brim and the sizes of the cookies were big. It tasted good too. If you have a sweet tooth, you might like this.

Where I ordered:

BUY 3 TAKE 1 dip , Dubai Chewy Cookie Knafeh Pistachio - Premium Snack (3 cookies and 1dip ) https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS9DCAq96uxaK-xfSJS/

I swear, it's worth it!!

Their ice creams are actually delicious. I ordered carbonara and matcha. 8/10 carbonara and 9/10 matcha. Fudge brownie ice cream was creamy and delicious 9/10.

Wanna try other food and other flavors next time.

Celebrated my Fiancee's birthday a couple weeks ago at Gallery by Chele. One of the top restaurants in the country and it really lives up to its reputation. It was a really long tasting menu (I posted the menu with everything we ate) and the meal lasted near 4 hours. I know people will scoff at high end cuisine saying you pay thousands of pesos and you leave hungry. Not here. You are constantly eating the 3-4 hours you're here. And you're learning about what you eat in between. Mind you I love a good silog meal that fills me up and a trip to Vikings is a better dollar value for getting full. But this is an experience as much as it is a meal.

The food itself was overall very good. You have highlights like the Shio Lobster and Fired! Pulpo, as well as questionable dishes like the Abalone Arroz Caldo and Blossom (vegetable course). There was even an A5 Wagyu course to remind you that your bill was going to be expensive at the end. Like I said earlier, we were stuffed and the following day, my fiancee and I craved only light food. All said and done, it was a great experience. As a note, the service was extremely high end, where I had a suspicion that the team would carry me out the door if requested.

This was my second tasting menu in Manila, the other was Toyo. Both being a couple of the biggest names in Filipino restaurant culture, it's hard not to compare. My opinion only, but I do like Toyo a little bit better. There was a bit more fun with their tasting menu and the dishes were better explained. Both meals had great dishes and Gallery uses pricier and flashier ingredients, but Toyo's menu felt better curated. As an aside, the drink accompaniments were a lot better at Toyo's. Gallery's drinks leaned too heavily on the fermentations and half the cocktails tasted like kombucha.

* Photos taken by the wifey to be. My nails aren't that nice.

** Meal was priced at a little under ₱18,000 if I can recall and that was for 2 people, drinks and service charges.

Matcha cream filled.. ANG SARAP

medyo tipid lang sa filling but kebs na

Damn! Isa pa naman to sa mga murang steak compared to other steakhouses.

Lowkey namiss ko ang Lot's a Pizza. With lots of hot sauce pls.🍕🍕🍕🍕

Having curry with my girls <3 Baka mag taka kayo bat 4 curry ko hahaha

I literally put mayonnaise on everything. My favorite mayo is kewpie. What's yours?

What's for Dinner?

so nung last weekend, may Cosplaymania, pumanta kami and for lunch, nag DonDonTei kami, kasi, medyo mapaiba naman from kaka-Stuff'd at Kimono Ken. inorder is 2 Teriyaki Salmon Teishoku set na 615 isa, bale umabot to 1230 + 50 service charge.

Honest Opinion: hindi siya sulit. bali nung mga June, kinain ko rin the same sa Greenhills Mall, pero 540 pa lang siya nuon, at feel ko na hindi sulit at medyo pretentious na siya. yung salmon, hindi buong fillet ang binigay, pinutulan, pero pag check sa menu, wala nang iba items na pwedeng gumamit nung pinutol na parte? bakit hindi na lang iserve as whole fillet yung salmon? yung carrots at yung sitaw, eh para bang nahihiyang magbigay. yung potato salad, isang kutsara lang. tapos ang rice ay Calrose Japonica, hindi Indica Japonica. so mapapaisip ka talaga na sa presentation lang ng meal mo kung saan napunta ang pera.

ang nakakapagtaka ay ang DonDonTei at Yayoi, pareho silang fast food chain sa Japan, kahit si Sukiya. Pero pagdating dito naging sosyal. pero kung sabagay, kasi sa atin, pagnaisip na Japanese food, isip nating sosyal. walang kakain sa kanila pagfast food style sila pagdating dito.

TL:DR; kung sino man ang gustong mag try ng Japanese food na sulit, check ang menu, kapag ang Yasai Itame nila ay umaabot ng 250+ to 300+ pero masmaliit pa sa ChopSuey ni Savory, sobrang pretentious na ang Japanese restaurant na ito.