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OUR NEW ADD–VENTURE: DOK!ES GRILL

July 12, 2011 by Little Miss Honey 4 Comments

My mother is passionate about business. She has a lot of business ventures ever since I can remember. So she somehow encouraged us to never get scared into dipping our toes into business. She said: “I never like to gamble because its risky. But when it comes to business, it is a risk I am willing to take. That is my type of gamble”. That is my mom — hard core, hehe… Like!

My mom predicts that I am lucky in business because I have a mole near my lip adjacent to my nostrils. That is lucky among Chinese, she said, because the air is breathe out into your mole means lucky in business. Now being at an age, glazed with skepticism for fairy tales, I’m pondering on the whole logic and connection of a mole and luck in business, I can’t find any but then again look at the Chinese people, they are the leaders in business world, I think they know what they are talking about.

So when I was in Grade 1, I tried selling peanuts in a small plastic bag for 1 peso. I didn’t market my product well and I gave most of the peanuts for free to my classmates. At age 6, I decided I have no knack as a businesswoman.   So I gave up my dream to be a wealthy peanut magnate, hehe. Though from time to time, I would sell  the chocolate cake my yaya makes for me for lunch for 12pesos but still swear off that business as something I will be passionate about. My mother also noticed my dwindling interest in business. We have a small carenderia near my mom’s office. I rarely go there and I have no interest in being the cashier for the day. I always thought that me and business isn’t a good mix.

However, in my college years I dabbled in it again. Utilizing my yaya’s superb cooking skills, I started selling lasagna complete with styro container and fork. My lasagna business was doing well for a month or two but I started getting tired of carrying the heavy load of styros with lasagna everyday and it eventually stopped.

Now, as a resident physician with a minuscule salary (yes, it is!) , my ambivalent mind started toying with the idea on dipping my dirty fingers into business again… I have a postgraduate intern who is a full-pledged businessman… Bongga nuh! He already has a boutique with his wife and an internet station in Robinsons Mall. That is quite admirable, isn’t it? We have the same duty schedule so during late night admissions of patients, he would teach me business tips. Funny! I am the resident who is suppose to be the teacher,but I got my business lessons from my intern, hehe. We are all students of life they say, hehe. He let me borrow books of  Robert Kiyosaki and our business tycoons.(For those interested in learning more about entrepreneurship, stocks and investment, click https://www.richdadcoaching.com/). I thought initially of learning how to bake and go into pastry business. (Hehe, it is obvious that I am hoping to indulge my sweet tooth if I get into this). However, I can never seem to materialize this blurry dream of mine…Until I found a person who mirrored my unreachable dream and is willingly to go into this mini adventure with me, into the risky world of business, naks!

J & Me

We first ventured into the oven-roasted chicken. The famous Chooks-to-go turned us down when we were hoping to pseudo-franchise with them because of our location. So we resorted into coming up with own marinated chicken. Then, DOK!ES CHICKEN was born. It was a learning, exhausting and exciting experience. We were entrepreneurs na…Wow! hehe… It’s a nice feeling of accomplishment as we push ourselves in achieving what we want to achieve. And now, here we are on to another venture—THE DOK!ES GRILL…  

 

From chicken, now we included more meat products, hehe. DOK!ES GRILL is a tapsilogan/ inasalan. Ohh, bongga , di ba?

We serve tapsilog, tocilog and chocilog at P39 with free juice! Isn’t that a student budget heaven! We also serve pork barbeque, and isaw. We also have coffee, pancit canton and noodles.

We open at 6AM until 9PM from Mondays to Saturdays.

We can be found at Mission Road, Jaro fronting STI College just near Iloilo Mission Hospital.

See you there! Pramis, solve ka sa kabusog!

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Like my mother said, business is a gamble. It is true. You can be up today and go down in a few months. But then again, what in life is in absolute certainty? None at all! Another life’s gamble is relationships. You invest your time and emotions to a person without a valid guarantee that that “merger ” would be a total success. (Unfortunately, not even a marriage contract these days is enough guarantee that the person you invested on would be there for you in the long haul). But I  learned that if we live our  lives in constant fear of the unknown, we are not living fully and, in the words of Henry David Thoreau, “sucking the marrows out of life.” There are no guarantee and certainties in life, all are just calculated risks. And the best people who are happy and living the life most people dream of are those risk-takers who are willing to take the plunge. With that, I leave u with the words of inspirations I post in our Dok!es Grill wall which I call our positivity wall.

