So imagine my delight when KFC relaunched the Double Down a few weeks back. The Double Double lives again! This time, with a third ‘double’. I decided to Lutherize it by adding two Krispy Kreme doughnuts as buns. Congratulations, your DOUBLE DOUBLE has evolved into the TRIPLE DOUBLE!

Damn, son! Just look at that!  I placed it in the microwave for around two minutes to melt the cheese. When it came out, the bottom doughnut collapsed under the weight of all that meat after absorbing so much of the Triple Double’s death-juice.

Now how does one tackle this beast? It’s not exactly bite-sized. I just took a big chunk and tried to get each component in one bite. It. Was. AWESOME. Instinct took over and I just attacked it like a barbarian. Screw proper eating etiquette, I chomped down the Triple Double like there was no tomorrow!

After finishing around two-thirds of the Triple Double, I started having trouble breathing. I needed to take a full deep breaths before every bite. My lungs were struggling, my heart was racing. My body couldn’t handle the awesomeness of the Triple Double! But I didn’t let that stop me; I have bigger, bolder and unhealthier meals to eat! I managed to finish it, I was out of breath and was palpitating, but god damn I finished it. The experience of eating the Triple Double can be summed up in two words: palpitatingly cholesterrific!

The evolution of the Triple Double does not stop here. We will keep adding more awesomely unhealthy stuff, we will keep eating until we are satisfied. Or dead.  The search for the ultimate meal, at the cost of our lives. TO GLORIOUS DEATH!

PS. My breathing normalized after around an hour of lying down on my friend’s carpet.

21 Days til what?

I NEED TO KNOW!

Somebody tell me!

We interrupt your regularly scheduled SITE INACTIVITY for a..*gasp* BLOG ENTRY!

I got a call from the bestfriend a few of weeks ago. He and his girlfriend were on their way home home from their long-weekend trip at Lian, Batangas. He yelled “SEA URCHINS” for a good 30 seconds before asking me to meet them at his place for a midnight snack. He had acquired half a cooler of sea urchins that were STILL ALIVE and wanted me to document the process of gutting and eating it. How could I say no to that?

At first, all we did was agitate, harass and provoke them via massive poking just to make them move for our pleasure and entertainment. Then moved on to uhh, other forms of debauchery. Watch the video; made and edited by the best friend. It’s supposed to document how to gut sea urchins and eat the roe, but it ended up..somewhat disturbing different.

The only edible part of Sea Urchins are their gonads. I just want to emphasize this. It takes that much time and effort to gut the sea urchins so you can harvest and eat their gonads. GONADS. And god damn, it was worth it! A few pieces of Uni Sashimi would usually cost a couple of hundred pesos at Japanese restaurants. And we had so many that night! Sea Urchin is an acquired taste, most people I know shrugs in disgust whenever we order a plate of it. But this is rarelyordered after all, and we definitely recommend that you at try eating Sea Urchin gonads at least once in your life!

What I got:

I’m not saying that I’m pissed off at the false advertising here, but lets face it, wouldn’t you want to have that MVP quad stack near your heart?

I like that the thing is quite big, the meat was plentiful and burgerrific. It’s a bit too burgerrific. Not enough bacon and pickles to balance out the flavor. I consumed like 10 packets of ketchup before I could even finish it! For the price of P 265.00, the four patty one is worth a try. The three patty I would order if I’m hungry, two patty would be good for an in-between, the single patty for a snack.

Giving it a 4/5, worth trying but gonna not buy again soon.

Photo by RJ. Click here for some of his works.

You can be sure that if a food place starts with the word "WANG" there has to be something interesting about it.

One of the best places our family went to during our winter trip to Beijing is the Wang Fujing night market.

The highlight of the place was all the street food! Most notably, these exotic food items which are a little bit pricey but quite worth it for the experience. They had a wide range of food items such as scorpions, tarantulas, moths, centipedes, snake meat, chrysali, and a lot more.

