Saturday night was spent at the UP-Ayala TechnoHub after we had our flu vaccine.
The place is sprawling, no doubt about it. The circular designs, the water fountains and the water formations at the back of the front buildings are very familiar since these are present in several Ayala properties like TriNoma and Market! Market!
The children enjoyed walking outside while savoring the warm night breeze and I know we are going to be back to that place sooner than we think.
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Tagged buildings, commercial space, Dining, dinner, family, food, Quezon City, UP Diliman, UP-Ayala TechnoHub
This is a sequel to the WQ #17 Ugh. about whether to continue eating or to abandon eating lasagna with pig’s brain in it.
So the WQ#18 is related to this and here it goes:
What were the worst or weird food (for you) that you have ever eaten? What were your reactions?
My answer:
We have seen people on tv eating bull testicles, big fish eyes, Madagascar Hissing cockroaches and even raw ostrich eggs. Serve these with diet pills and the ideal weight would be achieved in no time. Seriously.
After the WQ#17 post was done, it got me thinking about the things that I have eaten which may not sit well with others. By the way, WP says I edited this first on 11 September, 2008 @ 0:16 by greenbucks
So the following are the things I have eaten as a young girl:
So there, what were the weird culinary (delightful or otherwise) that you have sampled? If you asked me if I would be adventurous enough to try these again, I would probably say, “No, thank you.” to three of these.
Share your thoughts here.
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The Weekly Question has a story behind it that I would like to include in the question that I am going to send out.
Here goes:
One day, a friend told me about her trip to a nearby province that is known for its culinary arts and expertise. She, together with her family visited a cousin who got married to a wife from that said province.
Filipinos are being known for their hospitality so we could just imagine how scrumptious the food served to them.
As this friend was well into her second serving of the very yummy and creamy lasagna, she happened to comment to her cousin’s wife (who cooked all their food) how the beef in the lasagna is so tender.
She got really surprised when her cousin’s wife relied that she did not use beef in the lasagna.
She used pig brains.
I would not say how my friend reacted so I am going to ask you this question:
If it were you in that situation, what would you do?
My answer:
If it was me and I was well into my second plate still alive, I will probably just eat the remainder of my lasagna.
Or when the hostess is not looking, I will probably go run to the bathroom and try to maybe, force myself to retch whatever can be taken out of my system. Ugh.
I am not really choosy when it comes to food but now that I am not getting any younger, I want to be healthier and be able to eat the right food. Choosing the right food might do the trick and maybe the best diet pills to help me curb the cravings for sweets.
Click here to read and article about meat packing workers getting sick with the procedures they use to extract pig’s brain from its skull.
What about you? What would you do? Join me here in my Weekly Questions meme.
Have a great week everyone! 🙂
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Tagged Dining, opinions, Weekly Question
Last week, when my mother blogger friends and I had dinner at the Fish and Co. in TriNoma, we discussed about several people who review restaurants.
We might be turning into something like these people because of these once a month dinners we have been having the past few months.
Apparently, these people who do restaurant reviews do not just review the food that they eat.
They take photos of the food and rate these according to their own ratings and satisfaction scale. Food presentation, aroma, taste, eating utensils and cleanliness are just a few of the things they take notice of.
They even rate the interiors as well as the overall appearance of the restaurant, including the colors and the lighting.
The personnel are also scrutinized as well if they are good in public relations or lacking in it.
And I was quite surprised to learn that these people who review restaurants also rate the bathrooms/restrooms! Well, that probably should be on the list, if I may say so, since bathrooms/restrooms do not only provide relief but comfort as well.
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Imagine washing your hands on a clean bathroom sink with Delta faucets, that would be a nice experience. I could probably recommend this to my brother-in-law who is an interior designer himself who has done some restaurants.
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Last Sunday, when we went to Market One Sunday Market, I chanced upon some root crops being sold. I thought it was “kamoteng kahoy” or cassava and I thought about buying several pieces. The salesperson told me it is in fact yacon. And I asked what it was again. She told me it is called yacon and it is good for those who are likely to suffer diabetes.
Hmm…I have heard about this a few months back from a student’s mom who buys the same root crop in the same place.
I asked the salesperson what it tastes like and she said it tastes like “singkamas” or what is erroneously referred to as turnips. Singkamas is in fact called jicama (pachyrhizus erosus). I got curious since I love munching on this singkamas.
I got one piece only. It was a bit expensive, compared to singkamas which can be bought for PhP25.00 for a bunch of 5-6 pieces. The one piece I got was PhP40.00(almost USD1.00).
I peeled the yacon around noon today. And took photos of the sliced flesh.
After a while, I noticed that the flesh discolored. I didn’t know that discoloration happens the flesh has been exposed to air, like apples and eggplants.
I tasted one piece and it tasted good. Sweetish, like a part apple, a part jicama and a part pear. So that is why it is also called the Apple of the Earth. It is also dubbed as the Healing Crop.
I didn’t want to eat it as it is so I thought about making a salad and putting some pieces which I sliced in strips. This was what I got:
Click here to read about more about this root crop called yacon.
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