Saturday at Shang

As I said, Makati is my favorite place on earth. I got to try two restaurants in Makati Shangri-la today. Firstly, I had lunch at Inagiku with my former boss. They have excellent Japanese buffet and I love the fresh salmon sashimi and sea urchin. Yum! I’ve always loved Japanese food for it’s simple presentation and taste. I was comfortably seated near the couch before 12 NN and was taking my time to relax and enjoy the great ambience. This lunch was meant to be my treat to my former boss who assisted me with my present post. The conversation was such a happy one that we didn’t notice that we ended lunch at 4 PM. We had so many stories to share and it was a pleasant get together. When I left her company eight years ago, I didn’t have the slightest idea that I’ll be back with the same group of companies. I’m very thankful that we have a good working relationship and I can say that she has become my friend as well.

With lunch ending at 4 PM, I had 3 hours to kill before my 7 PM birthday dinner for Ma. I went around Powerbooks and I finally got the book I ordered! Yipee! The book was three weeks in the making and it was worth the wait. Three hours went by so fast that I had to rush back to Makati Shangri-la and this time, I was in Red. It’s a fine dining restaurant that offers intercontinental food. All I can say is that the food presentation was good. Ambience was good too but I wasn’t too happy with the service. For an upscale restaurant, the servants weren’t that attentive to our needs. I had to ask for a water refill thrice and for the bill twice. Since I didn’t want to spoil Ma’s birthday dinner, I let it all go. By the time we finished dinner, I was sleepy and didn’t have much energy to even watch a movie. Oh well, maybe next time.