beifangren comes to nanfang - day 2

if you get unlucky, it will rain the whole day; and everything that you have planned for (and even those which you have not), you might not opt to do anymore.

we started the trip to shenzhen at around 11:30am. while hopeful that the rain will stop, i expected that it might last a bit longer than usual. after all, we are nearing the dragon boat festival. i, however, did not expect that it will last forever..hehe! christine and I were not able to do anything at all.


so, making the most out of the situation, we decided to head to diwang plaza. we went to starbucks for a quick refreshment. i had a dark mocha frappucino.

the taste is rather familiar - very much like rhumba frappucino (aww, why was it phased-out actually?!?). haha, i bet you see the big raindrops, no matter how blurred they are, on the upper left of the photo; that's how heavy the rain was.

and after an hour of waiting for the rain to stop (well, it never stopped anyway), we decided to head to jollibee shenzhen! yup yup!






as advised by manong manager, they have changed the menu and the taste of the foods to suit the Chinese palate. well, it cannot be that different, i thought to myself. it was only when i was already pigging-out on my spaghetti and chickenjoy that i realized these are not the Jollibee foods i craved for every sunday when i was a kid! cannot blame them though. shenzhen is not like hongkong where the number of filipino patrons alone can sustain the business. the shenzhen branch has targetted the Chinese market more, i guess.

angal ng angal, ubos din pala! nyahahaha!

when i was still in the Philippines, my jollibee food trip would not be complete without having ube-keso ice craze. however, as that was not on the menu, i settled with halo halo instead.


not that it comes close to what i would usually have in the philippines; but i enjoyed it a lot - each and every "sahog" of it..

beifangren comes to nanfang - day (or evening rather) 1

before anything else, beifangren, when directly translated, means north-place?-person; whereas nanfang means south-place. so, the beifangren came over thursday last week, and we started everything with a sumptuous dinner at 37 degrees resto. as usual, i took my favorite soup-salad-main course set meal.



i love this soup! mushroom with smoked salmon. i am not a big fan of salmon, but when it's in this mushroom soup, it's gone in seconds... the almond gives it a bit of a nutty taste. awesome!









and then i continued with my smoked ham salad. and yes, that's a big chunk of pork over there. the sweet apple sauce combined with something like a thousand island dressing made it for me.










so after the soup and the salad, i had pan fried chicken steak (blah blah i forgot..) with mashed potato. now this dish is simply flawless! if you love some sweetness in your food(like me), then you will love this even more. the mashed potato was perfect. did not even bother to count the calories, nyahaha!






and christine took home 4 cheesecakes! yum, yum, yum, & yum! (clockwise - blueberry cheesecake, mixed nuts, red cherry, and i-forgot-the-name cheesecake)

how many calories can you burn?

*photo taken using N70

Yup yup yup! that is 675.2 calories you see, after 50 minutes of weight-loss cardio workout (alternating low and high intensity). 187 calories more from the rowing machine. so in total, i managed to burn 862.2 calories tonight.. not bad! how many calories can you burn?

happy sunday!

starting today, grocery malls in the pearl river delta region of China (not sure about the rest of it, but i am sure about Guangzhou) will stop giving plastic bags for free. instead, customers would now have to buy them. this is of course to take part in the ever growing call for environment preservation. as for me, i opted to buy the not-so-disposable bag - "for a better world" =)



and yes, those are garlic bulbs... hehe.. i also bought some more veggies for my yet another experimental dish.

i do not know what to name my dish, maybe you can help me.. hehe.. anyways, after mixing the veggies, oyster sauce, ground white pepper, salt and sugar, i ended up with the below.

the oyster sauce and the shrimp gave the dish a seafood-ish taste, while the sugar and the bell pepper a hint of sweetness. the mix of young corn, eggplant and bell pepper provided different textures. so, all in all, it was a good early dinner. =)

see, i am now serious about eating healthy. in fact, when i saw these grains, i have already brought them to the counter before realizing i might have taken quite a lot.

but of course, i am not that perfect.... nyahahaha...

ey wait, it is "naturally fat free!", so it is still ok... hehe. afterall, kindergartens can't live without jelly. happy sunday everyone! =)