Microtel Inn & Suites Tarlac
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Homecoming
... ginataan (coconut milk dessert with rice powder balls, tapioca balls and various fruits and sweet beans) and halo-halo (shaved ice with fruits and beans and condensed milk). One night, we even had a treat of Philippine cobra, adobo style. Found in the rice fields, eating this BBQ style, was both a delicacy and a form of critter control. Not only did we have steamed rice with every meal—we had rice in almost every form! Freshly harvested rice ...
Filipino Familiarity
... 8217;s work. The local nurses were told about my desire to try some balut so they were quick to buy an entire bowl full and await my arrival. In college, a great friend of mine named Archie told me about this odd, Filipino delicacy called balut, explaining that it’s essentially a fertilized, partially incubated duck egg. So for more than a decade I’ve been anxiously waiting for the opportunity. First the shell is cracked and the juice is drunk from the egg. With my ...
Volcan Pinatubo
... des locaux, des filles, direct la serveuse Lisael m'appelle pour que j'y aille, c'est impressionnant comment
ils se rappellent des noms ici alors que moi je suis nul. Montons dans le van, direction Santa Juliana et le Mont Pinatubo,
le volcan qui en 91 a explose apres des siecles de silence et qui a tout ravage en faisant de nombreuses victimes. Longue route devant nous,
3 heures de route au moins, donc je dors comme une ***** dans le van. Nous arretons en route pour ...
Wonderful week with my two families!
... and hearing their stories and always wants to ask these questions back home but culturally she feels hesitant to do so. Chatty Kathy has found her place in the Philippines, with the loving warm and often times exuberant smiles of Filipinos, even though so many of them on the surface have little to smile about. Auntie Florence, one of my more reserved and quiet host aunts, said how much she enjoyed listening to the energetic stories from my Mom since she is quiet ...
New Years on Boracay and my Parents have arrived!
... rearing it's head. While the white sand beach during the day remains fairly clean, in the evening the beachfront restaurants dump all their swage from the day in the ocean! Yikes! I found myself enjoying venturing beyond the stretch of touristy beach back to the real life on the island. Behind the "tourist" wall, I felt almost comforted with diesel trikes speeding by and the chaos I have become to know as the typical life here in the Philippines. All in ...