yesterday i posted about bottled kisses, here how those circles looked like before putting in the watter, they are too small, really like a sago, and tempting to eat 
note to coriander dreams, this "kisses" are different than the fragrant munggo sized kisses but i do remember those kisses :) will try to find them and see if they still sell that stuff :) 

bottled kisses

when i got home my nephews were busy playing with this candy colored circles inside the bottle and according to them they are called kisses :) according to them the kisses are small circles and expands when soaked in water for quite a time and grow up to the size of a big marble, the texture is like sago and it looks so delicious and tempting to eat, but according to my nephews it is poisonous. i asked them to buy me the small thingy tomorrow because i want to know how it looked like before being put into water. 

shanghai fried siopap

shanghai fried siopao... in binondo

president tea house

president tea house at binondo

welcome summer

summer has arrived and we have experienced really hot weather these days, and one indication that summer is here is when you see inflatable swimming pools at the streets! you read it right, inflatable pool on the streets of manila :) most houses in manila doesnt have their own pool, actually only houses at "gated village" or exclusive village" have their own pool but for most manilenyos they make do with what they have. provide an instant pool in front of their houses :) and is an instant hit with kids and adults too

goodbye bantayan island

goodbye bantayan island... why is it vacation days seems so short? anyways this will be my last post about cebu and tomorrow we're back to regular programming, whichis photos all about manila :)

old bike

an old bike parking in front of the bantayan church in cebu.

"Bantayan Church was the first parish to be established in Cebu by the Augustinians. It was founded on June 11, 1580 as the Convento dela Asuncion de Nuestra Señora. It was one of the few parishes to be a part of the Archdiocese of Mexico (with the Archdiocese of Manila separating only in 1595)"

virgin island

the virgin island of cebu, read more about this beautiful island here

bantayan island

bantayan island is cebu's best kept secret, an island at the northern part of cebu, an island with beautiful white sand beach still unspoiled... discover more about bantayan island here.

cebu chorizo

this is the chorizo version of cebu, it is actually a longganisa grilled in charcoal and it is very delicious. ate this in our stop over going to hagnaya wharf in san remigio, cebu. for more details of my trip from cebu city to hagnaya click here.

magellan's cross

hi all, back from vacation at cebu, sorry for not posting earlier, but let me share with you this photo of the historic magellan's cross. this cross is iconic and you can see this in lots of postcards and history books of the philippines, coz technically this is were the history of the philippiens actually started. you all know that the philippines has been colonized by the spaniards for more than 300 years and this Magellan's Cross is a Christian cross planted by Portuguese and Spanish explorers as ordered by Ferdinand Magellan upon arriving in Cebu in the Philippines on April 21, 1521. for more photos of my cebu trip please click here.