Queens at Bollywood

I met up with a friend for a movie. But since we were to watch the LFS of Mission: Impossible 4, we had dinner first. He said he wanted Indian that night, so I said we just have dinner at Queens at Bollywood.

We don't know what to order. I just know that I wanted naan bread and him, basmati rice. So we let the server chose for us.

She said we order Chicken Tikka Masala and Momos ( a favorite of a lot of customers that night, we even overheard a customer gushed how good they were). Momos are spicy lamb dumplings with hot sauce. Because a lot of customers were ordering them that night, they ran out of it. Too bad as we were really curious of its taste. We just replaced it with Chicken Malai Kebab.

As we were waiting for our orders we were given complimentary Pappadam with Mint Leaves and Yogurt. Apparently they were also unlimited. The server were giving us more of the pappadam which we refused as we wanted to leave a lot of room for our orders.




The Chicken Tikka Masala are barbecued chicken in a tomato buttered and spiced sauce. We chose to have it mild.



I like how tender the chicken pieces were and love the tomato sauce which I hoarded and dipped my naan bread with.

My Naan Bread smelled like pancakes but weren't buttery nor oily. While my friend's Basmati Rice was just like any regular white rice but were aromatic.




The Chicken Malai Kebab which were marinated in yogurt and cooked with cheese and green chilies, don't have a dip or sauce that when we asked for one the server just gave us hot sauce.



It tasted like a chicken satay sans the peanut dip. And also a vinegary/sour version of it.

We were both full after our meal, I especially, since I ate almost 3/4 of our orders, that we didn't look at their dessert menu anymore.






Happy Eating!

QUEENS AT BOLLYWOOD
3rd Level, Greenbelt 3
Makati City

Jipan Christmas Chocolate Custard

It looked cute and christmassy that when the owner said that it was also their best seller and that it's filled from top to bottom with custard, I immediately said I'll buy one.



I thought the leaves were edible that that was what I tried to eat first, but no they weren't, but the cherry was real.



Basically the christmas chocolate custard is a croissant filled with custard then coated with chocolate.
I like the chocolate coating and the custard filling, but did not like the croissant itself. It was not flaky nor buttery and kinda tasted stale and over baked.

Happy Eating!

JIPAN
2nd Level, Glorietta
Makati City

Kalbi Chicken Quesadilla, Onion rings and Nachos

I miss Forever 21 that I went to SM Makati despite the rainy weather. I was in there for hours, that when I went out I was so parched and very hungry and to top that it was already 930PM. My last meal before that was breakfast, so just imagine how hungry I was at that time that I can no longer walk straight. But since I was also to catch the 1020PM screening of New Year's Eve, I need to walk fast and to just eat dinner inside the cinema.

Just when I was scouting the Food Choices area I saw the onion rings and quesadilla order of a customer at Kalbi and wanted to have the same.




I ordered Chicken Quesadilla which came with one side. I chose Onion Rings, which according to a staff is also their best seller. I also added Nachos, when I saw another customer ordered it.





It was nice that a long line of customers came after me and not before me or else I wouldn't be on time for the movie.

When I took a bite of the quesadilla I thought that the staff got my order wrong, that he gave me kimchi and not chicken. But on my succeding bites I tasted the chicken, a lot of them, and melted cheese too. I like their Korean take on a quesadilla. I like that they added kimchi to it. In fact I did not even use the salsa/chili sauce it came with as it was already very tasty and spicy too.



I also like their onion rings.



I like some pieces of the nachos that were crispy, but don't like those that were almost soggy. I don't see any reason for them to be chewy and soggy as I asked for the sauce to be separated. I also did not like the taste of the sour cream. But surprisingly love the jalapenos, which I ate like nacho chips.



I definitely would buy quesadillas and onion rings from them again. Maybe tomorrow.

Happy Eating!

KALBI
Food Choices
Glorietta Makati

Weekend Round Up

Here's what I ate this weekend:

Yellow Cab Pizza, Charlie Chan and Meatballs Pasta






Xin Yi Long (Sin Yin Long) Tikoy Roll

- love the tikoy layer

Salazar Bakery



Starbucks White Chocolate Cranberry Cookie


Starbucks Warm Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake


Driscoll's Long Stem Strawberries



Krispy Kreme Chocolate Chip Kruffin



TWG Jasmine Queen Tea


Cheesecake Melliza Caramel Walnut


- an airy and very sweet cheesecake

Red Ribbon Ensaymada


Cheetos Crunchy


Mang Inasal


Max's Chopsuey Meal


Royce Green Tea Nama

- not that good

Hizon's Egg Rolls


Happy Eating!

The Chicken Rice Shop

I was on my way to Chef d'Angelo when I saw the noodles and drink combo poster of The Chicken Rice Shop. I wanted the soya bean drink that I went inside to have that and some more. Looking at their menu I was more intrigued by their chicken, rice and chendol kacang (kachang) than my first choice of noodles and soya bean.



I ordered a personal Roast Chicken which came with hainanese rice and soup.




And for dessert I had a regular Ais Chendol Kacang (Kachang).





The chendol was artificial looking and the ground peanuts tasted old. Despite all that I still enjoyed eating the kachang. I like the delicate coconut  milk cascading down the chendol mountain. I just hope that it had more coconut milk, red beans and chendol.



The roast chicken smelled like Christmas ham. The ginger and chili sauce combined with the hainanese rice (which tasted like Paotsin's rice) and roast chicken + cucumber were delicious. I ate more rice than I normally do. So that must mean that I like it.



I also like the comfy and private bench were I sat and the clean and simple interior, nice service staff and well-functioning AC. They also have their own restrooms (1 for each sexes).









A lot of foreigners frequent the shop too. At the time that I was there, more than five sets of Americans were dining there, and more were going in when I left.

Happy Eating!


THE CHICKEN RICE SHOP
Ground Level
Robinsons Place Manila