A Two-day Pre-Valentine’s Day Celebration: Cafe Laguna and More

With the insane amount of work that I still have yet to do, I felt the need to blog just to keep myself together.

So where have I left off? Oh yeah!

I just oughta randomly show you this beautiful chocolate door of the room where we spent our night together at Mallberry Suite Business Hotel as I mentioned here.

And here’s a little room sneak peek as well. Oh hello. That’s us right there having an obligatory mirror shot. I guess this was taken before we before left for SM. 

Side note: Our main business in SM was to avail of their “Advantage Card” and that’s about it. We really didn’t stay there too long because we needed to be back to the hotel before 9 P.M. so we could have dinner at Cafe Laguna. Gladly, we made it back to the hotel before Cafe Laguna’s closing time with some time to spare.

Okay, here’s what we had for dinner…

Fresh and crunchy green mango slices with the perfect “bagoong” (shrimp paste) for dipping as our appetizer. Behind is the BEST fresh green mango shake that I’ve had for ages! No kidding. The last time I had green mango shake that good was in Davao back when I was still in my teens. Gosh, I feel so old already.

Here is a platter of crispy and crunchy “chicharong bulaklak”. How come I don’t remember it to be this deliciously good when I first had this years ago?? I reckon I must had a dysfunctional sense of taste back then.

I love how this “hipon na sinigang” (shrimp tamarind soup) just had the right amount of tanginess and seasoning albeit I wished it had more shrimps and vegetables.

Woah, I can’t believe that was all we had for dinner. Wish we had more.

Since there was no more Night Cafe, we took advantage of this coffee shop inside the hotel (thank goodness it was still open around 2 A.M.) and ordered smoothies and some pasta to be delivered to our room.  

Sorry I completely forgot the name of the pasta… But anyway, I think the cook must have accidentally slipped chili oil instead of olive oil. It was ridiculously spicy even for someone like me who has high tolerance to heat. It really made me wonder how it would’ve rated on the Scoville scale…

After having our midnight snack and a few jump shots later, we fell to sleep.

We decided to skip breakfast the following day because we woke up around 10 A.M. and we still have yet to bathe and pack our stuff. And so after everything, we had lunch at Kagay-anon Restaurant and went malling.

And as usual, we ended our day with our fave coffee blends at Bo’s coffee (I find Starbucks is a little too overrated but I do go there every once in a while because I’m a hypocrite like that).