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title: Cebu
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# 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

- [Everyday life on Mactan Island](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/mactan/index.md): Experience the beautiful life of Mactan Island, Cebu（2024-01-14）

## Cook the local flavors once more

- [Longsilog](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/longsilog/index.md): 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.
- [Pancit canton (from instant noodles)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/pancit-canton/index.md): Pancit, noodles brought to the Philippines by Chinese immigrants, has become a full part of Filipino cooking.

## A little of each town’s story

- [Mactan Island and Lapu-Lapu City](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/mactan-island-and-lapu-lapu-city/index.md): An island of about 65 square kilometers, lying a few kilometers east of Cebu Island.
- [Banana cue and Lakatan bananas](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/banana-cue-and-lakatan-bananas/index.md): 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.
- [Kalamansi](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kalamansi/index.md): A small citrus native to the Philippines, also called calamondin in English.
- [Pares and mami](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/pares-and-mami/index.md): 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 with rice and soup.
- [Halo-halo and ube](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/halo-halo-and-ube/index.md): 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, then topped with leche flan, ube halaya…
- [Sisig and puso](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/sisig-and-puso/index.md): Sisig is a Filipino dish of chopped pork jowl and ears seasoned with kalamansi, onions and chili peppers, served on a sizzling plate.
- [Breadfruit](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/breadfruit/index.md): The fruit of the breadfruit tree, named for its texture when moderately ripe fruit is cooked: like freshly baked bread.
- [Vaño Beach](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/vano-beach/index.md): A beach in Marigondon, Lapu-Lapu City, reached by a narrow road off the main street.
- [Tricycle](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/tricycle/index.md): A Philippine vehicle made of a motorcycle with a passenger sidecar attached.
- [San Miguel and San Mig Free](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/san-miguel-and-san-mig-free/index.md): San Miguel Beer is the flagship pale lager of the San Miguel Brewery, founded in 1890 in the San Miguel district of Manila.

## Places we stopped along the way

- [Sholem Batangas' Best Halo-Halo](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/sholem-batangas-best-halo-halo/index.md): A halo-halo shop.
- [Pekto's Sizzling Plato (Mercato de Mactan)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/pektos-sizzling-plato/index.md): A sizzling-plate stall at Mercato de Mactan, a night market in Lapu-Lapu City.