Ginza Bairin Trinoma: A food review and Yabu comparison

I ate yesterday at the newest japanese restaurant in Trinoma. The Ginza Bairin katsu restaurant in Trinoma will give its first 100 customers a P500 gift card and it can be used on the next visit. The waiter greeted me and told me that they will give me a gift card because I was included on their first 100 tables served. Since I posted before a Yabu review in this website, I wanted to try this katsu restaurant.

The kurobuta katsu rosu set here costs 595 pesos while in Yabu as I remember it was 590 pesos for 120 grams. Hmmm... I'll wait and see if it can surpass Yabu's kurobuta set. It was Saturday and many folks dined there. As I observed the surroundings, it was good and exuded the Japanese culture appeal but Yabu's ambiance was better and larger.

But wait.. I like this area, it's like you are in a simple japanese ramen house. Because of this, I decided to stay there.

These are sauces, spices and condiments on the table. While in Yabu, the waiter will explain the ways of using these for the katsu, here in Ginza Bairin, they have a guide for these.

Himalayan salt

Katsu sauce

The menu includes the history of this restaurant, clicking these pictures will help you read further.

At last, my ordered Kurobuta Rosu Katsu set comes here:

The set includes unlimited rice, fruits, japanese pickles, cabbage and miso soup. You can also read my Yabu review so you can compare the meals. I just noticed that the pickles in Yabu is more on a reddish purple color. 

Since I ate alone, I cannot emerge the tofu and the leaves in the miso soup.

Here it is.

I asked the waitress if how many grams does this tonkatsu possess. She said it is 120 grams. 

You can watch the actual meal here:

The kurobuta katsu here looks smaller than in Yabu or it's just that Yabu's kurobuta tonkatsu is wider. By the way, the meal's very delicious and I want more. The staff and the manager were accommodating. I saw this promo:

Since I cannot connect to Ginza Bairin's WiFi, I just tried my WiFi connection, I showed the picture to the waitress and I was glad I'll have a taste of their ice cream.

This ice cream's filled with black sesame seeds. Its taste is similar to hopia mongo.

I want to have another scoop but I just thought I'll forget about it and I don't want to spend impulsively to a scoop of ice cream.

The managers asked me if the food's good and I said yes because it really tasted good and the service was good and they have the feedback form just like in Shakey's.

It happened that in terms of ambiance, condiments, service and side dishes, Yabu's better. In terms of the kurobuta, they were the same. Regarding promos, I like Ginza Bairin more. 

If you are in Trinoma, you don't need to go in SM North just to eat Tonkatsu. Ginza Bairin and yabu have the same quality food. On other aspects, it's up to you if which of the two will you choose.

Rating for Ginza Bairin: 

Ginza Bairin has three branches.
Trinoma
Level 1, Garden Restaurants
EDSA cor., North Ave., Q.C.

UP Town Center
Ground Floor, Katipunan Ave., Q.C.
+63.917.871.0041

Glorietta 2
Ground Floor (along Palm Drive)
Ayala Center, Makati City
+632.553.7350

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Everyone loves McDo's Grimace

My stand on this meme is.. Grimace is scaring the kids....NOT.

Before we start to discuss about Grimace, I would like to share to you how grateful I am to my parents especially to my mom this Mother's Day. We had our pre-mother's day celebration yesterday at Hanamaruken, Trinoma.

Better if we're complete. I'm at the edge facing my mom. My hair is naturally wavy. I'll have a rebond or brazilian blowout soon

I watched my 1st birthday video earlier today and I just saw again how young everyone was in the video including my beautiful mom. 

I thank mom for all the good things she had done to me. She didn't only gave me a life but a really WONDERFUL Life, She's hard-working and I admire her.

Yeah, so back to the Grimace story. I'll gonna share the story on how every kid loves Grimace. Everyone's debating what sort of thing Grimace is. Just click this for more info since I myself think he looks like an ube (Philippine delicacy).

This McDonald's Manuela branch was located near SM Megamall. At present, I have no news if this McDo branch still exists.

These screencaps were from a VCD copy of my 1st birthday celebration which was recorded back then by a video camera and transferred to a betamax tape. Well, I feel old already. 

Welcome Grimace!

While having a picture taking

Okay, I have no idea why I cried back then every time I see Grimace while kids are enjoying playing with him. I was the only one who's scared at that time. (Okay, the meme above is really true in my case ^^ )

Grimace can sway while holding these kids. Aww. I want to get in a time machine and receive hugs from this Grimace mascot.

Please tell me if this cage-like place still exists in playgrounds.

Whoa! Grimace did not need to exert effort going out of the cage.

Grimace waves goodbye to the children

Oh what a nostalgic experience, watching a puppet show during children's party and playing games especially the still popular "bring me". Well, I love Grimace now. Unlike Ronald McDonald who undergoes several changes from being a scary clown, funny clown and now, into a cute mascot, Grimace is really unchangeable and lovable where this clumsy and friendly monster doesn't need to alter his style and image to fit the market.

Do you think Grimace is a wonderful fast food mascot? Is he underrated or overrated? What are your thoughts? Share these on the comments section below.

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I want Made in Candy at SM Megamall

Thank goodness! No one is still playing "I want candy" by Aaron Carter.

I am not a fan of candies except for Potchi and gummy bears. When we passed the "Made in Candy" store in SM Megamall, my friend Mallix mentioned that candies there are really good.

I hesitated at first because these are rock candies but hey, I just wanna see how candy artisans make candies.

Sadly, pictures of them making candies were gone. Well, thanks to Mallix of Nendo Shelf that he provided pictures captured by his DSLR and for introducing Made in Candy to us. 

Everyone can choose bottled or packed candies. I bought a P100 small pack containing assorted candies.

I like the taste of brown candies

My Made in Candy review begins here:
What I really like with the packaging is everyone can decide if they can eat the candies later by zipping the packaging again with the help of the built in zip lock.

Upon chewing the candy, the design and flavor are still there inside. 

One assumes that assorted candies in a single pack taste the same but nope, candies here taste different.
All the candies tasted good. If ever I'll pick one, my favorite candy is the cola (brown candies). 

I browsed their FB page and I found out that Made In Candy started the fun in Singapore and this rock candy kitchen has spread its sweetness in other countries.

Eating Made in Candy candies will be more fun if shared to your loved ones :)

Rating: 

Made in Candy official site
Made in Candy PH
Made in Candy SG

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