Thursday Night..

.... we headed to Banchetto Forum again because we only had siomai for dinner.  We wanted to try some new food and get some sweets!! :D

Remember Wednesday night, I considered buying kim mari but skipped it?  I gave in to my cravings last night. TADA!!

kim mari

...and I witnessed another kind act again of the Korean lady.  Maybe she found a kid there so cute,  I guess he's the son of the lady minding the stall beside the Korean lady's.  She gave him two Korean snacks.  How sweet!!

 kim mari, jjapchae, kimpap

Can I take them all home?!  These are only some of the Korean food the lady is selling.  They also have bulgogi, spicy pork, little kimchi pizzas, tteokpoki and kimchi!!

Since we planned to try out some new food, the husband bought one Ilocos empanada for us to share!!  I had been hesitant to try this before because I thought it's like the usual empanada that has this thick wrappings.  But look!!!

Special Empanada filled with egg, papaya, monggo & longganisa @ Php50

So thin and crunchy!! I will buy this again when I'm in the mood for empanada.  Unexpectedly, it tasted good especially when eaten with the Ilocos vinegar.

If you want a taste of Ilocos, Glomy's Empanada is not a bad choice.  Flavorful!!  The most expensive they got is Php100 and the price depends on the fillings.

For dessert, we chose to get this chocolate cake with caramel sauce from Medchef.

The chocolate didn't taste too strong & the texture wasn't that smooth.  It tasted like it wasn't pure chocolate and there was something else mixed with it. 

But we're not complaining because the sweetness wouldn't hurt the throat.  The caramel isn't too thick just like the chocolate but the dark chocolate taste is notable.  Will buy this again, yummy and not too sweet!! 

Medchef has a variety of sweets that made me drool!!

cakes!!

3 big squares for Php100!

mango torte

 

    Save them for the next Banchetto visit. :D  I can hardly wait!!

Revisiting Banchetto Forum

Why am I blogging about Banchetto again?!  I just can't stop being so happy about it!! 

Banchetto Forum

 

I and the husband have been revisiting Banchetto Forum in the past weeks to satisfy our cravings for a delicious Wednesday or Thursday dinner.  That is to have a break from the mundanity of our evening meals.  It's hard to think what to cook and eat every evening when we get home from work coz what comes to mind as priority to cook is the lunch baon for the next day.  Robinson's Pioneer is our drop-off point when getting home from work so it's not really easy to ignore the barbecue smoke rising from the Banchetto area. 

Banchetto opened at 8:30 pm last night and most of the stalls weren't open yet.  Fortunately, my two favorite food stalls were already getting ready.  I went around a little bit to wait for them to finally accept orders.  I went to Crepe-Papips first to get our mango banana crepes ....

 ...and proceeded to the Korean food stall.

I was thinking to buy kim mari but thought it was too expensive at Php30 each.  So I opted to buy spicy pork as the husband wanted me to buy something we can eat with rice.  A hefty serving of spicy pork with rice is Php85.  What made my heart jumping more was the jjapchae the Korean lady added into it.  

When the Korean guy (maybe her son) was handing me the plastic bag, the lady gave him something to put inside the plastic bag, strawberry cookies!!!!!!!  

 She was being too kind, the jjapchae and cookies are for free. hehehehe!!

Haha that's the reason why I am blogging about Banchetto again!! It made me so glad last night!  When we are too lazy to cook on Wednesday and Thursday nights, Banchetto is a food heaven.

Friday Night @ Banchetto Ortigas

Due to the husband's intense curiosity about the difference of Banchetto Pioneer and Banchetto Ortigas, we headed to Emerald Avenue after he picked me up at work last Friday.

Turning left from Julia Vargas, we didn't see it right away but we saw people carry taken-out food in plain white plastic bags.  So we thought, ok, it must be there, a bit farther, we don't see it but it's there.

 

Then we saw all these stalls. 

The chaos, the many people, and the many kinds of food to select from.  It was very confusing what to eat!!!  They all appeared delectable.  Pizzas, pasta, barbecue, tacos, combo rice meals and many more!! 

We wanted to walk and check all the stall from the start to the end when we saw this:

The crepe that almost everybody in the team were talking about when they went here.  And I can already agree, it's truly big!! I ordered mango-pre @ Php 55.

And the people behind my oh-so-big crepe:

the kuya making the crepe

                                                               this lady must be the owner

the reason why I waited too long, a lot are in queue!!

The crepe was delicious enough, not so creamy as I expected it but it was so-so! It was a lot better than the crepe I tried in the Mall of Asia the next day!! hahaha.

And this is what made the husband drool:

Beef Kebab!!

 

We loved the beef kebab, very tender and tasteful! :)

We also ate the little tacos put on an egg tray but I wasn't able to take a pic of that.  We munched them down while waiting for my crepe.  They're as small as siomai's and they too gave so much pleasure to my tastebuds!

There aren't enough seats but that doesn't prevent people from eating there.  People can be seen sitting on the stairs and on the ground.  Some are just standing and enjoying the food with their own small talks.

I'm looking forward to another visit to Banchetto Ortigas.  Maybe next month when my schedule at work is again 3pm-12am. :)  Since Banchetto Pioneer is nearer to our place, the husband and I can have some dinner there on Wednesdays or Thursdays!

 

The 1st Banchetto Experience

I was so looking forward to experiencing Banchetto coz I heard there's plenty of food you can select from and for someone like me, who likes eating and gets excited about feasting, I can't stop being nagged by the thought of food until I get the craving out of my system.

Last week, I and the husband planned to go to Banchetto Ortigas on Friday.  But, Wednesday came and there's Banchetto Pioneer!! After he picked me up at work we dropped by Banchetto beside Robinsons Pioneer and got ourselves these:

  

tteokpoki with fish cakes and kim mari

kimpap

I get so much bliss eating Korean food.  I don't have any gripe about the tteokpoki, it's not as sweet as Kimbob's tteokpoki but hey, theirs has the fish cakes and kim mari!!! The kim mari was such a bonus, it was a great pleasure on my taste buds! 

The stall where I bought these didn't have a name, it just said Korean food. They sell kimchi too! They also have jjapche & kimchi pizza which I am planning to try too on the next visit! ;p hehehe. 

The husband bought shawarma which I wasn't able to take a picture of coz it didn't reach home.  We fed on it on our walk home and it was tasteful too!!

I loved it that I was able to practice my inferior Hangul skills while buying my Korean food. I conversed with the lady in Korean. :)