Picasso Museum in Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸

 

A tour of Pablo Picasso's extensive paintings / artwork collection at The Museu Picasso in Barcelona, Spain. 

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How to Start a Garden for Beginners

How to start a garden for beginners? Our gardening style is simple, easy and quick. We have full time jobs and have very minimal time to spend tilling the garden, so if you are interested in knowing how we take care of our garden, then come join me. I'll just tackle the basic of gardening. What the plants need, what is the ideal location to build a garden, what type of soil, how we water our plants, what we use to combat the critters eating our garden and some gardening tips and tricks.

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Filipino Christmas Eve Dinner

Cooking vlog on the night before Christmas in our home in Los Angeles, California.

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Moroccan Tagine Dinner at Home, Sadaf Persian Restaurant and Filipino Christmas Vlog

Cooking Moroccan lamb tagine at home, some Christmas happenings and dinner at Sadaf Persian Restaurant.

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Weekend at Home

 

Filipino Weekend at Home Vlog, Relaxing in the Backyard Garden + Trader Joe's Finds

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A Day In The Life Of A Filipino American Family

A typical day in the life of a Filipino-American family in LA - daily routines like cooking, running errands, eating out, shopping, school and driving around.

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See's and Läderach Chocolate Shopping

Chocolate shopping vlog at See's Candies and Läderach.

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Trader Joe's Grocery Shopping & Haul | Christmas Holiday 🛒🎄

Holiday shopping with some Christmas stuff, some new items and some absolute favorites. This is a shopping tour of Trader Joe's store plus shopping haul here in Los Angeles, California.

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Mimi's Cafe, Pickleball and Jinya Ramen ☕️🎾🍜

Met a friend today and had Pain Perdu for breakfast at Mimi's Cafe. Then off to the park to take a stroll and play pickleball. Then to the mall for ramen at Jinya Ramen.

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Bizan Izakaya in Little Tokyo 🇯🇵

Yakitori, sushi mukbang at Bizan Izakaya in Little Tokyo.

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How To Install A Rain Shower Head - Hibbent 🚿

Let's upgrade our bathroom DIY with a super cool rain shower.

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Russian Market Grocery Shopping & Haul

A tour of a Russian grocery market in Los Angeles plus shopping haul. Los Angeles is a melting pot of many culture and a place where you can buy food from across the globe.

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Christmas Decorations🎄🤶🎁

Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la, la la la la.  

Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la, la la la la!

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Filipino Cooking and Gardening 🇵🇭🍳🌱

 

Preparing Filipino brunch at home and backyard gardening.

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Grocery Shopping Haul @ Korean Market 🇰🇷🇺🇸

Grocery shopping at Galleria Korean Market plus grocery shopping haul.

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From Our Home Garden 🌱🍋🍊 |

What fruit trees to grow in the garden? If I could only grow one tree, I would pick a lemon tree. Growing citrus trees in the backyard garden, especially a lemon tree,  can save a lot of money since they are expensive to buy from the grocery stores, but very prolific when grown in a home garden. On this video, let's take a tour of the citrus trees we are growing in our backyard garden, from oranges, to lemons, calamansi and kumquats.

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In-N-Out Burger 🍔

In-N-Out Burger is one of the most popular burger spots here in California. Our favorite is the double-double burger "animal style" and always with fries. This is Josh first time to order in the drive thru.

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Moqueca Brazilian Restaurant 🇧🇷

Moqueca Brazilian Restaurant in Thousand Oaks serve delicious Brazilian food with very friendly service and lovely ambience.

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Seafood City Filipino Grocery Shopping & Haul 🇵🇭

 

A quick tour of the renovated Seafood City, the new bakeshop Bakers Avenue plus our shopping haul.

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Filipino Thanksgiving Dinner and Get Together 🦃

We roasted turkey, steamed Maine lobster tails, sauteed vegetables and cooked some Filipino side dishes - pancit bihon and macaroni salad. The lemons were freshly-picked from our backyard edible garden, as well as the herbs - rosemary, sage, thyme and chives. Our friends brought the Thanksgiving cake from Porto's. 

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Amazon Black Friday Deals 2024

 

Firmo, Amoretu, Spuer, LetPot, Deerfamy and Amopatio Brand Collaborations

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Filipino Brunch and Dinner at Home

Some harvest from our backyard edible garden in Los Angeles, California, cooking Filipino brunch and dinner and some random life vlog.

