My family would usually go to Lanzhou La Mien on Benavidez, Binondo or to Banawe for our hand-pulled noodles and dumplings fix. Binondo is a looong drive from home, but we’re like that when we like the food. Distance is not a problem.
But there’s a fairly new place on Timog Avenue, Quezon City that serves authentic [...]
The Lunar New Year coincided with Valentine’s Day this year.
And because my husband is, above all things, Chinese – no Valentine’s date. *sad face*
But we did celebrate the New Year the traditional way. New Year’s eve was spent by husband in prayer and offering at the Buddhist temple. The next morning, we went to the Father-in-law [...]
The Chinese characters for dimsum - “dian xin” – literally mean “spot, dot, point” and “heart”.
And I can totally appreciate why.
My family loves dimsum. There’s something about dimsum that is heart-warming. It’s become our comfort food.
So much so that, in the middle of one night, hub presents the idea: let’s go to this restaurant that [...]
Nate just turned three two weeks ago.
In a year, he will officially be going to pre-school. I’d like to think he will be ready by then.
He is now toilet-trained – only wears diapers during the night and when we go out (more for our convenience, hehe). He is not a picky eater too, so I [...]
For a foodie family such as mine, Benavidez Street in Downtown Manila is proving to be a haven. The original Masuki (Ma Mon Luk) is located there, as well as Wai Ying and Sushi Yum (affordable Japanese – will blog about it soon).
Our newest Benavidez discovery is Lan Zhou La Mien, which serves authentic hand-pulled noodles.
Lanzhou [...]
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One rainy afternoon, the bored kids wanted to do something- anything!
Good thing I spotted some dumpling wrappers on my trip to the grocery that morning. So, dumpling-making afternoon it was!
I gathered everything we’d be needing for making pork dumplings. I posted the recipe here in my blog some time ago. This time, I left out [...]
For the longest time, I’ve been trying hard (in the truest sense of the words “trying hard”) to learn the Chinese language.
When my daughters are having tutorials, I would sit close by and listen. I have a nice CD of Chinese love songs in the car that I listen to once in a while, hoping [...]
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This morning, my family decided to take a break from the usual weekend routine (read: home-supermarket-mall lunch-home).
Technohub, who held an early meeting at his office, bought the groceries on his way back home. That meant we were free to pasyal the rest of the morning. We (hub and I) did not want to go to [...]
Last week, my kids’ school celebrated the Moon Cake Festival by allowing the students to play the dice game. In previous years, school authorities did not allow the game to be played by the kids because some stiff-nosed parents objected. They said it was a form of gambling. Blah! Joy-killers.
Well, okay, it is a form [...]
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Konka-what? Konka-who???
I’ve seen Konka TVs… but Konka Phones?
On his latest trip to Shanghai two weeks ago, Technohub bought a dual-SIM touch-screen phone – the Konka E260.
Hub has 3 phones – one for Smart, one for SunCellular, and another for his PLDT Landline Plus. It really gets quite confusing inside his gadget bag when one of [...]
