Best Food Forward Giveaway

With March 24 - 25 fast approaching, I can't help but get excited to get my hands (and mouth!) on mousse cake, pork belly, and butterbeer! Best Food Forward is one of the things I'm really looking forward to this summer. I'm so ready to chow down good stuff! But you know what's gonna make Best Food Forward more awesome?



FREE PASSES! 

Yup, I'm giving away five (5) Best Food Forward passes to three (3) lucky people! I'm going to take my friends to the food fair, so I hope the winners do too! If you want to score passes, here's what you need to do:

1. Follow me on Twitter (@trixieeeee). Remember, that's 5 e's!

2. Comment on this blog post about Best Food Forward by answering the question: Why do you like to eat this summer? (Include your e-mail address and Twitter username as well).

First 3 to give VALID entries (no crappy answers please!) will get the passes.

Deadline of entries is on March 17, 2012. Very easy to score Best Food Forward passes!



Best Food Forward is on March 24-25, 2012 from 10AM to 8PM at The NBC Tent, Bonifacio Global City.

See you there! ;)

 

 

Sail through love with Sun Cruises!

What could be a better way to spend Valentine's with your loved one? Take him/her cruising along the bay of Manila, and chow down good food aboard Sun Cruises' boats.

The Manila Bay Valentine Cruise will sail from Feb 11 to 15, 2012, and for only Php 800 per person you can get the following:

- 1 hour cruise along Manila Bay

- Buffet dinner

- Live acoustic entertainment

- Complimentary Chocolate Fondue



 

If you wanna extend your time with your lovey dovey, spend the night at Corregidor and experience a Cozy Valentine's treat for two! This package includes:

- includes roundtrip ferry transfers

- Shrine, entrance, and terminal fees

- guided island tour on Day 1

- full board meals - buffet lunch on Day 1 & 2, Plated Dinner, and Plated Breakfast

- full body massage

- overnight room accommodation at Corregidor Inn

- sunset viewing, night lateral tour, and sunrise viewing

- use of swimming pool and beach facilities

 

Make your loved one happy and avail one of these valentine's treats! I promise it will be worth it. Happy Valentine's to everyone!

 

Brown Bag Vintage & Crafts Market

As a little girl, I loved making small crafts using scrap lying around the house. Back then, I would usually go to my Mom's room and get whatever I can find (a.k.a. almost everything in her room), decorate my things with it, and parade it around my classroom the next day. Sigh, I miss those days when I have so much time making pretty little things!!

Hopefully this second week of December, I have free time to reminisce the good old scrappy days and attend the Brown Bag Vintage & Crafts Market!



 

On December 9, Brown Bag Events Management is holding a Vintage & Crafts Market at Filipinas Heritage Library, Ayala Triangle. There's storytelling, papercut art, shoe design workshop, accessory making, and so much more!!



What's awesome is that ENTRANCE IS FREE!! Anyone can come and enjoy!

Hope to bump into you guys there!

For more information, visit Brown Bag's Facebook Page or contact 0923-7388164.

Busy-roos!

I've been MIA since last week due to piled up e-mails, decks waiting to be finished, primers begging to be done, and schedules asking to be planned out. My MIA phase will probably continue until the end of this week, because since last weekend the Nuffies from Australia are here in MNL! We've been very busy doing work during daylight and going out and about when the sun sets down.

Yesterday, I tagged Lynda and Kruppy (the two AU Nuffies) along to the Blogger of the Month guesting of Nikki on The Wake Up Show at Mellow 94.7. We got stuck in really bad traffic (the Aussies witnessed my crazy style of driving) and barely made it to the show slot. Nonetheless, everyone was such a trooper to run up to the station quickly.

Nikki in front, Lynda and Kruppy at the back

The three of them were awesome on radio! Wish Kruppy said "Crikey!" on air lol :) Kruppy reminds me so much of the movie, 127 Hours. When I see him, it's like he's gonna climb a big rock and drink a bottle of pee.

Both Lynda and Kruppy are still here in the city so if you guys have any suggestions on where we should take them, leave a gracious comment or tweet me! I'd appreciate it very much :)

BRB we're off to the neighboring city!

 

Wild About Wednesday

Hurraaah! I'm starting another "segment" (I really don't know what you call this.. on blogs.) on Wild About Retail which is Wild About Wednesdays. YAAY *throws sarcastic confetti* It's like your Things I Love Thursday, but one day earlier.

Naked Crabs. I first tried it during one Club lunch at Aquaknox Makati. It's crab with all its meat unshelled, collected, and perfectly cupped right beneath the crab's body shell. This is what you order when you want to have an out-of-body experience... in your mouth.



Aquaknox is popular for this dish, because it tastes really yummy plus you don't have to get down and dirty.

Wild About Retail's Bangkok Cheatsheet

One of the toxic things in life is making a vacation itinerary. You bombard your head with so many questions- how to squeeze in everything in just a couple of days, where to stay, where to go, what to do, WHAT THE HELL. But some people (me!) just looooove making trip itineraries because it's a way of learning more about the place that you're going to, and not just the usual touristy stuff.

So here's a short cheatsheet for those going to Bangkok for the next couple of months!

