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Bike to School/Work

It has been a year since my last post. Time flies so fast that I have forgotten all about my blog. Well for the past year of so I have rekindled my love for biking. Not as a sport but as a way of getting around. During my high school days I used to go to school using my a mountain bike.  Nowadays there are a lot more options than just getting a mountain bike or road bike

I started again a few years back when I bought a folding bike with an extra seat and extra handle bars for me and my child. This got my child to also love biking and is biking since age three with out the so called trainer wheels (that does not really train a kid to ride a bike) The bike cost was abut 4,500 pesos. It was a good bike for going around the village .

Then I came upon an electric folding bike being sold in a website. I visited the place and researched about it. I even had a chance to talk to the owner who said that i could even be a dealer. Well I wanted to check the product out first, so I bought one.It was quite expensive at a price of 34,000 pesos. For that price I could have bought a very decent mountain bike. It was a blast to ride when the battery had juice but once the battery died it was quite heavy to pedal.

The main reason I bought the bike was to bring my firstborn to school. I had a seat fabricated for my child.

 The route to the school had an elevation of 50 meters in a distance of 3 kilometers. The distance was quite short but the elevation was a killer. This where the electric motor help a lot. I have attached a bike computer to the bike to measure distances of the bike and to date it has a mileage of about 5000 kilometers so in terms of just the cost of gasoline it has already paid for itself. Consider also the time saved from the commute. It would take me around 30 minutes to 40 minutes on a car and just 15 to 20 minutes on a bike. Then I save also on the time going to the gym. Its like hitting three birds with one stone. Especially now I still bring my kid to school with out the battery and my son has grown a lot. Just imagine carrying a backpack 20 kilo backpack up 50 meters.

I use also my bike going to work. Like when I don't have to dress up for a meeting. But I usually have a change of clothes and kikay kit with me. With the traffic nowadays it has been more logical and Sulit to ride a bike to anywhere.Who wants to be stuck in traffic anyways. We even go to the grocery or palengke for things we need.

This is the seat that I fabricated for my son, for the electric folding bike

Now I encourage everybody to try it. You may just ditch your car once your try it.

I added two more bikes in my arsenal but it will be in another post in my blog.

Where do I buy Gasoline?

I buy the cheapest gas I could find.

 Of course I do follow some rules so that it would be sulit.

One get it from a reputable source meaning there is a company, not the person selling literally by the gallon. Those placed in gallon containers. I don't buy from the big three (Petron, Shell, Caltex) I buy from the independent players the petrol that they have are just the same as the big three, so why spend more. In fact some of the big three when they have shortages, they buy from the independent players. Lets get something straight also. Gas from the big three are overpriced. Then they entice you with different kinds of promos to get gas from them, Whether it would be free softdrinks to ice cream to stuff that you really don't need. Not to mention the cost to advertise.

Two, get where it is nearest your place, or where its on your route to wherever you go. I get my gas which is a bit far from me but once a week or once in two weeks I have meetings in that area, so I take that opportunity to get cheap gas. Would you believe it is less 5 pesos per liter from the big three prices. So every time I gas up I save about 200 pesos (if I fill up with 40 liters). Now I even bought a gas container to fill up with their gas to save. the container was a 20 liter container costing me 600 pesos. with just 120 liters of gas I have recovered the cost of my container.

If I gas for 40 liters a week that would be 160 liters in a month multiply it to 5 pesos savings that would amount to 800 pesos. I can say that I use that money for other maintenance cost for the car, like change oil etc.

Yen Yen taiwan streetfood restaurant

After our check up in the hospital,we usually eat out afterwards as it take a long time to finish waiting for the doctor. We ended up in Yen yen restaurant which claims Taiwan street food. Before the check up I was browsing the net as I came upon a promo as they have turned 1 year old. They have a promo for the whole month of April its one pesos for your second bowl of noodles. I said great we will eat there after the check up.

When the check up was the done we were starving as it was already past 1 pm. We reached Yen Yen about 1:15 pm. We ordered two bowls of soup to avail of the promo. It is you pay 1 peso for the second bowl which is lower in price. So we got the same price different noodle soups. (Taiwan beef braised noodle soup and Taiwan beef and herb noodle soup both Php 220. (which i thinks is quite expensive for a bowl of noodles) We ordered also dumplings Php140 for 8 pieces

 The braised beef was ok. It was like beef stew with noodles. As you can see in the photo the large chunk of carrot and the radish. Saving grace was the texture and quality of the noodles, as it was fresh and soft. You may cut it even if your did not have teeth at all. The herb soup was unsatisfactory as my wife kept getting soup from my bowl. The dumplings on the other hand was I think under cooked as it felt rubbery. Lets put it this way, it was harder then the noodles.

