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After a long day of errands in Fremont, Carmina's dad found himself yearning for the vibrant flavors of Vietnamese cuisine, igniting a culinary adventure that would tantalize his taste buds.

  After doing errands with the family my dad wanted to eat Vietnamese food in the area of Fremont . My dad brought us to  Pho Lan Noodles House  for our lunch. We all decided to eat one of our favorite Vietnamese dishes. We had ordered some appetizers fried wanton and fried chicken with fish sauce . My dad had ordered Lemongrass chicken include with rice and salad in his meal but was already full when he had eaten his wife's meal. She had ordered the Chicken Banh Mi and chicken clear soup. I wanted to try their Pork Banh Mi sandwich and requested no jalapeno pepper on it. The sandwich is quite big had to slice it in the middle and the remaining was for takeout. The filling of the pork was a lot of serving soft and tender had a lot of flavoring. The bread was also soft even if it was toasted. Family members had ordered the Garlic Chow Mein with Shrimp . NOT SPONSORED. Check out my channel @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube  and click on the subscribe button for more vid...

Nocho Bunea (Christmas Eve)

You wake up in the morning feeling there are so many things to do today. It is Christmas Eve and so many things to do.

You came across going to the grocery store for last minute things to buy and come out with a line so long.

You come back home and need to pick some food up for the celebration. Come home tired and no appetite to eat. 

You decide cooking for the upcoming evening.

You cook some chicken macaroni salad, spaghetti and feeling so drained out.

You only have a short time to rest and end up working it off making some garden salad for the menu for tonight.

By the time you eat at the dinner table you feel so sleepy and can’t seem to wake up being so tired.

It is not even mid-night yet when you start exchanging Christmas gifts with your in-law.

You still have three hours to kill and try to figure out how you can stay awake.

You turn on your internet on your phone all the beeping comes to your phone so many friends have started greeting you a Merry Christmas. You turn and reply all to them greeting them a Merry Christmas.

I am sure I am not the only one dealing with this kind of stuff right now.

We celebrate Christmas Eve which they called, "Nocho Bunea". We always have a lot of food cooked just to celebrate the upcoming Christmas. Our traditional food serve during that time is ham from Excelente. It is popular to buy in during Christmas season. The place is located in155-157 Carlos Palanca Street, Quiapo, Manila.


We also serve the ham with queso de bola cheese that only comes out during the holiday season.


A popular nut the comes the same season is roasted chestnuts.




Our traditional food is serve with spaghetti and chicken macaroni salad.










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