I went grocery shopping today at our local mall here. I was shocked to see how much imported stuff they have now. I like it because I got so many choices now. They must have like three ailes now just for the imported stuff. I bought like half imported items on our groceries. It’s kind of spendy though. I bought like a bag of chex mix it cost over 200 pesos, Macaroni and cheese 89pesos, ravioli 99pesos. I was also shocked to see that the prices are still too high yet the value of the dollar is getting lower. Even the prices of the local foods here were mark too high. Sometimes I would wonder how can a low income family afford to buy groceries. I know some of my siblings are struggling to buy stuff for their kids. I felt sorry for them. I told them they might have to work three times as much now for them to afford the needs of the family.

It’s just so nice to shop now with lots of variety of foods to choose from. For those people who likes to drink wine they also had a lot to choose from. I am really impress of our store now here. It’s not like in the States or Europe standards but at least we have some stuff here to choose from. I’m happy of what we have now. We can live with it.

Have fun shopping!

Last night Bob and I decided to eat out for dinner. We went and tried to eat at the new restaurant called TONG YANG which is located at the Chimes mall in Gov. Sales St. I didn’t know at first what they have. When we went inside the waiter told us what we have to do. When we first set down we notice that there was a burner built into the table, the waiter turn it on. Then he gave us the menu, in the menu their must be like 80 items or so in it to chose from. All the food in that menu that we will choose it’s all raw, After we choose what we like to have the waiter then brought the raw food in our table and he showed us what to do, then Bob did the honor to starts the cooking. I was so amazed how good the food was. I like it. We got some spare ribs, pork neck, clams, shrimp, corn and others. It was really fun to cook while eating.

While eating I was shocked to see in the window our friends Maej and Mandy. It was their first time to eat there too. We end up eating together in the same table and takes turn to cook while others are eating. Maej and Mandy likes fish ball andd oyster too. They also have 4 burners to make soup like sinigang. They also have lots of different kind of sauces to choose from. We like teriyaki, so that’s what we put on our spare ribs. I would highly recomend to all of you out there who like to eat out and likes to try new stuff. It’s really good food there and cheap. All you can eat for just P399.00, not bad. I know that we will go back there to eat again.