Filed Under: Food Discoveries, Inspirations

ONE AFTERNOON ON HOSPITAL DUTY

March 15, 2010 by Little Miss Honey 31 Comments

My stomach is quite an adventurer…. Seeking for the next kinky adventure along with my taste buds…. I love sauces… I don’t mind dipping any kind of what-have-you food in a tasty sauces & dips… Ohh yum! Fries in ice creams… Egg on ketchup… Dinuguan inside a pandesal… Piattos & fries inside a burger…. To add up to my list of gastronomic serendipitous test drives, I found it one afternoon after having a chitchat with my longtime good friend James at the hospital canteen. While I ‘gluttonously’ ordered for 1 rice, 1 dinuguan, 2 lumpia shanghai and a bottle of mountain dew, I couldn’t help but pry enviously on his wonderful concoction of food before him. James teased me incessantly for ordering like a total guy. The lady owner of the canteen even noticed and said, “Food trip, doc ah”. So in between our exchange of our latest juicy gossips, I ravenously finished up my feast so I could asked a few spoon taste of James’ food. I know, I know, I know, yes I am matakaw, hehe… But I guess my good friend James, knows me oh too well took a big gulp on his meal, leaving nothing for poor little honey. I think now, he isn’t my good friend now, more like my bad friend. Hmp! Hehe…. Peace James!

So on my next 24hour hospital duty, I tried James’ concoction.. Its was the bomb! Yummy! Satisfied my greedy taste buds. Thanks for the inspiration James!

Lumpia shanghai drizzled w/ vinegar dipped in a Hot Arroz Caldo.
Side dish: Microwaved pandesal
With a 3in1 Hot Coffee
DELICIOUSO! BON APPETIT!

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TRIP BACK HOME TO GASTRONOMIC HEAVEN

April 10, 2009 by Little Miss Honey 254 Comments

Goodbye Australia! Hello hello Manila!

As I got down from the airplane, the sticky humid air of manila greeted me…. I’m back in the tropics… Yeheey?! hehehe.. Nevertheless, I was excited to see my sister, who is now based in Manila…. We would chat for hours and do what we love to do best together: PIG-OUT!
My sis, her roommate, Maryan and I spend my 3 glorious days in Manila pleasuring my taste buds to its utmost delight. Woohoo!

My gastro adventure in Manila:
DAY 1

Cajun Ribs

CAJUN RIBS
1. TOWER OF RINGS (Onion)
2. RIBS PLATTER (Cajun)

SCORE:3/5

COMMENTS: Love the ribs platter

MOGWAI CAFE

1. CHOCO LAVA
2. TRIPLE HEAVEN

3.COFFEE

SCORE:3/5

COMMENTS: The place was ideal for artists, newbie directors and photographers… It was cozy… I love it… The pastries they served was deliciously sinful…. The coffee though was pretty ordinary

DAY 2

DAMPA AT BACLARAN
1. BUTTERED SHRIMP
2. SINIGANG SA MISO
3.CALAMARI

SCORE:5/5

COMMENTS: Worth all the cent my sis paid for our lunch, hehehe…. I feel sad for those people with allergies to crustaceans… The buttered shrimp is superb!

BUBBA GUMP

1. SEAFOOD PLATTER
2. OREO SHAKE

SCORE:2/5

COMMENTS: Love the whole concept… Inspired from the movie “Forrest Gump”. The place was full of “Forrest Gump” memorabilia with the movie playing in the background over & over. With a very original way to call on waiters with license plates stating “RUN FORREST RUN” & “STOP FORREST STOP”. However , the food was a letdown because the servings was small & quite expensive.
CREPES AT GREENBELT3

FILIPINA CREPE – MANGO WITH NUTELA

SCORE:2/5

COMMENTS: It was ok, thinking we 3 have to share the teeny crepe… I was paying eh… such a cheapo,hehe… It was yummy enough but the Nutela was melting fast like water from the heat of the crepe

DAY 3

CONTIS AT SERENDRA

1. PORKCHOP MEAL

2. CHICKEN RISSOTO MEAL

3. MANGO BRAVO

4. MUDPIE

SCORE:5/5

COMMENTS:A perfect meal to end my trip to gastronomia… My last supper with my sis and her roommate… All the dishes was heavenly. Mango brava was the specialty of the house but I’m partial to the turtle mud pie. Yumm!!

Bon appetit! I was definitely in gastronomic heaven

Filed Under: Food Discoveries, Uncategorized Tagged With: bubba gump, cajun, dampa, manila

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Hi I'm Honey! I am a Filipina who has studied & lived in Saudi Arabia for a few years, worked in Singapore and is currently based in Oman with my husband & our three little boys. I am a medical doctor, a lifestyle blogger, travel junkie, a foodie and a bookworm. I hope I can drizzle a bit of sunshine and inspirations whenever you drop by my blog. Thanks for dropping by! See ya soon.. :)
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