Cebu: #3.2 Razon’s Halo-halo

Following the full meal, my friend brought us to this traditional Filipino Dessert House to try their dessert:
Halo Halo

While waiting for the dessert, around the vicinity this shop below has second hand clothes that come from all over the world ( from funerals or even US and all) that are priced really cheap! At times, you can even find money inside that people forgot to take out.

Back to the dessert, so we ordered to share:

Entrance

Purple Yam Ice-Cream

Halo Halo (without Ice-cream)

Halo Halo (with Ice-Cream)

Palabok ( Noodles with Egg, sauce made from shrimp paste)

Verdict: 7/7 of us will return.
The kids really loved the ice-cream they had to really be at each other’s throats to share it 🙂
Halo Halo, this is the first time I am eating this, and by far I think it resembles our local dessert Chendol to some extent. Between the layers of ice, there are dried jackfruit, banana, gula melaka and other things inside that I am not sure what the name is. On top is like a “creme bulee” equivalent. Very interesting dessert I have eaten thus far.
The Palabok is just a simple type of noodle (reminds me of mee siam/mee rebus to some extent because of the texture of the sauce and the ingredients). The sauce kinda taste abit faint, not starchy as I thought it would be.

If only we had a bigger stomach!!!

Razon Halo Halo
General Maxilom Street,
Cebu City,
Cebu 6000
Philipines

Following this,
we had the experience of taking the jeepney before being sent to the air port!

Boarding the Jeepney

At the airport, we chanced upon the lechon from Zuboron
Decided to let the family try!!

One for the road home

Bye Cebu!!
Till we meet again!!!

Cebu: #3.1 Boosog Lasang Pinoy Restaurant

Last day here today ..
Finally got to meet my friend and she brought us to this restaurant for lunch with her family!
prior ordering food at the restaurant, I asked my friend if she heard of Ngo Hiong ( another snack that another classmate recommended to try)
She brought me across the road to get

Snack Shop

All Fried and ready

Can request for on the spot

Ngo Hiang (Spring Roll)

Filling

Apparently you eat it with soy sauce as well.
So came the lunch, we have met fellow foodies as well,
thankfully for them, they ordered to share (and told us to leave space for dessert!) :
*disclaimer I tried to find for the accurate name for the dishes, but i can’t read any Tagalog so there might be some errors in the name being properly spelt or pronounced/ called and some will just be in English

Baked Scallops

Rellenong Talong (Eggplant with assorted vinegar-ed vegetable)

Bicol express ( French Beans and chilli with coconut milk)

Inutok( Similar to Grids?)

Also known as the farmer’s rice, Poor man who had to ‘pack’ their own rice

Fried Pork belly

Spicy Vegetables

Kinilaw ( Vinegar Tuna salad with Roast Pork and coconut milk)

BBQ Chicken

Mixed Fruits Chiller

Baked Eggplant with Crab meat

Monggos (kind of like a savoury green bean mung bean soup )

Oxtail Soup Equivalent

Pork BBQ

Fried Prawn with vinegar dipping sauce

SA-ANG ( Conch)

Verdict: 7 (including 2 kids) /7 of us will definitely return!
Everything was just so good!! Totally enjoyed everything!!! In order to be competitive, restaurants here will offer free flow of rice? so, you will be seeing waiters carrying tubs of rice and freely refilling your plates.

Free Flow Rice

Boosog Lasang Pinoy Restaurant
Juan Luna Avenue,,
Mabolo, Cebu City,
Cebu, Philippines

Cebu:2.3 Larsian BBQ

After another massage, then finally
Dinner at their newton equivalent:
Larsian BBQ

Apart from the friendly touting, every stall seemed to sell the similar products at a glance.
Every table had this:

On every table

1 plastic glove and lime, banana leaf as plate

leaf wrapped rice

Use this to accompany with rice

A neighbour sitting next to us was teaching us how to prepare and use what was given.
you basically wear the glove, use the banana leaf as a plate and squeeze the lime. On the table, there should be soy sauce and chilli, feel free to add that into your saucer as well
The rice is cold, and people will just open it beforehand and push it into their plate.
You will be charged for however many you take/ open into your plate.

Cod Fish, BBQ Pork

Chicken Breast and Pork

Cod Fish and Stuffed Squid with Green Pepper

Central place where the food are all cooked from all the different stalls

Verdict: 2/2 of us will return
I was honestly apprehensive going in there and eating the food ( for sanitation reasons) and really scared to end up with a bad stomach ( we only after all have 1 toilet shared between 2 of us .. and if two of us gets food poisoning at the same time, it could be quite a terrible night)
But, we amazingly didn’t end up with that problem.
The marinade of the BBQ were mostly very sweet, like a sweet sauce equivalent, and the fish was very fresh we ordered two rounds. It was really good I must say, apart from the heat from the BBQs and cooking. A very good experience nonetheless. If you are more adventurous, there are like chicken gizzards and all as well to choose from.
we even chanced upon a famous Filipino celebrity!!

