Chinese With a Twist in ZONG

Last week Dhey tagged me on a post on facebook, its about BGC FOOD TOUR posted on +The Pickiest Eater In The World. Well I read the blog and its super awesome and by the way Rina is such an amazing blogger just like her husband Richie (FANBOY ALERT). Told Dhey that we have to be there since both of us want to go OUT and EAT so this is a perfect gimik for us.

I checked the details on how to get our free tickets, so we just need to  present a single or accumulated receipt worth 1500 from shops or restaurants from Bonifacio High Street, The Fort Entertainment Center, Crossroads, Bonifacio Stop Over, One & Two Parkade and The Mind Museum.

All food tour dates are on Saturdays! Times like this I am always complaining why my rest days needs to be on weekdays. Since I just cant let this one go, food plus a trip around BGC is so perfect, the following day I immediately filed a leave for it. I told Dhey if we are going to spend that amount of money we need to spend it on food ofcourse, and I told her I know a restaurant in Fort Strip and that is ZONG.

ZONG is a Tibetan word for "county"

I'd been to ZONG before, a few years back my cousin Ar-ryan invited me to stay the night on her place and we had a dinner here and that made me decide to go back cause I want to taste their Singapore-Style Fish Fillet AGAIN!(all caps para intense)

Before the food let me give you I little background about ZONG. ZONG's first ever branch is in FORT STRIP opened 10 years ago by Joshua Tiu and from the name itself obviously they offer Chinese Food and to put a modern twist to your traditional Chinese Dishes. Their dishes are MSG free, they want to preserve their dishes with its natural flavor.

ZONG is a very nice place for family, group of friends or group of young or young at heart professionals who need a good food after work without worrying if the space is enough to accommodate them.

As you can see the place is pretty big and they even have a second floor and some chairs outside so there's always a room for everyone.

Store is not open until 11am and Dhey and I arrived a few minutes earlier which made us the very first customer of the day. Now let's talk about the food.

We ordered Yang Chow Rice which is good,there's so much in it its enough to be full. The serving is big good for 3-4 people.

We had a Pork Siomai, a special ground pork wrapped in flour dumpling. This is Siomai is so tasty and its bigger than the usual Siomai in Chowking.

We had a Deep Fried Salt and Pepper Pork ribs, for me it's just ok. the good thing about it is that it so tender you're not going to have a hard time eating it compared to other Deep Fried foods.

And now to my favorite the Singapore-Style Fish Fillet. It's a fillet of dory with a sweet and orange tangy sauce with egg floss on top. This dish is so tender you don't need to chew it anymore lol. The sauce is so tasty and the egg floss if perfect no wonder why its on their FAVORITE list on their website.

Their serving is too big we are not able to finish our food, we decided to take it home instead.

Well it was nice to be back in ZONG, all I can say is they are consistent with what they do. The food taste the same the way I tasted it before, place is still cozy and comfy. Well in this type of business consistency is Big Thing.

You should Visit them on their three stores they have one in Paseo De Santa Rosa Laguna, one in Westgate Alabang and the One in Fort Strip in Bonifacio Global City. Store hours: 11am to 3pm and 6pm to 11pm.

Ill blog more about our Food Tour on my next post. Good Night :)

Dinner Cruise in Manila Bay

Two weeks ago, it was  a lazy Wednesday and I don't have any plans of hanging out. Actually my plan is to stay home and have a REVENGE season 2 marathon. Then while watching my cousin Ar-ryan called me and asked me to come with them in a Dinner Cruise for Bench's(My Cousin's Childhood Friend) birthday. Well I said yes! how can you say no to a dinner in a cruise? but I'm not sure if my parents will agree to it! So I let my cousin talk to my mom and my parents said yes.

I actually don't know when it started but I saw this Dinner Cruise in a couple of TV shows already and I really want to try it.

The Dinner Cruise is in Manila Bay our schedule is at 7pm. Since it's my off and that is the first day of the 'Man of Steel" I left early to watch it first before heading to Harbor Square.

Arrived at Mall of Asia a little late than expected. I forgot that it's Baclaran day and it's a holiday(June 12). I headed straight to the cinemas but the lines are so long. So I don't have a choice but kill time alone.

Around 6 my cousin called me and asked me to go to Harbor Square since Bench is already there and they're on their way.