Case in point:

I never knew starfish were even edible.

I would have eaten this but I used to keep one as a pet.

And this too I kept as a pet. As for the centipede, I just didn't eat it because it was plain expensive.

Now THIS is what I ate. The poor caterpillar never got out of the cocoon... and those that did still got their wings removed and served right here.

Now I know I haven’t posted in quite a while and I must admit, I am in semi-retirement mode from niche blogging. But when one gets to not only take pictures but TAKE A VIDEO of what has happened here, how could I resist posting it?

AND THUS FINALLY…

Notes:

1. I made a mistake near the beginning – those aren’t mealworms, those are the chrysalis or the PUPA stage in the life-cycle of the moth. Yes, moth – not butterfly since like you, I love the pretty butterflies too. (But there’s no fault in eating an ugly old moth!)

2. CHECK OUT THAT WHITE GUY TAKING A VIDEO OF ME. He also asked me if it was good afterwards. Must have thought I was crazy or something. I must say, he’s a fair judge of character.

3. The the good-looking dude who looks like me? That’s my older bro. The woman screaming YUCK in the background? (while she videotaped it) that’s my mom. She must be so proud of her sons. LOVE YOU MA!

Mcdo Barbeque sauce!~

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Dericious dericious Mojos

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With the power of Mcdo and Shakey’s combined!

We have a couple of guest reviewers to give their insights on this dream team match up

Robert Carag:

It is delicious McDonald’s barbeque sauce you must eat Shakey’s Mojos with it! This is a simple side order plus condiment combination of franchise favorites. The Mojos are just the right size to be dipped into the barbeque sauce containers, so it both feels and tastes like the two were meant to be eaten together.

Overall 4/5.

Mario Gamboa

I’ve always loved Shakeys’ mojos. These thick potato chips have a crispy golden brown exterior and a creamy interior. Always a good in combination with fried chicken and of course tastes great with a variety of dips.
Speaking of dips, McDonald’s has this very nice barbeque dip that goes along with every (would you actually choose the “other” dips?!) chicken nugget meal. However, this thing is just too tasty to just be limited to one food item. Often times, people would dip their fries in these red savory condiments to add a barbeque flavor to their fries. Thus, the mojo and barbeque sauce should indeed form the perfect combination.
And they really do. The nice crispy-creamy mojo is complimented by the barbeque sauce’s savoriness and slight piquance. If the two fast food establishments are in the area, you should definitely try this out.

10/10

And Lastly Yours truly:

A 5/5! A match made in heaven! If you are brave enough to pop up ten packs of BBQ sauce in Shakey’s then go right ahead! (You do know you could have just ordered out Ren to save on the embarrassment… right)

P.S. Photos by Amcel Ong For his other works click here.

me with willing victim no. 1: Joanne: who bought a box of cupcakes at Serendra.

pointing to:

The not so willing victim no. 2 RJ

To kill his diet we decided to dine at Zong at the fort. To make things worse, we made RJ chose what dishes we would eat and destroy his diet with. It will now be his job to describe each delicious dish, to add to his torture.

Hot Prawn Salad

RJ: How can something so fattening be called “salad”? But it is very good; the prawn blends well with the fruits and vegetables while the cashews(I love cashews) gives a crisp taste to it. It was so good, I hated it. I hated it so much, I decided to eat it all. All of it. Dammit, Ren!

Taiwanese Style 3 CupChicken

RJ: This dish wasn’t very memorable. Definitely not bad, just not very memorable. I was so-so, I guess? I don’t know, I already forgot what it tasted like.

Yang Chow Fried Rice

Before this, I haven’t eaten rice in 4 days. But then Ren and Joanne came in and ruined it.  I had the choice of not eating this so I can at least control the diet-killing damage. I had 4 cups. It was that good.