For me even if it had the promo for the noodles, I would rethink if I would eat there. I would eat there and tryout  other dishes. but for the noodles,I had better. Not sulit

really? soup for 220 pesos, the bowl is not even that big.

Ramen Bar

 

After a kids night out (I mean a night out that starts at 11 pm where there still a few people in the club) me and my wife were terribly hungry after waking up at around 1030 am. My wife was craving for some ramen. The nearest one was Ramen Bar in Eastwood. I gave her the authority to order whatever she likes. We have eaten here before and we were not that satisfied. It was just her hunger for ramen that made us come back.

She ordered the Rbs ramen which she does not even know what rbs means. I was still probably asleep that's why I gave her full control. She also ordered some rice bowl topping with some kind of beef. While ordering she asked if it had that special egg ( where the egg white was hard and the yolk soft) The waitress was explaining to her that it was not. It was just like boiled in soy or something like that manner.

So the order came, The first thing I noticed was when the waitress laid down the rice bowl she said that it was burning her hands. The first thing that came to my mind was OMG the food is microwaved. I freaking hate that. If you were to get cooked rice and put it in a bowl and place your beef on top it would not burn your hands unless there was a different heating source added to it. The beef was soso  and I just tasted a few and gave it back to wifey. The soup was better this time around. The egg was a failure. The noodles flew without flying colors. The pork was too fat.  I tried to salvage the whole thing by asking for some chili flakes. You know, the orange flakes I am used in a lot of japanese  restos to then this came. Red flakes that reminded me of fish food for the aquarium.  I placed a few, no taste, I threw a spoon full, no taste. I took a pinch and put directly to my mouth. Absolutely no taste. What the hell was that i just put in my mouth.

The so called chilli flakes

In the end we were full, that was the reason we were there in the first place.

Not sulit.

Mien San resto

I rarely have fave restaurants, but when i do every time I pass the place how i wish it was lunch time or dinner time. Mien San is a taiwanese resto. I have been eating there long before it was renovated. It is a nice place now, with modern interiors. Before you would think twice to eat there and wonder if they had good food. I was introduced by my brother to the place who is a foodie himself but have no time to tell or blog about it.  

Mien san is located at granada st. valencia new manila in Quezon city.

I f you are a regular in a place you tend to order the same items. If I go there alone (the times when i was a product specialist out on the field) I usually order noodles, congee or rice toppings. Believe it or not the fried chicken here is good. If I am with a group this is what i order; yang chow fried rice, veggie dumplings, tofu with century egg and steam chicken with leeks. I personally love the steamed chicken with the leeks. It is like the white chicken rice and the condiment in white chicken already on top.

For me its sulit because taste is great that you could pay a bit more. The last meal bill is 600 pesos the order is yangchow, steamed chicken and sha long bao dumplings ( for my eldest son who loves it).  Served two adults and a 4 year old.

And for some advice come 30 minutes early for that coveted parking space.

 Photo above is the yang chow and the steamed chicken. I mean partial yang chow, wife already hungry when the photo was taken.

Milk tea every where

Milk tea, milk tea, milk tea every where. So it seems that the bandwagon right now is milk tea. I have tasted those milk teas even when it was not yet present here in the Philippines. I tasted it in Singapore and also in Macao. For me they all tasted the same with just some variations from each other.

For being the sulit part, since I have tasted almost all of them, the one I choose is I Love Milk Tea. I usually go to the Timog branch. Pricing wise you get a large glass for an average price of 60 pesos and that's including the pearl/sinkers. In the Timog branch it is also a cafe and there is also food served in the branch which i personally like. You can get a whole plate of mojos, a club sandwich and also pasta and other lunch food. Price range was about 100 to 150 pesos. You can also have the bursting pearls which could be a lot of fun because it could be like a regular paintball bullet. You just use your straw as the barrel and the pearl as a exploding projectile.

I have tried other branches of I Love Milk Tea, apparently they don't offer the food menu but the milk teas are still there which are half price than most of the imported brands. I guess you have to pay more for the franchisee to pay for their franchise fee.