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Dive into a seafood spectacle — see the lobster up close and celebrate James & Carmina’s birthdays at Fresh International, Solaire Resort.

While traveling around the world, the family visited the Philippines and decided to combine a double birthday dinner with James. In our chat group, we discussed which restaurants we’d like to dine at, and Mom Violy has been eager to try the all-you-can-eat lobster her best friend recommended at Solaire. Carmina took charge of making the reservation through Solaire's Resort  website and asked the family which seating time they preferred, choosing between two options with different time frames. Carmina registered it under Mom Violy's name and phone number. She received an email for our confirmation, and a week beforehand, a reminder was sent to Mom Violy's mobile to confirm if we were going ahead or not. Carmina replied to the SMS since Mom Violy wasn’t sure how to do it. We were told to arrive fifteen minutes before our scheduled entry time, which was 5:30 p.m. on February 12, 2026. When we arrived, we were informed we couldn’t enter the dining area until exactly 5:30 p.m...

Banana Con Yelo Recipe

Banana Con Yelo is saba that is a banana in the Philippines that is cooked in sugar and often in halo halo dessert that has shaved ice with other ingredients. Some people also eat the banana con yelo with shaved ice and milk this way can also be eaten with sago added to the banana con yelo. Banana Con Yelo Recipe: Ingredients: 1 - Kilo Saba (banana) slice 2 inches 2 - Cups Brown Sugar 10 - Pieces Tanglad leaves (lemon grass) cut in half 4 - Cups Water Cooking Instructions: In a pot add water and pandan leaves let it boil add brown sugar and banana cook for 20 minutes until banana is cooked. Ready to be served. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

Celebrating 4th of July in Two Places

Happy 4 th July to my family and friends in the States to us we are also celebrating this day when you’re celebrating Independence Day. We are celebrating a family member’s wedding anniversary to them this day means a lot for them. So no matter if I am not in my first home I still gets to celebrate it not with my family and friends in the States, but in a far I am celebrating it in the Philippines. Cheers to everyone and here is our menu for our special day as I am to share it with you and all recipes are in my blog. Due to coronavirus we cannot celebrate it together this year since there are limit person in one household so this time we will celebrate it in our own home and disturbed  all the food that was cooked in our home to all be safe at this time. I am sure in other places it may be the same for Independence Day where activities have been cancelled and we feel everything is being ruined by a virus we hope someday it will go away and a cure to be discovered so we can soo...