Since Louie will not be able to spend Valentine's with me (its been that for the last 5 years of Valentine's day), I make it a point that this is the week where I spend nightly dates with the closest friends I have.
After a very stressful day with a project (and everything in between), I managed to sneak in a date night with my office girlfriends yesterday. Camille was attached (Jovert, a quiet advertising executive) and Lissa was not, Lissa was my partner and so are Cams and Jovert.
We tried out Mad Mark's, a new quaint resto in Kapitolyo (walking distance from our office). Mad Mark's reminds me of Charlie's Diner, a famous burger joint at the same place. Actually, its feet away from Mad Mark's.
Anyway, since its typically a new joint, they have limited offering in terms of burgers, compared to Charlie's. But quite similarly, they serve huge servings of sandwiches, burgers and fries at almost the same price points.
We tried two of the meat based sandwiches, "The Man" sandwich and the Lumberjack. I secretly thought that "The Man" was meant for me. :) The couple ordered a basket of Cajun fries for us to share.
Both sandwiches are made of Angus Beef, caramelized onions, bell peppers, mushrooms and mozarella cheese. The Man, however, has grilled chicken on it aside from one hefty bunch of these items. I found The Man's grilled chicken a bit salty, though.
Good thing we asked the servers to cut the sandwiches into four, so we can actually taste all of them. However, being quite full from what we ate from the office, we were not able to finish our servings. I dropped the bread down and ate the fillings instead. Lissa managed to take her left over home.
We initially plan to taste Mad Mark's homemade ice cream, but since we had Ice Cream in cones before we left the office, we dropped the idea and settled down for milk teas to conclude the night.
I was with the same group when we tasted out Happy Lemon Megamall's milk teas during its soft opening earlier this year. Moonleaf has a branch in Kapitolyo food strip so we tried it out.
Lissa, who I thought has the ability to foresee the taste of the milk tea based from the menu (she ordered Matcha at Happy Lemon and we all liked it) asked for Wintermelon Milk Tea (she asked for "watermelon" initially). I ordered Caramel Milk Tea, Cams had Fruity Milk Tea with Nata bits and Jovert had Pearl Milk Tea with red pearls.
And for the second time around, Lissa's drink was the best of the bunch, and based on the facial expression Jovert has, I bet he didn't like his.
Moonleaf Teas for me are for those who are really milk tea drinkers, as you can taste the Teas on their drinks, in comparison to Happy Lemon which I think caters to the younger segment of the tea drinkers or those who only want to try the milk tea craze. (I sounded like a true blue market researcher here). Happy Lemon's are a bit sweeter and the tea taste was covered with more flavors.
At least I have tried new things this year and was able to spend Valentines with somebody else.
Tonight is the second night of the Valentine's weeknights date. I'm looking forward spending it with one of the best guys I have met. :)
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