My Week-long Birthday - Day 3

Day 3 was spent with my new found friends, Brenda, Janis, and Patty... Met them all through Multiply, they have been my YM friends since then... We managed to chat once a day, and see each other at least once a month, exchanging thoughts of what was happening about, ummm, everything... From celebrities, to signature bags, to hair care, to ingrown nails... I must say, that these are the people who I can talk to with much candor...

Agenda:

5:30 pm - meet at Zara, Rockwell
6:00 pm - dinner at Pepper Lunch
7:30 pm - watch SATC
10:00 pm - coffee at Starbucks
12:00 pm - adjourn

A month ago, while we were planning for this, we've talked about watching the movie... Then I noticed that perhaps, we all do resemble the SATC Girls' personalities, (definitely not the looks), Which were all agreed by them...

Janis - Charlotte (secretive, a true friend, loves shopping)
Jin - Samantha (sex guru or someone who is addicted to sex) "joke"
Patty - Miranda (girl in a corporate world, sensible and deep)
Brenda - Carrie (petite, enjoys men but chooses to be with her one and only)

I am giving you the authority to laugh at us this time.... Anyway, this is just for fun... And I enjoyed spending my birthday with my "pretend" SATC girlfriends...


If you're wondering, where Marnie is, why isn't she in the pic??? Well, first of all, SATC girls are only 4... So she can choose, whether, she will be Stanford (Carrie's gay friend played by Willie Garson), or just somewhere behind the camera to take our pictures... She chose the latter...

All of us at Pepper Lunch

One last pose before the movie starts

Movie ended around 10:00pm and we headed off to Starbucks with swollen eyes due to the uncontrollable eruption of our tear ducts...

After 2 hours of beautiful and exciting conversation, again, about everything,
the girls surprised me with a mini-cake to welcome my birthday...


Thank you so much Girls... It has been a lovely and touching
Birthday experience...

Another Gastronomic Attack!

You guys know how much I love food... Isn't it obvious??? But the truth is, I enjoy eating so much that it is really impossible for me to go on a diet because I can't even eat without having at least 2 different kinds of food, whether it'd be fish and meat, meat and veggies, or beef and pork, and so on... Plus major carbo of course - steamed white rice...

Anyways, this afternoon, I had to buy some groceries,


(sorry, I just had to put my little big boy's picture
while he patiently waits for me picking up fruits)

so I headed to Power Plant so I can try out the newly opened restaurant,


owned/franchised by Chef Jeroen Van Straten and his wife, designer/writer/blogger/stylist Cecile Zamora Van Straten...
I don't know them personally but I belong to the
Chuvaness Army, so to speak...

I admit, I may sound a bit biased, but actually, several weeks ago, I tried Pepper Steak (the imitation) - the one in Trinoma, which I believed is managed by the Teriyaki Boy group. I tried eating there because I was craving for that kind of food since Chuvaness has been posting a lot about their restaurant which was still under "dry-run"... Meaning, I still can't eat there...

So I had no choice but to try Pepper Steak (the imitation)... The beef, the pork, the chicken, and the veggies, were bland... They have 2 sauces - both are sweet type, if I remember correctly, one is Teriyaki, and the other one is Honey... I don't know, but I'm not the eater who enjoys sweet food, I'm the garlicky, spicy, and flavorful type...
In short, I didn't like Pepper Steak (the imitation).

At Pepper Lunch, yes, there was a long queue... It took us about 17 minutes (yes I timed it) to reach the cashier. It is a fast-food type restaurant, like KFC, Jollibee, etc, but, this one is of course a lot different... You don't get to order unless you already have a table... That system works for me. Because I hate it when people holding their food trays standing behind me waiting for me to finish my food, so they can take my seat! Isn't it disgusting???
So for that...


Oh, and another thing, while we were waiting, we were given
free small portions of Pepper Rice... Another .


Yes, that's the one I was holding and munching... That guy on the left wearing orange was watching me after I took my first bite... Funny thing, I didn't even make "pa-cute", I told my cousin, SARAP!!! - with wide eyes, then I looked at him and he has this evil grin... Super duper embarrassing... What was he thinking??? Did I look super takaw??? I think so...

We finally reached the counter... I ordered Teriyaki Chicken for Cassie and Yaya, Beef Pepper Rice for myself, Chicken Pepper Rice for Paolo, and 1 Shimofuri Pepper Steak for both of us... Hahahaha... Takaw talaga...

When we reached our table, our food began arriving... I was shocked because it was really fast! I was deeply concentrating on our steak when my beef pepper rice arrived... The waiter asked me politely if I would like him to mix the beef since I was busy with the steak... He was kinda worried my beef would get burn... So I gave him the honors of cooking my beef... Isn't that neat???

Shimofuri Pepper Steak

Chicken Teriyaki

Chicken Pepper Rice

Beef Pepper Rice

Cassie enjoyed her Chicken Teriyaki...


After a few minutes....



Look at all those empty plates...



Our bill...


Not so expensive!!!


The restaurant has just opened this weekend and is still working on their credit card acceptance so you may have to bring cash when you dine in...

Now the question is, am I coming back???




DEFINITELY...