Cebu City and surrounding areas: Siomai and Friends Fries

Photos of Cebu area, Philippines, 2015 & 2017-Random gallery         Here’s How To Guarantee You Get The Cheapest Flight Available, EVERY Time… Click Here!       “It is a rare thing when a memoir allows you to not only be a spectator to someone’s life but actually feel as if you…

Cebu City: Siomai and Friends Fries [chp 6]

impressions of an American in the Philippines My wife and I took an Inter-City van from Toledo to Cebu City. We walked to a waterside terminal. Several vans were parked, with locals sitting inside, waiting for departure. A woman stepped in my path, trying to sell me bottled water and sugar water. I bought two waters…

Provincial Coconut Concoction: Siomai and Friends Fries [chp 2]

Impressions of an American visiting the Philippines… A food van with big speakers woke me just before seven a.m., blasting an American pop song that I vaguely recognized from the 1990s. Kind of frat-boy spring break-feeling, like the band Sugar Ray, but not them… maybe. The van driver was selling fresh breads of all kinds,…

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