Cheer Up With Food

When it comes to Filipino food, its prepared differently no matter what Philippine region you go to even if its the same dish.  Same exact thing when it comes to Filipino restaurants, the same dishes are prepared slightly different wherever you go.   DJ Bibingkahan  makes Filipino food just the way I like it because its similar to my family's style of cooking.  I love this restaurant so much that I made a screen name of mine close to the English translation of DJ Bibingkahan (I know that makes me sound like a dork). Lately I've been coming here for breakfast.  They have a special on selected breakfast dishes for only 3 bucks including coffee!  Some of the dishes included in the special are  Tocilog - a combo of fried rice, egg, and tocino  (cured meat): and Bangusilog - fried rice, egg, and bangus (milkfish): These dishes may look plain, but its full of flavor and salt! So if you're down to eat a Filipino breakfast, come to DJ Bibing...

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During the week of Christmas 2010, I went to Washington to spend the holiday with my future in-laws.  We ate homemade Hawaiian style foods everyday! This was a nice airline food menu with a very welcoming introduction: Kudos to Alaska Airlines for promoting healthy foods! The rest of the gang was already there before my fiance and I arrived and were making rainbow cupcakes : They look like lava on the outside... But colorful inside!! If you know anything about local Hawaiian grindz , it consist about 90% of MEAT  (combined with starchy foods like rice and poi ).  This vacation was a carnivore packed weekend.  For breakfast, we ate eggs and Portuguese sausages  with rice everyday.  I ate other breakfast foods like oatmeal, cereal, toast, and then I cooked eggs right after.  I couldn't resist... I love eggs! Here's my uncle grilling steaks: I'm not a big meat eater, but I can pound some steak h...

I realized I never did an entry on coffee before!  I enjoy the smell of coffee, it soothes and awakens me.  I can survive without drinking coffee for months unlike other people, but this doesn't mean I despise the drink.  Ever since I can remember, I always saw my dad drink coffee, day or night.  Somehow this might have caused me to rebel against drinking it regularly?   In Las Vegas there's many coffee shops.  I always go to major chain coffee shops instead of small businesses.  I need to change that!  I guess I had a bad experience going to an unknown coffee shop once, it was obvious this place was imitating Starbucks .  Once I venture out more and find a nice local business I'll post an entry about it! A coffee shop that I'm fond of is The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf  across from UNLV .  I like it for its location, discounts offered to UNLV students (I'm an alumni though :-p), enough tables to merge for a study group, and my dr...

For breakfast time with my mom, we ate at  Pho So 1  to eat some pho instead of traditional American or Filipino food.       Eating a soup consisting of rice noodles, thinly sliced meat, bean sprouts, lime, and basil early in a chilly morning is refreshing to eat! In the pic below is  tai chin nam gan sach - rare steak, well-done flank, brisket, tendon, and tripe.  I enjoyed this soup because it's broth was amazing and it wasn't too salty like other pho I've tried in town:

When I called to reserve a table at  SATAY , the lady I was talking to asked if there was a special occasion.  I told her that I was celebrating my birthday and she responded in excitement as she greeted me... I felt special haha.  My huge taro smoothie with boba  - I enjoy eating taro, the use of this root is endless: Fish meat ball satay - Common food seen all over Asia: Thai Ginger Tofu - comes with onion, green onion, celery, and red bell pepper.  I love foods with ginger because of its tangy taste: Coconut fragrance rice only has a slight scent of coconut:  Thanks for the free green tea ice cream  Satay!

For lunch I went to  Bahama Breeze  for the first time with my friends.  I was a bit skeptical about eating here because from my experience eating at a few nice looking restaurants in the area of Flamingo Rd. and Paradise Rd., their foods weren't that great.  I hope Bahama Breeze would be different... It was different, the food was actually way better than I expected! When it comes to  Caribbean food , I'm not knowledgeable about it mainly because there's not a lot of places that serve this cuisine here in Las Vegas =(  I only know that Caribbean food consists of: seafood , the popular  Jamaican jerk seasoning , and its fusion of African and some European cuisine. For appetizers, we tried the Fire-Roasted Jerk Shrimp - the shrimp are soaked in a garlic-thyme butter and comes with warm Cuban bread .  The flavor of the shrimp was overwhelming and addicting!  I just wanted to keep ordering more! I decided to try this combinat...