Jentleheart

I know that there are a lot of people who just love chocolates – milk, white, and the dark. Although I am not too picky when it comes to chocolates, I mostly like the dark ones. I remember my first favorite dark chocolate – the Meiji Dark Chocolate. My dad, who was almost always out of the country when I was younger, would bring us an assortment of chocolates from everywhere. I remember my younger brother at age 3 or 4 years old, he would climb the refrigerator just to get chocolates. Too young to even read if the chocolates had liquor on them! LOL This week, I have received some chocolatey stuff that made me heavier by 10 lbs just for the last three days! It has actually lost my appetite to eat other food since tasting all these chocolates made me full. I got three different tempting chocolate goodies that I want to share with you. Crave It! Cheesecake on a Stick We have all been accustomed to eating cakes in slices. But just last March of this year, Mercato in...

Choosing the kind of restaurant I would dine at would be of three criteria: type of food, location, and price. I like Japanese food, Chinese food, a bit of Italian and Mediterranean. Actually, I am not very particular about the kind of food for as long as the price is affordable and it would not require me to travel more than one hour just to be able to eat. Luckily, I live in an area where there are a lot of restaurants to dine at plus, the convenience of having some of them delivered instead is a great relief. I grew up loving Japanese food. This is probably because my dad was a great influence since he studied his M.A., Ph.D. and post-doctoral degrees in Japan and maybe subconsciously it made me a bit closer to my birthplace. I was born in Kagoshima City, Japan. The year? Oh, we don’t need to mention that here! LOL My dad would prepare Japanese food sometimes when I was a kid with the whole Japanese set-up. My siblings and I just grew fond of eating tempura (I...