John Paul Cheung, son of the famous chef/owner of Good Earth Henry Cheung, opened H-Home along Dona Soledad avenue in Better Living, Paranaque. It's a cozy cafe just a few steps away from the entrance of Sun Valley on Dona Soledad. We've had countless dinners at H-Home in the last few months and we can't get enough of it. They offer a wide array of food which have been my all time favorites from the time Tito Henry would cook for us during our beach trips.
Our favorites include -
Cheese sticks
Pork ribs on noodles (you can also opt for their yummy rice)
Century egg and jellyfish
These cupcakes ran out fast so it's best to come in earlier.
Pork siomai, best dipped in black vinegar
Sweetie's favorite tofu
They also serve fish, beef, vegetable etc. and of course they have my favorite buchi too. You can also catch Tito Henry in the evenings since he usually says hello to diners. You can also just drop by to have coffee and dessert (their cupcakes are absolutely yummy!).
H Home is located at Dona Soledad Avenue, Better Living Subdivision, Paranaque City. They are open from 11:30am until midnight every day. You can also reach them at +632-9405593 and for updates follow them here.
Serenite SM Bicutan now delivers your favorite milk tea right at your doorstep. For a minimum order of PhP300 you can have milk tea delivered to your home, just call +(632) 551-7563.
I noticed that I've been writing about typhoons on my blog - well those that have either rattled me or those that I did some work for. Typhoon Glenda is one of those typhoons that worried me. She did not bring a lot of rain like Typhoon Ondoy and Pepeng, but she brought a lot of wind. News agencies said that Typhoon Glenda was going to be like Typhoon Milenyo. I missed Typhoon Milenyo because I was in the US, but I remember it was one of those typhoons that hit hard and it was days before power was restored in our neighborhood.
I woke up at around 3 in the morning because it was raining. It wasn't raining hard yet during that time, but I guess due to Typhoon Ondoy my body's wired to the weather. I kept tossing and turning and finally got up before 5 in the morning since Sweetie started giving me updates about the typhoon. We lost power just before 6 in the morning so I tried going back to sleep. The wind started to pick up then so I just gave up and walked around the house.
I was also afraid that our veranda glass door might shatter due to the wind. Sweetie had to run out to bring in some of the things we had in our veranda (table, chairs and a plastic case) to keep it from flying out and hitting someone. The huge tree at the back of our place was dancing wildly. Toyota was lucky that the tree wasn't uprooted because it would've hit a number of their inventory.
The wind became stronger at around 7 in the morning and our tiny radio crackled and the reporter said that the typhoon was near Manila already. At around 8 in the morning the wind's direction moved and started pounding on our sala's veranda door. The howling wind was pushing in the glass door and I thought it was going to break. I prayed hard that it won't. During that time the typhoon's eye was in Manila Bay. The news said that the typhoon changed direction because it hit some mountains on the way to Manila and hit Cavite instead.
When we finally got power back I saw in the news that Muntinlupa City was hit hard. One of the schools lost its roof and unlike in our area a lot of the business establishments were not able to open. I'm so thankful that the typhoon headed to Manila Bay instead of the city. The devastation would've been really huge if it hit Metro Manila. My family was unscathed. The only damage we had was our decades old mango tree which was uprooted (huhu).
Goodbye my dear mango tree :(
I hope everyone's okay and have power back in their homes.
Sbarro recently opened a new branch at SM City Bicutan. Sbarro, known for its Italian menu comprised mainly of pizzas and pastas since 1990 in the Philippines, opens its newest branch located at the food court on the 2nd floor of Bldg. B, SM City Bicutan. Their newest branch in Paranaque city joined the more than 1,000 Sbarro branches worldwide. According to the official Sbarro Philippines website, the first Sbarro branch in the Philippines was located at the Annex in SM North Edsa in 1990, and is the First Sbarro in all of Asia.
Patrick Paez, News 5 News Production head features biking as an alternative mode of transportation.
As part of his feature entitled "Padyak", Patrick rode a bike from Bicutan in Paranaque City to Mandaluyong on a work day. Some footages include Barangay Sun Valley and East Service Road. See Patrick share his experience biking from Bicutan to Mandaluyong and what obstacles he encountered.
"Padyak" was featured on Kaya, a documentary series featuring stories of triumph amidst limitations on TV5 last April 5, 10:30pm.
Since its launch in January 2014, Google Street View, which has been popular for making it so much easier to virtually tour streets and places in the U.S. with this technology, brought the same technology to the Philippines. For the 1st time, Google Street View capturing tools were going to capture Philippine streets and locations. The Google Street View car started going around taking imagery to attach to Google maps. And in places where the Google Street View car couldn't fit (think eskinitas and other terrain that a car couldn't traverse), there was a backpack version of the Google Street View device where a person could just strap the backpack and walk around capturing the same imagery. Last week, the Google Street View car was spotted along Dona Soledad entering the Skyway from Bicutan in Paranaque City and exited somewhere around Magallanes in Makati City. If you've seen it elsewhere in Paranaque City or around the Philippines, post a comment and let us know where you saw it.
