Interrupting the usual quick eats/trips posts to give way to a helpful tip! *puts nerdy eyeglasses on*

So! I was able to score affordable tickets from  Cebu Pacific's Peace-o Sale yesterday, hooray! For the past few years I've been paying for the tickets at LBC's Ortigas branch but now that I'm based in BGC, I am forced to find another payment center. Good thing there's a BDO branch on the ground floor of our office building :) 

Let's get started! Get the orange payment slip and fill out the following details:

Filipino cuisine is quite tricky - when it is served traditionally it can become boring, but when you try to 'revolutionize' it it can become disastrous. Where do you draw the line? How do you set yourself apart? This is the sad story of Elias by Crisostomo as told by me: it tried so hard to be both traditional (colonial cuisine) and different (with witty menu items such as 'Crazy Sisa Squid' and 'Adobo Damaso') but still failed. Oops! Meanie alert! :p

Toto and I have already tried all the restaurants on the first floor of the Crossroads Bldg. on 32nd St, Bonifacio Global City, so we thought it was time we visited the upper floor. Balkan was empty when we arrived at around 11:30am on a Friday and we were just ecstatic to be the first guests! The place is so PRETTY... so picture perfect! 

This iz it, folks. After years of making halfhearted attempts, Toto and I were finally able to do a 4.5-hour food trip + walking tour around UP Diliman. That's one item checked off our {imaginary} bucket list - HURRAH!

Ever since Toto started working on a project not far from my office, we've been eating breakfast at McDonald's almost everyday because, well,  it's cheap and fast. But from time to time we try to break this unhealthy habit and look for swak-sa-budget alternatives, which is an almost-impossible task when you are in Bonifacio Global City. Kuse Restaurant in Crossroads Bldg. on 32nd St. is not entirely budget-friendly but it offers Pinoy food so it's generally "safe." 

reminiscent of our breakfast in Moon Garden, Tagaytay

This is another case of wanted-to-try-a-new-resto-but-ended-up-eating-in-another kind of Sunday. And to be honest, we couldn't care less because we thought it was high time we went back to one of our ultimate, most favoritest, bestest places to eat comfort food - *drum roll please* - Uncle Moe's Shawarma Hub!

This is going to be straightforward: I don't get the hype about Recovery Food, probably because we were sober when we ate breakfast there. Recovery is one of those 24/7 joints that offer comfort food for the hungover people of the Philippines to "recover" before they head home. And like what some people say about some food - it will only taste better after two bottles of beer! (fortunately or unfortunately)