Cafe Amazon

The first time I saw a Cafe Amazon was not in Thailand but in the Philippines. There is a Cafe Amazon at the PTT service stop along SCTEX. I didn't know it was a Thai brand though I knew PTT to be Thai. Fast forward to our recent trip to Thailand and the cafe, I found out, was all over the place (that's in a good way, of course). There seems to be one at every corner and at least at every PTT along the expressways.

The shop's menu include various drinks. There's something there for everyone or anyone's fancy.

Coffee, tea or choco to take home, prepare and enjoy. We picked up a few boxes for souvenirs including pasalubong for friends.

My iced chocolate drink for our long road trip to Kanchanaburi

They also have sandwiches, cakes and pastries, juice, water and other stuff to go with your drinks.

We thought that this is a company that's competitive particularly to the likes of Starbucks.

Their coffee and chocolate are good. The banana bread was also okay. We only had some drinks to go when I took these photos as we were on our way to Kanchanaburi from Bangkok. We eventually went back to a Cafe Amazon near our hotel to get our morning drinks there.

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Siam Thai Express - Thai food at UP Diliman

Maybe because of the recent travel to Thailand, I had some cravings for Thai food. Fortunately, there's Siam Thai Express as the Gyud Food Hub at the university so I was able to enjoy Thai food for lunch on workday last week.

Chicken Krapao and Thai Milk Tea

We've been eating a little bit more frequently at the food hub at UP Diliman. It's a good thing that the selection is good though we have our 'go to' or suki there including the chicken inasal and Japanese options for food. For drinks, there's that coconut kiosk, a shake booth and stores selling milk tea.

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Chocolate review: another taste of Valrhona Dulcey

I've said before that I don't usually feature white or milk chocolate here. I regularly make exceptions though and this is another one of those. Dulcey is delightful though on the sweet side as chocolates go.

Dulcey is a white chocolate

Ingredients including information that the chocolate contains a minimum of 35% cocoa butter

Nutrition information

Storage information

This is something new with the Valrhona packaging - information, description of the chocolate. Dulcey is described as "very subtly salty, mellow biscuit flavor"

Would I get this chocolate outside of the pack or box it came with? I think so and probably will but not in the same quantities as the other Valrhona chocolates we prefer like Manjari and Caruibe. Any chocolate lover will definitely like Dulcey and enjoy this chocolate.

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