No-bake oreo cheesecake

I really like cheesecakes and I've been wanting to have an oven at home just to try out baking stuff but it's still expensive for me haha! Good thing I got a recipe which didn't require an oven HAHA! The recipe was from my friend's mom which she got from a newspaper. Some friends have been asking me about it so I decided to put it here :)

It's easy as one, two three..

Ingredients:

Crust: 1 1/2 C Oreo crumbs, 1/4 C Baker's Margarine melted

Filling: 1 package Magnolia cream cheese softened, 1/4 C sugar, 1 C all purpose cream, 1 C Oreo crumbs, 3 tbsp full cream milk, 1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

Toppings: 1/4 C Oreo crumbs --> I opt to put dark chocolate shavings :)

To make the crust, mix the Oreo crumbs and melted butter then transfer it into a springform o cake pan which has a removable bottom pan, spread it evenly then chill.

For the filling, beat the cream cheese and sugar at medium speed until light and well blended. Dissolve the gelatin in milk over low heat then add to the cream cheese batter, continue beating. In a separate bowl, whip the chilled all purpose cream at high speed until fluffy (volume is doubled), then fold in the cream cheese mixture. Then fold in the coarsely chopped Oreo cookies. Transfer into the crust, spread evenly then chill for 2-3 hours. Add toppings.

Though I added the choco shavings before chilling it which was okay because the choco shavings became crispy :)

Voila! no sweat! no bake oreo cheesecake!

You just need to invest on a hand mixer and cake pan and of course the ingredients :)

before chilling :)

after 2 1/2 hours! oyeah!

Food Trip: Kanzhu Hand-pulled Noodles

This small restaurant is located along Marcos Highway, in front of Mcdo, and is beside Pizza Hut. I have seen it before with its huge tarpaulin during their opening months ago and I really wanted to try it. My first attempt was last November (I think) with my dgroupmates but it didn't push through. So there, I made yaya my kaladkarin friend and in the end 2 of my other closest friends joined us for dinner last February 1. 

The Menu. 

Even before we got to the place, I was already thinking of ordering a noodle soup since it's a noodle house. The menu looked good, there were 3 kinds of noodle dishes - dry noodles, noodle soup, and the stir fried (I think, examples are the common Pancit that we Filipinos know about). They also had rice and a few dimsum/dumplings. 

Oh btw, the people/crew were very polite and always smiling. They welcomed us with open smiles and warm greetings, and they immediately arranged our table and gave us their free soup and fish crackers. 

Back to the menu. We decided to have different noodle dishes so we could try everything (not everything of course but at least 4 out of the many noodle dishes HAHA). Two of my friends ordered from the dry noodle section and a friend and I ordered from the noodle soup menu. Then we decided we want rice 'cause we're patay gutoms haha we ordered the beef fried rice. 

 Braised beef with tendon

Mixed seafood dry noodles

Pork dumpling with chives noodle soup

Lamb something noodle soup

Beef fried rice

Sorry for the not-so-appetizing photos HAHA! I tasted everything and I really liked the Mixed seafood dry noodles the most. It had a perfect combination of sweet, salty and a pinch of spiciness! The braised beef noodles was okay, it was just like the braised beef dimsum but with noodles, what I like about it was that the beef was tender. I ordered the pork dumpling with chives which was also good..well at least for me. The waiter gave me a separate sauce which I wasn't sure where to use, first I tried it with the dumpling, it was okay. Then I decided to add it into the noodle soup -- at first I didn't get the taste of it..the sauce was sour-like but then after a while I think it did compliment the taste of the soup. The dumpling was more of chives with pork rather than pork with chives if you know what I mean, it was delicious nevertheless - authentic chinese dumpling! The soup of the lamb something dish was I think similar to the base soup of my dish, and the only difference is the dumpling - it was...hmmm weird. HAHA! I was like "ganun pala lasa ng lamb" very tasty, smoothy (?) and after a while I realize I'm not a fan of it HAHA! Oh well..Hey! Like before, I really like eating at food places where the serving size is as good as the price and the taste of course! And I have to say, Kanzhu's serving is large. I was eating my noodles and dumplings at a normal pace and there was a time (a lot of time) when I thought I'm about to finish but then when I scooped into the bowl of noodles, it's as if my bowl was refilled with noodles! It felt like it was an unlimited noodle soup! HAHA! We were surprised really at how big the bowls were when they were served HAHA! Ayan kasi ang PG! Anyway, we did enjoy! haha! And the beef rice! It was a simple beef fried rice like any other fried rice in a Chinese restaurant, we though it'll be tasty enough to survive on its own but no..needs some dumpling to satisfy your taste buds :)  The serving again was large that we were not able to finish it :)))

So there. We were satisfied with the food. The serving's overwhelming. And the price is just right - ranged from P150-P180. The place looks good with the infinite mirror effect! haha! And what is good food without a good and long talk with your closest friends right?! so yeah, we were noodle-drowned and chismis-filled after :)