Restaurant review: Mu Noodle bar Glorietta Makati City

Small place with simple design. Small menu but good food!

I visited Mu Noodle bar in Glorietta last June 2013.  I forgot to take pictures, but here is one from wanderwithmee.  The place looks calm with clean lines and mostly black furniture. Their menu only has 2 pages, but the dishes were well presented.

We ordered their Seafood Chao Mein, extra soy sauce based soup and extra egg.  The Chao Mein was delivered promptly and most pleasing of all was that their shrimp and squid were cooked to perfection!  The extra soup was a perfect complement to the noodles. Extra egg is only actually half an egg, but it went well in the soup.

The meal was not more that P300, and good for 2 not-so-hungry girls.  I would definitely come back again to try their other dishes.

One thing about the Glorietta restaurant, they have seats lined up on the wall, and many of the customers take seats there.  There are high seats and tables in the center of the restaurant, but nobody likes sitting there.  You will often find the seats on the wall full, but the higher stools empty.  Customers tend to choose another restaurant if only the high seats are available.

Chocolate chip cookie science

 Some nights you just want to have a light dinner and then retreat to your comfy bed and relax for the rest of the evening, but then you start watching Man VS. Food and hunger strikes. Don't you wish you had a jar of cookies to reach for?

For the next two weeks, I will be experimenting with chocolate chip cookies recipes to see which mix of ingredients will bring me THE chocolate chip cookie.

I want a big, fat, crisp on the outside chewy on the inside, chocolatey bite.  Thanks to Bakerbettie, I will be mixing bread flour and regular flour, brown sugar and white sugar, and putting quality chocolate and maybe even a bit of cornstarch or graham crackers.

I want my cookies to look like this

and not like this

After lots of experimentation here are what mycookies look like

 

Successful beef pie with 2 crusts

Golden brown from top to bottom :)

Breakfast today

Breakfast today was hot tea, leftover spinach lasagne, a banana and peanut butter

Beef pie trial

Saw a butter crust pastry from foodwishes and decided to try it for beef pies

 

My favorite version is this.  The hand pie. 

Small beef and mushroom pot pie.

Growing basil

My basil plant is dying! I think the weather is too hot this summer. Two stalks dried up already. The leaves are falling out easily and they are very crisp like lays potato chips. :(

I tried again and basil was doing really good and now that it is summer again the basil is drying up. Why are you so hot Philippine summer?

Instead of buying plants I just buy a pack of basil from the grocery store, tear off the leaves to make pesto then line up the stalks, make a fresh cut and stick em in the soil of a pot. They always grow large leaves. 

Homemade mcdo/jollibee chicken

Newly baked: mini cheesecakes

These are good. Best of all the cream cheese is buy 1 take 1

Big Save: Dishwashing Liquid

I normally buy Joy dishwashing liquid in the refill packs of 200ml each for about P37.  One sachet lasts me a week.  Recently, I found Bubble Man Dishwashing Liquid in Landmark.  It is locally manufactured in Quezon City, thus a lower price.  I got 2 liters of dishwashing liquid for only P109!  When I buy Joy I get 400ml for P74.  For the same amount of Bubble Man brand 400ml will only cost P21.80.  Big savings, plus I can support a local brand.

For my spluge of the month, I bought Human Nature's Tough Love Dishwashing Li

Update: Malaysian Chili and Lemon Pine

 Hooray for the red chilis!

 I wonder why the chili leaves always seem to have dust on them.  I have to keep cleaning them.

 This is 10 days after the first picture.

I'm not sure if the lemon pine has grown.

Update: Basil Growth

 After 10 days, here is what happened to my basil plant.  Hooray!  Watering regularly is working.  See how many leaves have grown!  I sprinkle it with water, about 3 times a day to keep the leaves free of insects, and the soil moist.

 The stem I cut from the top of one stalk is growing too!

 Very green!

Excited to harvest

Trying to Grow Basil Again

I bought three plants while up in Baguio.  Basil, lemon pine and malaysian chili.   You know you are getting old when you start caring about plants.  As a second (actually third) attempt to grow my own basil, I will document what my plant first looked like, until I have successfully made a big bush out of the wee little thing.

 angle 1: leaves are nice and ever to green.  This pic was taken 7 days from purchase.  Hooray! Basil is still alive!  I am having trouble with something making holes in my leaves at the moment.  I had to pluck off some leaves.  I stuffed those leaves in the soil. Is that any good for fertilizing the plant?

 Angle 2

 My lemon pine.  

Please grow to 6 feet.

My Malaysian Chili plant.  Please be red soon!