Have you seen the short Youtube video showcasing Filipino global stars, personalities and talents in the likes of Manny Pacquaio, Leah Salonga, Corazon Aquino, Jose Rizal and more? It’s spreading like wildfire online as more and more Filipinos are becoming aware of the video and as expected, sharing it on blogs and social networks. If you haven’t seen it,  you can watch it below.  .

It’s one of those videos that will make you really say you are proud to be Pinoy, proud to be Filipino. It’s shoot in Times Square and many of the passersby are turning to a big billboard showing a clip of famous faces in the Philippines. Grabbing their attention and raising curiosity no doubt. And I bet if you’ve watch it numerous…

If you visit Cebu, you can never have enough of Cebu Lechon, aye?  Peace cardio doctors =)  And our lechon houses has just made it easy for locals and tourists to taste one of our top brands of roasted pig by making it available in accessible destinations like SM City Cebu.

Yep, SM houses three  favorite lechon restaurants:

1. CNT which is technically not inside SM but walking distance, the yellow building adjacent to the jeepney terminal. – It’s more salty compared to the others but this is my top pick as far as Cebu lechon are concern.

2. Marina Lechon – love this too, plus if you dine in SM Foodcourt you’ll have hot soup free that goes well with your meal.

3. Ayer’s…

This is one blog post that I am not proud to write about but  I must. I feel it is my responsibility to also divulge the tourist traps that may await visitors coming here in Cebu.

I’m happy when there are readers who check back on Penfires to let me know how their trip or vacation went or how they enjoyed what Cebu City offers to tourists. (I really like hearing about your experiences, so thanks to those who do email me back or leave a comment on the post after the trip.).  All of these feedbacks have been ‘thank you’s’ and glowing positive feedback about a visitor’s Cebu experience until I opened an email from a reader last weekend.

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Two months…

IsoldT is my first laptop bought 5 years ago and mannn it was a great ride with her!  She was my assistant as I started Penfires and she was also the one I highly depended on when I shifted to online freelance work. 

*Her name was IsoldT for “I sold Tristan”. She’s one of those stuff I bought from the proceeds of selling Tristan, my old car. 

She is a NEO laptop – very sturdy and fast, the lcd is not so good though, a bit pale screen, not sharp when it comes to pics and videos,  but overall this is one awesome laptop. I highly recommend NEO laptop!  The reason why I am not getting a NEO laptop this time around is…

I am a big fan of dimsums and chili oil. My favorite selections from Chinese restaurant dimsum menu are siomai (of course), shanghai rolls and pork steamed rice. So when I was invited to the inauguration of Chow City Cebu Restaurant in The Walk IT Park I did not think twice but said yes! And thankfully I did for this Cebu resto offers superb Chinese food at pocket friendly prices.

You might think that this good restaurant in Cebu is expensive because of the length taken to ensure that what is served to customers are specially prepared Chinese foods and dim sum but nope Chow City is affordable. Most of their dimsum selections are priced at P55 per serving which includes bestsellers like steamed rice, siomai, empress roll, chicken feet etc while the dimsum platter only cost P135. You can also order ala carte for Chinese dishes like…

On the heels of Airphil Express announcement of ZERO FARE (base fare) tickets to welcome in Easter, comes this offer from Cebu Pacific. Cebupac’s Easter  ZERO FARE domestic promo to all destinations is also P0. Booking period is April 8 and 9 only but the traveling period is by November 1 to December 15, 2012. Which is great as you can book promo tickets for Undas.

Are you curious how much is the total fare for this Cebu Pacific Air’s Zero Promo Fare? Well for your convenience here is a snapshot of the all in cost of a roundtrip ticket for one person with flight Cebu to General Santos and vice versa (yep I choose to do a trial booking for round trip for…

OMG!!! Am I reading it right? One of the Philippines Budget Airlines, Airphil Express is Offering 0, yesss it’s ZERO Promo Fare Base Fare to All Domestic Destinations in celebration of EASTER SUNDAY!!! What can be more better than this deal??? But before you leave this blog for your online booking, please note that this awesome domestic promo from Airphil will start in 2 hours pa pagpasok ng Easter Sunday, so take this time to reflect where you want to go and also your travel dates.

Expect folks that from April 8 to 10, 2012 Airphil’s booking website will be hit with thousands of passengers scampering online to book one of their Zero P0 domestic promo fare! Hope you have a good internet connection so you…

There are many foods identified with major celebrations and occasions, for the Americans it’s turkey for Thanksgiving, for the Filipinos it’s the Christmas Ham for Christmas and Pancit or noodle variations for Birthdays. In our clan, there’s always Binigbit for Good Friday.

Yep aside from all the religious observance and traditions that we look forward to for the Holy Week, me, cousins, aunts, uncles and the whole extended family always look forward to the Binignit that my Lolo and Lola makes. Every household pitches in in terms of ingredients and helps with the dicing, grating etc.  My contributions were taking photos of the ingredients for posterity’s sake hehhehe 

Binignit is a Filipino delicacy that is favored mostly by Visayans or Bisaya especially Cebuanos…

Two of my most recommended ‘must try’ Cebu foods are the Baby Back Ribs from Casa Verde and the Warm Brownie Cup from La Marea. This is of course aside from Cebu Lechon, Larsian Barbeque, Sutukil restos, Ngohiong restaurant.  You are in luck if you are coming here for we have many options from the best Cebu restaurants to more places to eat in Cebu that are super sulit. Make sure you make time for a Cebu Food Trip while visiting our city!

The best branches to visit and taste Casa…

It’s rare I get stress. It’s rare when I am so overwrought with disgusts that I can’t help but do extreme things. Certainly I don’t go posting comments on facebook that will see me nanggagala-iti sa inis but I was, am still am and I can’t stop myself from commenting and yes blogging about my frustrations. I’m seeing all these pics right now that shows how badly some people treat the whalesharks in Oslob. So disappointing and so stupid behavior from individuals.

And yes this also pertains to the ‘authorities’ that are supposed to ‘protect’ these whale sharks. HELLO!!! What are you doing? Why did you not stop all these stupid people from touching, stressing this gentle giant? Grabe kayo! Pinagkaka-kitaan niyo na ang whale shark…