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Egg Cups!

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My unit still smells of longganisa after cooking some for breakfast and now I'm left with a few pieces I would like to "dispatch" as soon as I can. I still don't have dinner and I had a sudden brainstorm, how about egg cups? This is probably the easiest dinner I've ever cooked! Ingredients : 3 Pcs of Longganisa; (preferably one as long as an average finger, not the short stout ones) 3 Pcs of Eggs 1 Small bag of mixed Veggies (corn, carrot, peas) Salt / Pepper / Thyme / Basil Instructions: Preheat oven. Beat egg with a bit of salt and pepper. You can choose to not put any depending on the longganisa you already have but I've put some in together with some dried thyme and basil for added flavor. Squeeze the meat out of it's casing and mix it with the beaten egg. Add the entire bag of mixed vegetables. Prepare a muffin tin / cupcake tin by either: spreading butter or oil on it. You may skip this step although I rarely do when it comes to baking. Pou...

T&J Travels #4: Hongkong-Macau 2016 (Part 4)

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+ Te + The restaurant I wanted was packed so we got here instead. Their pasta is plenty and freshly cooked if I weren't extremely sleepy and tired from all the walking I would have finished my plate. The next morning we had another moment of getting lost on where to go after we've got out of the trains. We found our way in the end. It was a relief since the way there was really steep. + The Peak + We came there around 7 and since it's a Monday, the Sky Terrace was not open until 10am. There are a lot tourists as well around that time, mostly Caucasians. We roamed as much as we can, ate breakfast and ice cream and looked over the peak from whatever building that was overlooking the island. Nearing 10am we found ourselves one of the first in line by the escalators that would reach the Sky Terrace. When we reached it we were disappointed. There's nothing to see anything at all! The fog was so thick you could be looking at a white wall. We didn't stay too long. I did lo...

T&J Travels #4: Hongkong-Macau 2016 (Part 3)

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+ Macau Museum + As to why the Museum was free for the day is a surprise to us (we never bothered asking) and took the chance to roam around. We always enjoy museums and I loved the presentation of the exhibits. It did look like the best way to enjoy it is coming from the top to bottom, where the history of Macau was "narrated". I most especially loved the miniatures and the food spread! Those wax dishes looks tasty! When we got out of the museum we had snacks near the Ruins. We got egg tarts and those beef and fish balls. Quite expensive. In our second day in another country it was such a novelty to me hearing so many people who are openly speaking in our language, one was even yelling over someone the phone. For the entire time we were at Macau for some reason every Filipino is at the Senado Square! We then set out to find this egg tart shop which was hard to find (our GPS is stupidly pointing us nowhere) and found it in area we thought weren't there. + Margaret's C...

T&J Travels #4: Hongkong-Macau 2016 (Part 3)

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+ Mcdonalds + We're trying to make it a thing, visit all the Mcdonalds we can while we travel overseas. So far not yet impressed. I did like the grape jam the breakfast came with. This is also the first time I noticed how there are a lot of old people are working. I've observed this more when we got out of Mcdo, I can't believe I didn't notice it before. + Macau + We walked towards the port for the ferry. We got TurboJet (166 HKD each) economy tickets. It was a pleasant ride even though the waves are a bit high. It was a bit funny when every once in a while you'd hear men on the other side of the boat with their boisterous laughter like as if we were on a theme park ride. We reached Macau an hour later with plans where to go but not much idea on how to. We were successful in finding the shuttle to the Grand Lisboa (free) but had a moment of becoming disoriented on which direction FROM there we should go. We aimlessly wandered around the area of the bus stops until w...

T&J Travels #4: Hongkong-Macau 2016 (Part 2)

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We took the cable car back and walked towards the CityGate Mall.  We roamed there a bit, found the "wife cookie" that have disappointed me as well and set ourselves to the MTR for our hotel check in.  + Comfort Guest House E + Before you guys raise your eyebrows, here's what happened. I was supposed to book a different hotel, I was actually eyeing one at Jordan but Reagan forwarded me an Agoda link for Comfort Guest House E. I REALLY THOUGHT he wanted us to book that one so I did until he told me that it was just a suggestion; WHICH I only learnt when we're on the room already. He was saying how the compound is to be avoided (according to reviews) at all cost, etc. We were actually so close to going to another hotel that I started looking for an available one nearby (even if it means losing our reservation here for 2 days) but it was just too necessary I was on panic mode. The thing is after we both took turns taking a bath we slept and didn't woke up until the mo...

T&J Travels #4: Hongkong-Macau 2016 (Part 1)

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I've been to HK before but it was a package tour and for the most part it felt like I wasn't able to experience it fully. Also since I came with the bf, it's much less stressful financially knowing that I have someone to share expenses with. He's also really good at research which I clearly am not so that is a huge plus. + Immigration + We are both pumped up for this trip until we arrived at the immigration. For some reason we both have forgotten to bring a company ID (we do have licenses but it wasn't enough for the officer), not to mention the bf hasn't left the country yet. We were both held up (since we come as a couple), was made to fill up a lengthy form and undergo separate interviews. It was even funny that he was asked for couple selfies which his phone lacks. Thank heavens for wifi! The entire duration that we were waiting for the plane I can't help but really be anxious on what would happen once we arrive at Hongkong. I remembered the girl we enc...