Food and Travel
By Anonymous Paul on 22 May, 2015
I took a flight to Davao recently and met up with some friends based there to explore Surigao del Sur. I have never really been to that part of Mindanao and was quite fortunate to have willing co-travellers. We had arranged for a van that weekend and left around 3AM for a 4 hour ride …read »
Restaurants
By Anonymous Paul on 9 April, 2015
I don’t usually go away during Holy Week but last Thursday, I got picked up by some friends for a day trip to Pampanga. It was a relatively quick drive reaching San Fernando in less than an hour via NLEX. We were to meet some friends there at a place called Apag Marangle, this huge …read »
Food and Travel
By Anonymous Paul on 23 February, 2015
Sapporo has always been on my bucket list. And after some relatively quick planning, a few friends and I managed to get there in time for the Sapporo Snow Festival a few weeks ago. Sapporo, capital of Hokkaido Prefecture, is one of the few cities in the world that gets so much snow. And over …read »
Food and Travel
By Anonymous Paul on 23 January, 2015
Everyone seemed to be in Japan over the holidays. Over the past years it’s been made relatively accessible given the more lenient visa process (they’ve been giving out 5 year multiple entry visas of late), the abundance of affordable flights and hotels and the favorable exchange rate (as of writing around Y1=P0.37). I was in …read »
Food and Travel
By sanju on 26 March, 2014
I am back in Taipei on a short business trip. As always, meals are precious commodities that need to be juggled, since I have to have dinner with business partners and sometimes friends as well. This time though, I made the effort to have some alone time, and visit Hoshi. I first heard about Hoshi …read »
Food and Travel
By Kitchyart on 13 March, 2014
I arrived a little late in the game for Baguio. It was supposed to be a weekend in Baguio; turned out that we spent most of our trip on the road due to traffic. In totality, my friends and I had one full day to explore and funnily enough, we all spent it differently. Some …read »