So I stole the term from Tita Ria (who uses it on anything you’d return to a restaurant for). But I mean it nonetheless. Here is my now favorite dessert. It’s a Mt. Fuji Lava Cake from the Waterfront Cebu’s Japanese restaurant, Mizu. They make it to order, it takes 30-40 minutes for each order and the wait is worth it. Gooey warm chocolate with the creamiest vanilla ice cream on a chocolate cup. Lemme tell you, I can almost imagine myself going back to Cebu for this. Until then, hello heaven.

Dinuguan is the ubiquitous “watch the foreigner squirm as we make them eat this” food next to the famous balut. It is essentially blood soup, with pork bits or guts, depending on which region you eat. It’s actually pretty good. Especially with labanos (horseradish) since it cuts through the meaty taste which can sometimes be overwhelming. Want to truly overwhelm yourself? Try Kanin Club’s version at the new Ayala Technohub in Commonwealth. They serve up a truly sinful version that has the pork bits incredbly crunchy amidst the rich blood soup. It’s like eating chicharon bulaklak in dinuguan stew, and since I am a fan of chicharon, I immediately wanted…

A couple of weeks ago Joannaman got a text from our friend Berto about this new sushi place in SM Annex that had the conveyor belt concept that he wanted to try out. So we went (without Berto coz he wasn’t free that night). What can i say, I’m a sucker for sushi and i really like food that finds its way to me. *snicker* Turns out this was an eat-all-you-can place. Which, even if I can consume an insane amount of food, those places really pressure me into eating everything in sight. And the last time I went to an eat all you can sushi place, I ended up…

Eho at 2 years and nine months. I figure I don’t take enough pics of the little (fat) guy.