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At Last! CHARLIE’S GRIND and GRILL! And my first ever food blog :)
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So here it is! My very first food blog!
As i sit here writing and fulfilling one of my long overdue projects, biting into my leftover Philly Cheese Steak, (we ordered more than we can chew really but more on that later) I present to you…CHARLIE’S GRIND and GRILL!
I first came across this place from Anton Diaz’s site www.ourawesomeplanet.com and by the way he reviewed the food, I knew we had to try it.
Located on West Capitol Drive, Brgy. Kapitolyo, Charlie’s Grind and Grill is a quaint Burger and Cheese Steak joint, but let me tell you, there is nothing quaint or small about their food.
You choose from available items on their blackboard menu and order it all from their outside counter. We chose to have of course, the STARVING serving of the Philly Cheese Steak, Chili and Cheese Dog, and a an order of fries.
While eagerly awaiting for our orders to arrive, I set up our table with the available condiments.
We sat inside, fully air conditioned, well lit, and clean. Friendly wait staff were at the ready and on call.
Chili and Cheese Dog, Single Portion, P140
First to arrive was our Chili and Cheese Dog served with roughly diced onions on the side. As you can see, I couldn’t wait to dive in! If it wasn’t for Toni who reminded me to take a picture of it first, I would’ve gone through the hot dog in a few minutes. And she did not hesitate as well in taking a picture of me taking a bite out of it!
The hot dog is juicy from end to end, chili and cheese is great, and I like that they served the raw onions on the side because I like to take my raw onions in just small doses.
Cheese Steak, Starving Portion, P390
Next up was the Starving serving of the Cheese Steak! The Cheese Steak is served with salsa and Jalapeños on the side! I love Jalapeños! The menu boasted of Triple A Batangas Beef so we were expecting the best. They did not disappoint and we were surprised as well at the size of the serving!
I could imagine that the Starving portion can feed at least 3 or at most 4 people! Topped with bell peppers, caramelized onions, and cheese sauce the sandwich is as good as I pictured it. And they did not skimp on the beef. That is a deep sandwich. Wonderful wonderful!
I only wish that they would finely chop the Jalapeños so you can evenly spread it across your sandwich and have Jalapeño bits with each bite. Maybe I can request that for next time.
Hand Cut Fries, P60
Of course, what’s a Burger joint without the fries. Crispy on the outside and mushy on the inside, served with ketchup. A nice side dish to round out the meal!
Good thing we arrived a bit early, around 7pm, because by the time we finished at about 8pm, people were streaming in and almost all the tables were taken already.
Overall, it was a very good meal, and the best Philly Cheese Steak I’ve had so far. We’ve tried Elbert’s Cheese Steaks at Rockwell. Charlie’s Grind and Grill has a fuller and bigger serving at almost the same prices as Elbert’s. Charlie’s would be #1 in my book and Elbert’s a close #2.
So, as I finish up writing this food blog entry, about to take my last perfect bite of my leftover Philly Cheese Steak with that last bit of Jalapeño, (which is still good by the way with all the juices already absorbed by the bread, drool, I want more) I would like to say cheers to Anton Diaz for giving me the inspiration to pursue this small project of mine and introducing me to the best Philly Cheese Steak in town!
Thank you to my constant foodie companion, Toni. We will definitely go back to try the Angus Beef Burger!
Until the next food trip!
Here’s to good food, fine wine, and great company!
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From North to South…Travel Photos.
Photographs taken from some of my travels around beautiful Philippines.
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DJ Aryan’s latest MIXTAPE now available for FREE DOWNLOAD!
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Get it now! GIVING JUSTICE (The Forgotten Tracks) PART 3. Follow this link:
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21 FRESH TRACKS that DJ ARYAN likes but are not in his Club Sets. This is the 3RD PART and still more justice to be given to future tracks.
