With the 25% discount, I think this place is the best value for money.
There's an absurd amount of beef, and the fried rice isn't bad either.
I order it three times a week... I think plain kimbap is better than tuna kimbap. Dipping it in mayonnaise was a novel idea.
The pork ribs were good too. But I'm really drawn to the beef and fried rice.. If you eat the pork rib lunch box with cup ramen, you get a carb spike and can sleep like a baby.
Finally, I get one of these too..
I finally watched the full version of Kung Fu Women's Soccer 2026.
It's a Stephen Chow film. It has already set a new box office record in China.
I've always been a big fan of Stephen Chow, so no matter what the movie is like, I'm just grateful that he made it.
This film is bigger in scale than his earlier movie Shaolin Soccer. It's an international tournament, and a Korean team appears with a fairly big role.
The movie shows you how Chinese people usually see Korea.
To win, the Korean team in the movie does every underhanded thing it can: honey traps, an eye-dazzling trick,
shadow punches, exaggerated acting to fake injuries, drop kicks, and more.
It even made the Korean news, and when you read the comments from Chinese viewers, the reaction seems to be, "Are they angry because it's the truth?"...
Chinese people generally dislike Korea about as much as Koreans dislike China.
And the official response from the film's side is that it's a fictional team and not the Korean team, but they openly speak Korean, so I thought that was a bit much.
Anyway, the Korean team appears from 40:30. They play a big part in the movie. Even the revenge at the end is perfect. The final match is, of course, against the Japanese team, whom they will have to face in a fight to the death someday.
I heard it's been run by a mother and daughter for two years, and the mother's cooking is excellent.
The prices are on the high side, but lots of people come. The jjusam bulgogi (spicy stir-fried baby octopus and pork belly) was especially good, and the Filipino staff recommend the dakdoritang (spicy braised chicken). The dongtaetang (pollock stew) was fine, but when I looked around at the other tables, all I could see was jjusam bulgogi.
Look at the photo, I finished everything.
Even though I went alone, they gave me a generous portion of jeyuk, so good that I'm thinking about making a list of the best jeyuk places.
The side dishes aren't salty either, and they suit Korean tastes well. The owner was there at the restaurant, and I'd say it's a legit good spot.
But the prices of the other menu items aren't cheap.
Something ridiculous that happened this February.
On my trip to the Philippines in February, I met up again with the babae I'd met last year. I gave her an old Nintendo console as a gift, along with Korean boxed snacks and a 5,000-won fan from Daiso.
The next day, after the babae and I spent a little while at a friend's place and left, my friend came home from work and asked me if I had taken the chocolate he had left on his desk to eat. I had no idea which chocolate he meant, I didn't know anything about it at all, and I told him I had never even seen it, let alone eaten it. My friend said he had put some Kisses chocolate on his desk to eat and it was all gone...
Just in case, I asked the babae, and she said she had taken it and was eating it.. And she said it so casually. She doesn't even realize she did something wrong.. I was so dumbfounded. I told her that was extremely rude and that she had put me in an awkward position. Lastly I told her that taking something without permission could even be called stealing, and she got angry at me instead..
Knowing that the cultural difference is this big, I thought that an international marriage with a Filipino would definitely not be easy.
It's good value for money among the restaurants inside the casino. I had the cheap 330-peso fried rice and it was decent.
It comes with a side of kropek or something like shrimp chips, and it tastes even better because it's inside the casino lol
It's a decent place. If you're going for Filipino food and skewers, it's cleaner than Akabudu across the street.
The problems are that it's hard to get the staff's attention, it's hot because it's outdoors, there are quite a lot of mosquitoes and flies, and you need to check the receipt carefully when paying.
I'd recommend it for tourists.
You can smoke while eating on the outdoor terrace. Both areas are outdoors, but the area with a roof is non-smoking.
I went there until 2025 because of the restaurant, and it was great. You could eat and sing, the owner was kind, and the prices were good value for the money. But
I heard they closed the shop, ran either a bakery or a side dish store, and now do boxed lunches, as far as I know.
I haven't been since it changed, so I don't know... How should I rate this? Let me just give a rating based on 2025.
Perceptions of tattoos around the world.
East Asia is mostly negative while the West comes out positive, and Australia is beyond what I imagined. They gave it a thumbs up... Does that mean they recommend it and praise it??
