I’ve been asking a couple of friends to come with me to a burger place I’d been hearing about called Burger Avenue. It’s in a fairly new established mall called A Venue along Makati Ave and since we were already in the area I finally convinced a friend of mine to tag along. We walked a couple of blocks down Makati Avenue till we reached the mall. We had to do a bit of asking when we got there but the place wasn’t hard to find. Its located on the ground floor, situated in a quiet inconspicuous corner.

Quick, cool summer dinner for busy Project Runway nights

A curry is a dish cooked with a lot of spices, more like a stew with spices. In our recent study trip to Chiang Mai, I made a Thai curry paste by hand which took me a laborious 30-40 mins per curry mix because we had to roast the spices and pound them together with peppers until we achieved a nice paste (try doing that with a mortar and pestle and you’ll go crazy!).

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This place is celebrating its 25th year. I can’t believe it, and it’s only my 2nd or 3rd time to eat here. I like bangus, in fact I eat them all the time in Cafe. So I guess I know what to order…bangus!

My dad and bro are back from a food stint and Cebu and finally I will get to write about our family sunday dinners. This will probably take up the bulk of my blog because we have this as a tradition that every Sunday, our family and invited friends come over to eat dinner together. It used to be Sunday lunch at our ancestral home in Quezon City with Bro. Andrew usually taking care of the menu and our family cook doing most of the work. Now it has evolved to students and our chef doing the work, and our meals being eaten at a long table in Cafe Ysabel. So let's start...

We wanted to go native for lunch on our day trip to Tagaytay so Mig and I decided to have a nice Filipino meal at Viewsite Tagaytay. It was already about 2:30pm and my stomach’s been grumbling , on this trip we wanted to try what Tagaytay is usually known for — bulalo and the tawilis, and a bunch of other little accompaniments.

I haven’t been breathing over the weekend. I think I won’t be breathing till mid-July. Suddenly I have a rush of things to do that I can hardly even write in my own blog! Well anyway, one good thing though is that I’m learning a whole lot from my new responsibility.

And so the meeting was okay. Nothing seems final as of the moment. Gaah. I’m still waiting for my brother now to meet with me regarding our stall’s food in the coming weeks. There are so many holes to fill, and it’s already 6:30 I haven’t visited the stall yet. We had a little snack on the way back at Su Zhou to contemplate on our meeting. We hope that things get ironed out because our deadline for operation would be in August.

After months of repairs and renovation, I’m proud to say that Cafe Ysabel has been giving a new breath of life. It is as if we just made minor repairs (but it was pretty major, termites were eating off our posts!), since the place itself didn’t seem to change much, but one thing’s for sure, the next time you dine at our place, you will find that little pleasant things have been added to make our service to customers much better. I decided to take pictures today after my trip to the stall just to give a few teasers to our customers.