French Toast with Ice Cream

By: The Moody Critic

With dimensions of 5 x 5 x 4 inches almost representing a perfect cube, no one would ever complain about its gargantuan serving size. Given its apparent thickness, one would wonder how were they able to come up with the idea and how were they able cook it evenly from the cortex up to the very interior.

Its golden brown exterior and its crunchiness added significant points to its presentation and consistency respectively.

Although this one-of-a-kind french toast has been labeled "Yummy!" or one of the "best sellers" of the cafe, the taste of the toast itself was of course not surprisingly similar to your everyday french toast.

Furthermore, even with the help of another person, it was a struggle consuming the entire dessert not only because of enormous size but also for its marked oiliness. This time, the vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce really came in handy for having neutralized the overwhelmingly oily factor in this dessert. One's liver should be prepared for the coming storm.

Presentation: 8.1
Taste: 7.0
Texture and consistency: 6.5
Complexity: 7.6 
Value for money: 9.0

Overall rating: 7.4/10
Mood: SATISFIED

Resto: Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe Address: Ground Floor, North Wing, SM Mall of Asia, 1300 Pasay City Full food name: French Toast with Ice Cream Price: P105.00

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Philly Cheese Steak

By: The Moody Critic

I started with high hopes but ended up with broken dreams.

The culprit here was none other than the dry, hard, and coarse macrosomic bread. They used a bread which was either too big or too thick. In fact, just eating the sagittal half of the bread with all its filling will suffice. All I tasted in this sandwich was bread, bread, and more bread. The bread clearly overpowered the already limited cheese filling. Sadly, I didn't get that "dangerously cheesy" status by eating this sandwich.

After being served with a stone-cold bread, I therefore conclude that the bread could use some toasting. Applying the laws of thermodynamics, the coffee shop was not even that cold for the sandwich's heat to have easily dissipated.

Don't expect that you'll be using your bare hands with this food. You will need a lot of knife work in eating this sandwich because the bread was too crumbly and the meat and vegetables are all chopped or sliced into pieces. Everything in this sandwich has the the tendency to easily fall on your shirt. But on the positive side, at least the zucchini, tomato, and onion were not overwhelming in taste and quantity.

Lastly, after tasting those fries, I am sincerely hoping they didn't just use some take-out fries from a well-known fast-food chain which already served billions and billions.

Presentation: 7.4
Taste: 5.8
Texture and consistency: 4.2
Serving size: 9.3
Value for money: 7.3

Overall rating: 6.3/10
Mood: DISAPPOINTED

Resto: Baang Coffee
Address: 258 D Tomas Morato Ave. cor. Scout Fernandez St., Quezon City
Full food name: Philly Cheese Steak
Price: P160.00

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