Food

Mikey’s Eats (February 3, 2012)

Last night was heavy food / long walk date night, in which Char and I do little else besides eat, and walk, and talk, and eat some more. It’s my favorite kind of date night, because it ensures that the time we spend together is truly quality time, where love is sure to deepen.

But Hurry up the Cakes is not just about love, it’s about life. And life, my dear friends, is about food.

Our (first) dinner was at Omakase, which is soon moving to Molito Center Alabang, from their previous home at ~~Alabang Town Center~~ Casa Susana. We ordered the Salmon sashimi, the Spider Maki (deep fried soft-shell crab roll), Tuna Tataki (slightly charred [heh] Tuna covered in Chili powder, served with ponsu sauce), and Char’s favorites: the Seabreeze (a Maki of Tuna, Salmon, and Ebi Tempura, served with a sweet Japanese-Mayo-based sauce), and Spicy Tuna Salad (Tuna sashimi chopped and mixed with chives and Tempura flakes, dressed in spicy wasabi mayo).

Beautiful, isn’t she? And my girlfriend doesn’t look too bad either!

The Seabreeze is classic date-night fare for ~~Char and I~~ me and Char. The freshness of the seafood, with the crunch of the Tempura and the sweetness of the sauce all create a contrasting spread of flavors that make me smile. It rarely, if at all, fails to bring comfort.

The spicy tuna salad is kind of like tuna sashimi (already a “mainstream” sashimi fan standby) for the masses (and that’s not necessarily a bad thing). Covered in spicy Japanese salad dressing and topped with a small hill of Tempura flakes, your sashimi-phobic friends will have nothing to fret over. Omakase’s version, in particular, is rather delicious.

The Spider Maki is almost purely a Mikey indulgence–deep fried soft-shell crab, teriyaki sauce, sushi rice, seaweed wrap–what can go wrong? As it turns out, nothing can.

The Tuna Tataki salad, on the other hand, is an example of ~~gluttony~~ food greed (that stomach-is-full but mouth-wants-more feeling) getting the best of me. It didn’t particularly taste bad, but it did not add to the happy-belly feelings I had with the other three dishes–I even risked taking away from it. Lesson learned.

It was still a delightful dinner, of course. Pleasure is King here at Hurry up the Cakes, and the King was well served last night at Omakase.

Of course, the night was young, and the King was served yet again. Read about it in our Mercato Report coming soon!

Food

Mikey’s Eats (February 2, 2012)

You’re tired from work, your butt hurts from driving too much, and you’re about to get grumpy because your stomach’s rumbling and the idiots on the road are preventing you from appeasing your angry empty stomach.

A few minutes later (though they may have seemed like hours), you arrive home to find the food of your childhood–of afternoons running around the yard, dressed in a white ~~tank top~~ sando with baby powder on your neck and a towel on your back.

You sit down, you eat, and then you remember that you are alive, in all the fullest, luckiest, most wonderful ways.

Step 1. Prepare bread (Preferably purchased from local neighborhood convenience/sari-sari store)

Step 2. Prepare cheese spread (preferable MacLaren's Imperial cheese spread, the best in the world - though any will do)

Step 3. Spread cheese on bread

Step 4. Dip in coffee / Step 5. Repeat ad nauseum, Enjoy.

Hurry up the Cakes verdict: I am alive.

Geekery

iPad 3 > Cakes

From the best tech website on the planet, The Verge:

(Boy Genius Report) has obtained a number of images said to be taken of output from iBoot, Apple’s iDevice bootloader, running in debug mode on an iPad 3 — and in debug mode, you’re able to see some detail on the hardware running underneath. Notably, the processor is identified as model number S5L8945X, which is new — it’s apparently a quad-core Apple A6, which is exactly what everyone is expecting: we saw the single-core A4 in 2010 and the dual-core A5 last year

They go on to write that they also discovered an LTE (4G) model in the works, and the new iPad models should launch “any time now; the iPad 2 debuted in early March of last year.”

Now, since 4G (and, to some extent, 3G) is essentially useless as a mobile network in the Philippines, here is what Hurry up the Cakes can pick up from that article:

The iPad 3 is coming, and soon.
It will have an A6 chip in it, which means faster and better graphics, etc., etc.
The iPad 3 is coming, and soon.
THE IPAD 3 IS COMING, AND SOON.

Forget the cakes, I say hurry up the fricking iPad 3.

Original source: Boy Genius Report

Food

Mikey’s Eats (February 2, 2012)

I had to pick up my car from the shop today, and since the shop is just down the street from my mom’s office, I was able to have lunch with her. This means I’d be able to have lunch in a place I wouldn’t necessarily want to spend on if I were on my own.

We ended up eating in Ukiyo, a Japanese restaurant on the 6th floor of Alphaland Tower (that building on the corner of EDSA and Chino Roces Extension).

I didn’t have much of an appetite for lunch because I had late heavy breakfast of Palm Corned Beef (w/ Cholula Hot Sauce) and leftover Honey Glazed Ham, with garlic fried rice, fried egg, and hot chocolate (I believe in a healthy lifestyle). But of course, I wouldn’t pass up the chance to have something I enjoyed, so I ordered my childhood favorite Unaju (grilled eel in teriyaki sauce over a box of rice), and I shared a portion of Uni (sea urchin) sashimi with my mom.

The Uni was, as always, delightful. What was noteworthy was the wasabi. Usually, the small dollops of wasabi served with sashimi would dissolve into soy sauce, creating a wonderful mixture of saltiness and nasal-spice. This time, the wasabi crumbled beautifully into the sauce, so that whenever I’d dip a piece of Uni in it, particles of solid wasabi would join the party and sing splendidly (and loudly) to my sinuses.

I thought it rather odd that the Unaju cost twice as much as it normally would in other Japanese restaurants (the ones I go out on dates in–no need for mom’s spending powers), but I chalked it up to the beautiful setting, the cozy ambience, and the waitresses’ Japanese costumes (complete with socks and sandals). I discovered, later on, that there was second fillet of Unagi under a thin bed of rice. It was a happy surprise.

Hurry up the Cakes verdict: Not a bad lunch.

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