Afternoon Taxi Issues

Journal No.1

How would you feel when your own fellow countrymen did bamboozled acts?

Defensive?

Angry?

Or perhaps dissappointed?

PINO Restaurant

"Don't expect life to serve you what you expect. Just enjoy the buffet."

- Manoj Vaz

PINO restaurant at Wilson Street, Lahug

Pino is an adjective used to express admiration. "Pino" may refer as a pleasing personality as in "pinong ugali" (fine or refined manners); impressive craftmanship as in "pinong burda" (fine embroidery); or impeccable preference as in "pinong panlasa" (fine or delicate taste buds).

If you're looking for a fine dining experience of Filipino dishes at the city - then Pino restaurant is what you're looking for. The restaurant has a nice Hispanic ambiance that would make you feel like dining during the colonial period. From the interior design to its intricate facade and beautiful chandeliers suspended on the ceiling; all screams style and elegance. Wait till you taste the wide array of sumptuous Filipino foods and your dining will be complete.

LARSIAN Cebu

"When it's brown it's cooking; when it's black it's done."

- BARBECUE

HUNGRY in CEBU? Grab a stick of barbecue at Larsian.

Larsian is a barbecue square-type strip with numerous stalls located at Fuente Osmeña. It is a bazaar of eateries that is a perfect place to experience Cebu's best barbecues. It's not a fancy restaurant that most foreigners would think about but are stalls of barbecue lined up around the perimeter of the place. Since it's located at Fuente Osmeña Circle, it's really accessible to jeepneys and taxis. 

LARSIAN on peak hours. DAMING TAO!!

BARIKATA Ramen Bar

Do noodles end their prayers with "RAMEN"?

BARIKATA at I.T Park Lahug

BARIKATA means "very hard" in English. This is use to state that you want your ramen noodles to be "very hard" in solidity, therefore the noodle was only boiled under a number of seconds to achieve the correct hardness. Hence, the name of the restaurant was taken from.

RAMEN 101:

Ramen is a noodle in soup dish which was originally made in China into Japan when the country open its border to Meiji Restoration. The word "Ra" means pulled (into) while "Men" means noodles. That's how the noodles were made in the old days, a single lump of dough was manually stretched and folded a dozens of times till it formed a bunch of thin noodles.

Ramen has mainly four types according to the broths being used; tonkotsu (pork bone), shoyu (soy sauce), shio (salt) and miso (fermented bean paste). Barikata is on tonkotsu based ramen.

BON ODORI FESTIVAL 2015

過去は未来によって変えられる。

"The past can be changed by the future."

 -Yoshiki Hayashi

Japan and Philippines had come a long way in the history. From the time Japan conquered Philippines to Second World War up until our friendship with Japan now. Indeed Yoshiki-san is right "The past can be changed by the future". Even if we have negative encounters with Japan before it didn't become a hindrance to make amends and become friends today and hopefully until the near future. 

One way of continuing the friendship and connection we have with Japan. Bon Odori Festival in Cebu was made. It started last year and successfully it continued this year. This festival aims to let both Filipino and Japanese people experience the cultural exchange between these two countries.

Bon Odori, simply means Bon dance; a style of dancing performed during Obon. Originally a Nenbutsu folk dance to welcome the spirits of the dead, the style of celebration varies in many aspects from region to region. Each region has a local dance, as well as different music. The music can be songs specifically pertinent to the spiritual message to Obon, or local min'yo folk songs. Consequently, the Bon dance will look and sound different from region to region. The way in which the dance is performed is also different in each region, though the typical Bon dance involves people lining up in a circle around a high wooden scaffold made especially for the festival called a yagura. -Bon Odori; Wikipedia