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Here’s the track list:
1) Best I Ever Had (remix) – Drake feat. Teairra Mari
2) Turnin’ Me On (remix) – Keri Hilson feat. Twista, T-Pain & Lil Wayne
3) Run This Town – Jay-Z, Kanye West & Rihanna
4) Double Safety Lately – Sean Paul
5) Im Goin In – Drake feat. Lil Wayne & Young Jeezy
6) Look At It Don’t Grab It – Young Blaze feat. Beyonce
7) Obsessed (remix) – Mariah Carey feat Gucci Mane
8) Be With You – Akon feat. Will Pan
9) I Wanna Touch You – Colby O’Donnis
10) Everybody Knows – John Legend
11) Everybody’s Changing (Keane cover) – Taio Cruz
12) Can We Be – Drake feat. Marleik
13) What Your Man Don’t Know – Ron Brownz
14) Ready To Go – Scratch feat. Kanye West & Consequence
15) Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) – Lady Gaga
16) Poppin’ – Jojo
17) Hey Yo – Brooke Hogan feat Colby O’Donnis
18) Whatever Happens – Nicole Scherzinger
19) Leave The Club – Ray Luv
20) Light My Fire – Mr.Capone-E feat Snoop Dogg
21) Stay Out My Phone – Pitbull feat Triple J
Pass it forward! Enjoy!
CORY! By WORD OF THE LOURD.
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CORY! By WORD OF THE LOURD.
Another piece by Lourd de Veyra.
I was actually thinking about doing 10 minute episodes for my online shows, but after seeing the TV5 channel on YOUTUBE and their less than 5 minute episodes, I believe that their format will be better for the really really short attention span of online viewers.
Quick, to the point, concise, and sweet!
And taking an expression from good friend Mish, I would like to say “WYLD!”.
CORY! By WORD OF THE LOURD.
CORY! By WORD OF THE LOURD.
Another piece by Lourd de Veyra.
I was actually thinking about doing 10 minute shows, but after seeing the TV5 channel and their less than 5 minute shows, I believe that this will be better for the really really short attention span of online viewers.
To the point, concise, and sweet!
And taking an expression from good friend Mish, I would like to say “WYLD!”.
WANG WANG ng INA MO! By WORD OF THE LOURD.
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WANG WANG ng INA MO! By WORD OF THE LOURD.
This KICKS ASS! Getting your opinion across in less than 5 minutes! The beauty of online shows! Watch whenever and whatever you want!
TV5theeveningnews on YOUTUBE. I think almost all WOTL episodes are uploaded on the channel.
The tv5theeveningnews channel on YOUTUBE is very very interesting and I love the format of the shows. I hope I get to see more from these guys, I definitely clicked SUBSCRIBE!
If you want to take a peek at my subscriptions, go to http://www.youtube.com/user/passionpridefamily.
WANG WANG ng INA MO! By WORD OF THE LOURD.
WANG WANG ng INA MO! By WORD OF THE LOURD.
Getting your opinion across in less than 5 minutes! This KICKS ASS!
Search for tv5theeveningnews on YOUTUBE. I think almost all WOTL episodes are uploaded on the channel.
The beauty of online shows! Watch whenever and whatever you want!
The tv5theeveningnews channel on YOUTUBE is very very interesting and I love the format of the shows. I hope I get to see more from these guys, I definitely clicked SUBSCRIBE!
If you want to take a peek at my subscriptions, go to http://www.youtube.com/user/passionpridefamily.
Teddy Locsin’s Eulogy for President Cory Aquino
Teddy Locsin’s Eulogy for President Cory Aquino
Taken from http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com
Throughout thirteen years of martial law, until I laid eyes on her again, I never thought that I would ever see the end of it. Least of all that my father would survive it. I am not much given to prayer or pious reflection but when I could set aside my anger, I prayed my father would see democracy again.
Late one afternoon, in San Francisco, I got a call. It was from Cory Aquino, for whom I had written one speech after her husband’s assassination. She said she had accepted Marcos’s challenge in a Snap Presidential Election. I put down the phone, and packed my bags, and reported to her at the Cojuangco Building.
I knew then she was the answer to my prayers. What I did not notice was that the closer we came to victory, which is to say the farther the prospect receded that the Marcos regime would survive, the less I felt the anger inside me. As each day passed, bringing me closer to the day I could get even, the less I felt the need for it as I spent more time with the woman who alone could make it possible.
I did not notice, but I was no longer looking back in anger, or looking forward even, to victory and vindication. Only now do I see. I had lived with my anger so long, only for the day to come when it no longer mattered to me. The only thing that counted was that I was living every day to the fullest, bringing out the best in me—for someone else. A dream I hadn’t had since I was a boy, feeding on stories of chivalry, had been achieved. I was serving a woman who was every inch a sovereign, all the more for scorning the slightest pretension to the role.
