Chez Karine Bakery

After months of planning of going to Serenda to try Chez Karine, we finally did last Sunday! My only booboo was I forgot to bring my camera! So the photos from my iPhone 3GS (I badly need an upgrade!) don't do justice to how good their macarons and puddings are!

After dropping off some things and having dinner at McDo (to save so we can have some nice dessert, ahihihi) we headed our way to Serendra to finally satisfy our sweet teeth!

Chez Karine is just beside Sonja's Cupcakes so it's not hard to find. It's a small store, there's a counter and a few stools inside, more tables and chair outside.

When it was time for me to order, I had a hard time choosing flavors! I got the box of 7 (Php350), hmmm.. let me see if I remember what flavor we got.. Salted Caramel, Dark Chocolate, Pistachio, Matcha Green Tea, Early Grey, Peanut Butter and Coffee! It was all so yummy!!!

Here's their cute menu!

Can't decide which ones to get!\

There's the pudding on the left side!

Pudding!

I also ordered Vanilla Royal Pudding and Muscuvado Royal Pudding at Php100 each. Y loved the vanilla one. I love it too! I want to go back and try their Panna Cotta which is also at Php100 each! And to go with our dessert, I ordered 2 Americanos for me (decaf) and the BOS.

Y enjoying the pudding!

Then we both had a macaron each to try! I had the chocolate while the BOS had the salted caramel. Both are good! Perfect with our Americanos!

Very cute packaging!

While we're all busy eating our macarons and pudding, the little siopao is busy eating his little fingers.

It was a very chill Sunday night. I loved that night. :) I want to go back and eat more of their pudding and try their panna cotta!

Afternoon snack at home! Yum!

The next time we visit, I should really bring a proper camera! I should bring my camera everywhere we go pala dapat!

There are holiday sets available for gift giving! I love receiving food as present (PG ang peg), a bag full of pudding or a box of macarons would be a nice gift to receive this holiday season!

14 pc. gift box - P850

21 pc. gift box - P1200

Mix and match Royal Pudding, panna cotta, and macarons in a cute insulated bag. 
Includes ice packs for safe transport of our products. 

Cute bag noh?

Chez Karine

1/F Serendra Mall
Bonifacio Global City, Taguig
Sun-Thurs: 11am-10pm
Fri-Sat: 11am-11pm
Email: orders@chezkarine.com
Phone: +63917.323.2845, +632.804.1889

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chezkarinebakery?fref=ts

Hong Kong Sojourn Part 2

This was our view from our room.

Woke up around 8AM. We took our baths and ate a light breakfast (bread from Wellcome and milk). Mom and achi went to the bank while I stayed at the hotel and watched CSI, Jane By Design and Glee on TV. But then I got hungry, so I went to IKEA just below our hotel, went around to see what I can buy then bought Swedish Meatballs (9HKD for 5pcs) and coffee (HKD7 with 1 free refill) and brought it back in our room.

I stayed here the longest time, thinking of what I should get for the kids.

They were done in the bank by lunch so we walked to Din Tai Fung near Regal Hotel and had our lunch. One of the best meals I had on this trip!

They did the ordering. Taga-lamon lang ako. Hehe!

Instruction how to eat xiao long bao

Duck's Tongue... Uhmm hindi ko type.

Cold Soya Milk!

Pork Xiao Long Bao. DA BEST!

Siomai

Sarap this noodles!

Nothing special about this porkchop but the rice was yum!

We had a very filling lunch. I enjoyed eating there. It's the best xiao long bao I've tasted so far! After having lunch, we rode the MTR going to Tsim Sa Tsui. We went to few stores that sells pre-loved designer bags, watch stores, and shopped at H&M in Silvercord where I bought Y a lot of clothes.

Then we went to this DFS building where they again browsed bags and watches. I really have no interest on these kinds of things. I really have no patience while they loved going from one store to another! :p 

And by the time we went to Ocean Terminal, we need to pump again. We went to their Baby Center to pump. It's probably one of the nicest breastfeeding station I've been! Take a look at the photos!

There's 3 private rooms like this where you can pump and feed. There's also a common place outside.

It's cozy! There's also a wash area, play area and changing area. Didn't take photos anymore as there were people inside. After pumping, we saw this crepe place, Mazazu Crepe!

We had the peaches and cream and strawberry with ice cream crepes! It's super yummy! Mazazu Crepe is a franchise of a Japanese crepe chain. Their soft serve ice cream is famous too. A bit expensive but promise, it's nothing like the local one we have. Hehe :)

On our way back to ride the MTR back to Causeway Bay, we passed by a Jean-Paul Hevin store, which I remembered I read about from Chuvaness! 

This was in Harbour City.

We tried out their macarons, chocolate, pistachio and vanilla. I had the chocolate, which tastes like heaven! Walang sinabi the local macarons I've tried. It's super moist and soft!

We also bought chocolate lollipops which until now I haven't eaten. I'll share the lollipop with the BOS!

We went straight to dinner at Tsui Wah in Causeway Bay after a tiring day at Tsim Sha Tsui. That's it for Part 2!

You can read about Tsui Wah here and my Hong Kong Sojourn Part 1 here! There's still Part 3 about my trip so please stay tuned for that!