Kat's Notebook

I love Starbucks cold frapuccinos. I used to have my dad buy the 1 case of a dozen bottles of Starbucks frap from Costco. It was so yummy! But I stopped when I realized how frivolous to buy this and how it contributed to my weight gain. Yet once in a while I will treat [...]

Here are more food that I tried in Japan. After eating only Japanese food for our entire vacation, I was missing and more than yearning for Filipino or Chinese food. However I couldn’t get enough of Japanese mochi, though! Ekiben at Tokyo Station. My breakfast box (880Y) for the 3-hour-ride from Tokyo to Kyoto. There [...]

Here are some of the snacks I tried in Japan. I’m sort of an adventurous eater especially when it comes to sweets like sticky rice cake, mochi…or mochi. If I only had a bigger appetite, I would have indulged myself more. Uirou from Nagoya. One of the specialty snacks of Nagoya is the uirou. Fortunately [...]

I’m not a tea person but green tea flavored tea made me a convert. When I went to Japan, most of the restaurants serve free Green tea – cold or hot. I preferred hot. It was really delicious. It wasn’t the green tea leaves in bag rather it was the Matcha powder (Green Tea powder). [...]

During our trip, we planned to eat only Japanese cuisine and gathering information from a lot of food blogs before the trip, I was so excited to taste all the good food of Japan. I was so excited for sushi, mochi, Mos burger and a lot of sweet snacks. I set aside a good budget [...]

I love eating vegetables. I couldn’t relate to advertisement where kids hate eating their veggies well because, I love eating them. My most favorite vegetable is squash or kalabasa while my least fave is radish or labanos. Every time we shop at the oriental grocery store, we always stock up on vegetables because it’s cheaper [...]

For my mom’s birthday, I decided to treat her to a popular restaurant in downtown San Carlos, Town. Every time we would pass by this place, it’s jam-packed so I have followed the my friend’s advice and booked a reservation ahead of time. Town is known for its steak and wine. I’ve been wanting to [...]

When my mom was recuperating in the house from a major surgery, we made sure that she ate food that would help her get well quickly. Chicken in sibut soup was one of the food that has been tried and tested. I remembered when she had surgery before back in the Philippines, a relative came [...]

A trip to Washington DC brought me to this TV-celebrated cupcake shop, Georgetown Cupcake. Actually I’ve only heard about this from my friend who’s living in DC and she told me that I should try their delicious cupcake before I leave. I knew of Cake Boss and Ace of Cakes but Georgetown Cupcake didn’t ring [...]