Satti de Zamboanga

After I received my "travel order" to Zamboanga City, my birthplace, my hometown (thanks for the free trip), I immediately called up my older brother and told him that I am coming over and asked him to take me to a “Satti House”. The last time I had this spicy spirit kicking dish was years ago. I can’t really remember the exact figure, and I almost forgot that this delicious dish has ever existed. 

Spicy Satti @ P50.00 per serve

 

Satti is a local dish that is served with puśo (wrapped rice), sticks of roasted beef or chicken meat + overflowing with thick hot and spicy curry chilli sauce that is usually served early in the morning. You can rarely find satti available by lunch time. 

Anyway, we (my boss + 1 colleague) arrived on Tuesday July 30, 2013, 8AM on board Cebu Pacific from Cagayan de Oro City. My brother was supposed to picked me up at the hotel around 9AM and go directly to “Satti House”, unfortunately our schedule had changed, my boss asked me to stay for a while because were meeting one of our applicants and later had our lunch at Alavar Seafood Restaurant were we had the famous curacha.

The satti feast was slashed off that day. I thought I won’t be able to eat what I’m craving for during the trip because the only opportunity we had was on the first day, the 2^nd day will be devoted to main purpose why we went to Zamboanga, a whole-day business meeting and then fly back to CDO on the 3^rd. 

But guessed what? Good luck was on our side, because our business meeting host fetched us at the hotel early morning before the meeting and brought us to Andy’s Satti in Tetuan, Zamboanga City. All smile for me! Lol I thought I had a no-satti trip but I was wrong! Woot hooo!

Satti is really a famous dish to locals and tourists. From Christians to Muslims, students, workers to those who had hangover, satti is the most satisfying and energizing breakfast.  So if  you are in Zamboanga City don’t forget to try the spicy satti and I’m sure it will really perk up your day!

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Zamboanga's Best: Curacha

Two weeks ago, I, together with my boss + 1 colleague went to Zamboanga City (which is also my hometown) for a business trip. Even before the scheduled trip the two of them had always talked about trying out the well-known Curacha in Zamboanga. Of course, as one of the locale in the only Latin City of Asia suggested for a lunch at Alavar Restaurant. 

   

from my instagram

Curacha (not the babaeng walang pahinga) is actually a local Chavacano name of a crustacean with cross breed of large sea crab and lobster characteristics.  Also known as the spanner crabs or red frog crabs, and are only found in the deep waters of Jolo. The Tausugs of Jolo call these sea creatures as “Kagang Pamah”, it has red-orange color which stays the same even when cooked. 

There are different ways to cook Curacha but the best one I tried is the "curacha with alavar sauce". Just like what we devoured at Alavar Seafood Restuarant in Tetuan, Zambonga City, at P700-P1000 per serving (defending of size) and is already goof for 2-3 persons.

I also remember my big brothers made the same dish when we visited them years back in Zamboanga City, we just bought the crab at the flea market and cooked it with the alavar sauce. Yep! Frozen “alavar sauce” are also sold per kilogram, so you can enjoy the same dish at your very home.

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Eat-All-You-Can at Agua Seafood Restuarant

Last year, Hubby and I + our BFF Nice wanted to eat lobster for the first time, but weren't able to because something always came up everytime we schedule our food trip. Until three weeks ago Hubby and I with Nice and Jefer finally were able to visit Agua Seafood Restuarant at Lim Ket Kai Complex, Cagayan de Oro City. Our purpose was to try-out the much wished lobster, because somebody told us that their lobster dish is exceptional unfortunately they are not available. sad :( We should have called first before going to restuarant. 

Anyway, since we're already there and it was Friday, might as well try their Eat-All-You Can buffet dinner happening every Friday. 

These were the picks we had on our plates for the first round... 

 

Hubby's plate

 

Nice's plate

and mine

The second + third rounds were bountiful as well.

As much as I want to enumerate the dishes they have unfortunately I wasn't able to take photos of each dishes.

Overall at P350.00 per person, we did had a deliciously great dinner.

Next time, when available we'll definitely try their lobster.

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InstaPic: Foodchain Food Trip in the Metro

A person who visits Metro Manila once in a blue moon will surely dig into fastfood chain foods that are not available in the area he's currently living. That's what we did when we had our short vacation at the Metro last week.

Because hubby had fever during our trip and had to stay at the hotel with the little one, I usually took out foods and ate them with hubby at the hotel.

On January 25 I bought half dozen original glaze donut from Krispy Kreme on our way back to the hotel after our 4-5 hours trek at Divisoria with Jefer and her sister.

SM MOA exploration was scheduled in the late afternoon of January 26, meanwhile I bought bacon mushroom burgers from Wendy's for lunch at Robinson's Place Ermita.

 

 At MOA, we had dinner at Sbarro and ordered Chicago White for me and Chicago Deep Dish  for hubby. Although Sbarro is already in CDO but hubby and I never had a chance to visit the famous Italian Pizza House.

 

 Before checking out late (I paid the hotel's late checkout charge because our flight was scheduled at 4:10PM) I bought two take-out meals of Kenny Rogers at Robinson's Place for lunch on Sunday January 27th.

So far these are the only meals we had that I was able to take photos.

Thanks to my ever reliable Samsung Galaxy S2. :)

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Girly Date at Starbucks LKK

When was the last time I've been to Starbucks? Oh crap I can't remember because that was a long long time ago.  I thought Starbucks will be one of my frequent destination after moving in Cagayan de Oro City but it turned out the other way around. We moved in in April last year and it was only last week that I have set my feet on SB Lim Ket Kai's doorsteps again.

Thanks to my friend Nice for the treat, if it's not for her I would have forgotten that SB existed in LLK area. lol.

So here's what we had on a Rainy Thursday night of January 10, 2013. 

 

 

A cup of hot cappuccino for me while Nice had a frappuccino. And that original glaze donut was an experimental order and we regretted it because it was too dry and tasteless, way too far compared to the original glaze donut of Krispy Kreme.

a share for Food Trip Friday

And by the way I bought a new SB Mug also, another addition to my collection. 

 

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Prawns and Ham for Christmas

Christmas 2012 is a wonderful day for me, my husband and our 2-year old son because we're able to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ together as one family.

Aside from the spaghetti, pork chop and mango float these two dishes were the stars of our noche buena table.

Prawns

My favorite prawn cooked with butter, sprite and a little seasonings.

 And the star of noche buena Purefoods Fiesta Ham, that our company had given us from Christmas aside from the gift baskets. 

I don't have an oven, so I simply re-cooked this ham with pineapple juice and pineapple chunks.

We had a very simple feast for Christmas. And I should congratulate myself too for personally preparing them, which I seldom do. lol..

Happy Food Trip Friday!

Food Trip Fridays shares will posted here from now on.. :)

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