OVERSEAS
Cebu
Travel journal from Cebu, with 14 notes on the places I ate, the dishes I cooked and the sights: Mactan Island and Lapu-Lapu City, Vaño Beach, Longsilog, Pancit canton (from instant noodles).
Journeys: 1 · Notes: 14
Journeys
01
Cook the local flavors once more
Dishes made in borrowed kitchens, and how each one connects to the land.
Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu
Longsilog
Silog is the name for a family of Filipino breakfasts built on garlic fried rice and a fried egg; the name changes with what comes alongside.
From: Everyday life on Mactan Island
Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu
Pancit canton (from instant noodles)
Pancit, noodles brought to the Philippines by Chinese immigrants, has become a full part of Filipino cooking.
From: Everyday life on Mactan Island
02
A little of each town’s story
Sights, specialties and how the towns came to be: small cultural notes beside each journey.
Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu
Mactan Island and Lapu-Lapu City
An island of about 65 square kilometers, lying a few kilometers east of Cebu Island.
From: Everyday life on Mactan Island
Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu
Banana cue and Lakatan bananas
Banana cue is a Filipino street snack of saba bananas deep-fried in a coat of caramelized brown sugar and served on a bamboo skewer.
From: Everyday life on Mactan Island
Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu
Kalamansi
A small citrus native to the Philippines, also called calamondin in English.
From: Everyday life on Mactan Island
Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu
Pares and mami
Pares is beef asado braised in sweet soy sauce, served with garlic rice and beef broth; the name literally means "pairs," from the practice of pairing the beef…
From: Everyday life on Mactan Island
Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu
Halo-halo and ube
The name comes from doubling the Filipino verb halò, "to mix." Shaved ice is combined with evaporated or coconut milk, sweetened beans, coconut meat and jelly…
From: Everyday life on Mactan Island
Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu
Sisig and puso
Sisig is a Filipino dish of chopped pork jowl and ears seasoned with kalamansi, onions and chili peppers, served on a sizzling plate.
From: Everyday life on Mactan Island
Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu
Breadfruit
The fruit of the breadfruit tree, named for its texture when moderately ripe fruit is cooked: like freshly baked bread.
From: Everyday life on Mactan Island
Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu
Vaño Beach
A beach in Marigondon, Lapu-Lapu City, reached by a narrow road off the main street.
From: Everyday life on Mactan Island
Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu
Tricycle
A Philippine vehicle made of a motorcycle with a passenger sidecar attached.
From: Everyday life on Mactan Island
Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu
San Miguel and San Mig Free
San Miguel Beer is the flagship pale lager of the San Miguel Brewery, founded in 1890 in the San Miguel district of Manila.
From: Everyday life on Mactan Island
03
Places we stopped along the way
What we ate and bought, with shop details checked against published listings.
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