Felicia's Pastry Cafe Sans Rival and Macarons

     Felicia's Pastry Cafe is another cake house in Bacolod is starting to gain popularity or regular customers. They have been in the pastry business for a couple of years but had not got a chance to check this place.      
     Eric was craving for their Sans Rival and Macarons like a pregnant woman but unfortunately they are close for renovation when we passed by their place but so happy to know that the pastry shop will resume business on the next day.

Pamilya Grill Sate Babe

      If you have been to Bacolod City and have eaten in Bob's Restaurant then you must be familiar with their best seller Sate Babe. Sate Babe is a grilled pork on stick with peanut butter sauce. An order of Sate Babe from them costs more or less Php 98.00.

     If you have recently become a fan or already fond of eating it you might want to give it a second thought before ordering a second plate. Don't worry, you do not have to wait for your next salary to enjoy your

Calea Cakes: My Guilty Pleasure

     After overfilling our body with cholesterol for lunch, we continued our mission to satiate our taste buds for something sweet. The nearest pastry shop would be Felicia's and a fifteen minute walk could aid in digesting the the food inside our stomach. Too bad the pastry shop was closed for renovation and will resume business tomorrow. Because our body was craving for calories and high sugar content nourishment, we headed to Calea Cakes & Pastry Shop.

Calea's Sans Rival

     Since college days, Calea has always been our number one destination if we wanted to eat desserts or just hang-out over a cup of coffee and their bestseller Chocolate cake. Not only the Bacolodnons came to love their cakes but also visitors from  Manila or from other provinces would make sure that they carry a box of cake from Calea for pasalubong. 

How could you resist this?

     A slice of imported chocolate cake costs  Php 85.00. You might say its quite pricey for one slice but as the name implies, "imported" chocolate cake. Yes, ingredients are imported from outside the country. It's the secret ingredient to their mouthwatering cakes. Try it and you wont regret spending a few hundred bucks, you might ask for another slice or two. =)

    For those who are planning to visit Bacolod, Calea is located in 14th St. Lacson just beside L' Fisher Hotel.

Conees Cansi House

     Had lunch with Eric of byahilo today. He was craving for a hot and steamy Cansi, a local beef stew, and I knew a place that offers the best Cansi in town so we decide to meet around 11:30 in the morning. Perfect time to have lunch but Eric arrived several minutes after 12:00 noon. We hurried to the place only to find out its already packed with people from the nearby offices having their lunch. Luckily, we were able to find a vacant table.
     The place I'm talking about is Conees Cansi House. Sandwiched between commercial and private offices in Narra Avenue Shopping. One look and you might think it's just like any ordinary small eateries but as the old Proverb goes "don't judge the book by its cover".

     We ordered a large bowl of super-high-in-cholesterol cansi, rice and softdrinks. One large bowl  costs Php 195.00 and can be shared by two or three persons. It also came with additional cups of cansi broth just in case you needed more. While munching our lunch, Eric kept on joking about the cholesterols as he gorge on the marrow from the bone. Saying he should take a tablet of Lipitor or he might have a heart attack.
     In Negros, our version of Cansi or Kansi is made of purely beef shank with bone marrow simmered for several hours, some pressured cook it to lessen the cooking time,  until the meat is tender. Then "Batuan", a local fruit abundant only in the Visayas area, were added for that sour taste.

Batchoy Afternoon at Bar 21

     Last week my friend AudreyRose of Lagawan.info invited me for an afternoon snack. She was craving for some hot and tasty Batchoy so we headed off to Bar 21 where you can find the best batchoy in town. In line with the Masskara celebration they have their All You Can Eat batchoy promo for only Php80.
     Their batchoy is made of miki noodles, pork meat, sprinkled with spring onions, plenty of chicharon (deep fried pig skin) and steamy hot pork broth. Unlike the common batchoy that we knew, this one doesn't have pig internal organs on it like liver and small intestines.
     While waiting for Grace and Eric, we took some pictures of the place. If you have watched the Ilonggo indie film Namets this is where they shoot some of the scene.
     It was almost 7:00 pm but Grace and Eric didn't showed up, good thing Ruel was there so we decided to order something to eat. We tried their batchoy, clubhouse sandwich, soda, buko and buko lychee shake. We ended up eating one bowl of batchoy because the serving was so big that I was not able to eat all of it.
     Even though there were only three of us we talked over of planning where and when to have another get together and hoping Grace and Eric would be able to join us next time.
  

Enjoying our buko lychee shake 

Chinese Cuisine with a Negrense Taste

     I've always love Chinese foods because of the taste. Maybe because the different spices that are incorporated well on the dish that makes it mouthwatering. And in Bacolod only one restaurant comes on my mind if I wanted to eat Chinese food, that would be L'Sea Dimsum and Noodle House. The dishes here tweak so as it would approved the Bacoleno tastebud.

    After a long walk on the street of Lacson during the Electric Masskara night, my brother invited us to have dinner with them. They were planning to eat outside when it began to drizzle so they decided to eat at L'Sea instead. The restaurant is open from lunch to 10:00pm. The place is easy to find cause its situated beside the L' Fisher hotel in Lacson St.

     We ordered large yang chow rice, half soyed chicken, 2 shrimp balls (my favourite), siomai and shrimp dumplings. Too many for five people to eat eh. But because we were so hungry, finishing the foods is not a problem. After the dinner, we all went home with a full stomach and a happy soul.



Soyed chicken, sweet



Fried shrimp balls. A sweet dip goes together with it.

 

Siomai - rice or no rice its always perfect







Ruel already ate one shrimp dumpling when I remember to take a photo of it =(