Cebu: #2.2 Ayala Mall

So we headed back to the city (earlier than expected)
and decided to check out ayala mall (near to our hotel)

We chanced upon Krispy Kreme and saw that they had more new items (compared to Singapore) and decided to go try

Kit Kat Flavoured and Original

Mango Kruffin

Verdict: 2/2 of us definitely will return.
Mango Kruffin : This tasted like a muffin and doughnut mixed together. The batter was thick, but there was cream inside, mango cream to be specific. The mango was really sweet by itself, so after a while couldn’t finish this whole thing. It was just interesting nonetheless. Filipinos really take their sweets very seriously! 🙂

Of course, decided to go and try this place since we were around the vicinity:
Jollibee

Entrance

Spicy and Non Spicy, Rice, corn, Ice Cream

(I must say though, it was around .. 4 pm that we decided to go in and order and there were so many people around!!!
we tried to order without rice because we just wanted to try, but some how or rather, they didn’t really allow us to do that
Every meal in Jollibee came with RICE

Verdict: 0/2 of us will return.
We finally tried it but ok, compared to KFC or Popeyes, I think I prefer Popeyes better. My friend said she likes KFC better though hahaha .. but ok at least we got to try this for now

Krispy Kreme/ Jollibee
Ayala Center Cebu,Cebu Business Park,
Archbishop Reyes Avenue,
Cebu City 6000,
Metro Cebu, Philippines

Cebu: #2.1 Oslob Whale Watching, Tumalog Water Falls

We set off early, signed up with this agency, at 4 am with minimal sleep
As part of the package we signed up for, breakfast and lunch will be provided.

what was really interesting was as we were arriving to the whale shark watching place, the roosters from each house were crowing away one after another ..
a real interesting sight/ sound indeed 🙂

So we were brought to eat breakfast

Mango and Sticky Purple Rice

Hot Chocolate ( Super thick really tasted like melted chocolate)

After we had our fills, we are going to whale watch!!!

Instructions

Amazing

What is on the surface

nice 🙂

Beneath the water

majestic

We then headed back to shore and had lunch (as part of the package)

abodo chicken

Grilled Fish

Grilled Pork Loin

Vinega-ed Tuna Salad [ pronnounced as “tinny lau”]

Spicy Chicken Soup

Following this, we went to Tumalog Falls
If we had to describe this place, it would be like those period Chinese painting setting just right infront of us.
There were swallows that were flying around in circles,
writing and my pictures (taken by the tour guide) does not do justice to this place really ..
If you do get the chance (I am not so much a nature lover) really have to go

Tumalog Fall

Double Rainbow sighted

Bye Tumalog Falls and Oslob Beach 😦 Till the next time

This package was really comprehensive~ Other than the guide being very young,
the whole tour was really fun and interesting!
Food was also agreeable ( nice introduction to Filipino food)

Verdcit: 2/2 will go back to this place

Cebu: #1 Zubuchon

Our impromptu trip to Cebu.

If not for a classmate that graciously took time to help us get around, including bringing us to experience local things,
we would not have made it down.

Day #1: Lunch at Zubuchon
As recommended by our dear friend, (later found out that its the famous one that Anthony Bourdain went to:

Piggy Pigg Pig

Souvenirs??

Vinegar, Soy Sauce and Red Chilli oil.

Lechon with bones

Close up

Refreshing popular Cucumber apple tasting drink

Grilled Squid stuffed with pork and Salted Vegetable

Kang Kong fried in Pork skin/meat

Verdict: 2/2 of us will definitely want to come back here to eat this!
The dishes were really special! Especially the Squid!!! The drink was really unique as well and refreshing.. washed down the oiliness from the dishes 🙂

Zubuchon
One Mango Mall / Escario Central /Islands Stay Hotel Mactan |Mango Avenue,
Cebu City, Philippines

We then headed down to Crowne Plaza to ..
Zip line and do some range shooting

Crowne Regency

Spectacular View

Zip Line

up up and Awayyyy

Shooting

Followed one of the recommendation for this ..
and this is one of the worst meal we had on the trip

Fish @ moon cafe

Chicken

Verdict: 2/2 of us will never return.
My friend who love savoury food, and super high tolerance for salty food ( not to the extent of dipping already salted fries with salt but just a notch lower), even she couldn’t take the saltiness of her fish.
This was really bad.

Mooon Cafe
The Terraces, Ayala Center
Cebu City Philippines

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