EATS: The Original Swedish Frozen Yogurt Factory

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The Original Swedish Frozen Yogurt Factory can be found in Gallerian, a mall near Stockholm's Central-Station.

What I had was a fat and sugar free strawberry yogurt with chocolate cream and coconut bits and Kex Chocolate halves. Clearly, I made up my fat and sugar with the candy toppings I had.

It was delightful. The yogurt had the strawberry taste I craved, and the crunch of the toppings mixed very well. 

My sister had this sizable monster of yogurt with fat and sugar. Chocolate and vanilla yogurt with sprinkles:

With a price of 20 Crowns per 100 grams, I think it's reasonable. Quick bite!

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POST ROUNDUP - The Philippines Trip {Dec. 2013 - Jan. 2014}

Our holiday to the Philippines has been so much fun, and as you read this, I'm already at Stockholm in School. Here's a rather new segment of the blog, Post Roundup, which will recap the posts for you. Enjoy!

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Group Bonding at the Alabang Town Center  - It has been five, almost six, months since I've seen the people which I normally see every weekday, so it was awesome to spend a day with them at the mall and arcade we love!

EATS: Conti's Bakeshop & Restaurant (Greenbelt)  - After the scrumptious scrambled eggs served with my tapa and the clubhouse sandwich with French-bread, Conti's really proved to me that they serve the best cakes ever.

The University of the Philippines  - It's been four years since I've been here, and it's really great to see the Oblation and the Sunken Garden again.

EATS: Love Desserts -  A buffet of ice cream, pastries, chocolate mousse and peach cream in shot glasses and cakes all for PHP 199 (~ $ 4.50). Experienced with an awesome bunch of travellers too, this has been one of the most unforgettable experiences in the Philippines ever!

Conti's Bakeshop and Restaurant

The University of the Philippines' Oblation Statue

• More Awesome Philippines Posts

Jollibee  -  Probably one of the most iconic things in the Philippines. No trip to Manila is complete without experiencing Jollibee, a fast food chain that offers a range of hamburgers, fried chicken and even pasta, for a very affordable price.

The Filipino New Years   -   Experiencing the replacement of the old year to the next year is incomplete in the Philippines without knowledge on some of the superstitions we Filipinos follow, like jumping at the stroke of midnight and those 12 round fruits. 

Festival Supermall   -   One of the popular malls in our area is undergoing a "facelift like no other", where it will expand its area to accommodate much more shops and restaurants and attract loads more people. 

Greenbelt Mall  - Another Philippine mall that offers a wider range of boutiques, shops and clothing stores, all of which may be a pure Filipino brand, or one of the more internationally known brand. Greenbelt Mall also has a chapel, and features numerous food stalls and eateries. 

Street Food @ UP  -  Street food has been a part of Philippine neighbourhoods for as long as I can think of. It features a bicycle with an attached cart filled with cooking needs and even a stove!

EATS: Starbucks at the Greenbelt  -  It's Starbucks. Let it speak for itself.

EATS: Rodic's Diner at U.P - Rodic's is a diner in the University of the Philippines' Shopping Center which serves their all time best seller, tapa. This blog post is exclusive for Facebook Page Likers, but you can still click to read the post. 

Jollibee at Festival Supermall

Rodic's Diner @ U.P Diliman

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Greenbelt Mall

Our trips to Manila for our vacation here in the Philippines frequently end up here, in Greenbelt Mall, so I think it's about time I give you some insight about it.

Greenbelt is a shopping mall in Manila, and (from what I understand) is kinda separated to Greenbelts 1 through 5. Each part of the Greenbelt houses different kinds of services.

Based from Wikipedia, Greenbelt 1 features hardware stores and stores that sell home appliances, while Greenbelt 3 and 4 feature international brands (like Topman, Hermes, Calvin Klein...) and boutiques of the high-end quality (such as Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Prada) respectively. Filipino boutiques can be found on Greenbelt 5. Most of the "parts" of the Greenbelt have some eating options, both sit down and fast food.

One of the many entrances of Greenbelt 4.

The mall is very popular to the public. It's not as popular like the Alabang Town Center when it organizes major discounts and "perfect for haul" days where lots of shops have freebies and even half to 70% off discounts, but I have seen lots of people gather around it's clothing stores and its make-up shops.

Greenbelt also features a chapel, which adds to the popularity of the place. The chapel sparks a "nature-theme" because of the GREEN around it.  Also, the gardens near the chapel contains a koi pond and some sculptures (I really think they're sculptures. It's gonna be awkward if they're not) like this one:

Behind the sculpture is the Greenbelt Chapel.

Also, the chapel is near to a walk filled with coffee places like Starbucks and Seattle's Best Coffee!

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EATS: Jollibee @ Festival Mall

Ahhh Jollibee. If you roam around the streets of Manila, there's a 90% chance of you spotting one or two (or four, or twelve...), Jollibee is the most iconic Philippine fast food chain. It serves fried chicken, burgers, sandwiches and even pasta. 

We went to the Jollibee at the Festival Mall's fourth floor. No doubt, it was really busy. If you're living in Scandinavia, Jollibee is as busy, if not much more busier than Jensen's Böfhus. 

So they're famous for their Chickenjoy, which to me is a really weird name for fried chicken. My sister had this. 

I had the Burger Steak! They're basically two burger patties smothered with some kind of special gravy and a bit of mushrooms. The patties were "eh". I needed more gravy and mushrooms though.

Some fries on the side. There fries are really good because their long and crispy. Highly recommend!

Honestly, Jollibee is just one of those things that you need to experience when you're going to Manila, or the Philippines. Just get some fries and a Coke or whatever, and just experience the atmosphere. I really don't know if you'll like or hate the atmosphere, but as long as you experienced it. 

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Festival Supermall

From panoramio.com

Currently (As of 3 January, 2014), Festival Mall is only composed of four floors, with an okay variety of shops, restaurants and kiosks. In my opinion, it's outside looks unappealing in some areas. It has two of each supermarkets and hardware / shops, and a department store.

Also, 'till this day (date above), it's going through (what they call) "A facelift like no other" or some other thing like that, in order to expand the space, and maybe bring some new life to a mall that opened in 1998. 

What Festival Mall is today (3 Jan) is represented by the picture above.

Here's a picture of what Festival Mall would look life after their facelift:

From skyscrapercity.com

Based from the picture above, Festival Mall will look absolutely gorgeous from my perspective. I would say it would be more gorgeous than the Alabang Town Center.  

Back to it's features. The mall has two arcades, one of which contains a roller-coaster. Yes, a rollercoaster in a mall.

• Opinions

- I think that the mall is very child-friendly, because it does have attractions suited for children, such as a ride mocking a train going through various parts of the mall on the ground floor and a fun house on the third floor connected to an arcade, actually named Pixie Forest. 

- The mall has a numerous amount of fast food restaurants, if you're a person who likes to dine on fast food. However, I prefer the restaurants near the Alabang Town Center, which are more sit down and order than line and order before you sit down. 

- Finally, I think that the mall will be much more popular among the people when the renovation is done, and I can say that I am looking forward to go there when it is. 

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