It would have been risky if I'd bought a house back when everyone was leaving Clark Hills and prices were dropping...
The commercial district around Clark Hills has completely died.. 8 years ago this area was at least decent, but now only three places are left: Chungman Chicken, Jeongwon, and BONGANE NENGMYUN..
Not recommended. I ordered the most expensive menu item, the one that's supposed to come with shrimp, but they never gave me any shrimp. When I asked near the end why I hadn't gotten any, they said you have to ask for it separately. In the end I only got to eat two or three shrimp, and there was no refund for the price difference. Zero customer service. The food was just so-so, too.
An ambulance rushed up in front of PJ Hotel.
I wonder what happened. It's probably a Korean person, maybe someone who died during sex...
Normally I just ignore ambulances going by, but seeing one park in front of PJ Hotel got my curiosity going.
It's the star of Yankee Bar Street. Filipinos call it something else, but anyway, Koreans call it Yankee Bar. Bar fines are cheap. If I remember right, it's 3,000 or 3,500 pesos. Don't expect much from the looks, and be patient and wait until a girl you like comes around. There are a lot of white guys. Honestly, the atmosphere suits my taste and I go often, and I like to relax over a Mac Dooney and kill some time, but I don't think other Koreans would like it.
It's yashiyashi baida.
I was looking for something simple to snack on with beer, found this, and ordered it.
I thought it was tasty, but my friend took one bite and said it was in their top 3 worst foods they've ever had in the Philippines, and suffered because the smell was so awful.
I wondered if it was really that bad and tried it again, but I still thought it was good.
Huh, that's weird.. I said it tasted okay to me and I couldn't even smell anything, but my friend said our tastes are just different and refused to eat it.
After that, whenever we ordered snacks with our drinks and I ordered nachos, I saw my friend pick the nachos very seriously. I think that memory left them with a trauma.
I went to a Tekken meetup. The game, Tekken. Bungwon (Crushing Fist) Oagu Tekken.
Now that we're all of a certain age, nobody buys a console like a PlayStation to play. It's the arcade vibe, all the way. We buy the actual arcade boards and play on those. Apparently that's the only way to get that arcade feeling...
Back in elementary school, when all I had was a Famicom, the kids who had a Super Famicom
were so envious, and now we're playing on actual arcade boards.. Korea has really become a developed country.
I also won the game for who pays for the meal. Gotcha!!
I went to see Dr. Joselle Chua.
She was so kind and explained everything so well that I asked her name after the appointment, and I was surprised when she said it was Joselle Chua. It seems her husband named the clinic after his wife. Impressive...
I booked a Saturday 10:20 a.m. appointment, but since it was my first visit, between the eye measurements, the vision test, and then seeing the doctor, it took over an hour..
Including the dry eye medication and the consultation fee, it came to about 1700. She said there's no problem with the lens of my eye, but it looks dry, and that I should try the eye drops and if there's still a problem
OCT Macula (Macular Optical Coherence Tomography)
What kind of test is it?
OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) uses light to take ultra-high-resolution cross-sectional images of the tissue inside the eye, like a kind of "micro CT scan just for the eyes."
The macula is the most important part of the retina, responsible for the center of your vision (over 90%).
Why is it done?
It is performed to precisely analyze cross-sections of each retinal layer to check for diseases that affect central vision, such as macular degeneration, macular edema, central serous retinopathy, and macular hole.
What kind of test is it?
This test uses OCT equipment to scan the Optic Nerve (the optic nerve and optic disc), which carries visual information from the eye to the brain, and precisely measures the thickness of the optic nerve fiber layer in micrometers (µm).
Why is it done?
It is an essential test, most notably for the early diagnosis of glaucoma and for checking whether it is progressing. When there is optic nerve damage or glaucoma, the optic nerve fiber layer becomes thinner, and this is compared against normal values.
She said I could get these two tests done. They cost 1000 and 3800 respectively.. Hmm, I'll try the eye drops, and if it's still the same, I'll get diagnosed.
While eating the Chowking sweet and sour chicken lauriat, I suddenly craved noodles, so I ordered some separately. It was around 80 pesos, and the portion isn't bad, but I also ordered the new seafood chao fan, and it wasn't that great... I think the original pork chao fan is better..
I kept mixing up whether it was Premier XO or Nine, so I took photos as I walked by and updated it.
I'm curious...
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