A Valentine Affair with Chocolates and Desserts at Days Hotel Iloilo

Ferrero Rocher, Cadbury, Toblerone, M&M's, Delfi, Hershey's and Snickers.

These are some of the ultimate chocolates that make up our sweetest, chocolatiest dreams. And last Valentine's Day, Days Hotel Iloilo made our choco-aspirations come true!

The Promenade's annual Valentine Dinner Buffet "Romantic Interlude" is no doubt among the top Valentine gastronomic events on Hearts' Day. You can't go wrong with its wide selection of food - hors d'oeuvres, soups & breads, organic salad bar, sushi & sashimi, pasta & pizza, entrees and, of course - desserts! And that will be on the spotlight - as it has and always been.

The M&M's Affair starts our food-gasmic journey. The very popular and familiar candy-coated chocolate added color and extra crisp to butter cookies and bars.

Next on our sweets trip are Hershey's Cookies and Cream Bark - pieces of our beloved chocolate given an extra crunch, and the heavenly Red Velvet Cheesecake Bars.

How about some Cadbury Cuties? Mini chocolate cupcakes with creamy Nutella and Cadbury chocolate toppers! Indulgence in every bite...

The chocolate adventure continues with these Delfi Chocolate Mousse Tart Bars!

A change of texture but still exudes indulgence are the Nutella and Red Velvet French Macarons. You'll really never go wrong with these sumptuous filled meringue dessert!

Fancy some luxe White Toblerone Chocolate Mousse with fresh strawberries? Give in to temptation...

With its iconic shape, an easy guess it would be what chocolate in is this cake - Toblerone!

And this too, another easy guess! The signature gold-wrapped chocolate consists of a hazelnut encased in a thin wafer shell filled with hazelnut chocolate and covered in milk chocolate and chopped hazelnuts. Say hello to Ferrero Rocher Cake!

Nougat ✔ Caramel ✔ Peanuts ✔ Milk Chocolate ✔ It's gotta be Snickers!
And how to level up this popular snack bar -make it into a cheesecake! I want more!

The sweetness overload continues with the Baked Custard - my "comfort dessert".

The Valentine Trifle offers layers of sponge cake and strawberries covered with layers of custard, jelly, and cream.

And speaking of strawberries, can you say no to these white choco-dipped berries?

As always, I love ending my buffets (whenever available) at The Promenade with vanilla ice cream. Yes, scoops and scoops of it. Maybe, I can finish a gallon of it.

Another Valentine has come and gone...

All of these delectable desserts are nothing but just gastronomic memories that sweetened the sweetest day of the year.

And here's hoping for another Valentine that is sweet as this or even sweeter in the years to come!

Only at The Promenade at Days Hotel Iloilo.

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Easy Century Tuna Recipes

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Takway

The gabi (taro) is just one of those plants which is edible from "roots to tops". The most popular of which is the tuber part which is used in a variety of dishes and mostly in combination with coconut milk. Its leaves, of course, is the main ingredient of a Bicol specialty, laing . It is dried then chopped and sauteed with other ingredients including, again, coconut milk. Then there is takway . The local term for its tendrils/runner, that part which is torn between being a stem or a root for it neither grows upwards nor downwards - it grows sideways . Scraped off of its outer skin, takway is often a key ingredient in vegetable dishes like laswa and the gabi tuber with coconut milk and local snails know as bago-ngon . It is also popular when cooked adobo style with guinamos , the local bago-ong . It is very popular in the region that even big supermarkets sell takway in style - cleaned and plastic wrapped in styro with some additions to make it easier to prepare. ...

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