Dinner, shrimps

Shrimp and ravioli with pine nut sauce

assorted bread and butter

tropical mix of papaya, orange and lemon salad with sesame crusted shrimps

Dinner, room service

Squid ink spaghetti

Salmon with palm heart salad & gnocchi

Takezuno dishes

salmon sushi

mackerel

zaru soba

tempura soba

Sokha Hotel

Takezuno

Khmer Spice Girls

Part of our dinner entertainment is listening to what I called 'Khmer Spice Girls'.

AHA again

Dinner with fwends. KC and Sarah

Brews, Loven and Fate

KC

Savorn-nich and Olive

moi.

AHA AHA

Payong lighting ek ek.

Loven

Fate and Freedom

Eel and salad

moi. I love my top by Junko Koshino.

Ginga dinner

I love Japanese food. I like the pureness of it. I hate complicated food with complicated sauces. I want to see what I'm eating is not some ugly stuff hidden in some gravy or batter. Sushi is basically rice, vegatables and fish rolled in seaweed. Sashimi is just raw fish. Dipped in soy sauce and wasabe, voila, it's your dinner!

So Ginga it is for dinner.

And you can see the fishes used in the sashimi. Nothing to hide there.

Loven got curious about the octopus so he ordered it.

Didn't try the octo sashimi though. Loven said it's like chewing on rubber. We do understand that Japanese food is more about the texture and presentation than taste. You should order Japanese food carefully if you are really hungry since most of the time it could just be a small plate of raw animal.

Loven and Fate

Since I'm really hungry I ordered this unagi bento. Delish! My gosh! The eel was so tender and I felt my cholesterol shooting up after I ate it because it's so fatty.

moi. Well, so much for the diet and exercise when I readily gain back what I lost. And I gained twice as much, oh well, ces't la vie.

Metro Cafe again

I like Metro Cafe. It is just outside my hotel so it's ver convenient for me.

When I'm tired I just want to eat somewhere familiar.

Soft shell crabs. I swear this dish is a revelation. Very delish!

Fried squid with relish

Tofu stir fry

Dinner: Mangoes with Yogurt

My fave dish at Kamasutra

Garlic naan

my fave vegetable balls in curry

fish masalah

lentil soup

moi, hay full na naman ako. Just finished swimming and i gained again what I lost. hay...

Angkor Century dinner and then some...

We go to Angkor Century for the delicious Chinese food. For ambiance, you go somewhere else.

In fairview, they had some 'cultural dance shows'. Sa Iloilo I haven't seen native dances being performed in hotels for guests. I don't know if in Manila it's being done. Maybe, some find it 'baduy' or tacky but I think it's so nice that they are proud of showing it to guests. Even in dance clubs here, it's not unusual to have a totally techno set segueing to some traditional dance music and the locals doing their local dance.

Back home I find that we Filipinos are not proud of our culture, of how we do things. Coz, really there are some things that we should be ashamed about but then not everything Pinoy is tacky or baduy, kahit na masa pa ito.

I'm just impressed that Cambodians do things differently even if a lot of people think it is tacky, the same way I think Japanese are cool or the Belgians are so refined or the Swiss are so exacting. I'm asking myself nga, 'Why is it that I think it's cool when a Japanese does something crazy but I find it idiotic when a Pinoy does the same thing.' Hmmm... Am I too Westernized? Colonial mentality kicking in?

Another thing, a lot of my friends are willing to pay lots of money for an imported designer/artist versus a local designer/artist even if they produce the same quality of work. Why?


Cambodian styling. Are you going to call this 'fashion' if Marc Jacobs/ comme des garçons/ Louis Claparols calls this fashion?

Blue Pumpkin dinner