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Pampanga’s pride is indeed its heritage and cuisine. Here are some of the places you might want to try out while you are there:
In Everybody’s Cafe, Kapampangan food is available everyday in their turo-turo style display. Try out the pako salad, calderetang baka, morcon, chicharon bulaklak, tortang bangus, inihaw na hito or bulalo soup. For [...]
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These are not yams or sweet potatoes (kamote). These are yacon.
It can be eaten raw. Its crunchiness resembles that of sinkamas; however, Yacon is sweet with a slight tinge of a gingerly taste to it. And although sweet, it doesn’t affect one’s sugar level. No wonder it is popular among those with diabetes and [...]
Popularity: 18% [?]
Bicol cuisine is known for its dishes cooked in gata or coconut cream. Anything cooked in coconut milk is known as ginataang. Squit or crabs cooked in coconut milk are my favourite dishes. The other key ingredient of Bicol cooking is the sili (hot chilli). There are many kind of sili, among them the tiny [...]
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“Eat and be merry, for tomorrow you will…”
One drizzly Sunday, 5 friends and I drove to Clark in Angeles, Pampanga. We had lunch at the Canteen of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. Post 2495 (otherwise known as VFW Canteen). I ordered their famous Eggs Benedict. It came in [...]
Popularity: 11% [?]
No Problem Restaurant is a Dampa-like style of a restaurant where you market first the food in their own mini market where you’ll find Lapu-Lapu (a fish named after a certain Filipino hero of Cebu), crabs, seaweeds and the likes, then ask them to cook it for you and then eat it.
Popularity: 5% [?]
Popularity: 5% [?]
The Original AA Barbeque is located along Salinas Drive at Lahug, Cebu City. It is famous for its barbeque dishes mainly because it is not the type where you would sit down first, call a waiter, then order your meal. The first step that you should do is to order at the counter where you [...]
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My last trip to Baguio was in August of 2005 but I must have made the most out of our week-end visit there than any place else. It was the middle of the rainy season so half the time, we were forced to stay indoors.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Popularity: 6% [?]
One of the few yet popular bakeshop and pasalubong stores in Iloilo City is the Biscocho Haus. Over half a dozen branches spread all over Iloilo catering to travellers and tourists, the Original Biscocho Haus has survived the test and taste of time.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Popularity: 6% [?]
Most people would hear the word Guimaras and immediately associate it with its sweetest mangoes. Guimaras mangoes are famous woldwide that it has been oftentimes referred to as the World’s Best Variety.
Popularity: 8% [?]
Popularity: 8% [?]
The undisputed King of the Grill in Davao City. What makes it different from other grills is it’s reputation for dishing out bottomless rice. Packaged meals of pork and chicken barbeque can be had at an affordable price (Php 50~55 range). Drinks are also within a reasonable price range.
Popularity: 9% [?]
Popularity: 9% [?]