I did not realize it, even when I was already in the Palace, by the side of the President—among all her advisers, I like to think, the one who loved her most.
It never again occurred to me that I had scores to settle. And not until today, that I had passed up every chance to get even.
From the moment I came in from the airport and reported for duty, and she gave me in return the same smile she gave me on her deathbed, I never noticed… Not when I was with her in the campaign when she corrected me for not looking at the people I was waving at… Nor when I was with her in the presidential limousine looking intently, for her benefit, at the crowds at whom I waved… I never noticed anything. Except that I was with the only person that I would ever want to be with.
I certainly never noticed that I had left my anger behind. I don’t know how it happened. Except that Cory Aquino ennobled everyone who came near her. I have tried to say it publicly but never could finish. If you saw me as I felt myself to be, anyone would fall in love with me. I saw myself in that hospital room, a knight at the bedside of his dying sovereign, on the eve of a new Crusade, oblivious to the weight of the armor on his shoulders for the weight of the grief in his heart.
And because she always doubted my ability to be good for very long… Indeed, when my wife told Ballsy that I prayed the rosary at Lourdes for her mother’s recovery, Cory said, “Teddy Boy prayed the rosary? A miracle! I feel better already.” Because she doubted my capacity for self-reformation, she made it effortless for me by being herself. I did not notice that I was doing right by serving a woman who never did wrong. I am not sure how to take this moral self-discovery. It is so unlike myself. But if it will bring me before her again, I am happy.
Teddy Locsin’s Eulogy for President Cory Aquino
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Teddy Locsin’s Eulogy for President Cory Aquino
Taken from http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com
Throughout thirteen years of martial law, until I laid eyes on her again, I never thought that I would ever see the end of it. Least of all that my father would survive it. I am not much given to prayer or pious reflection but when I could set aside my anger, I prayed my father would see democracy again.
Late one afternoon, in San Francisco, I got a call. It was from Cory Aquino, for whom I had written one speech after her husband’s assassination. She said she had accepted Marcos’s challenge in a Snap Presidential Election. I put down the phone, and packed my bags, and reported to her at the Cojuangco Building.
I knew then she was the answer to my prayers. What I did not notice was that the closer we came to victory, which is to say the farther the prospect receded that the Marcos regime would survive, the less I felt the anger inside me. As each day passed, bringing me closer to the day I could get even, the less I felt the need for it as I spent more time with the woman who alone could make it possible.
I did not notice, but I was no longer looking back in anger, or looking forward even, to victory and vindication. Only now do I see. I had lived with my anger so long, only for the day to come when it no longer mattered to me. The only thing that counted was that I was living every day to the fullest, bringing out the best in me—for someone else. A dream I hadn’t had since I was a boy, feeding on stories of chivalry, had been achieved. I was serving a woman who was every inch a sovereign, all the more for scorning the slightest pretension to the role.
I did not realize it, even when I was already in the Palace, by the side of the President—among all her advisers, I like to think, the one who loved her most.
It never again occurred to me that I had scores to settle. And not until today, that I had passed up every chance to get even.
From the moment I came in from the airport and reported for duty, and she gave me in return the same smile she gave me on her deathbed, I never noticed… Not when I was with her in the campaign when she corrected me for not looking at the people I was waving at… Nor when I was with her in the presidential limousine looking intently, for her benefit, at the crowds at whom I waved… I never noticed anything. Except that I was with the only person that I would ever want to be with.
I certainly never noticed that I had left my anger behind. I don’t know how it happened. Except that Cory Aquino ennobled everyone who came near her. I have tried to say it publicly but never could finish. If you saw me as I felt myself to be, anyone would fall in love with me. I saw myself in that hospital room, a knight at the bedside of his dying sovereign, on the eve of a new Crusade, oblivious to the weight of the armor on his shoulders for the weight of the grief in his heart.
And because she always doubted my ability to be good for very long… Indeed, when my wife told Ballsy that I prayed the rosary at Lourdes for her mother’s recovery, Cory said, “Teddy Boy prayed the rosary? A miracle! I feel better already.” Because she doubted my capacity for self-reformation, she made it effortless for me by being herself. I did not notice that I was doing right by serving a woman who never did wrong. I am not sure how to take this moral self-discovery. It is so unlike myself. But if it will bring me before her again, I am happy.
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