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World Market Advent Calendar and Christmas Shopping

A tour of World Market's Christmas shop from Christmas decors to Christmas goodies and some interesting Christmas advent calendars to choose from including a soup advent calendar.

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German Grocery Shopping and Bavarian Dinner

Grocery shopping, store tour and grocery haul at a German Deli, Continental Sausage Co.plus preparing a Bavarian-themed dinner at home.

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Winter Gardening and Cooking Filipino Food

Gardening day, making weekend brunch, grocery shopping at a Filipino seafood market, cooking a Filipino dish and some random life vlog.

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Nursery Tour and Plant Haul

It's the time of the year once again when we are about to switch our spring / summer garden to fall /winter garden.

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Sushi at Mutsumi in Chatsworth

Dinner was sushi at Mutsumi in Chatsworth, a suburban neighborhood in Los Angeles, California.

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Our Home, Garden and Life Vlog

A tour of our backyard edible and flower garden, calamansi harvest and some random life vlog which include lunch at Little Goat Pizza in Glendale.

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Trader Joe's Grocery Shopping & Haul 🦃 🛒

Some new products which include Thanksgiving items as well as some absolute favorites. This is a shopping tour of Trader Joe's store plus shopping haul here in Los Angeles, California.

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Filipino Food, Garden Harvest, Halloween and Mexican bread 🍩🎃🥗

A peek of our backyard edible garden in Los Angeles, California, cooking a Filipino dinner, bread from La Panaderia and some random life vlog.

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Filipino Food, Garden and Life Vlog 🌱🍐🌸

A peek of our backyard edible garden in Los Angeles, California, cooking a Filipino dinner and some random life vlog.

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Let's Play Pickleball 🏓🎾

Pickleball is a great hobby and an awesome workout!

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UYGHUR Food

 Delicious taste of Uyghur cuisine at Dolan's.

Amazon Fresh Grocery Shopping Using Dash Cart 🐟🥩🛒

Just a typical weekend routine - grocery shopping on weekends. The not so typical is the store, we usually go to different places, but this time we’re here at Amazon Fresh. This specific location is actually the very first Amazon Fresh brick-and-mortar store.

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Dave & Buster's Arcade Games & Cool Prizes

Here for my my son's friend's birthday party. This is a great place for both kids and grown-ups to have fun.

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Weekend Vlog | Living in Los Angeles 🧇🌸 🥖

Just some typical weekend routines like gardening, making breakfast, cleaning the house and cooking dinner.

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Dinner at Home - Spanish Tapas 🇪🇸

Dinner last weekend with stuff that we got from the Spanish Market. Dessert was Crema Catalana, the Spanish version of Creme Brûlée or Filipino's Leche Flan.

Spirit Halloween Store Tour 🎃

What to wear on Halloween? This Spirit Halloween store tour will show you an "endless" costumes to choose from and hopefully through this video you find a Halloween costume that fits perfectly with your style.

Galleria Market Tour | Korean Grocery Store 🇰🇷

Los Angeles is one of the most diverse cities in the world where you can find grocery stores and markets that sell stuff from many countries including South Korea. This video is a tour of Galleria Market, a popular Korean grocery store/market.

Ethiopian Restaurants in Little Ethiopia 🇪🇹

Los Angeles is one of the most diverse cities in the world where you can find restaurants serving authentic food from many countries including Ethiopia. This video features restaurants in Little Ethiopia - Lalibela and Merkato. Lalibela is rated Bib Gourmand by Michelin while Merkato was visited by Anthony Bourdain.

Filipino Brunch at Home 🌱🍳🇵🇭

A typical Filipino weekend breakfast / brunch at home with bitter melon harvested from the backyard garden, longanisa and eggplant omelet.

Gardening, Cooking and Life Vlog 🌱🌸🍇

Growing vegetables, fruits and flowers in our urban organic backyard garden, garden tour, some harvest and random Filipino family vlogs - pastries from Pascal Patisserie & Cafe and dinner "to go" from Poquito Mas Restaurant.

