When Tea Bubbles

Whenever I pass by The Block at SM North EDSA, I just simply pass without noticing the details of plenty of shops around. I always see that restaurant named Bubble Tea but I never tried to see what's in there. As the name suggests, I only thought of it as a tea shop until friends brought me there about a week ago.

This glass reminds me of Octoberfest.

Sounds funny but it was my first time to dine there and my first time to drink a milk tea. I had a lot of tea in Japan and tasted so many of them. However, in the Philippines, teas have lots of flavoring. I was looking for oolong tea but I got to see plenty of flavoring. 

If you can't tell the flavor just choose your color.

The tea served to us reminds me of Octoberfest because of the oversize beer glass.  When tea bubbles, there is more than that at Bubble Tea. Inside the shop, I was surprised of the salivating desserts and cakes. I was fascinated by the Red Velvet. I hope to try it one day (in the future). LOL

Red Velvet and Matcha Tiramisu

What was most intriguing to me is the rice meal. We were there for lunch, definitely it means rice meal. I ordered my fish cake while my companions had the bigger ones. 

Fish cake drizzled soy ginger sauce

Fish cake drizzled soy ginger sauce is a special marinated fish with a distinct kind of soy and ginger sauce, perfectly made with garlic fried rice.

So which one is the Beef Bulgogi? It is a sliced beef marinated in Korean  sauce with succhini on Korean hot stone.

Before, prayers grace before meals. Nowadays, cameras and smart phones grace the meals with flashes. How grateful we should be for the foods we partake. Let us not forget to thank the Lord for giving us food. Thanks to my friends who made me discover Bubble Tea. When tea bubbles, there is more than that as well.

Friendly Visit

Xie xie!

A day before I left for Christmas vacation, a group of Chinese volunteers visited me in the office. I only know one of them, who remained a friend after we met with his colleagues in Japan. Thanks for some Chinese presents. I had none to give them, thanks they remembered.

Still In Love

Tell me if you do not love chocolates. Then you can just give them all to me.

M&S Swiss Extra Fine Chocolate

M&S Swiss Chocolate Bubbly Milk Mountain Bar
and White Mountain Bar

They will tell you that someone is in love with you if you receive chocolates all of a sudden in the office. Those days are gone.

M&S Belgian Milk Chocolate Coated with California Raisin

M&S Belgian Milk Chocolate Coated with Peanuts

I may or may not be in love but I could say that I still love chocolates. I can give myself a present from time to time by buying for myself a chocolate. I only cannot crack the nuts for now but I do still love to eat chocolates.

M&S Dark Chocolate All Butter Biscuits

M&S Milk Chocolate

There are more items in the chocolates stand than I could ever eat. I may not be able to afford them all but I am still in love with them. Just in case you are throwing away your chocolates you may give them all to me. As of now I could say that I am still in love.

J.CO: The Blockbuster Donut

Someone bought for us J.Co donuts.

I used the term “blockbuster.” Blockbuster to me means a long queue of people for a phenomenal movie. In Trinoma, an Ayala mall in Quezon City, a donuts store where donuts are like movies; people line up like that of a blockbuster movie.  The store is an outlet of J.Co.

I did a little of online research. According to Wikipedia, J.CO Donuts & Cofee is a café retailer in Indonesia specializing in donuts, frozen yogurt and coffee. The coffee is owned by and managed by Johnny Andrean Group .  It began trading since 2005.

I wonder how it costs to have a franchise of it in the Philippines. I'm sure I can't afford to have a franchise of it.

For more information about J.Co Donuts, you can visit their website at http://www.jcodonuts.com