What Uber driver used to have for breakfast in the province makes me hungry.
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The Shunga Exhibit, or ‘The Time My Friend and I Tried to Look at Old Japanese Porn’
Let me tell you about the time I had to charm a guard into letting me view some porn.
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Japanese-style Spaghetti and other Western-ish Food
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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Stanley Park: Exploring Hong Kong, Part 1
It’s not my first time to visit Hong Kong, but it’s my first time there as a tourist.
Read moreA Cultural Tour of Taal, Batangas Part 5 of 5
The 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 moreA Cultural Tour of Taal, Batangas Part 4 of 5
After 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 moreA Cultural Tour of Taal, Batangas Part 3 of 5
Here 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 moreA Cultural Tour of Taal, Batangas Part 2 of 5
Here’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 […]
Read moreA Cultural Tour of Taal, Batangas Part 1 of 5
This is a picture of the original statue of Our Lady of Caysasay, which can be found in the town of Caysasay (which means kingfisher) in Taal, Batangas. I originally went there as part of the Carnation Family Food Trip ’09 (in cooperation with Appetite magazine), but I got hooked on the historical aspects of […]
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