AUDECOOK Electric Hot Pot With Steamer 🥟🥢

In the mood for some hearty soup even though the heat of Summer continues to linger - Egg Drop Soup using Audecook electric hot pot. On the steamer, I cooked dumplings, Filipino "taho" / tofu with tapioca pears and liquid brown sugar from the Japanese market.

How to CARVE A PUMPKIN the EASY WAY To Make Jack-o'-Lantern 🎃

How to CARVE A PUMPKIN the EASY WAY To Make Jack-o'-Lantern | Are you looking for tips on how to design and carve your own pumpkin?  There are lots of wonderful activities and happenings in the Fall and PUMPKIN CARVING is one of our favorites! On this video, we'll show you how to carve a pumpkin using Haushof Pumpkin Carving Tool Set with pumpkin carving stencils. If interested in this sponsored product, here's the link https://amzn.to/3Bl5P6p

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FLOWERS can brighten up your HOME 🏠🌸🌼

Being with flowers is relaxing and can provide a nature atmosphere in the comfort of your home. How to brighten up your home with flowers? Please take a look at the plant terrarium that we put together. It has the perfect vases to showcase the flowers that I picked from our backyard garden.

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Filipino Home in Los Angeles Fall Decorations

When is the start of Fall/Autumn? The autumnal equinox will arrive on Sunday, September 22nd. Let's welcome Fall/Autumn, my second most favorite season next to Spring, by decorating our home with some pumpkins, fall foliage and fall-themed wall decors. Happy Fall y'All! 

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Father's Day Gift Ideas / Guide

Can't find the perfect Father's Day gift yet? Here's a curated list of some best sellers that will surely bring a smile to loved ones on Father's Day. These products are available at Amazon (click on this link or on the photo) #ad

Balay Dako in Tagaytay City, Philippines

Located on Tagaytay-Nasugbu Highway, overlooking Taal Lake and Taal Volcano, Balay Dako serves Filipino food at its finest.

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Makati Shangri-La Hotel Tour and Restaurants, a 5-Star Luxury Hotel In The Philippines

Some clips from our 2-week stay at Makati Shangri-La Hotel in the Philippines. Link to video on YouTube. 

Makati Shangri-La - Breakfast at Circles Event Cafe

A wide array of delicious breakfast dishes to choose from and very friendly service. A big shout out to the entire crew.

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Yung Kee Restaurant at Hong Kong International Airport

Where to eat at Hong Kong International Airport? This Yung Kee Restaurant at Hong Kong International Airport is a branch of the iconic Michelin star restaurant in Hong Kong Island. Their most famous dish is roast duck.

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Los Angeles, USA to Manila, Philippines via Cathay Pacific with Layover in Hong Kong

Traveling from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to Manila (MNL) with layover in Hong Kong International Airport (HKG). 

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Garden Sleeves Are Essential During Summer

Garden sleeves can help protect our arms from the scorching sun during hot summer days, from the UV rays and from insect bites. Here are the garden sleeves (#ad) I have been using for a couple of years now.

Harvesting oranges, grapevines and picking flowers

 It's the start of the season of bounty. Today, we harvested some grape leaves to add into the Filipino version of sour soup "sinigang," harvested some oranges and picked some gorgeous flowers while using a pink Garden Stool/Kneeler from Deerfamy. Video posted here (#ad).

How To Get Rid Of Garden Pests and Diseases Fast and Easy

We have a lot of garden friends like the bees, the butterflies and the birds, but we have garden enemies too. To get rid of them organically, I mix dishwashing soup, cooking oil and water and use a sprayer that connects to a hose. If you are interested in this method, I posted a video here with a link to the sprayer. (#ad)

What Is The Best Stand Up Weed Puller?

Are you losing your battle against the weeds growing wild and invading your garden? This weed puller available at Amazon (#ad) can uproot them effortlessly.

 

How To Make Snow Cones At Home

Making snow cones at home is a quintessential summer activity especially when you have kids. If you are planning to do one, but don't have an ice shaver, please check out what I am using and a few other suggestions on this video (#ad)

Outdoor Dining Set for Summer Gatherings

Summer is a great time to have breakfast or dinner in the backyard garden. It’s relaxing and memorable. If you are planning to have one and don’t have an outdoor dining set, the one we have is already off market, but there are endless of other options you can  you choose from. I picked a few suggestions at Amazon (#ad).