MATURE? ME?

Journal No. 3

"Sometimes LIFE makes you GROW UP EARLY"

"Just last year you look like a girl, now you really did matured and became a woman."

MOOON CAFE

"As long as we're under the same MOON, I'll feel close to you."

Why MOOON Cafe and not MOON Cafe? The three O's represent the three original artist-owners of the restaurant.

Mexican cuisine is primarily a fusion of indigenous Mesoamerican cooking with European, especially Spanish. It is created mostly with ingredients native in Mexico such as tomatoes, squashes, avocados, cocoa and vanilla. - Wikipedia

Mooon Cafe is a mexican-inspired restaurant firstly opened in an unassuming neighborhood in Guadalupe, Cebu City. Last Saturday two of my girlfriends and I went there to explore the sumptuous meal Moon Cafe could offer.

Pressure IN LOVE

Journal No.2

Love has killed more than any other disease.

 - Rumpelsliltskin

Yet, many still want to be a victim.

This past few days, I feel like being cooked inside a pressure cooker. I'm not stating about the weather but I wish I could, it's about the people who pressure me be in love instantly. To have a magical fairy tale like everyone else in the family. I'm not in a hurry, I believe someone is meant for me and one day without even realizing he'll just stand in front me loving me passionately. Hopeless romantic am I? Yeah, I know right. But these pressures their putting me into is sometimes getting its toll. Recently, their matchmaking me with people I dont know playing cupid and stuff. Isn't it annoying?

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.