My cousin got the voucher in MetroDeal I don't know how much it is. The Trip will start in Harbor Square and then head to Mall of Asia and go back to Harbor Square.

So when we went inside. No time to waste and we took a lot (tons) of pictures, you cant ride a yacht everyday unless you own one lol. Since there's limited chairs we need to wait for our turn to eat and we decided to stay at the upper deck of the yacht while waiting for our turn.

 Here are some of the picture at the upper deck.





Now lets talk about the food. I'm so sorry I actually tried to get the name of the dish from the guy who served the food but I can't understand what he was saying.

The Food is OK nothing special, the only thing that I really like is the spicy giniling I don't even know what they call it.



Even the food is not as good as I expected the Malaysian Cook make the whole trip interesting. She asked us how's the food and then asked us this very interesting question. 'You know why boats were named after a woman?'. I have the same question because I noticed that they refer most the boats as a SHE or HER. The answer made me smile, she answered it with her cute accent 'Kasi boats are Hard to maintain parang Girls'. Well it make sense hahaha

The Malaysian Cook resides here in the Philippines, she is married to a Pinoy. Then she said 'Ill ask a favor, please do something for the Philippines, you have so much potential.' Coming from a pure blooded Malaysian it sounds so different, I just realized how this woman have so much trust to us, there are still people out there who knows that we can do something for our country. Too bad I was not able to get her name and have a picture with her.

After our meal we decided to take more pictures.







Since its still early after the cruise they decided to have some coffee at the Coffee Bean at the Two Ecom building at the MOA complex.



It was a lovely night. It's not the best dinner but it was a nice experience being surrounded my these super nice people that made this whole experience possible.

If you want to try it you can visit their office in Harbor Square or maybe check if in MetroDeal hahaha

That night before I sleep I was thinking of the Malaysian Cook and I'm going to leave you a question what can you do for this country? Have a blessed day everyone.

Aguinaldo Shrine

I know it is pretty late but I have something to do last week that makes it impossible for me to blog this I'm sorry guys :( so let me share you my experience in the Aguinaldo Shrine.

June 12 a very important date for us aside from holiday it is the Philippine Independence Day and since its Independence Day lets have a walk to the memory lane and go back to where it started. June 12, 1898, this is the first time our Philippine flag made a public appearance and who waved that flag our very first President Emilio Aguinaldo. A few weeks ago I decided to go back to Aguinaldo Shrine and asked my friend Alpha to come with me and let me share our experience to you guys.

When you hear the word 'Museum' what are you thinking? I'm not an artist or anything but let me share you my experience in National Museum.

A few weeks back after our Burger Project experience we were wondering where to go. So we decided to go to National Museum. Never been there so I'm Pretty excited. The National Museum is located near Luneta or Rizal Park and near Intramuros in fact it's actually the former home of the Congress of the Philippines. 

Back to School

School year starts. Wondering what to wear? I have something for you

I'm not an expert but I like dressing up. Here are some tips on your back to school look.

Create your very own burger at BRGR:The Burger Project

Tired of the usual burger you order? Then why not create your own burger? In this case let The Burger Project help you!

Let me give you a short story on how this project started. If you can remember, a few weeks back i met up with my high school friend Danica. I was in SM Manila waiting for her class to end,  since i came in so early i decided to roam around. Since I'm taking this blog thing seriously i decided to visit a book store and immediately visit the magazine section of the store. I was thinking of food most of the time so I grabbed a copy of FOOD Magazine's May issue. As I flipped through the pages I saw "BURGER" and I immediately tweeted Dhey and Gene to set a date and try it.

Super Late Mother's Day Celebration in Malens Restaurant

I know it's been a week and feels like it's too late for me to post something about mother's day. Unfortunately because I have work on weekends I was not able to celebrate this occasion with my mom so I decided to file a leave yesterday to have a post mother's day celebration, better late than never right?! I asked my Mom and Dad to have a dinner in Malen's since we've never been there. I had a hard time to convince my dad to eat in Malen's cause he want to eat somewhere else. Well I guess my mom sensed that I really want to go and try Malen's and she said yes!

Malen's restaurant is located in Noveleta, Cavite in front of the soon to open PureGold Noveleta. Malen's is a bakeshop and a restaurant in one. They offer pasta's and pizza too!