Mimidora The Explorer

Hi everyone! I have been going on a food trip recently since we arrived home from Macau and since it was my Aunt's birthday last 15 May, we ate out with her.
We ate at this restaurant called Sakae Sushi which is a sushi bar or sushi restaurant with the conveyor belt

You still have a choice i you want to have the unlimited Sushi or a la carte. It'a actually very affordable




We chose the couch seats right beside the conveyor belt for convenience. Here's my aunt (the birthday girl) right beside sushi fest :)




So much sushi going around, it was so hard to choose.




If you noticed, the plates have different colors because for those who do not want the unlimited sushi, they can just take plates from the belt and each plate color has a corresponding price, so they'll just get the total after
And here's the corresponding price depending on the plate color




In our case, we had unlimited sushi so JUST GET AND GET! :)




My mum didn't want the unlimited sushi and just got Sukiyaki




I loooooooved the Kani Salad Sushi... And now begins the plate stacking part :)




Even Olivier our cousin had stacks beside him




This green thing, i have no idea what it's called but it was good at first. It tasted the the fish roe was dumpe in wasabi or something. It was spicy in a wasabi way, the type of "spicy" that comes out of your nose... But after about 3 pcs of this, it hurt my throat so i change my mind. I don't like it very much anymore :p




There are 4 branches in Manila:
SM Mall of Asia
SM City North Edsa
Robinsons Place Manila
And The Fort
The challenge for us whenever we eat here is to eat more than what we paid for or at least break even. Haha :)
My only problem with the sushi is that it has too much rice in it so you get full right away. But overall, i like this restaurant and would recommend it to people who love eating challenges :)
- Mil Besos y Abrazos! <3

Picture of the Day hint: EXOTIC ��

Today it was a more relaxed morning. After breakfast we rode the taxi to downtown Macau or what they called "Old Macau". Why the term old? Because The Casino/Hotel/Mall (which i hall now call a CHM to make my life easier) area of Macau or the New side is reclaimed area and is actually still in progress. It's like the Las Vegas pf Asia and more of the CHMs are sprouting here and there and basically EVERYWHERE! The old Macau also has CHMs but the reclaimed area was made for expansion literally and figuratively.

From the Taxi on the bridge you can see the Grand Lisboa (note the Portuguese influence of the name), the Lotus shaped CHM.



The exact name of the place we were going to visit was "Senado" or "San Malo" or something like that. As soon as we arrived there we walked to the Chan Kong Kei Plaza de Pasto. It's a small place but the food was good!





And now starts the Exotic Food spree...
Now, the Goose Blood!



It's texture is like gelatin, but it tastes like... I can't describe it but it's not so bad and i wiuld eat it again. The taste is not very strong so it's easy to consume



Our host, Mr. Oscar also recommended that we try this Schweppes Cream Soda



Next exotic food we ate is the GOOSE TONGUE �� haha..


Not bad... But weird ;)

Though lunch is over, we thoight exotic food spree will end as well but apparently not. Wait til i get to the dinner part of this entry.

After lunch we went to another small place called Café Sang Lei


We drank authentic Nai Cha (Milk Tea). Not the cold ones we drink in Manila but rather, the real hot tea with milk



Remember what I said about Macau being a Portuguese colony before? Well you can still see it in the stuctures here in Old Macau. Here's a Catholic Church in the Plaza. The Sto Domingo Church :)


...and some other buildings :)


From the plaza we took a bus to Wynn, another CHM to watch the Dragon and Money Tree show









They show this every 30 minutes. It was too bad we werent able to see the large fountain show tht this place was famous for.
Here's the tree of posperity. It shows the tree changing colors showing 4 seasons and a natural tree color














After the tree show we sat at the cafe to eat ice cream


After ice cream we proceded to a restaurant in Downtown Macau for our host's birthday celebration . On the way i admired the beautiful city lights. This is a view of Grand Lisboa at night when the lights are all on :)


The taxi driver was a bit rude and i heard that they're nicer to the people who speak cantonese so remind me to learn this dialect next time before coming back here :p

We walked a little to the place


And here it is, the Casa de Pasto Yun Kei


Before i start with the exotic food for this evening, let me show you the chopstick tutorial written on the chopstick wrapper














And now a little briefing regarding the plates:
we have here 3 bowls, a plate and an asian soup spoon. The left most bowl is for rice, other solid foods and the one in the middle is for soup. The third one is a tea cup :) the plate is basically used for disposal of shrimp skin (do you call it skin?), chicken bones, etc.


