Indian food fest at the Century Park Hotel

FEELING adventurous? Need some spice in your life?

Appetizers!
Then head on over to Century Park Hotel's Café in the Park for its ongoing Indian Food Festival! According to CPH Gen. Manager Philippe Bartholomi, the food fest is in conjunction w/ Philippine Airlines' recent launch of its flights to New Delhi. And as such, the hotel managed to bring in chefs from the Taj Hotel in India.

The salads
I was just there on Tue., Sept. 20, and I must say, I didn't really know where to begin! The food was laid out so colorful and pretty, all tempting to be tried. Of course, the chefs did ease up on the spiciness of the dishes, as they know we Pinoys aren't so used to their brand of anghang. So the dishes I took a particular liking to, just packed the right punch, and allowed the other flavors of the dish to ease through.

I particularly loved this prawn dish - Jhinga Hara Masala.

I liked this meatball dish as well - the Kabuli Gosht Kofta.

And the lovely desserts:

Anannas Ka Halwa -pineapple sweet confection

Makai Ki Keer-sweet corn pudding. It tasted like creamy ginataang mais w/o the rice. Yum.

Lunch buffet at the Indian food fest is only P1,215 net (of course there are other non-Indian dishes too if you like). The festival runs until this Saturday, Sept. 24, only. So hurry and get your jai ho fix ASAP.

Rejoice! The Lord is risen!

I JUST wanted to share with you all this very moving piece by Chet Espino, husband of dear colleague Margie Quimpo-Espino, on how her life in the past three months could be likened to Christ's passion, death, and resurrection.

"I was in a state of disbelief and I walked in and out of the girls’ room about three times before I could tell Patricia, 15, that her mother was sick in India and that it looked very bad." (Read Passage of faith leads to Margie’s recovery .)

Thank you Lord for continuing to heal Margie and for the strength you give Chet and the kids. Truly, all things are possible with You at our side.

This, of course, would never happen here

Cabinet Minister Resigns in Wake of India Attacks

By SOMINI SENGUPTA
NYT, Nov. 30, 2008

MUMBAI, India — The top domestic security official resigned in disgrace on Sunday for the failure to thwart or quickly contain the horrific terrorist attacks in Mumbai last week, as India’s government announced a raft of measures to bolster antiterrorism efforts and struggled to calibrate a response to what it views as Pakistani complicity. (Read the rest here)

HERE in our Pilipinas kong mahal, if anything of this sort happens, the Cabinet Secretary (or any government official/politico) would likely protest his innocence, and hang on to his job instead. Delicadeza has long been dead in the Philippines. No government official has ever taken responsibility for whatever faux pas, wrongdoing, or illicit activity in his department. Mas makapal pa sa goma ng gulong ang mga mukha!