 

1. A cab from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Sukhumvit area costs around THB 180-200. Toll is around THB 25-30, and Airport Taxi surcharge is THB 50. Big cabs (Avanza, etc.) charge more than usual sedan cabs. We took an Avanza cab to Sukhumvit and the meter went as high as THB 600.

More Thai Food!

I strolled around Bangkok to shop, shop, and shop some more. But of course, food stayed on my mind! Here are some of the stuff that I tried while shopping around malls and discount places:

Weird food from KFC



I don't mean to offend the Thai KFC people (or Thai people in general) but I don't know what this dish is called. I can say that it has chicken, some sort of sea algae, onions, and hell lot of chili. I wasn't able to finish this because it's too spicy. My tummy cooked up a revolution after a few spoonfuls of this. Don't worry, I'll try to know the name of this dish when I go back.

 

Spicy + Yummy = Somboon

Even before I left MNL, a lot of people have been telling me to eat at this place that serves awesome awesome seafood. While in transit going to this resto, I was hoping that they don't disappoint because 1.) I love seafood to the moon and back and 2.) Tom Yum is part of my "Great Dishes To Eat" list (Tom Yum has shrimp. Shrimp is seafood). Someone heard my prayer, they do serve gooood foooood!



We visited the Ratchada branch of Somboon Seafood. It's right beside the MRT Huay Kwang station so you definitely won't get lost going here.

McThai Lovin'

During my almost 1-week stay in Bangkok, I've had breakfast, lunch, and dinner where they serve yummy McGoodness! Yup, I tried McDonald's- Thai style. I have this habit of making sure that I try the food at McDonald's to wherever country I go too. It's fun comparing Mickey D food all over the globe.

My first dose of McThai food is for breakfast on our second day. Their breakfast menu is very similar to Filipino McDonald's.

On the table:

Grand Makati Sale 2011!

Finally, Philippines is showing efforts to be at par with Singapore, Thailand, HongKong, and Korea!

In lieu of the city's 341st year, Makati is holding the first ever Grand Makati Sale! The Makati Tourism Foundation Inc. deserves a big wet kiss and lots of bear hugs.



Malls and shopping centers in Makati such as Greenbelt, Glorietta, Rustan's, Powerplant, Stores Specialist Inc., SM, Waltermart, and Cash & Carry will be participating at this awesome shopping extravaganza. Price tags on products (yes, including clothing pieces!!) and services will be marked down at up to 70% off!

The Grand Makati Sale runs from July 7, 2011 until July 31, 2011. This is a great reason to rush to Makati! End-of-season Sale + Grand Makati Sale = PURE SHOPPING BLISS! Let's make this grand sale a successful one so that it will be a yearly event!

 

My guy should wear: Local BKK shirts

I was thinking that I can start posting stuff about not just what I wear/want to wear, but also pieces that I want to see guys wearing!

So while strolling around the wondrous place of Platinum, we spotted a LOT of shirts with witty and funny prints on them. I'm a collar-on-boys kind of girl, but seeing those shirts with attention-grabbing prints and designs... I'll make an exception! Casual shirts can also make guys look good, right?

We bought so much shirts (I think around 55 pieces) because they are all "dope" and "whack". HAHA!



 

Dressed Down in Bangkok

My blog has been out of it since last week, I blame everything to good spicy food and chic affordable clothing in Bangkok. I can't express how much I am in la-la-loooove with the city! New York still tops my list but if you're cray-cray about cheap price tags, Bangkok is your Krypton.

I'll probably be flooding my blog with Bangkok entries and whatnot for the next days, so be ready! I have so much to share about the BKK. First thing is, DRESS DOWN.

striped jersey dress (Zara) | tan satchel (Frances Sales) | braided belt (Forever21) | flipflops (Old Navy)

 

Jason Wu Resort 2012

Jason Wu's trademark tailoring and lace is still present on his Resort 2012, although he tried to play it up with a bit of inspiration from his travels.



The pieces from Jason Wu's latest collection give off a big big impression of a rack that you would bring when you go abroad- soft skirts, paperbag shorts, bandeaus, and solid colors!



 

Yakult Everyday, Every Day OK!

To all the 90's babies out there (or even earlier babies), please raise your right hand if you know what this is!

Five-minute Walk To Singapore

A few days ago, we trooped down to the nearest Coffee Bean place to seek internet connection refuge. We lost connection on our HQ on a busy day, very great. Good thing Coffee Bean isn't that far.

When I got there, it was like walking to Singapore in just a couple of minutes- True Story.



 

Love the sun with Beach Hut!

If you know me six feet under, you can definitely say that I hate getting dark.

Yeah, you heard it right. I hate (x 500) having a dark tan after a beach trip. I don't loathe going to the beach, though! In fact, I love having beach trips! I just don't like the fact that whenever I bask under the sun, I get dark. My "phobia" on getting dark just grew when I went to Jersey some time last year and fell asleep on the shore (without putting on sunblock lotion). This is what happened a few days after..



I FELL ASLEEP ON THE SHORE FOR 3 HOURS WITH MY HAND ON MY SHOULDER. Good job.

After that incident, I vowed to NEVER ever spend too much time grilling my skin without sunblock. Good thing, Beach Hut sent me their special pizza box!

What are you wild about, Serial Tripper?

Up-and-coming Travel/Food blogger Judd Sta. Maria of Serial Tripper shares with us his latest purchase that he is so wild about!