Archive for August, 2009
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Baja + Red Mango
JM and I watched “Up” last night and we had dinner at Baja, which serves Mexican food. I also tried out Red Mango at last!
Baja’s located on the third floor of Greenbelt 3, near Capriciosa. We don’t recall which restaurant or fast food or bistro it was that we wanted to try out but Baja was near the ticket booth so it made the decision easier for us.
We ordered fries and burritos. I don’t recall the names of the food we ate. (Now I wish I took the receipt home with me.) Anyhow, the pictures will have to suffice for now.
Supreme Fries was served first, along with our drinks: orange juice for me, Sprite for JM. The fries were awesome! Definitely not soggy! A big plus for me. They also didn’t taste like sweet potato, which is a very good thing. Fast food fries taste like sweet potato every so often.
Look at all those tomato bits, onion bits, guacamole, sour cream and cheese! I love potatoes a lot so this was something I loved. I could come back to Baja even just for these fries.
I swear, that platter of fries was something JM and I both loved last night.JM ordered a siding of chili con carne. But it was more of chili beef. There was little to none of beans. Oh well. But it tasted ok to me.
My order was a Baja grilled chicken burrito without the rice. I was really trying to make sure that I had space for Red Mango’s frozen yogurt so I decided to hold off the rice. The chicken was tasty actually.
And I really loved how the Mexican hot sauce just went along well with it, the sour cream and guacamole. The nachos and salsa on the side were an extra treat for me.
JM’s food came last. And when it got to our table, we knew why. The Super Grande Burrito was true to its name.
He didn’t know how to eat it. In my case, my burrito was of a normal size so I could still bite it off like you normally will. But the one he got was really huge. No other word for it. He settled for the fork, knife and spoon method. (LOL)
Slicing a bit off from the burrito reveals that it is one heck of a packed burrito. Whoever prepared it is amazing! All that rice, meat, beans and leafy veggies took some effort! And JM was one happy man eating that burrito.
The burrito I ordered was PhP 255 and JM’s grande burrito was PhP 355. Both are well worth our money and they sure satisfied our appetites and taste buds. In JM’s case, he even brought home part of the burrito because he got so full with it already.
I was ready for Red Mango after we left Baja. After all, it was something I really have been looking forward to after all the raves I’ve been hearing.
My co-worker recommended the green tea frozen yogurt to me. And because of that, I know that I had to add mochi and red beans to it. A small cup of green tea frozen yogurt + those two toppings cost me PhP115 but it was heaven in a cup!
This picture could never do justice to how delicious and delightful this combination really is. Yummy! Too bad JM was so full of burrito he couldn’t even try to taste this heavenly delight. Red Mango’s frozen yogurt is something I’d definitely go back for every once in a while. I even told JM that I’d consider setting aside budget for this every month. I loved it so much. ♥
Baja and Red Mango are both in Greenbelt 3 so if you’re going there for a movie, try and taste the food they offer.
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Lunch at Talking Tongues
This was quite some time ago. Sorry I haven’t been posting. But it’s not like a lot of people read this blog anyway.
So yeah, JM and I found Talking Tongues one lunch time that we went to Z’s in Salcedo Village in Makati. Talking Tongues is along San Agustin Street, in between Leviste and Valero. Talking Tongues replaced Han Kang, a Korean resto.
Talking Tongues serves Chinese Indonesian food. We think that he owner is probably Indonesian because she asked me if I was one. (Being Filipino, we are usually mistaken for being Indonesian, Thai, Chinese, etc.) We ordered our food and she asked us if we wanted our food spicy. Of course we said yes! So we sat down on one of the tables while waiting for our food. Looks like they prepare things as they were ordered so it took a while. We looked at the decorations of the place and the uniforms the staff sort of reminded me of Banana Leaf’s staff uniform. The place was colorful with the yellow, purple and blue stuff and furniture. There were even some kind of figures on display. I think it’s to emphasize that they serve Chinese Indonesian cuisine.
It was actually hard to decide on what to eat, considering that everything on the menu seemed interesting. It doesn’t help that seeing all those food being served to their customers when we arrived looked great and smelled like it. Ah food. We really hoped to eat them and get satisfied in the end.
This is what the placed looked like.The food
JM’s food was some kind of spicy fried rice dish with egg on top of it. The barbequed chicken was the viand. But really, I think that the rice itself was ok already. There were also pickled cucumbers on the side. We sure were glad to ask for spicy food because we got what we asked for. And there was even hot sauce on the table for those who wanted it extra spicy. As you can see from the picture, the rice looked like it had a lot of spices when it was prepared.
At first I was thinking that maybe my food will end up bland because of the light color. It wasn’t as red as JM’s rice. But I was wrong. It was actually quite spicy.
Adding the hot sauce made me think that the dish I ordered was some kind of a traitor. Just striking when you least know it. But that’s ok. Spicy is good! 
The fried dumplings were a bit ‘meh’ for my taste. And not so meaty either. I could have eaten dumplings elsewhere. But the rice dishes were really terrific and I wish that I could have eaten a whole lot more.
I’d gladly go back to Talking Tongues some other day. I hope to bring some friends there some time too.
I ordered two things: the spicy fried rice with bit of dried fish and egg plus fried dumplings.
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