Archives for September 2010

Ladies Who Lunch @ HK Choi

Ladies who lunch is a phrase to describe slim, well-off, old-money, well-dressed women who meet for lunch socially, normally during the working week. Typically, the women involved are married and non-working. Normally the lunch is in a restaurant, perhaps in a department store during shopping. Sometimes there is the pretext of raising money for charity. -wiki

SLIM? well off? really? oh, all mommies would love that eh? but since most of us are not on the slim side, let’s just focus on social lunch. How nice can it be? imagine meeting your mom friend for a lunch every week or even every other Friday. Now that’s what a breather means. LOL

But really guys, I think all moms should this. Meeting other moms for a Friday lunch. And I am sure moms would enjoy this ‘time out’ just like what we did last Friday!

The Place
HK Choi. A chinese restaurant from the same owner of Choi’s Garden. Authentic Chinese Food with a very affordable tag price. The ambiance was relaxing. The furniture pieces are worth eying as you wait for your food. I like the chair’s intricate details. This is located at Megamall Atrium, 2nd floor.

The Food
Eating in a Chinese Restaurant, The Chinese Way. Need I say that whenever we went to a Chinese (or Chinese sounding or looking) restaurant our menu will always include yang chow? I am sure most of you would agree. Yang Chow and siomai. That’s a perfect Chinese meal right? oh don’t forget the pancit! And if the pocket is accommodating, an add ons of sweet and sour fish or pork. I am super guilty of that! haha

Our usual meal will include yang chow, siomai, hakaw, sweet and sour fillet and broccoli. That is how I am used to eating at Chinese (or Chinese sounding or looking) restaurant. I can’t let go of hakaw. I have seen how it is made and whenever I went to a resto, I just have to try it.

So last Friday, when I heard we will be eating in a Chinese Restaurant, I was excite. WoW! Hakaw overload! Yes, I am expecting siomai and Hakaw.. LOL

The appetizer were served. A plate of cold cuts, soy bean, Soy Chicken, pork bbq (sweet asado, super yum!yum!), century egg and jelly fish and pork knuckles cut:

The soup was hot and sour.. something that my taste bud does not like.. you know I am all for sweet and salty..

The rice.. yang chow? nah! it’s RICH MAN’S RICE… fried rice with dried scallop and egg white. How’s that for a yang chow patron? The taste.. heavenly.. I mean tasteful. Since I am used to yang chow, I was expecting this fried rice to be bland in taste, surprisingly, it is waaay better than Yang Chow. Now I don’t know why it is called as such but our theory is, because you need viands with this kind of rice unlike yang chow where it seems to be a complete rice. In rich man’s rice, you need to spend more for the viands. Sounds logical eh?

Other food includes: crab, squid in broccoli and shrimp in salted egg. Now that is something worth raving for. Shrimp in salted egg? I thought it was cheese! If not for my girdle.. opps! did I just say I wore a girdle? of course, how do you think I am to wear this dress without my bulgesss showing?

but come to think of, there is still some bulge showing..hahays..

so back to the food, yeah if not for those lacey girdles, I would have finished all the shrimp and the peking duck in lettuce.. yum yum yum

Here’s the crab that I refuse to eat without coke haha.. I have a low tolerance with crabs but boy, the coating or whatsoever on the crab is so good to refuse.

The Peking Duck served in two. The skin is carved and was wrapped. Not my type as the skins taste is overpowering. Second serving is with veggies, wrapped in lettuce and added with sauce. Now, this part, I regret so much that I did not took 3 servings. It was good and something I can eat over and over. As for the dessert, we were served with Almond Jelly:

The Experience
FUN! I was thankful that our food was ordered by someone else and not us. If it has been me, I wouldn’t had experience this kind of food. So the next time, we eat at a Chinese restaurant, I will take them at HK Choi and let them experience the real Chinese Food, yang chow aside.

Peking Duck photo courtesy of Fedhz while the last two photos courtesy of Lourdes.

And you think we went straight home? nah.. you know how it is with Fedhz and me. We stayed a bit to check out Payless.. it’s like Pay less.. a shoe store from US. Had fun at Toy Kingdom, then bought two Beyblade for the boys. She let me tried Milk Tea Bubble or so..

Product: How To Prevent Dengue

We know that there is no cure for dengue and though it can be easily treated, we mothers still don’t want our kids to suffer it. It can also be life threatening at times. As they always say, prevention is the best medicine. So how can we prevent the spread of dengue fever?
If there has been a news about people suffering from dengue in your area, now is the time to take action.

There are so many ways to protect our family from the mosquitoes carrying dengue fever. The Department of Health focuses on destroying the places where they lay eggs. You must take note that this mosquitoes does not like dirty water. They love water from your drum, oranywhere that is clean. If the water stock is already 2 days old, dispose it as it can be very optimal for dengue mosquitoes egg laying. So to protect your family from dengue fever, never stock up on water for more than 2 days and always remember to cover it.Another advise is to apply insect repellent to the body. Good thing that dengue carrying mosquitoes peak bite is only 2 hours after sunrise and 2 hours before sunset, so that would 7 to 8 AM and 4 to 6 PM. Intense application of insect repellant should be observe during this time. Take note also that dengue carrying mosquitoes can only fly 1 meter above the ground and can fly as far as 200 yards. So if you have a second floor, maybe you can tell your kids to go upstair during the peak bite time.

Mosquito Patch are also gaining more and more popularity. These are patches that often contains citronella to shoo dengue carrying mosquitoes away. One example is MOSQUIPATCH.

Mosquipatch is an anti-mosquito patch that contains 100% natural citronella and eucalyptus oil. The two ingredients is known to be safe and effective in driving mosquitoes away. To use the patch, simply peel off protective film and attach the adhesive side to any external body part or a location close to the body such as socks, collar or hem. This can also be attached to bags, tables etc.

I attached mine to Sati’s playpen and one on my work station:

See the yellow round patch? that’s MOSQUIPATCH working. It’s effectiveness can last up to 72 hours. And I wouldn’t be writing about it if I hadn’t tried it. My work mode is usually disturbed by me constantly slapping my legs because of mosquitoes but since I used the patch, I don’t feel any mosquitoes dancing with my feet.

Where to buy Mosquito patch Mosquipatch?

MOSQUIPATCH is available through First Empire Product Innovation for only 180 Philippine Peso for a pack of 12 pcs. Call (02) 7224119 or (02) 7446191

Classroom Sitting Arrangement

I often wonder if classroom sitting arrangement can influence the performance of any child in school. Maybe not but most of the time, I think it will.

Sitting on the back of the class where in the teacher won’t see more of the kids can lead to the kids doing anything. I remember when I was in high school, I usually sit on the back so I can read pocketbooks LOL. Now, in way I regret it as I was not able to pay much attention when my teacher taught about acne and acne products that work. Or did she really talk about that stuff? See I am not even sure of it. But maybe since, acne was very rampant during my high school years. I am just lucky now that though our family names starts with P (and in most classroom sitting arrangement is alphabetically arranged), my son is seated in front since the teacher takes into consideration their height and his eye problem not to mention.