RJ after the ordeal

Still eating

Other victims include:

Happy victim no.3 Carlo: as we can see how he is just gripping really *hard* on that bag of Cheetos.

Here is the happiest victim no.4 David: (take note that what made him kill his diet is in the picture, and its not what he is holding.)

Its a small italian restaurant located in Thomas Morato Scout rotonda. It has a white, green, red banner hard to miss.

Hungarian Sausage Spaghetti

My phone decided to be a bitch today and let the picture of the other dish get corrupted so I can’t post it. Other than having three sausages in the plate, a fact pointed out by my cousin.  Its pretty good not sweet, kinda sour which hits the spot. The size of the serving is enough for the both of us as we were both *ahem* large.

As for the sucky pictures you gotta take them as I don’t want to carry such a huge expensive camera to take good shots. I’m no Jedi hence I can’t use the force to take good pictures with an UBERLY expensive camera.

More notably they can’t fit in my pants.

Chocolate Burger

I know what you’re thinking right, what came to our minds to actually come up with this crap. Well this is just one of my brilliant ideas.

As expected it tastes what exactly the ingredients are burger and chocolate (We were aiming to have a chocolate center which I guess caused this).

Curry Burger

This idea came from our resident half japanese breed Fiel. (Fine it was better than my idea from my chocolate burger.)

Since we mixed the sauce in with the meat you can really taste the curry with only the meat itself. By far one of the best we made in the set.

Mango Burger

Ehem. Another brilliant idea from me the idea came to me from a voice of heaven that said “Use mangoes fool.” or something like that.

Well for me it was the best of the set the sweetness just made the meat taste all the better.

P.S. We weren’t able to put a picture for the curry burger and we just copied it from the net.

P.S.S. Blame our hunger for our failure to take a picture before we ate it.

P.S.S.S. Camera phone sucks so shitty pictures.

I was walking down Pearl Drive, Ortigas near University of Asia & the Pacific today when I noticed a stand with a name that got me curious:

Sprite ZERO.

The stand offered free taste: a tried and tested PR mechanism that lets people become familiar with a product line – especially effective if it is new.

They even had a cameraman get testimonials from people who got the free taste. I agreed to give my testimonial.

After drinking a cup I asked “So what is the difference between this and Sprite Light?”

“Sir Sprite ZERO has zero sugar and zero calories.”

Funny enough, Sprite Light already did not have sugar or calories. And some of you may even wonder at this: but neither did Coke Light. Check the nutrition labels: 0 sugar, 0 calories – all of them.

So you may ask so why is it that they created the ZERO variants in the first place?

Well, because in people’s heads LIGHT meant that it had “less sugar” especially since in the earyl to mid 90′s where softdrinks just started putting less sugar, and therefore less taste in the Light variants.

But when they started using aspartame (the same stuff in the EQUAL artificial sweetener sachets) of course, they were able to remove all calories without sacrificing the sweet taste of the softdrink. Of course, the taste is very different – but for us dieting people who can complain?

But of course when you say it is ZERO, it sticks in people’s heads that there is literally ZERO sugar in the drink. So the real difference between LIGHT & ZERO?

Marketability. And I am not bashing the soda companies on this – it is a brilliant move actually! I commend them with all my heart and thus I made this post. The fact is we just don’t have a population that bothered to even learn how to read & interpret nutrition labels.

If one thing is Rarely Ordered around food these days, it is educating ourselves about the stuff we eat.

P.S. – All variants of Sprite have an added plus / minus depending on how you take this fact: it doesn’t have caffeine the way Coke has caffeine. So if you are the kind of person who palpitates from caffeine, take Sprite as your softdrink. On the other hand, if you need a “kick” say, you are working / studying take Coke.

Also are you worried about any negative effects artificial sweeteners may have? Go here.

How about caffeine? Go here.

THANKS TO HowStuffWorks.com!

Coming soon – How to read nutrition labels, and what they mean (appendix section) - I got the inspiration to do this from making this post!