Manila: Eat Healthy! Wabi-Sabi

My friend Victoria from Adgent's London office is in town and unlike me, she's really into healthy living. Sure, I try to go to the gym 3x a week and usually eat lots of fruits and veggies when I'm on a diet (usually 3 weeks a month) but come cheat week, I binge and eat junk! Victoria, on the other hand, can't get proper sleep after eating too much junk because her system is not used to it and she goes to the gym regularly (I believe she's a yoga instructor). When she discovered Chimara, a restaurant that serves healthy food, she started going there everyday for breakfast AND lunch! So for a change, we took her to this vegetarian place inside The CoLLECTIVE called Wabi-Sabi.

You can see Victoria looking at the menu

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The place is not that big but well-utilized :)

for starters, we ordered Veggie Cracklings. It's really good! Made out of Tofu but tastes like real Chicharon! A must-try! ;)

Thai Milk Tea - right amount of sweetness, it's actually really good.

Shoyu Ramen - so good you won't believe it's good for you! Yep, that good! It has mock beef, adobo hard-boiled egg,  and a sheet of nori as add-ons to the noodle soup. Soup's awesome, btw! Really tasty :)

Pot stickers - a healthy gyoza, not bad considering there's no actual meat in it.

My lunch buddies for the night (mid-shift ako eh), Victoria, Kirby, Jennie, Charm, and Blanca :)

After our meal, I ordered their Chocolate Vegan Cake

According to the staff, it's flour-less, egg-less, sugar-free, etc. In short, it's healthy daw. Even if I can't verify if what they said is true or not, I ordered it anyway out of curiosity haha! It's good, but according to Blanca and Kirby, it tasted like mumurahing (cheap affordable) chocolate cake from your friendly neighborhood bakeries. But hey, if it's really healthy, MASARAP ha :)

Wabi-Sabi Noodle House & Vegetarian Grocery - The CoLLECTIVE

7274 Malugay St., Brgy. San Antonio, Makati

09184501714