Tous Les Jours: A Bakery Built on Thoughtfulness

Posted on January 27, 2012 by kaoko

Mention birthday and one of the first things you think of is to buy a cake. A much appreciated gesture, this tradition goes back to ancient times, serving to commemorate and share good wishes for the birthday celebrator. When Pad celebrated his birthday over the weekend, he received a pretty cake from Tous les Jours. I’m not familiar with the brand, but it impressed me. Not only was the cake very pretty, the box was beautifully crafted and stylish.

21:365 Happy Birthday, John!

Happy Birthday, Pad!

A quick google search easily explained why. Despite the French name, Tous les Jours is a Korean bakery cafe chain. The brand fuses French devotion to quality pastries with Korean attention to detail and style, to create cakes and pastries that are too pretty to eat.
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Sabatino Tartufi Truffle Salt: My salt is more sophisticated than yours

Posted on January 25, 2012 by kaoko

My addiction to deal shopping sites is no secret. And I’m sure a lot of you can relate. One of my purchases last year was for a bottle of truffle salt from Sabatino Tartufi. It’s not the kind of thing I’d buy off the shelf if I were shopping, say at Santis, mostly because of the price. But staring at it and coming back to stare some more on its deal page had me clicking buy before I knew what I was doing.

Sabatino Tartufi Truffle Salt

Is your nose ready?

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Hafa adai Guam, Hava-meal Kao! Part 2 of 2

Posted on January 24, 2012 by kaoko

The thing about Guam is that it’s a US territory but it’s filled with Asians, Pacific-Islanders and of course, Pinoys. So the food is both familiar yet foreign. Case in point, our visit to one of the mall food courts.

Food Court Meal

Chinese-style fish and pork plus fried rice. This came with spring rolls aka lumpiang togue.

During our vacation in Guam, one of the things Pad insisted upon was a meal at one of the mall food courts. Memories of cheap, (the food gets discounted near closing time) filling meals after an afternoon of paddling needed to be satisfied. These cheap eateries are reminiscent of our local turo-turos. You get a selection of viands and rice at set prices. Seeing how large the servings were, we opted to split their a combo that offered three viands and two cups of rice. American servings, definitely. The food however, was cross-cultural, with a mix of Chinese, Filipino, Korean and other dishes. Turo-turo, Guam-style.
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