It’s impossible to talk about cultural tattooing without talking about colonisation and history, so first, a digression: Los Pintados Tattooing isn’t generally thought of as part of modern Filipino culture, unless it’s from a Western context. Tattoos are thought of as marks of a rebellious and suspicious nature, or of someone with a big enough […]
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This was to be a regular historical walking tour. But since I’m me and I know that our tour guide does not shy away from dark tourism (a real moneymaker in other parts of the world), I knew that I could get a few ghost stories out of the adventure.
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What Uber driver used to have for breakfast in the province makes me hungry.
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Let me tell you about the time I had to charm a guard into letting me view some porn.
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If you order Western food in a Japanese-style Western restaurant, be prepared to have your pasta or burger steak taste the same, but different.
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It’s not my first time to visit Hong Kong, but it’s my first time there as a tourist.
Read moreThe Appetite and Carnation Family Food Trip was fun and educational, but we had to head back to Manila. Before we left, we has breakfast, where I once again had champorado. They offered tapa and tocino, but since for some reason they didn’t offer eggs, I decided to skip that. Strangely enough, their coffee wasn’t […]
Read moreAfter a cultural tour of Taal townfor the Appetite and Carnation Family Food Trip, we checked into the beautiful Club Balai Isabel, where we got to try out their newest rooms, all of which face Taal Lake. And then we had dinner, which consisted of Fish Fillet in Capsicum Sauce, where the fish was marinated in […]
Read moreHere are some of the things you can see in Taal. Admittedly, these are the things most people will go to when visiting the historic town. Our tight schedule means we didn’t have time to explore, but that doesn’t mean that we didn’t have fun. Taal is known for many things, including: Ancestral houses, in the […]
Read moreHere’s part two of the Carnation Family Food Trip, hosted in cooperation with Appetite magazine. We visited the Shrine of Our Lady of Caysasay (which means kingfisher) and the miraculous Sta. Lucia Well. We said hello to the penguin that stands outside the shrine (What the statue of an Antarctic bird is doing in a tropical […]
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