Sunday Walking at Podium, St. Francis and Mega

For our Sunday morning walk, Sal and I decided to have it in ortigas. We met up first, at Dorset Cafe in Connecticut, Greenhills to have our usual breakfast and off to Podium we went. The shops were still closed when we got there, but several restos that serve breakfast were already open. We decided to walk to Megamall first and took the back exit going there. It was only then that we remembered that St. Francis Square IS already a mall too! It was our first time there and what a nice surprise---its like Greenhills tiangge in building format! The best part was that, the stalls there open up earlier than the malls, so we had fun killing time while we wait for the mall opening. They had nice and in-expensive stuff there, but you just have to be wary on what you buy...the thing about cheap buys is that at times, they tend to be of poor quality. I say AT TIMES ah...but you can find a lot of real steals rummaging through tiangges if you know what your buying and do your shopping right!

We went to Mega when the mall opened and bought some hardware stuff, grocery items and beauty products at Watsons. Mega is to have a sale on Oct.13-15 pala so we resfrained from making any purchases that day---err--well...just in Mega =P hehehehe With that restraining order, we felt that we had no business staying in Mega, so we went back to Podium...on our way, we inevitably had to traverse St. Francis Square, so we went around a bit and tried some of the stall food there since we forgot to have lunch. We tried the Bitcho Brothers, which as like an elongated donut. It was sold at 10 pesos a log. Delicious! How could it not be???---Like bread, deep fried and rolled in cinnamon sugar. I think you can't get wrong with anything freshly fried. We sampled the cheese sticks and "quek-quek" on the other satll. I didn't like the cheese sticks because it had a strange orange color. I guess they economized it to the max buy using sheese flavor? (eeeww) The saving grace? It was freshly fried so it was edible. Maybe they made it orange to match the color of the "quek-quek"?? hahaha

Having enough fried stall food...we walked to Podium. Delifrance welcomed us at the back entrance and we saw they sold kopi buns there. We decided to try the Delifrance version the buns we adore at Kopiroti, just to compare and contrast. We shared a bun and had it there while taking a walking break as well, we haven't sat down since breakfast!!!

This is the Delifrance Kopibun. I must admit, it tastes as good as the ones in Kopiroti. Sal thinks the buns here are softer than the buns of kopiroti and has more butter. As for me, I like the outer coating of the original better, which is more shell-like and a bit crustier.

The price is the same at Php 35.00 each, although I think the buns of kopiroti is bigger. Delifrance kopi buns are good, softer and butterier.

We went to Dexter's bakeshop to take out some chicken pie to bring home to our families (pasalubong). They have great chicken pie and pork empanada. I forgot to take photos...next time I will post pictures of that. Their version of the chicken pie is baked and has a very flaky crust...like a sturdier croissant. Great breakfast or meryenda.

Late that afternoon I went to Moomba and had dinner at Omakase with my friends Holden, Didi and Edmund. Again, I failed to take photos of our food. I can be really forgetful! hehhehe Omakase has a great nouveau Japanese menu. They have a fun selection of makis and salads. We tried the Dynamite (which was a maki with unagi and some sort of shell fish meat salad on top, a bit spicy but good); Crispy California Maki, which was just good old cali maki that was fried (thoughwe didn't like it that much because it didn't come out crispy and crunchy--the rice got soggy and oily). We also had chicken teriyaki, tempura and tonkastsu. Overall it was a good dining experience, relodent of Sumosam and Misato.