So I stole the term from Tita Ria (who uses it on anything you’d return to a restaurant for). But I mean it nonetheless.
Here is my now favorite dessert.
It’s a Mt. Fuji Lava Cake from the Waterfront Cebu’s Japanese restaurant, Mizu.
They make it to order, it takes 30-40 minutes for each order and the wait is worth it.
Gooey warm chocolate with the creamiest vanilla ice cream on a chocolate cup.
Lemme tell you, I can almost imagine myself going back to Cebu for this.
Until then, hello heaven.

Dinuguan is the ubiquitous “watch the foreigner squirm as we make them eat this” food next to the famous balut. It is essentially blood soup, with pork bits or guts, depending on which region you eat. It’s actually pretty good. Especially with labanos (horseradish) since it cuts through the meaty taste which can sometimes be overwhelming.

Want to truly overwhelm yourself? Try Kanin Club’s version at the new Ayala Technohub in Commonwealth. They serve up a truly sinful version that has the pork bits incredbly crunchy amidst the rich blood soup. It’s like eating chicharon bulaklak in dinuguan stew, and since I am a fan of chicharon, I immediately wanted to try this when I read about it on Dessert Comes First.

I dragged my friends to a late lunch on a bored Monday and as they were fans of the artery clogging kind of food that I love, it was an easy task.

As it was an uber late lunch, we went all out and ordered the most calorie laden therefore yummy items on the menu, Crispy Dinuguan, Crispy Pata, Crispy Tadyang and Aligue rice to boot.

It didn’t take long for us to sweep through the dishes and regret what we just did, all the while smiling through the imaginary headaches.

So try it. Then run for 5 hours the next day to make up for it, coz it is worth every bite.

A couple of weeks ago Joannaman got a text from our friend Berto about this new sushi place in SM Annex that had the conveyor belt concept that he wanted to try out.

So we went (without Berto coz he wasn’t free that night). What can i say, I’m a sucker for sushi and i really like food that finds its way to me. *snicker*

Turns out this was an eat-all-you-can place. Which, even if I can consume an insane amount of food, those places really pressure me into eating everything in sight. And the last time I went to an eat all you can sushi place, I ended up stowing the last two pieces of sushi in a tissue in my bag coz I couldn’t finish the last plate I ordered (Palawan. Don’t ask)

The place was cute. Yellow and green, and the booths were roomy and placed next to the conveyor belt so that the customers could just grab a plate whenever they wanted. The kitchen was in the middle of the two conveyor belts and you could see the chefs making the sushi as you gobbled them down (wearing gloves, bless them). And every few minutes they just loaded the belts with new stuff we wanted to try but was scared to coz a lot of them were covered in the fried stuff we don’t like.

We both had the eat-all-you can sushi, that comes with refillable green iced tea, and a cup of miso soup. Miso soup was soooo good. Then again, it’s kinda hard to mess up, and it is one of my favorite things to order on any japanese menu. The green tea, well tasted like green tea. And it was nice enough for me to have like 4 refills of the stuff.

Sushi verdict? Not too adventurous, actually cooked sushi. I saw tamago sushi A LOT but didn’t eat it. So i had like the least cooked things on the belt, and one fried thing coz it came covered in ebikko. Don’t expect a lot of the crazy uni stuff, and for the sushi wary, you can go here and get the un-sushi sushi coz all the things came cooked and had no fish at all.

All in all we both had seven plates of sushi each. Joannaman was declared the winner of the sushi war since her bill came up higher than mine when we computed through the pricing.

But this is only the first round.

Eho at 2 years and nine months. I figure I don’t take enough pics of the little (fat) guy.