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Delicious. The meat quality is great too, and the side dishes are good. It's almost a perfect score. However, the prices are Korean-style, so it's expensive. That's why I docked one star. Also, there are girls selling avocados at the entrance.

The emoji's cute. lol

Emojis aren't showing up in the post!!

Re-uploaded because the owner of the YouTube video I posted before deleted it.

Peanut cola is all the rage in the US.

Literally. You put peanuts inside a cola and drink it.

It is said to have originated from farmers in the American South who used to have it after work, and it spread to become a huge craze.

I tried it myself.

Not recommended. It is not necessarily tasteless or bizarre, but it just doesn't go well together and is very inconvenient to drink. Plus, it's not particularly delicious or anything. Two stars.

Pro tips for living in Korea. Geojimap.

Users try out cost-effective restaurants themselves and upload the store information.

You can just look that up and visit them.

I'm installing it too.

3,000-won kimchi stew.

By current Korean price standards, no matter how cheap you look all over the country, you can't find kimchi stew for under 6,000 won. The average is 8 or 9,000 won, and there are countless 10,000-won kimchi stews.

Yet it's 3,000 won!! This place is a kimchi stew restaurant run with sponsorship from a Catholic priest. A restaurant called Cheongnyeon Bapsang Mungan.

The kimchi is also donated. The part-time workers are also volunteers. That's how it's possible.

Ordering the 3,000-won kimchi stew and adding a 1,000-won sausage topping. Rice is all-you-can-eat. Even though it's 4,000 won, the taste is high-standard, too. Plus, card payments are accepted.

You just eat with gratitude, and if you hand over a 10,000-won bill, you get plenty of change back.

Got a deal on 30 cans of Les Café for 9,000 won. That's 300 won each, or 13.5 pesos.

It was originally 9,900 won, but got a 900 won member discount. Total 9,000 won. I keep them in the freezer and grab one for coffee time whenever I'm craving a snack or need a sugar boost.

Cheap, pick-and-drop, Wi-Fi, breakfast. 90 points!

I've only been there once, but is it really that good?? I remember it being just average... Not really sure.

My friend's birthday fell on a weekday, but since they had to work, we celebrated on the weekend instead. I bought a cake from a shop I'd had my eye on and gave it to them along with a tumbler I won with coins at the SM Mall arcade as a gift.

In return, my friend drove me to Subic. And right there, the entities from that mysterious village that occasionally pop into my head and haunt me whenever I try to sleep made an appearance.

As you take the highway from Angeles to Subic with a friend, you sometimes come across a strange sight. If you're blankly staring out the car window at the scenery, a small village suddenly appears right next to the highway. At a glance, it looks like around two or three hundred people live there. There aren't just one or two houses, but quite a cluster of them. Yet, strangely enough, no roads leading into the village are visible.

From the highway, all you can see are the roofs and a few houses of the village. It makes you wonder, "Just how on earth do those people get in and out?" Unless you intentionally go looking for it, you can't help but just drive right past it.

What's even more puzzling is how they get by. If it were a typical rural village in the Philippines that we often imagine, you'd expect to spot at least one sari-sari store, along with a small church, a school, or a market. But in this village visible from the highway, such facilities are hard to notice. There are places where you can't even spot a small shop, let alone a clinic. So where on earth do the residents buy their daily necessities? Where do the kids go to school, and where do people go when they get sick?

No government-related facilities are in sight, either. Back in Korea, you'd expect to find something like a village hall or a community center, but such traces are hard to find here. Of course, I know that the administrative system in the Philippines is different from Korea's. Even so, it makes me wonder how a single residential area where hundreds of people gather is handled on maps and in administrative districts. That village surely belongs to a certain barangay, and its residents must be counted in the demographics. Yet, in reality, it feels like a small society hidden away in a place you can't see from the highway.

Another hard-to-understand thing is employment. Looking around, there are hardly any rice paddies or fields. No factories or large businesses catch the eye, either. So what on earth do the people living there do for a living? There's no way of knowing whether they commute to a nearby city, work in construction or service industries, or make a living somewhere else that we simply can't see from the highway.

Perhaps what I'm seeing is only a part of the village. The road might continue to the back where it can't be seen from the highway, and following that path might lead to stores, schools, and churches. Since the highway only cuts through and shows the very edge of the village, it might just look as though a bunch of houses suddenly popped up out of nowhere in the middle of nothing.

Yet, that exact point is what makes it even more fascinating. Just passing by in a car for a few seconds gives you no clue at all about how the people there live their lives. All you catch are a few houses and glimpses of people. Surely it has a name on the map and falls under an administrative district, and there must be people who have lived there for decades.

However, I couldn't even find it on Google Maps.

Is it because I'm just inexperienced?

To someone speeding down the highway, it's nothing more than scenery that flashes past, but inside that place, someone's daily routine must be playing out—waking up in the morning and eating, heading off to work, kids going to school, and coming back home in the evening.

That's why, every time I head to Subic, those villages somehow catch my eye and linger in my mind. How on earth did those people manage to get in here to build a village, and how have they managed to survive until now?

I can't help but feel curious about their lives, which are only visible from the highway.

And this is the exact same sight I saw under the massive bridge wetlands on the way from Manila to Angeles.

Every single one of them is a quote to live by.

Fear and despair. When I saw the difference in attitude toward life, along with the power and ability to prove it, I think I would feel just like that soldier—even if I wasn't at a massive disadvantage, that tiny hope that I might win if I just did my best would shatter, and I would fall into despair upon realizing that no matter what I do, winning is impossible.

A place where the owner personally goes out and hits the streets to promote the business

I'm craving Boom Chicken. It was so much good when I went and ate there with a friend instead of getting delivery, but it's a tough place to go alone..

It feels like a place where upper-class people go. Major events in the Philippines are held here.

It feels like a place you'd mostly visit for high-ranking official business.

If you want to watch New Year's fireworks inside Clark, I recommend this place. I go here once a year.

The oatmeal and Pringles cookies here are really good, I recommend them.

Sometimes I buy them in bulk and give them out as gifts.

It poured for a bit, but the drainage still doesn't work, it's just a swimming pool for the kids.

Hmm... the idiots (AIs) are just doing it once a month...

Ah, you're in the Manila area. What a pity, if it were around Angeles, I definitely would have used it at least once to celebrate your registration.