Quezon City
Been here for 3 days now. Met up with our good friends, Verne and Gia, on Saturday. We met them at the College of Music. Both of them (and their kids) are Croc-ies too! Just like Peter and I (and my family). It's the new thing now - everyone loves to wear their Crocs for its comfort. I understand my niece and nephews in the province wear them too.
Anyway, we were treated to a Pakistani lunch at the old Drive-In in front of our church, UP CRL, and next to the UP Pool. They had so many choices with lots of vegetarian options (my friend Gia has turned vegetarian for health reasons). The price was very reasonable. And the food, good!
Afterwards, rain started to pour, apparently since Summer ended the rains haven't been pouring, only about 2-3 days since then. An unusual weather they are having. Well, we wanted to drive to the new mall across from SM City, Trinoma, but due to the heavy downpour we turned back and had coffee at a popular Singaporean cafe, Kopi Roti, which offers regular Singaporean coffee with condensed milk or tea with condensed milk or hot cocoa along with a sweet crusted bun or toast with sweet cream or assorted topping french toast, all with or without soft boiled egg in special soy sauce. Very simple, yet quite popular with the regular folk.
Then we went to do some errands afterwhich they dropped us off at the church where we waited for my parents to finish with the choir practice.
Today, we went to Church and Peter and I got recruited to sing with the Filipino and English service choirs. The church has two new pastors, the Rev. PJ Bote (quite young) and Pastor Cao (also a lawyer).
Lunch was at Tom Yang Hot Pot in Quezon Avenue. Peter and I weren't able to try the hot pot in China so my brother invited us to eat there. The restaurant is quite bit, lots of huge tables with big round hot plates where in the middle is a small round pot filled with either a spicy broth or chicken broth. There were 7 of us: my parents, my brother and his girlfriend, Heidi, Tito Manny, old family friend, then Peter and I. Right in the center of the restaurant is a huge buffet full of raw sliced meats, seafood, vegetables, mushrooms, prepared dumplings, uncooked noodles or pasta, etc. We got whatever we wanted cooked at the hot pot or at the hot plate. We had thin slices of raw lamb, angus beef, chicken, salmon belly, and other interesting meats along with lots of veggies, sides and seasoned crab. A buffet desset was also offered: 3 flavours of ice cream and halo-halo (Filipino dessert). The food was pretty good, tasty, but too much. My Dad was the first to give up, followed by Peter, and the rest of us. We were completely full and sleepy afterwards. It was a good time.
I know I have posted that Peter wants to have time to post his commentary on our trip, but he needs to get his thoughts together again as he kind of forgot what he wanted to write. So, it will probably be awhile until he gets to post. So for now it will just be me and my daily blog (if there's anything interesting).
Have a good week ahead!
Been here for 3 days now. Met up with our good friends, Verne and Gia, on Saturday. We met them at the College of Music. Both of them (and their kids) are Croc-ies too! Just like Peter and I (and my family). It's the new thing now - everyone loves to wear their Crocs for its comfort. I understand my niece and nephews in the province wear them too.
Anyway, we were treated to a Pakistani lunch at the old Drive-In in front of our church, UP CRL, and next to the UP Pool. They had so many choices with lots of vegetarian options (my friend Gia has turned vegetarian for health reasons). The price was very reasonable. And the food, good!
Afterwards, rain started to pour, apparently since Summer ended the rains haven't been pouring, only about 2-3 days since then. An unusual weather they are having. Well, we wanted to drive to the new mall across from SM City, Trinoma, but due to the heavy downpour we turned back and had coffee at a popular Singaporean cafe, Kopi Roti, which offers regular Singaporean coffee with condensed milk or tea with condensed milk or hot cocoa along with a sweet crusted bun or toast with sweet cream or assorted topping french toast, all with or without soft boiled egg in special soy sauce. Very simple, yet quite popular with the regular folk.
Then we went to do some errands afterwhich they dropped us off at the church where we waited for my parents to finish with the choir practice.
Today, we went to Church and Peter and I got recruited to sing with the Filipino and English service choirs. The church has two new pastors, the Rev. PJ Bote (quite young) and Pastor Cao (also a lawyer).
Lunch was at Tom Yang Hot Pot in Quezon Avenue. Peter and I weren't able to try the hot pot in China so my brother invited us to eat there. The restaurant is quite bit, lots of huge tables with big round hot plates where in the middle is a small round pot filled with either a spicy broth or chicken broth. There were 7 of us: my parents, my brother and his girlfriend, Heidi, Tito Manny, old family friend, then Peter and I. Right in the center of the restaurant is a huge buffet full of raw sliced meats, seafood, vegetables, mushrooms, prepared dumplings, uncooked noodles or pasta, etc. We got whatever we wanted cooked at the hot pot or at the hot plate. We had thin slices of raw lamb, angus beef, chicken, salmon belly, and other interesting meats along with lots of veggies, sides and seasoned crab. A buffet desset was also offered: 3 flavours of ice cream and halo-halo (Filipino dessert). The food was pretty good, tasty, but too much. My Dad was the first to give up, followed by Peter, and the rest of us. We were completely full and sleepy afterwards. It was a good time.
I know I have posted that Peter wants to have time to post his commentary on our trip, but he needs to get his thoughts together again as he kind of forgot what he wanted to write. So, it will probably be awhile until he gets to post. So for now it will just be me and my daily blog (if there's anything interesting).
Have a good week ahead!
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