Dinner with Pantaleons

Among the many friends we met while Chief and I were based in Saigon, Mila and Bingo Pantaleon are our BFF. Yes, Bingo started out as a client of Chief while she was Managing Director of McCann Vietnam and Bingo was Marketing Director of United Pharma Vietnam. Locally, they are United Laboratories.

Through our tour of duty, we often went out as couples, having lunch at Al Fresco along Dong Du Street or after office coffee at the lobby of Sheraton Hotel. Or red wine, if Philip Tiongson was feeling harassed.

Mila and Chief shared the passion for shopping. I remember as our tour of duty was winding down and my cousin, Patrick Velez, was staying with us, we all made an out of town trip to a ceramics factory. Panic buying.

These days, Bingo and Mila are based in Burma. And every Christmas, it is a must for us to get together .

This Christmas, the Pantaleons proudly showed off their new place near EDSA Shangrila Mall. And it a beautiful place with a great view of the city, whether the CBD side or Greenhills side. Their corner condo unit faces EDSA and Ortigas.


Here is a photo of the food, all from Conti’s!

Am sure Chief would like to have a well-designed and arranged home like this one. With less the clutter and kalat all over our current Greenhome. But we can’t really avoid kalat. We have Rafa and Angel to keep us busy! And that is what kids are for, right?