Flashback to November 2013: Air Asia seat sale. Two MNL-PPS-MNL tickets. June 25-29, 2014.
Oops. Time to break some long-held, self-limiting beliefs.
I didn’t quite understand a lot of people’s fascination with El Nido. For the longest time, I stuck to my biased belief that once you’ve visited Coron, you have practically seen everything there is about Palawan. Besides, I didn’t want the inconvenience of a butt-numbing 6-hour land travel from Puerto Princesa to the town of El Nido.
Flashback to November 2013: Air Asia seat sale. Two MNL-PPS-MNL tickets. June 25-29, 2014. Oops. Time to break some long-held, self-limiting beliefs.
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Day 4 in El Nido – after a ruckus between me and the tour guides who kept on insisting we join the bigger group in the combi tour (B and A), Toto and I plus another couple finally hopped on a smaller boat to start Tour B (Php1,300/pax). I was aware I made quite a few frenemies from that disagreement but I wasn't keen on going back to the sites we've already visited a couple of days before, albeit with a different group. I paid for Tour B and I wasn't going to let them squeeze 10 sites in just 8 hours, as if that was even possible! That would just mean limited time per site and hurried tours. Not gonna happen, babe.
Third day in El Nido: Tour C - dubbed as the best island hopping tour because it includes the most beautiful sites in this part of Palawan. It's also the farthest and the most dangerous because of unpredictable waves. So naturally, it's the most expensive (Php1,400/pax). Despite that and the gloomy morning, Toto and I had a good hunch about Tour C :)
Eto naaaa! Finally, after 3.5 months, naka-hugot na ng sapat na lakas para sa El Nido blog post! Hindi na kayang daanin sa quickie levels ang kagandahan ng El Nido. Hindi keri sa tatlo, limang photos lang. ♥
To be honest, Toto and I weren't planning to visit El Nido this soon. Because we've been to Coron twice, we thought we didn't need to see El Nido anymore. Countless of articles have compared the two Palawan tourist spots and it's always a super duper close call. That just means they're very similar to each other, right? However, we couldn't resist booking MNL-PPS-MNL tickets during one of AirAsia's seat sales last year! Okay, lafang na naman! As usual, sa BGC ulit. And as usual, kasama na naman si Toto. Hindi na kami na-umay sa all day, every day rendezvous namin! ;)
So anyhoo, after a visit to the Wild West, a chill brunch at a retro California bistro, and a delightful discovery of Serbian cuisine, we're ready to rakenrol and go back to our roots! Kanteen BGC, from the same owners of Kuppa Cafe, proved to be just the right place for that - offering delicious Pinoy food that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Toto and I know that eating out almost everyday is taking a big chunk of our baon but we just cannot resist trying out the different restaurants around Bonifacio Global City! So you could just imagine how overjoyed we were when we spotted Wild West Roadhouse Grill's Perfect Match promo while combing High Street on a humid Thursday morning. Only P599 for 2 people in BGC? That's definitely a steal!
We continue our foodie adventure around Bonifacio Global City and today's post is about our lunch at Stella Wood Fired Bistro! Quick overview of the food and place - imagine a fancier, pricier, and more upscale version of Kenny Rogers Roasters right at the heart of High Street Central (just across Jamba Juice).
Interrupting the usual quick eats/trips posts to give way to a helpful tip! *puts nerdy eyeglasses on* So! I was able to score affordable tickets from Cebu Pacific's Peace-o Sale yesterday, hooray! For the past few years I've been paying for the tickets at LBC's Ortigas branch but now that I'm based in BGC, I am forced to find another payment center. Good thing there's a BDO branch on the ground floor of our office building :) Let's get started! Get the orange payment slip and fill out the following details:
Filipino cuisine is quite tricky - when it is served traditionally it can become boring, but when you try to 'revolutionize' it it can become disastrous. Where do you draw the line? How do you set yourself apart? This is the sad story of Elias by Crisostomo as told by me: it tried so hard to be both traditional (colonial cuisine) and different (with witty menu items such as 'Crazy Sisa Squid' and 'Adobo Damaso') but still failed. Oops! Meanie alert! :p
Toto and I have already tried all the restaurants on the first floor of the Crossroads Bldg. on 32nd St, Bonifacio Global City, so we thought it was time we visited the upper floor. Balkan was empty when we arrived at around 11:30am on a Friday and we were just ecstatic to be the first guests! The place is so PRETTY... so picture perfect!
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