FoodStuff Blog

Aside from Filipino food, I also love Japanese cuisine as it offers a great variety of dishes and regional specialties. My favorite Japanese dishes are tonkatsu, ramen, yakisoba, miso soup and tempura.

So when I crave for Japanese food, there’s only one place on my mind, Tokyo Tokyo. Tokyo Tokyo is the #1 Japanese fast food restaurant in the Philippines. It was first established in 1985 with its first branch in Quad Carpark. After two decades, Tokyo Tokyo has become a household name with over 60 branches in Metro Manila and the highly urbanized cities in Luzon.

As Tokyo Tokyo marks another milestone in celebrating its 24th year in the industry, they give Tempura lovers more reason to love them.

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April 18, 2009 – Joriben, Monch, Trixie and I attended the official launch of The BaR. The launch started around 7:30 in the evening.

“The BaR was created with the young crowd who live to party and enjoy the nightlife in mind,” says Mr. Kendrick Tan of The Bar Beverage, Inc., and the brains behind the revolutionary party drink. “Made with the highest quality neutral alcohol mixed with only the finest fruit flavors, it is the drink of the future as the world turns its focus to flavored spirits as well. All you need is ice, and you get the party started.”

Also, The BaR’s official endorsers Angelica Panganiban and Jake Cuenca were there to grace the event.  It is so good that the likes of the lovely Ms. Angelica Panganiban and the dashing Mr. Jake Cuenca can’t help but rave about the product.

Ingredients:
2 T OLIVE OIL
¼ K LEAN GROUND BEEF
¼ C WHITE ONIONS, DICED
3 PCS GARLIC CLOVES, MINCED
1 PC BAY LEAF
1 TSP CUMIN
1 TSP SOY SAUCE
TO TASTE SALT
TO TASTE PEPPER
1 C TOMATOES, SEEDED AND DICED
¼ C WHITE ONIONS, DICED
1 PC GARLIC CLOVE, MINCED
2 T CILANTRO, CHOPPED
2 C LETTUCE, CUT INTO STRIPS
1/4 C GRATED CHEDDAR CHEESE
2 PCS FLOUR TORTILLA

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The list below contains the answers for the food quiz you get everyday in Restaurant City. For those who do not know Restaurant City, it a new game on facebook developed by Playfish. In Restaurant City, you get to create and run your very own restaurant! Design it, decorate it, hire your friends to work in it, and collect new ingredients and menu items!

Anyway, it is important to get it correct as food quizzes are one source of obtaining ingredients. I decided to put this on my Foodstuff blog since this is connected with food…

So here are the Q & A:

Q: To blanch a vegetable, means to?
A: Boil and Cool off quickly

Q: Agar is a gelatinous substance derived from what?
A: Seaweed

Q: Bechamel sauce is also known as…
A: White Sauce

Q: Caviar is made from?
A: Fish Egg

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Summer is here and the best way to treat yourself this summer is through Bizu’s latest creations. In Bizu, the summer heat only means one thing– to concoct the coolest indulgence that will refresh and satisfy your summer cravings.

Bizu has come up with unique and enticing Summer Sorbets. Take pleasure in these frozen desserts made from unique blends of pureed summer fruits. You can now have 5 reasons to refresh with our sorbets that come in 5 cool combinations: Raspberry and Merlot, Lemon and Ginger, Passion Fruit and Mango, Green Apple and Mint, and Lychee and Vanilla. All these flavors come in one set only for Php285. Spend one summer afternoon lounging at Bizu slowly savoring each flavour.

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Our homemade Blueberry Creamy Chilled Cheesecake is one of my favorite desserts.  My cousin taught me how to do this. And let me share it with you…

Ingredients:

• 1 c Graham Cracker Crumbs
• 1 Nestle Cream
• 1 Condensed Milk
• 1 Knoxx Gelatin (or any unflavored gelatin)
• Sugar
• Magnolia Gold Butter
• Blueberry (or any fruits you like.. try ripe mango)
• Cream Cheese (Magnolia or Philadelphia)

This is one of my favorite recipes because it is easy to cook and easy on the pocket… Anyway, here it is:

Ingredients:

150 g. can of tuna flakes ( I use century tuna spicy. It is your choice if you want the plain or spicy)
1/2 tsp. of garlic, minced
1 onion, chopped finely
1 egg, lightly beaten
salt and pepper
cheese (ques-o or quickmelt)
12-15 pieces of lumpia wrapper
2 c. cooking oil

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After chopping garlic, the smell can remain on your hands for hours… and I hate the smell of garlic… So here are some of the tips on how to remove garlic or onion smell from your hands…

Use Stainless Steel

An easy way to remove these smells from hands is to soap them up and rub them along a stainless steel faucet or knife or spoons. Stainless steel is known to remove odors from hands by simply rubbing the hands on the stainless-steel under running water. There are special stainless-steel discs that are sold to remove odors. It really does work but it must be stainless steel. This has been handed down for generations.

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