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Coffee Jelly Frappuccino at StarbucksCoffee

The Coffee Jelly Frappuccino:

Featuring layers of dark roast coffee jelly, cool blended coffee Frappuccino, and caramel syrup. It’s topped with espresso whipped cream.

The “Rea Frap” has three layers: Coffee jelly, vanilla ice cream, and whipped cream. Though, as you can see in my photo, the layers merge into each other so the drink doesn’t look as pretty in real life as it does in the Starbucks photo. I usually don’t like coffee and I’m not a big coffee drinker but somehow, the coffee jelly in the "Rea Frap" makes sense

It’s almost like a coffee version of bubble tea and it even comes with an extra-wide straw so you can suck up the big chunks of jelly, which of course is softer than the tapioca pearls.

The "Rea Frap" is not as sweet as one could fear, and if you mix the different layers well before drinking, it actually tastes like coffee. However, there’s no doubt it still feels more like a dessert than a real cup of coffee. Though for the coffee-curious ones like me, the Coffee Jelly Frappuccino is easy to love.

Boodle Fight

Boodle fight for us: Milkfish and Pinakbet on top of the rice and with fried fish at the side of it.

Ever heard of a Boodle Fight? Well, in Philippine usage the boodle fight is a military eating tradition, originally practiced by the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) cadets, where in members of the military gather around a long table where a jumble of food is spread over banana leaves and eaten with bare hands as a symbol of fraternity and equality.

We celebrate our first reunion here with my batch mates and we planned to have a boodle fight together as not being a member of the military but as my real family. I must say, it is usually prepared in celebration after long years that we’ve not seen each other.

The Kuya J Halo-Halo Espesyal

The Kuya J Halo-Halo:

Made with paper-thin shaved ice that’s as smooth and creamy, you’ll find an array of sweet and meaty macapuno strings, red and green nata de coco, caramelized saba, velvety ube jam, and glazed langka. On top of that, it also has a thick chunk of homemade leche flan, sprinkled with crunchy corn flakes and drizzled with ube jam.

Summer is about to end and that rainy season is just around the corner here in the Philippines. But before we say goodbye to beach parties and the extra-scorching heat of the sun, I made it a point to make one last “hurrah” and experience one of the best things that I love about summer.

One of the first things that come to mind when you’re saying “dessert” and “summer” in same sentence is the well-loved Pinoy halo-halo. This is so popular here in the Philippines, that we have lots of versions of it already, with several restaurants coming up with their own special halo-halo varieties.

Just recently, another entry was added to my “Must-try halo-halos” List. I saw one of my friends rave over instagram about how she’s not a huge Halo-Halo fan yet she can’t get over how good the Kuya J Halo-Halo Espesyal was. With my curiosity tickled, I knew I had to get a taste of the Kuya J Halo-Halo Espesyal.