Breathtaking Batanes
Editor’s note: In this edition of Blogger Exchange, Abigail Felix-Plaza talks about their 2016 trip to Batanes, the smallest province in the Philippines. I…
At Panagatan Restaurant
There is that one restaurant you somehow grew up with. For me, that’s Panagatan Restaurant, an open-air seafood place propped along a coastal highway in…
Breathtaking Batanes
Editor’s note: In this edition of Blogger Exchange, Abigail Felix-Plaza talks about their 2016 trip to Batanes, the smallest province in the Philippines. I…
Penang: Roti Canai at Transfer Road
This unpretentious food stall along Transfer Road in Penang doesn’t even have a signage. But you’d know that whatever they are serving should be really…
Here, There and Everywhere
I think it was my mother who inadvertently taught me how to tune a guitar. This was a time when my fingers were too stubby…
Pochero, Bantayan crabs and two cups of rice
It started to drizzle by the time our order of pochero, a Cebuano-style beef stew, was served. We were at Pochero Kinaraan, a hole-in-the-wall eatery…
The Philippines from a Malaysian’s perspective
Editor’s note: In The Weekend Dispatch’s first installment of Blogger Exchange, Joshua Yam talks about his recent trip to the Philippines. “It was like…
A new way to explore old Manila
Despite the heavy traffic en route to Intramuros, my buddy and I still managed to arrive at the Bambike Ecotours headquarters. a few minutes before…
Back in Manila: Spoliarium, Rizal and the Zero Kilometer Marker
“This is my favorite spot in Manila,” I told my buddy as we stared at Juan Luna’s magnum opus, The Spoliarium. We were then at…
Touchdown Penang
One Monday evening last September, I found myself and my good friend, whom we shall call Philip, at an off-the-grid hawker place in Penang, a…
A weekend at Toledo, Cebu
I visited Toledo, the only city located at the western coast of Cebu, with a story already in mind. Back then, I wanted to see…