Baguio in Shaky HD

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Food, Travel

Spent the weekend in Baguio and I came up with this. Be a darling and waste a minute of your day watching it.

 
I’ve had my camera for about a year and a half now and I haven’t used it for taking videos until now. Sad. Now I’m itching to get a new one even though the one I have is still working fine. (Except for the flash, but who needs flash anyways?) The song’s from Robot Unicorn Attack which I just discovered over the weekend. I know I suck. Thanks W for introducing me to this game and for letting me use your iMovie.

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What we ate in Siem Reap

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Food, Travel

I don’t get why food in Cambodia is expensive. For a country with a minimum wage of 60 USD per month (about 2500 PHP), I thought that the food would be cheap. We spent about 6 USD per person per meal. I did not expect that being a tourist in Siem Reap would be more costly than being a tourist in Bangkok. Boo me for not researching on the local grub before our trip.

They say that Khmer cuisine is a cross between Thai and Vietnamese cuisine. Since I have never been to Vietnam (and the food in Thailand is way more pag-ibig than the food in Cambodia) I say that Khmer food is characterized by ginger and confusion. Amok, a popular Khmer dish, is curry that fell in love with ginger.

First stop: Random restaurant along Pub Street. Fresh from our traumatic experience with crossing the border between Thailand and Cambodia, we headed off to Pub Street to look for food. Pub Street is Siem Reap’s tourist watering hole, much like Bangkok’s Khao San Road, except more expensive.

None of my friends can remember what this restaurant’s name is, we also don’t have photos with its name on and checking our foursquare history and Google maps proved futile. What we do have are stolen photos of one scruffy koya at the next table. Also, this is where we first learned that when they say ‘chicken with ginger’ in Siem Reap they really mean ‘ginger with chicken.’

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Food, Pets

What we ate in Bangkok

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Food, Travel

Bangkok is an awesome place to get fat in because the grub is cheap and decent. Their serving sizes are smaller than what we’re used to in the Philippines though so maybe you wouldn’t get *that* fat, tamang taba lang. Plus, they like veggies so it’s healthy right?

Dinners in Khaosan Road and countless trips to 7-Eleven are not included in this post since I forgot to take photos a.k.a. I forgot what we ate as well.

First stop: Tom Yum Kung Restaurant. This was right next to our hotel, the food was a keri but the servers were a bit hot-tempered and inattentive so this was how I ordered in my head, “Kuya, kung di nakakahiya baka pwedeng mag-order, kung okay lang naman. Sorry kung naaabala ka namin.”

Second stop: Street food beside the Grand Palace. We thought that what we saw was shrimp, Ate assured us that it was shrimp but it was not shrimp, it’s not even a relative of the shrimp a.k.a. don’t you dare smile at us Ate.