Zero Special: Silent Film Festival

Date Budget: PhP 0
Actual Spend: PhP 0
Quality: 5/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 5/5
Fun Factor: 5/5
Overall Experience: 5/5

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Highlights 

• Experience time travel to 1925, where actors don't speak and the audience reads!
• Great spontaneous LIVE theatrical jazzy music by Sinosikat and Europe's Ignacio Plaza 
• Not your ordinary movie date!

Food: R & J Bulalohan

Date Budget: PhP 300
Actual Spend: PhP 261
Quality: 5/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 4/5
Fun Factor: 5/5
Overall Experience: 4/5

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Highlights 

• Best Bulalo ever!
• Simple carinderia ambiance (and prices) with walls filled with signatures and pictures of celebrities.
• Personally endorsed by Boy Abunda and Kris Aquino.
• Best-value Crispy Kangkong

Food: Chansel Pizza

Date Budget: PhP 250
Actual Spend: PhP 215
Quality: 3/5
Service: 3/5
Accessibility: 5/5
Fun Factor: 3/5
Overall Experience: 3/5

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Highlights 

• Pinoy pizza loaded with toppings
• Classic crunchy dough similar to (pre-Jollibee) Greenwich
• So-so roasted chicken and super sweet meat-loaded spaghetti
• WARNING: Watch out for roach-infested drinks!

Food: Gong Cha

Date Budget: PhP 200
Actual Spend: PhP 185
Quality: 4/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 5/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5

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Highlights 

• Great tea blends
• Large serving sizes
• Very efficient production process
• Cheap, healthier, and gives a much stronger kick than coffee!

Food: Super Bowl of China

Date Budget: PhP 300
Actual Spend: PhP 300
Quality: 4/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 5/5
Fun Factor: 3/5
Overall Experience: 4/5

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Highlights 

• FREE Birthday Noodles for the entire month of February 2012
• Fried rice with vegetables: Yang Chow minus the itch
• Free kropeck appetizer
• Great tasting dumpling soup
  Update (11/24/2014): Megamall branch is no longer open for business. :(
  

Zero Special: Lost on Journey

Date Budget: PhP 0
Actual Spend: PhP 0
Quality: 3/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 5/5
Fun Factor: 5/5
Overall Experience: 4/5

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Highlights 

• Lost on Journey (2010): Joined Chenggong Li and Geng Niu in their hilarious struggle to get to their destination in time for the lunar new year
• Gained an appreciation of foreign culture
• Enjoyed the movie for FREE in the 6th Spring Film Festival at ShangriLa organized by Ateneo de Manila University.

Food: Mr. Kimbob

Date Budget: PhP 200
Actual Spend: PhP 185
Quality: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 5/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5

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Highlights 

• Great tasting Bibimbap served in a sizzling plate
• Monster-sized Katsudon
• Affordable Korean food available in SM Food Courts

Food: Komoro Soba

Date Budget: PhP 300
Actual Spend: PhP 280
Quality: 4/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 5/5
Fun Factor: 5/5
Overall Experience: 5/5

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Highlights 

• Affordable, close to authentic Japanese food
• Very accessible location (SM Megamall)