Flamm’s (Bad Homburg, Germany)

It has been a month since I first arrived in Germany and have honestly been eating far, far too much! Tonight, I went to a small local restaurant called Flamm’s, which is a cozy, bubbling restaurant with a lot of character. The walls are dark yellow and covered in old advertising signs- a real authentic flavor. 

More importantly, the food is delicious! Flammkuchen is a very thin crust type of pizza and comes with all different types of toppings on it. The particular flammkuchen I ordered had a cheese, onion, pepperoni and tomato topping. It was absolutely scrumptious. To drink I had federweisser which is a fermented grape juice. It may sound disgusting, but it tastes like grape soda or sparkling sweet wine and is very refreshing. 

Then for dessert I had another flammkuchen, but this time with a raspberry and white chocolate topping! Mhhmmm :) 

Overall, both the food and the ambiance was perfect after a long day at work. I will definitely come back here to try out the different types of flammkuchen. 

29 September 2 Permalink

Shi Lin, BGC

So I wanted to look at the pictures from my Shi Lin article, only to find out that I had never published it! Which I find bizarre because I just know that I wrote it ages ago. I don’t know. Maybe the interwebs swallowed it up. *sigh*

I swear I had written and published it! Or maybe it already is published and I just couldn’t find it, which would be embarrassing…but probably not. *sigh* Ok I’ll move on. So one of the places I went to when I was in Manila this summer was Shi Lin, which is a Taiwanese cuisine restaurant. I had heard about Shi Lin from the people at the agency I was interning at. I had my chance to eat at Shi Lin after a work thing one of my supervisors and I did and we had lunch.

Since it’s been ages since I actually took these pictures, I can’t remember exactly the names of what we ordered. Top left is the porkchop, which was delicious. And then you have the xiao long bao, steamed dim sum, which is like Shi Lin’s specialty or best-seller or something, and for good reason because it’s really good. This is how you eat it like a pro:

1. You put the xiao long bao in your soup spoon (like in the lower left picture) and if you like, you can include the soy sauce that comes with it. I suggest you should because it’s really good. In fact, that soy sauce was one of the highlights of my meal.
2. Poke a hole in the xiao long bao with your chopstick and then suck out the soup from within the xiao long bao.
3. Eat the xiao long bao!

Lastly, we have the vegetables, which for the life of me I can’t remember! I think it was spinach? I don’t know, I don’t know my vegetables. I’m sufficiently embarrassed now…But anyways, I really liked the spinach as well. I usually have only a bit of the vegetable dishes at the beginning of the meal and ignore them, but I remember finishing that spinach.

Anyhoo, it was a great meal. Our total bill was around P500, which at the time I thought was affordable but right now having absolutely no money in my pocket, I realise it’s actually a bit pricey for having only ordered three dishes and a bowl of rice for each. However, you can just go for the xiao long bao because it really is that good. Plus it’s fun poking at it and stuff. :D

Shi Lin can be found in the Commercenter Building, 4th Ave. corner 31st St., Bonifacio Global City.

Later tater!
Patricia 

15 July Permalink

Quick Tip: Coffee with Truffles

My aunt gave us a box of really fancy-looking chocolate truffles, and because they were really fancy-looking we didn’t eat them right away *insert goofy chuckle*. But then we came over to her house and she gave us a really great tip. And it’s: make coffee and melt in some truffle.

So that’s basically just mixing in chocolate with coffee but these truffles are really good so it makes the coffee fantastic. I usually use sweet and/or creamy coffee because these particular truffles are dark chocolate, but it goes really well with stronger coffee, too. Half a truffle is enough for one cup of coffee. If it’s a small cup, use half of half a truffle. Some people might say “use a quarter of a truffle” but I think my way is better. But anyways, it’s personal taste so if you wanna use more or less truffle, go right ahead.

So far we’ve never eaten the truffles by themselves.

Later tater!
Patricia

P.S. The truffles are Chocmod Truffettes. Here’s a picture of ‘em so you have something to look at in this article *insert goofy chuckle once more*.

9 July 2 Permalink