Cebu: Dessert Factory

I was hungry and wanted to eat at Sunburst last week when we visited Cebu. We were already outside of Sunburst when our Cebuano friend, Evan John, suggested we dine at Dessert Factory which was just a few meters away from where we were.

We were greeted by a fridge full of yummy looking cakes! We stood there, mesmerized, for awhile despite the fact that the server already gave us a table. Haha. We eventually managed to tear ourselves away in front of the fridge and settled on our table.

The menu was simply amazing! They had a lot of stuff to choose from, but what caught my eye was the "boneless crispy pata". Without a second thought I ordered it and just mandated my boys to help me finish it.

I like eating crispy pata (much more so when I'm eating it with Juned), but one thing I have a hard time doing is peeling off the meat from the bone. I like my crispy pata, crispy and chewy. I like hearing the skin crunch when I bite into it and love it when the meat absorbs the sauce. And Dessert Factory's boneless crispy pata aced my requirements. Definitely something I'd like to eat again when I visit Cebu.

Sweetie and Miguel ordered dessert. I was so busy with my boneless crispy pata I forgot to sample their order.

Jayvee ordered corn dogs and said that they were delicious too.

Dessert Factory is more than just a place that serves dessert. If I had the pleasure of visiting Cebu again I think I'd like to visit it several times so I can try out their other dishes.

Dessert Factory (map)
Ayala Center, Cebu City

Must have: boneless crispy pata

Price range: cakes at PhP50++, meals at PhP100++

Lakwatsera Rating: definitely coming back when I visit Cebu again

Cebu: The Original AA BBQ

The Original AA BBQ in Cebu is one place that we frequent whenever in Cebu because: (1) they have every imaginable Pinoy food that can be BBQd; and (2) it's very affordable! I was in Cebu with my boys a few weeks ago and we thought we'd head there for dinner because we were all really hungry and wanted down-to-earth Pinoy food.

When you dine there the first thing you need to do is choose what you want to eat. Just get whatever you want and put it on a tray, turn it over at the end of the line and then look for a table. A waiter will then approach you for additional orders (rice, drinks, soup etc.).

We went crazy and got so much stuff to eat.

Pork barbecue. 

Spicy longganisa and hotdog. 

Yummy scallops (we got 2 trays!). 

Pampaalis sawa, mangga't bagoong. 

Standard inihaw na liempo. 

The special sawsawan. 

Food for three haha. 

We thought we ordered too much, but we ended up finishing everything.

We ended up walking back to Asiatown IT Park to do penance for eating to much haha. We had some dessert after at Brown Cup which is located at the far end of Asiatown IT Park (yes, it was a looooong walk!).

Anyway, after burning off everything we ate I was too tired to walk to our hotel, so we ended up taking a very short cab ride. I'm looking forward to another pig-out session at AA BBQ when I'm in Cebu with my boys.

The Original AA BBQ  (map)
Salinas Drive, Cebu City
*it's beside Crowne Garden Hotel

Cebu: Mooon Cafe (The Walk)

Mooon Cafe at The Walk in Cebu I think is the first branch. According to my best friend the owners of Mooon Cafe used to be in the business of beverages. It was blogger friends though who first raved about Mooon and it made me curious so I tried it out the first chance I got.

The interiors of Mooon Cafe are the same anywhere you go (check out previous posts), I think I just missed taking photos from their CDO branch (I was probably really hungry when I went haha). Anyway, so it was at The Walk where my love for Mooon Cafe started and I managed to unearth some photos from my first visit back in 2009 and another one in 2010.

Mooon Cafe (map)

The Walk, Cebu

Cebu: Mooon Cafe (The Terraces, Ayala Cebu)

I've been dining at Mooon in Cebu for a couple of years now and I've tried their branches in Cagayan de Oro, Iloilo and Dumaguete. I heard that they opened a branch too in Davao last May 12, so I will likely drop by their too when I get to visit Davao.

So, I like eating Mooon! I'm glad though they don't have a Manila branch yet. Mooon offers a variety of Mexican style dishes. They have pizza, pasta, quesadilla, burittos, steak and other yummy stuff. My standard order is usually a plate of cheese quesadilla and fish (the one with lots of cheese on it). This time around I brazenly ordered for spare-ribs since I knew my boys would help me out -- Mooon has big servings!

Hubby ordered onion rings as our appetizer and I was surprised with how they served it. The rings were big and yummy.

The sumptuous spare-ribs I ordered.

My son's order, chicken cheese melt.

Hubby's order, it's beef and I don't remember what it was called haha, but it was quite tasteful.

Mooon Cafe (map)
The Terraces, Ayala Center Cebu

Boneless Crispy Pata in Cebu

Sampled this sumptuous crunchy crispy pata yesterday at Dessert Factory, Ayala Center in Cebu.

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