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Day 5 is Gangnam. It was actually my sister who planned this Gangnam trip. We agreed on going to the Starfield Library and The Buddhist temple nearby. The library was okay. Good for pictures! Also the only reason we went to be honest. Can’t be bothered reading books while on trip.  As I’ve mentioned earlier (Or did I?) This is a very nice place for pictures! Just be quiet though because people be legit studying/working here and you don’t want to annoy them with your touristy stuff. Also, my sister and I probably went up and down around 5 times (or more!) just to get decent shots. It’s crazy! Lunch was actually delicious ! I don’t remember the name of the restaurant but this is a Japanese bento place I think. We got the Bulgogi premium box if I’m not mistaken. Of course I’m mistaken but yeah something like that.  The temple was very near the mall. Probably a 5-10 minute walk depending how slow you are. We be the 10 minute walker of course. It’s nice because even though Gangnam ...

Chicken Adobo! The picture above is filleted part usually used for karaage but I also used drumstick and I think cooking a chicken part with bone rather than the filleted one is much better when it comes to the overall experience of eating adobo.  First, I sauteed the garlic with the chicken and red chili. If you don't like chili, you can obviously just skip that part. Then, I added equal parts of soy sauce and vinegar. The scary part. I usually don't like my adobo salty so I tend to put more vinegar than soy sauce. My kapampangan friend told me that the kapampangan style of cooking is that they only use the soy sauce for color and that adobo is actually supposed to be cooked with vinegar hence the adobong puti concept. Added sugar because it was too salty. Japanese soy sauce is salty I guess.  let the vinegar cook Also added boiled egg because, why would you do adobo without? I'm just saying. Yummy!

I wasn’t able to take a solo picture with Ping the day of the Christening so I’m just gonna recycle this one.  The Family Let me tell you a funny story. So...my mom, who is in Japan actually told us to leave our place at 9 so that we could be able to accomodate traffic. So we did. We arrived there 10. Great. The celebration’s at 12:30 but that’s alright!  We started eating before the hosts even came. Barbaric, I know.  Food I ate so much. I had like two full plates of the SNAIL. It was sooo good! Also enjoyed their kare-kare and everything else. I had so much vegetables as well!  Family The Giveaway That’s it! Congratulations tita and tito! And well done, Ping!

A game changer. I didn't understand Hong Kong that much before I went here. Almost thought it isn't for me but on second thought, I WOULD go back to Hong Kong just for this one. And kind of many more! Surprisingly. My new ears! I had to make sure everybody gets one! By everybody I mean my sisters. Genius shot or what? So nice! Also nice! Why don't they have this in TOKYO? I'm kind of sure they can do a better job there but hey! Not judging.  This is what I didn't like the most. Like, no go! If your Disney castle is broken, I think you shouldn't have the right to operate! You know what I mean? This should be a protocol!  Meeting my home girl Moana. So fun! The whole place is aesthetically pleasing. Can't really complain about it. I wish the closing time be a little bit later though. Also the opening time a bit earlier. You know what I mean?  ANDY'S Waiting for the parade!  YUMMY! I wish all the Disney's would have this package where you already get a ...

Second day was our busiest day. Or so I think. We kind of put everything we want to see on the second day because we don't have any more time as we have Disneyland and Ocean Park for our coming days.  breakfast We started here because it was conveniently near from where we live.  The park was a nice touch to our itinerary I also made it a point to find our good old friend Bruce Lee's statue. It was hella hard to find from where we started. Also found some fun statues to take pictures with. Just look at my sisters being silly. We went to Sham Shui Po to supposedly sample the handmade bamboo noodles but we found this. Also something Mark Wiens recommended. We were supposed to skip this but the gentleman we were sitting with asked we try and that's how we know this is the deal.  We were then headed to Mongkok riding a double decker bus. We were so happy that we completely disregarded our surroundings.  The next thing we know, we were already an hour and a half away fro...