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I’ve been making time to sort out photos for a long overdue journal post on my dA, and I’m also preparing to answer some questions that have been sitting in my Tumblr Ask inbox for a while.
Just so you know, sometimes the reason I take so long to answer stuff from my Tumblr Ask is because I like to screencap and archive your messages before I answer. When I reply right away, POOF and they’re gone.
It makes me really happy to read some of your letters on days when I need a bit of a lift, so it’s nice to have an organized little collection. :)
In the meantime, here is a photo I took of a plate of cupcakes I enjoyed with friends on a beautiful night.
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One day, I ate a small garden for lunch. It was delightful.
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Berries & Cream, Peanut Butter Nutella, and Chocolate Surprise from Cupcakes by Sonja
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Black Sesame ice cream from The Cake Club by Diamond Hotel at Bonifacio High Street.
They have a selection of ice cream flavors like Ultramoist Chocolate Cake, Apple Pie, Cheesecake, Mont Blanc, and Genmaicha. My favorite is Black Sesame — mainly because of the taste, but partially because of its color. I enjoy strangely colored food.
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Cupcake day with my friends! Mine is the classic vanilla cupcake with chocolate frosting and rainbow sprinkles :9
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This is what I took home after doing graphics work all day at a client’s building near a Japanese grocery. The elusive Bebe Rouge Patisserie strawberry cream puff that would always get sold out before I got there (it is delicious), melon cream pan (the label says cream melon with cream whut), doriyaki with chestnut filling, and Kirin milk tea.
I need hunger management therapy.
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Lunch at Ma Maison with the lovely Kat. They call their cuisine Japanese-Western, and the place looked to me like a cross between an Italian bistro and an old English cottage. The ambiance was really cozy.
We had the clam chowder, beef stroganoff omurice, orange black iced tea, aloe apple iced tea, and white chocolate fruit tart. Everything was good. Must definitely go back.
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My friends got me a series of small cakes from a Chinese bakeshop. This was the grape-flavored cake. I had never even considered the idea of a grape cake before, so it was the first one I tried.
It was a rather cute little thing, topped with grape, a slice of dragonfruit, and some fruit-flavored chocolate bits. There was a layer of grape-flavored jelly (which was very mild and not at all overpowering) over what tasted like buttercream, and the chiffon was infused with grape flavor as well. At first I was dubious about how grape would work with cream, but it was actually very nice. Watch me use the word grape in every sentence in this paragraph.
This cake reminded me of something stupid I did as a kid. It was the time I was introduced to milk with fruit flavors, so I knew of strawberry milk and melon milk and the like. Well, one day I thought I would be a little genius and make grape milk by mixing grape juice powder into a glass of fresh milk. It was terrible and no one should ever do that.
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My friends and I enjoy preparing food. Our snacks usually go something like this: melting cheese in rolls of maple bacon, extra cheese, beef marinated in sake, bacon cheeseburger in a sugar donut bun with a side of nachos. Hnngg. If my friends and I lived together, this is how badly we’ll be eating everyday. Sometimes we’re thankful for the distance.
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Some snapshots from our visit to K-Pop themed Subspace Coffee House (check out their Facebook / Tumblr) some weeks ago. They were playing Asian dramas when we were there, but it seems they do screenings of other stuff too. It seems they just had a Harry Potter week-long marathon, hahah.
It’s a cozy little spot, and quiet I suppose when our lot isn’t around. Haha! There were about a dozen of us at the time, and we had taken over the entire back area of the cafe. The staff was extremely nice, though — helping us move furniture around so we’d all fit, and serving us water after we had eaten, and bringing out boxes of colored chalk for us to draw on the walls with.
Timecake took on the request posted on the Subspace Tumblr, and drew TARDIS on the wall.
We actually ordered a lot more than what’s pictured above, but I got a bit too excited and forgot about my camera for a while. Everything was tasty, and I’ll definitely be going back for their signature Sweet Purple Potato Latte.
Thanks, Subspace! Until next time!
My name is Jin. I'm a freelance painter, illustrator and photographer from the Philippines. 
