Cafe Maurice

We never fail to have one whenever we Bebots have a party with balikbayan friends:

We actually prefer the fountain this year from the last because the chocolate was yummier (and their set up was better). They also had plenty of strawberries and bananas which were all I ate anyway. Fruits dipped in chocolate are [...]

Chowking Halo Halo

Banapple’s version (slice P65/whole P480) has two layers of dulce de leche ensconcing ample and thickly sliced cuts of banana atop a buttery graham cracker crust made pleasantly gritty from the white sugar. There’s the requisite swath of whipped cream and then a deviation from tradition with shards of dark chocolate as garnish.
~ From Dessert [...]

We got to have the lucky opportunity to taste Conti’s Mango Bravo last weekend. Friends bought two large cakes of it at our party. It really is a good tasting cake, but it needs to be frozen because it tends to melt easily. It melted while we busy talking about anything under the sun from [...]

There is a reason why this cake takes a bright page in their menu:
Admittedly their best selling cake, Mango Bravo did not disappoint. But since we wanted to taste other cakes in the menu to learn more about them, we ordered different slices. We should have ordered one whole Mango [...]

It was surprisingly hot last Sunday, even at night, when it supposed to get a couple of degrees lower. It was so hot that I can even afford to eat something like this (and not wish for Amish fireplaces!):

I got the fiesta version, without the ice cream because I can do without the sweetness, [...]

I am on my 12th cup in the race to get the coveted Starbucks 2010 planner. Only three holiday and two non-holiday beverages to go and I can finally have one. I am quite partial to hot Dark Cherry Mocha but I go back to my favorite Caramel Macchiato all the time. I see [...]

  Smores is a sure fire way to get my kids all excited to go camping! We haven’t really camped outdoors in real life but we pretend play about camping all the time – complete with sleeping bags and backpacks! (We just camp out in the living room complete with TV, [...]

I need to taste this!

Starbucks recently launched their coffee-drink ice creams last Spring and feedback has been going pretty well. The only drawback? Customers are complaining why there aren’t offered in actual Starbucks outlets.
Among friends who sampled the Starbucks: Mocha Frappuccino, Java Chip Frappuccino, and Caramel Macchiato (each is $3.99 per pint), the Caramel [...]