Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Hole in the Wall at Century Mall


I heard about the new eating place called Hole in the Wall located at the 4th floor of Century Mall in Makati City. It sounds interesting so I recently went there to check it out.




Hole in the Wall is a food hall that offers various types of food options. It is a good place to go for people who prefer different types of cuisine but want to stay at one eating place. The ambience is cool with its industrial look and feel interiors.



The food stations already open are as follows:

Kwong's offers Chinese food


Bad Bird offers Japanese style umami chicken with various
side dish options


Mister Delicious offers huge sandwiches such as pastrami and corned beef

Green Cheese offers Japanese cheesecake

Cheesecake with a smile. They sell a whole cheesecake for PHP350.


They also sell puddings and hot beverages like green tea and green tea latte.

Japanese cheesecakes are available in original,  Belgian chocolate
 and green tea flavours.

Green tea paired with Belgian chocolate Japanese cheesecake

Tiny Duchess offers eclairs

Eclairs in various colours and flavours


Spruce offers healthy cold-pressed fresh juices

Spruce has funky names for its juices. The best seller is
a green one called "Skinny Bitch"

Liberation Shawarma offers beef, pork and falafel shawarma

Scout's Honor offers various desserts,, milk and coffee, They also serve
pour over coffee that most Third wave coffee shops offer.

Various ingredients that can be added to ice cream
 or your customised cookie.

Variety of cookies

Here are some of the yummy looking cookies that Scout's Honor offers in their store:









I ended up trying the Liberation Shawarma, which is owned by Chef JP Anglo of Sarsa restaurant. The store has a food truck look which sort of reminded me of the movie entitled "The Chef".


I ordered the Falafel shawarma since the beef shawarma was sold out. I also ordered hummus since I like dipping the falafel in the humus.
  

The ambience of the place is casual but very cozy and the place is quite huge that it can accomodate 400 people at one time.





Some of the other food stores that will open soon will be a Vietnamese pho noodle store, a burger store called The Beef and one which serves Filipino food called Posporo.

I will definitely go back to this Hole in the Wall food hub  to try out other dishes.

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Red Dot Museum Revisited

I still remember the time when my brother and I went to Singapore a couple of years ago and we visited the Red Dot Design Museum and how I enjoyed looking at the various products in the exhibit that have been given Red Dot design awards.

During a recent trip to Singapore with two of my friends I had a chance to revisit the Red Dot Museum.

If you like design and art then the Red Dot Museum is a good stopover for you during one of your trips to Singapore.



The museum features latest design trends in the international design scene and exhibits various product design and communication design from over 50 countries. The products in the exhibit are winners of the international Red Dot Design Award, one of the world's leading and largest design competitions.









Some of the cool products that I saw are as follows:


BM W bike  Generation III made of high-end Shimano bike components

The UNITED_BOTTLE scenario which is made of PET bottles used as instant building materials
for temporary housing or small-scale structures



Nice  and modern kitchen sink

Kitchen cookware and appliances


Nice toaster, griller, microwave and coffee machine

Cool hand held mixer and food food processor

Wine bottles than can be laid flat


Nice packaging for herbs and spices by Pfeffersack& Soehne
 made of ceramic pots

Cute bee inspired design packaging by Etude for its hand cream
 which was used for a campaign for the protection of honey bees

Easy can  packaging which allows the user to place a chopstick
or a pen on top to use it as a lever



Foosball machine made out of cartons

Chairs

Adjustable high tech light. We tried to change the lighting by pressing the buttons  
on the wall and we were so impressed with the nice lighting options

Red Dot museum also has  a shop that carries interesting finds.

Deers and horses made from cartons

High tech umbrellas that do not break amidst heavy wind
 and shirts that can be easily personalised

Miniature stuff made from paper

Miniature band

Minaiature Chrsitmas set-up

Cool hanging  upside down lamp in front of the museum shop

The Red Dot Museum is easy to find. It is a red building located on 28 Maxwell Road in Singapore.


It is a cool stopover in Singapore for people who like to look at nicely designed and innovative  products.