To continue with our exitic foods, first on the menu was the Authentic Shark's Fin Soup. Someone told me this stuff is illegal but it was served so i don't know.



Next is fried spicy Frog Legs. This one is my favorite. Even in Manila I eat this :)



Next is the pig's intestines which we all thought at first was a suckling pig :) but i'm not very much a fan of this because of the strong smell.

Here's a picture of my sister and the fried chicken head





After dinner we all went our separate ways and went back to our hotel. Now it's time to retire for the night :)

- Buenas Noches de China! :)

Ubicación:R. Do Tiro,Cotai,Macao

I fell asleep for 2 hours and i decided to utilize the beautiful shower room of Qatar Airways.

Then after about 30 minutes, they called the passengers of my flight foe boarding. We all had to board a shuttle bus to be brought to our plane






Upon arriving inside the plane and after settling down, our orders were taken for our after take off meal. I was goven sushi for appetizer and i chose the spicy noodles with chicken breast with the amazing sauce :)
Unforunately i was out if my mind, i ate the sushi while waitin for my camera to load :) now all you can see is the bowl, the garnishing and some wasabi






Since i was a little girl (i did not grow much though), i've always loved apple juice in the plane and upto now ask for apple juice during plane rides. I don't normally drink apply juice in normal days.






Here's the noodle thing





And for dessert we have fresh fruits with unsweetened greek yoghurt. I don't like unsweetened though :p






With my headphones on for a portion of a movie before sleeping.





I did not finish it because i had to go i sleep. It's a 9 hour flight!!

And then i woke up just in time for breakfast. Unfortunately i was trying to conserve battery so i was not able to turn on the cam to take pictures of breakfast but it was a filipino breakfast that did not at all taste like one.

I was so happy when i felt the plane finally touch the ground.

When i got out of the plane i felt the humid heat of my country. HUMID! hahaha! But hey quess what? There's a storm :) what a way to welcome me






Baggage conveyor belt






Customs :)





And i was so surprised because from a far, i saw who my surprise fetcher was :)





I was really really very happy! :) he and my dad waited for me at the waiting area, and then my mum and sister were in the car :)
After that we all went to Resorts World Manila to eat at stackers :)

Mi hermanita :) she was so envious of my skin and hair color. My hair color became brown and my skin a bit darker because i was always under the sun in Madrid :)





I ate soooo much :) and to think i just ate breakfast in the plane. This is weird becauae i arrived in Manila at 16:40 and we just had breakfast. Hahahaha





After this my phone went dead and so i could not take pictures in the Chinese restaurant we went to after. Yes we ate again. Hahaha!

I was not even able to take pictures of the unpacking of my clothes but oh well.

Well, that's it, this is the last day of my adventure this year. I really did not expect my blog to reach 6,000 hits. I want to thank the people who visited my blog. You actually inspired me to move around Madrid and to learn more so that i can share my experience with all of you :) it was a good 81 days of Spain, my home away from home. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as i did even if it's only through my blog.

I also want to thank my teachers and friends in Spain who actually encouraged me to post in my blog, sometimes even reminding me to take a picture and sometimes they take the picture for me :)

Thank you all! Til my next adventure, this is Mimi a.k.a, Mimidora, Camille, Camila, Chiquitita, (and all the other names that were given to me), saying ¡HASTA LUEGO!!!!! Besos y abrazos! :)

When i have settled, i might post some of the pictures i took using my big camera as supplementary posts.

-- now it's time to say ¡Buenas Noches Madrid, España, Qatar and Filipinas! :)