Chinese sauce

Ate at North Park the other day with who else but hubby. He ordered White Chicken while I ordered steamed sharks fin dumpling and fresh lemonade, which I really really love!

Anyway, I tasted the white chicken which by the way was cooked steamed. What made it special is its sauce. It was thick and somehow sweet so it’s definitely not just your ordinary soy sauce. I forgot to ask the waitress for the name of the sauce so I tried to google it and this is what I found:

Basic Chinese Brown Sauce*

In a measuring cup, combine:
2 Tbl. soy sauce, shoyu, or Bragg’s
3/4 c. water
0.5 – 1 Tbl. grated ginger
1 tsp. chopped garlic (1 clove)
1 Tbl. cornstarch
1 Tbl. molasses

I am not really sure if this is what I am looking for, but I think this is the closest and I’ll try it sometime.

*recipe from here

*sigh* speaking of north park, I am craving for some litid (anised beef tendon)!

Dessert @ Cafe Breton

hubby and the little princess looking at the crepe maker

Met up with my sister in Laguna for some important documents I have to pick-up from her.  Since Amber was on the way, bought 20pcs pichi-pichi (PHP80.00) to go.  Was suppose to order a barbecue but we have to wait for 30 minutes for that.  No time.

On our way back, hubby asked us if we want dessert at Cafe Breton. Of course I agreed! I love that place! But for someone who asked if we want dessert, hubby ordered a non-dessert food and he was the first one to make fun of himself. LOL!

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@ Chelsea with Friends

L-R: Ginny, Cez, Maver, Jen (with JM), Me (with the little princess), Gigi

Finally! An impromptu lunch was planned days before the actual meet-up. It’s really better to arrange an impromptu get together than plan it. Why? Well, we’ve been planning to dine out together for ages and we almost never get complete and it happened several times already. One was when jbstar was still pregnant with little star, we met up at Italliani’s Alabang. Then the next one was early this year at Omakase with gigil and jbstar. Well at least they were able to try Omakase and was glad they loved it! One thing common though, my little princess was always with us during these three occasions not including the one other meet-up at Hula-Hula (@ Westgate, Filinvest) where I was still pregnant with her :D

So anyway, we finally had an impromptu Lunch last Friday at Chelsea Market & Cafe at Serendra. Thank goodness for plurk we were able to set it up. But since it’s a Friday and lunch time at that, we had limited time. Well, for ginny and cez since they still have to report for work. Still, we had a great time and all agreed it was bitin! Hoping next time it would be much longer and we could be complete and more. Soon girls! Ang daming line-up specially within our vicinity… :)
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