Yamato Bakery's Cronuts + PNoy + NAIA T3

All Saints day and All Souls day (Nov. 1 and Nov. 2 respectively) are days that  people fluctuate to different terminals to go back to their respective province and greatly commemorate the dead relatives.

Greatly commemorate. It's because here in PH where relatives sleep overnight at the cemetery, you can hardly cross the other side of the cemetery due to volume of people. It is also the time where relatives have their family reunion and of course prepare food.

My Dad and I agreed to meet at my office around 1:00 pm to go to NAIA T3 to catch a 5pm flight. Traffic in Manila is the worst! We left Makati at around 1:30 and drive along EDSA where we find ourselves stuck in traffic. I was calm at that time because we had a lot of time to spare, I slept at the car all the way trough the traffic. I woke up 3:30pm only to find out that our car is not allowed to enter since parking is full and my dad (diabetic, impatient , and maliglaig) is going hyper, I told him that I'll walk and proceed to check-in our bags and he just wait for a few minutes so he can enter the parking lot.

Thank God he was able to get a parking slot (park n fly). Luckily, increase in parking fee is not yet in effect at that time (Read this: Worlds worst airport strikes again one thousand peso parking tickets at NAIA)

I told  my dad the new rate scheme and both of us agreed to just take the cab going to NAIA on feb 2014 going to Hong Kong. I don't mind since our house is a 20 min. ride going to the airport via C5 and our departure time is at 5am, so no worries.

Amazingly, there's no queue of line (Dec. 31  is our departure date. We didn't want to travel on Nov 1 with the exodus of people) at the check-in counters and check-in of bags is done within 10 min. Thank you web-check in. 

As I passed trough the final security, I realized that it only took me 15 min from baggage check-in to final security. No more manual check-in and terminal fee payment. Check in time is cut by half, saved some time for coffee and plane spotting. 

I was ecstatic to have rows of chair for myself.

Then I saw a commotion. I hurriedly went to Cafe France and left my bag to my dad.

Dept. of Transportation and Communication Sec. Jun Abaya ( I'm not thrilled to see him because I find him too inefficient to become a transportation secretary. A transportation secretary should be firm and work fast, transportation is a big contributor to the economy, and the DOTC took a lot of months just to bid out the renovation of Mactan-Cebu International airport) 

President Noynoy Aquino.

Wide! 50% of the travelling people I saw was foreigners.

Pastries at Wildflour Cafe + Bakery

It's love at first bite.

My heartbeat is in a roller coaster ride when i came to wildflour. It was 8am and my purpose is to buy the very famous cronuts which people are going nuts about. Unfortunately cronuts are only available starting 11am and so I just bought some pastries and ordered a salad.

I could not believe all the yummy pastries and bread inside the resto It's like narnia. I wish I could live here.

There's chocolate, peanut butter, marshmallows,cookies, bread, etc! 

Everything looks good, just like the witch's house from Hansel & Gretel.

Lunch at Cafe France

Finally!! I  bought myself a rubber fold able keyboard that cost only $4 / P300. 

Anyways, my entry starts again with lunch at cafe france which my parents love. It's a restaurant and a cafe at the same time. All pastries looks and tastes insanely delicious with very affordable price. It's still the same delifrance as before.

I was ecstatic to see all the pastries! It's love at first sight.

Breakfast at The Peninsula, Manila

It's Father's Day!

I've stayed to a lot of hotels, and nothing beats The Peninsula, Manila. 

from gorgeous room hotels, to gym and spa facilities, to food. I'm saddened by the Coup d'Etat  that the hotel went trough few years back, then the hotel did a major face lift with their rooms, gym, spa, and their restaurant. 

A picture of the room:

A Filipino-Spanish interior (newly renovated very spaciousrooms)

Buffet Breakfast!

I love how they re-invent the old Nielsen Restaurant and Re-branded it to Escolta. Manila Peninsula now feature Filipino-Spanish era interiors on rooms, and restaurants. 

 

Scrambled Eggs, Corned Beef (Filipino Style), Chicken Sausage, Small Roasted Potatoes, Bacon, and Roasted Pork w/ Honey. Obviously, food in a 5 star hotel is very sumptuous, meat is tender and juicy, and very flavorful.

Pork Siomai, Asado Siopao, Donut, Apple Turnover (I'm disappointed with myself that I haven't tasted their congee - looks promising)

Bircher Muesli. I'm such a fanatic of this dish! although theirs is a little bit bland but after adding sugar, it was heavenly.  

Pastries. You can never go wrong with their wide selection of breads. I never got a chance to taste all of the mouthwatering breakfast foods which includes: pancakes, cereals, japanese dishes, and some of the fruits. but that's alright, i can go back anytime. 

Merienda @ Dulcinea

It's been ages since i had eaten some of the scrumptious pastries of dulcinea. all these never failed to satisfy my cravings.

I had light breakfast in a little plate filled with spaghetti. so before we go to mass, we took a quick bite at Dulcinea - SM Megamall.

Menu:

Moritos (sort of cream puff but the filling is lighter and the bread is much thicker - it is covered in chocolate) are light in sweetness. it's a little tough to eat but it's very very good to partner with coffee. it's very moist inside, you can taste the sweetness of the milky filling then the brittleness of the coated chocolate.

This is my favorite, eclair. the bread was soft - but not too soft, chocolate coating was so good (not so sweet), the filling was brilliant (not so sweet also). a classic blockbuster.

The churros is another hit. the fried bread was crisp in the outside and very soft in the inside. there was no oil in the taste. The chocolate was like a combination of dark, and milk chocolate but it was hot and sweet.