Blue Coral Beach Resort

Another late post... =)

My little family spent this year's summer at a beach resort in Batangas. It's my second time here in Laiya. The first time I was here was way back in 200? I was single then with my MBA buddies and stayed in a different resort (Sabangan, just beside Blue Coral, hehe).

A relative of hubby's officemate (whew ang hirap i-connect!) owned this resort, thus we were lucky to be given a 30% discount on our overnight room accomodation... Yehey! We stayed in a Deluxe Room (Php5,800.00 peak season rate exclusive of the discount given to us) which has a capacity of 4-6 persons, located in the main building. The room has an en suite bathroom, television, mini ref, 2 extra mattress, and a balcony.

What I like most about this resort was that it has a kiddie pool... yes, for a mom like me, it's a must! My son really enjoyed it, especially the kiddie slide!



Liam's 1st beach experience... he was so amazed with the waves ;)

Another thing that I liked in this resort was their mini grotto. Impressive and interesting.

 

Blue Coral by night, view from our balcony



For guests staying overnight, meals are mandatory. Thus, we availed of their meal package of Php1,250.00 per head, inclusive of dinner, breakfast and lunch, all served buffet style with unlimited lemonade (dinner), iced tea (lunch) and orange juice or coffee (breakfast).

Upon checking in, guests will be given their meal stubs for their entire stay so be sure to safekeep your meal stubs ;)

Top Photos: Dinner
Bottom Photos (L-R): Breakfast and Lunch 

Food were served buffet style at their restaurant located at the ground floor of the main building.

Restaurant

Breakfast buffet spread

 

Ang batang nag-enjoy sa swimming, tulog sa picture taking... Bow! ;)

Indeed, we had a great summer vacation here.

  

April 29-30, 2012
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Blue Coral Beach Resort
Laiya, San Juan, Batangas
www.bluecoralbeachresort.com.ph

Chinatown's Best Food Restaurant

This post is way too late already, hehehe... but I can't help not to blog it simply because I sooo love this restaurant =)

 

We've been here for several times already and we kept on coming back because of its yummy food. When hubby and I were still in the bf-gf stage, we're patrons of their buffet (no wonder we grew this big... hahaha!), but since we now have our Liam we've been conscious with our budget, hence we're OK with their a la carte and set menus ;)

 

To prove how fanatic we are of this resto... this is where we held the reception of our son's Christening last December 2010.

Last March, as an advanced celebration of my mom's birthday, we treated her to a dinner. We tried their promo package for a group of 4. We chose package C (around Php700) which includes nido soup, yangchow rice, mixed vegetables, fried chicken, fish fillet in lemon sauce, shrimp tempura, and brownies. Drinks are excluded in the package.

 

Nido Soup




Yangchow Rice

 

My son loves their yangchow rice and nido soup... he actually ate a lot of it, as in purely yun lang, he didn't bother to eat ulam (matipid ang anak ko) hehehe ;)

Mixed Vegetables

Fried Chicken

Fish Fillet in Lemon Sauce

Shrimp Tempura

Brownies

 

The mixed veggies and tempura were superb, love the mushrooms and the crunch of the tempura coating! The fried chicken was also yummy. However, the fish fillet in lemon sauce was too tangy for me. While the brownies were a little dry (not moist and chewy as I dreamt of, hehehe) but hey, who am I to complain, it's a cheap promo package remember.

Nevertheless, we were very satisfied with the food and their service, plus the affordable price that came with it, quite a steal I guess. ;)

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Chinatown's Best Food Restaurant
589 Banawe St. cor. Don Manuel St.
Quezon City.
Tel.#: +632 712-4249 / 711-1444

                 740-8649 / 741-7942

www.chinatownsbestfood.com

A Valentine's Dinner at King Chef

Celebrating Valentine's Day this year was more meaningful and special for Lee and I. We had a simple family dinner... yes "family"... because now we're complete, we're a family, we have our baby Liam! Actually, it's our second time to celebrate it with Liam around, but this time it was different in the sense that he was already a toddler now and knows how to interact, respond and appreciate the things around him. Unlike last year, he was still an infant and just slept the entire day. I'm so excited for V-Day 2012 because it will be added to Liam's "firsts" list. This time, we celebrated it at King Chef restaurant in Banawe, Quezon City.

 

The interior of the restaurant was nice, well-lighted, modern yet one can immediately tell that it's a Chinese restaurant because of its color motif and staff's uniform. I love their chandelier, unfortunately my phone's camera was running out of memory space that's why I wasn't able to take photos of it. They served us a complimentary appetizer (peanuts) and house tea.

We ordered Crispy Noodles with Seafood, Spareribs with A-1 Sauce and Barbeque Pork Asado, all in small sizes which is good for 3-4 people. 

 

The Crispy Noodles with Seafood was perfect for me. It has generous amount of seafoods and the noodles were indeed crispy when it was served to us. My son, Liam, loved the noodles and had eaten a lot of it.

Crispy Noodles with Seafood Php320.00

I'm quite disappointed with the Spareribs with A-1 Sauce dish. The meat was kinda tough for me, I find it difficult to cut and chew. Thus, I barely touched this dish, just had a piece of it. But for my husband, Lee, it was perfectly OK, oh well, that's just my opinion.

Spareribs with A-1 Sauce Php270.00

 

The Barbeque Pork Asado was just fine with me. The meat was tender although a bit dry, but it was OK since it came with a separate sauce.

 

Barbeque Pork Asado Php295.00

 

Our first ever family "Valentine's Day" photo... ;)



Me, Liam & Lee - V-Day 2012

 

Overall, we had a nice dining experience here. The staff were very accomodating and attentive. They were quick to take our orders and served them fast. We'll try to come back here to sample their dimsum promo. ;)

Me & Liam

    

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King Chef

989 Banawe St.

Quezon City.

Tel.#: +632 410-4919 / 352-7534