Mandarin Deli Custard Cream

Buttery and sweet croissant and yeast donut type bread with custard cream on the center.


It was like pringles, that once you pop into your mouth you can never stop. That was what happened to me. I just wanted a bite but wasn't able to stop myself from finishing the entire danish.


The custard cream was tart and sweet like it has cheese in it. I was wondering how it happened, then I saw on my receipt that what I bought was Danish Cream Cheese. So maybe that explained the tart taste of the custard. I just don't know if the Danish Cream Cheese and Custard Cream are one and the same.



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MANDARIN DELI
Gateway Mall

Sebastian's Midnight Truffle Burger

My fascination with the ice cream cookie sandwich intensified after I watched an episode of Barefoot Contessa wherein Ina Garten made big white chocolate cookies and coffee ice cream. She sandwiched the ice cream between two huge cookies. Since then I can't stop dreaming of someday eating something like that. Then as luck would have it I saw one (or maybe 4 flavors) at Sebastian's in Glorietta.


Dark chocolate cookies filled with chocolate ice cream with a fudge center and rolled in black cocoa.


They are as huge as Ina's (more or less) but better since it has dark chocolate fudge in between as well as rolled in cocoa.


It's the ice cream burger for true blue chocoholics. Since it's choco after choco after choco.


I thought at first bite that it was too rich and too much for me, but the chocolate fudge cut its richness. It also broke the monotonous taste of the ice cream while the cookies have this sweet and salty contrast that was so good.





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SEBASTIAN'S
Food Choices
Glorietta Makati

Tinapayan Wheat Dinner Roll

Aside from it has more fiber, it also has less sugar added on it.


It's also the first dinner roll or make that wheat bread that I have tried that's buttery-soft but still dense and firm.


No wonder a lot of people buy it.

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Jipan Manju

Manju is a popular traditional Japanese confection. There are many varieties of manju, but most have an outside made from flour, rice powder and buckwheat and a filling of `an` (red bean paste), made from boiled azuki beans and sugar.

Jipan's version also has red beans filling but with added cherry blossom flower on top.


It was like a siopao bun, has a savory smell and contrasting sweet and savory taste.

Sweet red beans contrasting with the savory and salty cherry blossom flower.

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Jipan Wafu Burger

Wafu-burger, is a Japanese-style beef burger sauced with soy, sake, brown sugar and honey.


Jipan's wafu burger was like an open-faced hamburger on a bed of gravied potatoes on top of a soft bread drizzled with Japanese mayo.


It was very filling. The wafu patty slightly gave that MSG taste but not too much. The gravied potatoes underneath were delicious as well as the Japanese mayo that I wish it has more of.


It also gave that Hamburger Combo Meal vibe sans the drink, with the gravied potatoes as the fries.



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Dulcinea Praline

Like a sansrival, baklava and coffee crunch cake/torte.


Like a sansrival because it's filled and iced with buttercream, like a baklava because it's made up of several layers of sweetened and buttered puff pastry, and like a coffee crunch cake/torte because it's coated with crushed coffee crunch.


Of course the taste was a mixture of all three with added creaminess from the egg yolk custard film and sweetness from the icing and chocolate.

At first I was unsure of buying it but I definitely made the right choice. I finished it in seconds. Definitely worthy of its P52 price.



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Tinapayan Sylvannas

Meringue iced and filled with buttercream and cashews.


It was good and not too sweet, with the buttercream not being too rich either.


It also has generous amounts of cashews, more than enough for its tiny size.



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Jipan Green Tea Muffin

It has a matcha tea smell that satiates. It also remained moist even when stored in the chiller. And has enough red beans for its size.



It has a matcha sweet and creamy taste, like Starbucks Green Tea Frap. But after a couple of bites it tasted like any corn muffin or maybe my tongue/taste buds just got used to it (bored).




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Intercontinental Chocolate Croissant

More like a mini pain au chocolat than a chocolate croissant.


It was over baked that I wasn't able to enjoy its taste at first. The bitter/over baked taste of the top crust overpowered its supposedly butteriness and even the sweetness coming from the powdered sugar dusted on top.

But when you removed the over baked top, everything else was good.


The chocolate filling was so good, delicious even, that I would buy it on its own and even ate all the chocolate fillings of my 4 chocolate croissants first.

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