Helping sensitive guys buy gifts for chicks since _____!
The Henry
Hit up this spot of Manila cool. Well done, #TheHenryHotel. A staycation is in order!
Madrid Fusion Manila - Visayas Lunch
My Visayas lunch is all about good food, good vibes, team work, faith and a whole lot of love. As in gusto kong halikan ang lahat. ❤ Pucker up, bitchezzzzzz.. 👄
Chef Tony wants it!
One of our stars today at our Visayas lunch: roasted organic baby lamb from Chef Vicente "Enting" Lobaton, who flew all the way from Bacolod to show us some of his magic. Sorry lechon baka... you've been replaced. NAMIT GID!!!
Take a bow, Visayas (though we're missing our spiritual leader, Margarita Fores and Chef Ariel Manuel)! ❤Two down, one to go - Mindanao!
The fruits of my labor.. 👶 This is the Visayas regional lunch at #MadridFusionManila care of the Department of Agriculture! 😁🙌🙌🙌❤ IT IS DONE! Thank you to everyone who prayed for us, who served, cooked, cleaned and just plain supported. This is for all of you, Pilipinas!!!! 😜
This photo says so much about what we went through. It did, indeed, take a village to put this together. We had no choice but to rely on each other, even if most of us had just met. But work it out we did, because we all believed in our cause. To paraphrase the leader of the "A Team": "I love it when a plan comes together!" 😜Maraming salamat, Team Enderun Colleges for having my back! I will always be forever grateful!
How I Spent My Birthday
With some of the finest, most experienced cooks in the land. Stand and be counted, Pinoy chefs! 🙌😁
One last pic before I end my birthday.. 😁 A part of my life intersects the arts, and I'm proud to say that in this realm I've had the pleasure of knowing some of the the most incredible talents we have. Not only can they sing the shit out of anything, including the phone book (Shet Meron pa ba yun? Haha!) - they're good peeps too. Take a bow, guys!
Tahiti 80
Being a fan boy and cooking for a French band I really love called #Tahiti80. Interesting for me because some of them are vegetarian, so I'm going into less travelled territory for me as a cook. This is a spicy chick pea stew that I'm putting into tacos with some pickled onion. I rather like it - but I hope they do too. Haha! Welcome to Manila, #Tahiti80
Chick Pea Stew
A remix tonight -- my lamb adobo, roasted squash, fried potatoes and pickled onions with sour cream and chimichurri on a taco. I take no prisoners! Hope these French dudes like it! ❤
For the vegetarians: grilled zucchini, roasted mushrooms, grilled corn, fried potatoes, pickled onions. Iz goody! Yay! Por Xavier
Veg
Thanks for coming, #Tahiti80 ❤ See ya tomorrow! (GUYS! There's still tickets - Tahiti 80/Up Dharma Down/Yolanda Moon at Green Sun! Lez goooo!
This is Xavier. Not only is he the lead singer of #Tahiti80 -- he's also quite the nice fellow. Thanks for the music! ❤
Mega Fashion Hall Crawl
Showing off some fun stuff and good eats today at Mega Fashion Hall. Plenty to jones for here!
Starting up at #TuanTuan
Miss Katrina Hernandez telling us the tale of #TuanTuan
Listening in at #Satchmi
At the cool enclave of #Indochine
#CrateAndBarrel is here
Snapping pics at #DolceLattePH!
The son of the tea master talks about #Sweeteas
How many sons-in-law did it take #NAVModernThai to make these?
Best eaten hot at #Waffos - a #LegaspiMarkethomegrown food biz, now at #MegaFoodHall!
We could almost fly with all these wings from #FrankiesNewYorkBuffaloWings!
She: "this is our ice cream.. Made with Hokkaido milk.. and it's called #DojoDairy." He: "I like it."
Well ya gotta breathe SOMETIME, right? THANK YOU #MegaFoodHall for a spectacular ending to our #JustJonesingMegaFashionHall crawl.
Chicken Tikka
Pakis(tani) naman diyan..
Moshi moshi everyone! I'm back from some short trips (Singapore and my very first Just Jonesing Tokyo Tour! More on these on the blog later..) and so far it's been pretty action packed.
So there's this Pakistani joint (pardon the stupid joke up there) located in a space I knew and loved as a Syrian restaurant if I'm not mistaken. It was called Manaish and it was delicious.
I ate there several times and even back then the crickets could be heard chirping - it was so empty.
On the day of my visit, the new incarnation was pretty quiet too - the inventively named Kabob And Curry - and that's promarily why I want to write and share this post. It's some of the most delicious stuff I've eaten in awhile!
Me and my host Rafa started with some of this really good organic okra in a spicy tomato based sauce called Bhindi Masala which we ate with hot naan bread (a must as well!). The okra was cooked perfectly - the okra police can breathe easy as there was no slime - and was sufficiently spicy and seasoned just right.
Daal Chana, or lentils in ginger and garlic and cumin was a revelation -- the lentils didn't break down into mush. You could see every bit of it and it had a little bite then dissolved into creamy deliciousness. To me it was amazing!
To satisfy our manly meat eating cravings, Rafa ordered some juicy grilled Chicken Tikka and a whole rack of marinated and grilled mutton ribs, good for 4, because we were 2. Does that make sense? Well, it rocked, and he did have some to take back to his cave and feed his wife.
And to complete our meal, we had rice. Because of course we should - we're Pinoy, dammit.
Mutton Pulao, a mild biryani type dish, was moist and so flavorful, I'd come back just for this. A lot of these rice dishes I've tried locally are tasty but they often dry out. This one gets it right.
The crickets are chirping...eat here now!
The food is well priced and in big portions, and it's cooked by a Pakistani chef. It's goooood, and there are so many other things I would like to try. But as I said, there was no one there that lunch time. On Sundays they have a 500 something peso buffet -- and it's normally filled with home sick Pakistani nationals. I'd go for ala carte during weekdays and try all this glorious stuff, and give some din to this restaurant to keep the chirping crickets at bay!
KABAB & CURRY - 20 Jupiter St