Tuod Man, Namit guid!*
Monday, July 24th, 2006
Bacolod is the place to be. Next to my hometown of course,
this is the place where I would wanna spend the rest of my life in (assuming
that I had checked more than half of my things to do before I die and I can do
the rest in one place, with enough resources hehehe). I tagged along Pixie’s
Bacolod trip and had the time of my life. Haaaaay, I wish we stayed a bit
longer.
Well, thanks to Ms. Thea’s suggestions, I had a list of
things to do by the time I got there including: eating chicken inasal at
manukan country or chicken house, cakes from Calea, half moon at Pendy’s; going
to to Pepe’s, Café Bobs, and Lakawon Beach. Oh my, oh my. YUM YUM YUM YUM YUM.
Haaaaaay…..I looooooooooooooove Negrense way of cooking! Food trip! Everything,
and I daresay everything is absolutely done in the yummiest way possible! And
oh, it costs way a lot cheaper than in this urban jungle that I live in.
Home-cooked goodness everywhere! Imagine, I ordered a white mocha with mint, a
yumyum cake with walnuts sprinkled on it, a chocolate cake for take-out and ten
yumyum double choco cookies, all for two hundred pesos! And the sinful fudge
that Pixie bought? Boy, it is sinful indeed! I t’s like being such a goodie
gurl for a decade and I had a taste of my prize. Plus the cake at Calea? Sigh.
I got the choco cake and blueberry cheesecake for just 130.00!!! We also tasted
the half moon at Pendy’s (which we got for free since mami bought about a
thousand pesos of pastries hehehe) and the taste just blew me away. No kidding.
I was bobbing my head while chewing the delights of Bacolod pastries. Oh, you
gotta eat at this Japanese restaurant in one of the hotels there (geez! I
forgot the name but its Kai-something)I met with some relatives and they took
me and Pixie there for dinner. Well, I’m biased coz I love Japanese food but
it’s really, really good. For some reason, the food there tastes different.
It’s not your run of the mill dishes. And the grilled squid in mambukal….lemme
just say I was humming while eating with a stupid grin on my face. Sigh. Good
food always makes me giddy.
We had a few drinks at Korean Grill Bar and the place is
really great. They have videoke, billiards, and you gotta taste their swamp
water drink. I know, I know, swamp water is not so nice to imagine but the
taste will make you think “if living in a marsh would mean I get to have this
whenever I want, then I gladly would!”. I dropped by Pepe’s also and their
strawberry margarita is good except that I would rather go the hard way hehehe
so for the ladies, that would be nice.
We went to Mambukal Mountain Resort and that is definitely
one of the places I will put in my favorite list. Since we arrived late, we
were not able to go to the falls so I just took a dip at the hot spring (which
is around two hours and for another hour before sleeping hehehe). It is a
mountain with seven water falls, quite a number of springs and some man-made
pools, camping grounds, slide for life and trekking trails. They have cottages
or rooms for rent if you wanna stay overnight, which is highly recommended
since a whole mountain is hard to explore in a day. For nature trippers who
would like to explore in a “safe”
environment (read: free from the adventure and dangers of a camping trip), it’s
a treat. You can have guides wherever you may wanna go. Of course I went my way
alone. What’s the use of being in a trip if there is no adventure right?
Most importantly, the people are sooooooooooooooo nice (and it is not because of their accent)! they treated me like a friend they asked to come over when in fact i was just tagging along with Pixie. I guess that is what made the Bacolod trip really great coz I got to meet: our host the master robert, his friend the lady michelle, a very perfect-together couple–hot hot hot Crix and nice Charles, the ultimate hustler Marcus, my kinda billiards teacher Rommel,a friend of a friend of a friend james,another couple witty mike and cool chick may, my cousin johnny and the honeymooners xavier and janielle.I was not able to check every item in my list but i have someting to look forward to coz now that i’ve been there, i’m definitely goin back to Bacolod! lakawon beach,here i come =)
* my invented ilonggo phrase hehehe i dunno if it’s the right way to say "it’s true, delicious indeed!"
