Eating Out at Shang Shang Shanghai Cuisine in Hong Kong

The best part about Hong Kong is the food! The last time my parents were there, they were talking about how much they loved a restaurant near the hotel they stayed in. We stayed in that hotel again, so we went to the restaurant. It's called Shang Shang Shanghai Cuisine. 

Tampay sa Sinagtala, Orani, Bataan

To those who are looking for a bed and breakfast that gives free flowing Starbucks brewed coffee, this is it.

Well, the statement above is true, but at least I got your attention now. My godmother really does provide free flowing Starbucks brand brewed coffee to parties who'll book for 10 or more people in her bed and breakfast. 

Welcome to Tampay sa Sinagtala. This is one of the six bed and breakfast houses in Sinagtala resort in Orani, Bataan. This house in specific can accommodate up to thirty people, has cable TV, and has five bedrooms available for bookings. 

The name Tampay comes from the Tagalog word for serenity. And given how peaceful and quiet it is here, the name is a fitting name. 

Aquabest Bloggers' Night (+Review of Grills and Sizzles)

Hi everyone! It's event time! So these are some of the photos I took during Aquabest's bloggers night. Initially, I actually thought that this was super sketchy because I mean it's so unusual for a water company to host a blogger's event. It's normal for restos to do it, or for makeup brands and clothing brands, but not really for water not unless the company is making vitamin water or flavored water. 

It was even sketchier that they were teamed up with a skincare and spa. I was actually quite reluctant to go at first until I found out that it was going to be held at Grills and Sizzles. The place is so near where we live that I was thinking that should this be a sketchy event for real it'd be easy for me to call for help and get picked up. 

Thankfully, when I got here, it was a legit event hahaha. 

And aside from the event being legit, I was fed very well... 

Lazy Man's Mussel Chowder Recipe

This is the kind of mussel chowder for the lazy person. I was so lazy doing this that I didn't take a photo of the chowder. Anyway, here's the recipe: 

Lazy Man's Mussel Chowder:

Cook Time: About 10 minutes

Ingredients:

Serves about 5

10 blast frozen-blast cooked mussels (or whatever number you have) 

1 can Campbell's condensed cream of mushroom soup

Enough milk to fit Campbell's Soup Can

1 250-mL tetra pak of all purpose cream

1 can mushrooms, sliced 

1L water 

Leftover cheese

Dried Basil leaves (to taste) 

Directions: 

1.) Empty the condensed soup onto a pot and dilute it with a can-ful of milk. Stir well. 

2.) Add the water in. 

3.) Turn on the stove, keep it on low to medium heat. Add in cream and mushrooms.

4.) Once the stew is boiling, add the mussels

5.) Add in leftover cheese to taste.

6.) Add dried basil leaves, to taste, too.

7.) Boil for a few more minutes then serve while hot. 

Perfect for a rainy day when everybody's lazy... 

Baked Mussels with Cheese, Garlic and Butter (Trial and Recipe)

I may not have muscle, but at least I have mussel!

It's that time of the year. Any Pinoy in the Philippines will need to eat baked tahong, or mussel, at least at one point of the year. Since the cravings were already too strong, I decided to do something about the boxed mussels I recently got from S&R Membership. These KONO mussels are really good, they're really fat, and the aroma is well kept even if it's a frozen set of mussels. I put the box of mussles in our freezer and came back to a fragrant, mussel-smelling freezer. A mussel-smelling freezer is sooo much better than a meat blood-smelling freezer. So yeah, I'm about to share some of the photos. 

It's 350 pesos per Kg, but I think that the deal's already good enough as the mussels are New Zealand mussels and they're already in the half shell, barnacle and sand free.