Halo-Halo at Bar-One

Had been to Quezon/Manila in the Philippines over the last couple of weeks, the city does offer some challenge the vegetarian way of life. But I survived on bread, fresh fuits, "Bollywood" food and cuppa noodles.

Bar-One at The Holiday Inn, Quezon City become the place for me and some other bunch-a-people to hang about, meeting new people, joking around, sing songs out aloud, talking about what not, and having a couple of drinks and playing pool table. It was a United Nations of sorts....Indian, American, French settled in India, Australian settled in Philippines, half a score of Koreans on tour, Argentinian, Filipinos and God knows who all... We had fun.

I had a penchant for asking the most ridiculous drinks - aka mocktails, juices, iced-teas and what not at the "Bar-One". And the staff was always up to it. The Halo-Halo takes the award though.

It is a very popular Filipino dessert that is a mixture of shaved ice, milk, and sugar, to which is added various sweet beans and fruits, and generally served cold in a tall glass.
The bar typically doesn't stock such ingredients and so they got some for me and our friends from the ... How very thoughtful.

It was also amazing to have such a preparation at a bar at peak business hours :-D

Love those folks... they made me stay fun. More about it soon ( I hope)