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I hihgly recommend YUM CHA along Timog. coming from Quiapo, along Q.A., you make a right on Timog and go past just a block or two before you reach the rotonta of Timog & T. Morato. It is on your right side.

Price is almost Ps 400 (360 something).

Almost all Chinese food with the main courses being steamed Lapu Lapu, Peking Duck. Just these 2 alone is worth the trip. Eat all you want plus other food like sweet and sour beef ribs, sashimi, Chinese cold cuts. If you eat a lot of Chinese food, this the place.

I do not know which members reading this thread have tried the very very strong coffee served the Arabian or Middle Eastern way. Very very strong and in very small cups kasi very very strong and tasty.

You can get them everywhere they serve Middle Eastern Foods. I had my first cup at the back of PWU at a small restaurant there but I do not know if they still serve this. Another place is the Shish Kebab place (I forgot the name) along Makati Ave just across from Stomach restaurant near the corner of Burgos and Makati Ave.

People, you just got to try it to know what i am talking about.

If you get hooked, you won't look at ordinary coffee anymore, or any of the variations of coffee at Starbucks et al.

INIHAW na Saba - kasi its cheap and tastes very good, esp. with margarine and some sugar. Saga is so versatile kasi bubusog ka sa ihaw, prito or nilaga.

And everyone's taste is different as some like their saba very ripe, some like them not so ripe, others like them as green saba (matigas and dry).

I like them very very ripe, the riper the better.

For Protein drinks, I suggest a budget of around Ps 2,500- 3,000 and get yourself one of the flavored Whey Protein ISOLATE. Read the label carefully, most of the whey proteins being sold is the Whey Protein CONCENTRATE which is a LOWER grade of whey protein. ISOLATE is the best because it has a higher protein content than all the other kinds of whey protein.

That is why isolate is more expensive and the concentrate and other whey protein whatnots are sold cheaper in price compared to the isolate. Thus, if you want to drink more in order to get the same level of protein, get the concentrate. Otherwise go for the top of the line of isolate.

Be sure to read the label carefully because some whey proteins are mixture of isolate and concentrate to bring the price down.