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Night cafe and market in Cagayan

Friday, May 11th, 2012

Are you feeling bored on weekends? Just stayed home, ate the usual meals, watched DVD and slept? Go out and have fun. Cagayan de Oro City has many places to offer during weekends. Night cafe and market is one of them. Cagay – anons are known to be party goers and food lovers. They love to eat and share it with their loved ones and even to friends.

Night cafe in Cagayan de Oro City is one of the city’s prides. The city government headed by Mayor Vicente ” Dongkoy” Emano is giving more opportunities to small businessmen to have their own stall at the night cafe. They can choose what type of business they would want to put up in during Night cafe. Most of the stalls were owned by fast food and restaurants catering hungry cagay – anons and even visitors. Serving them with hot sumptuous food and live band performing at the Kiosk, what can you ask more?  Variety of foods are displayed for you can choose from main dish to desserts name it they have it.

Night market in Cagayan de Oro City is also one of the highlights during weekends. If you’re looking for a cheap but durable products then come and try the night market. Many displayed “ukay – ukay” that are of high-end brands can give you big discounts. What’s good about “ukay – ukay” is that the style is not common and surely you will be wearing it alone, though it is cheap but it is durable. They also have class A and class B imitations of bags and surely you can’t even spot the difference between the original and the imitations. If you are for everything then come and experience the Night market during weekends at the Divisoria at the heart of the city.

Night cafe and market is giving a chance to cagay – anons to meet new friends and even to see long lost friends. The night cafe was made because of the aim to have camaraderie among cagay – anons and to all the visitors who wanted to experience the city of the golden friendship.

Street foods and night life in CDOC

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Cagay anons are fond of street foods and night life especially when weekend comes, everyone is so excited to eat some mouth watering street foods. Cagayan de Oro City has a colorful view during night time. Divisoria is one of the busiest streetsduring the day but during night time cagay anons will gather here to eat a very delicious meal for dinner. Cagay anons love to eat a lot here in Cagayan de Oro City every business that inclined to food are usually more profitable compared to other business. Because cagay anons are food lovers may it be on a food chain, fine dining and even street foods.

The most popular street foods are kwek kwek, tempura, fish ball, bopis and chicken proven. Cagay anons love to eat street foods almost every night that they drop by on their favorite street food cart.

Kwek kwek is made from a hardboiled egg and it is coated with colored flour and deep fried, when cooked you can choose any variants of sauce like spicy or the sweet one. Eating 2 kwek kwek can mend the hungry stomach.

Tempura and fish ball before are considered to be a snack but now you can eat them anytime but most of them will be eaten during night time. Most cagay anons would eat it when they came out from the bar hanging out with friends and have’nt eaten their dinner so tempura and fish ball would be a good food replacement.

Bopis and chicken proven are internal parts of cow and chicken. Bopis is a cow’s lung cut into cubes and marinated with condiments and deep fried and deep it in a hot spicy sauce. Chicken proven is an inner covering of the chicken’s gizzard coated with flavored flour and deep fried and you can eat it with rice wrapped with coconut leaves and we call it as “puso”. Good combination crunchiness, the spicy sauce and the warm rice wrapped by a coconut leaves. Cagayan de Oro has a bounty of coconut trees and plantations, it is one of the reasons why buko juice became an all-time favorite juice of the many.  Buko juice has different flavors; there are buko pandan, buko with watermelon and plain buko juice with milk. After drinking a buko juice you will surely quench your thirst for a long day of work.

Shopping Spree in Cagayan de Oro

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

As the melting pot of Mindanao, Cagayan de Oro is still one of the best business centers here in Mindanao. A lot of business oriented people are lining up to invest new businesses in town. Due to these developments there are no doubt that Cagayan de Oro will flourish in the commerce arena. Kagay-anons never get outdated when it comes to developments and infrastructures even when it comes to the latest trend. Most especially when we talk about fashion, Kagay-anons will always be updated of the latest.

Cagayan de Oro will never get outdated when it comes to fashion. Where in fact, the City can name and boast a few fashion designers that are famous in the industry. Fashion designers that is PURELY KAGAY-ANONS. In fact, shopping malls are accessible here in the city. With the latest developments of the city and the construction of new malls and establishments it is much predicted that fashion boutiques and designer stores will come ramping around the city.

The imminent presence of shopping malls in the city you can shop all you want. There is a lot of shopping spree varieties to choose from. Below are some of the best things that Kagay-anons can do:

  1. Ukay-Ukay. Here you can find the cheapest deals in clothes. If you want to look like a fashion icon but don’t want to spend much this is the best deal for you. Where are these ukay-ukay stores located? The fact is you can find them all around Cagayan de Oro city. The only downside of this shopping spree activity is that you might find it hard to find clothing that might fit you and the clothes that you might pick may have a little damage already or stains that remains forever.  Also, these places are not advisable for asthmatic people.
  1. Night Market. Only opens every Friday and Saturday. If you don’t want the hectic line nor the dust or the possibility of not finding the right dress for you then the Night Market is the best for you. Hanged with hangers and of course clean and dust-free clothes. Though, they are more expensive than of the Ukay-Ukay they have the mere advantage of people not fond of crawling to a dust filled clothes or doesn’t have the patience in finding the right clothes the Night market is the best answer for you.
  1. Shopping Malls. With a lot of investors coming to town and with the love of fashion of the Kagay-anons there is no wonder that businessmen would invest for fashion stores around the city. If you don’t want to go to dusty and would always go for original clothes then there are a lot of clothes that shopping malls can offer you. From designer clothes, shoes and cheap deals of the best clothes. Name it. They have it.

So these are the best places to do shopping spree in Cagayan de Oro. Places where you can choose what is best for you. Enjoy your shopping everyone.

The White Spa Party

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

All spa lovers are invited to join the first ever White Spa Party organized by Red Fern Spa and Yza Delos Angeles Digital Photography. The event will take place tomorrow, Saturday, July 23, from 5pm to 11:30 pm at the Red Fern T. Chavez Street branch.

Red Fern Spa is different from all the other spas in Cagayan de Oro because they offer traditional massage services. One of their most popular services is the Tuob Binisaya + Traditional Hilot. They also have ear candling services. Ear candling is an alternative and safe health treatment that removes earwax. With the use of a candle’s warmth and smoke, hardened earwax is removed without any pain o discomfort. These are just two of the unique services that you’ll get to experience at the White Spa Party.

For an affordable Php400, you’ll get a one hour and 15 minutes relaxing and rejuvenating massage experience and free photo shoots. In addition, if you wear white, you’ll get the chance to win exciting prizes and freebies, like a lifetime discount. Students who will present a valid ID will be given a 10% discount.

For more information about registration and reservation, check out The White Spa Party FB page here. You may also want to check out all the other unique and relaxing Red Fern Spa services through this link.

-Maia Fortich-Poblete-

Kasalang Filipino 2011 in Pictures

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

Here are some photos taken from Kasalan 2011, which took place at the LimKetKai Mall last July 15 to 17, 2011. Will feature some of the businesses here in CDOKay.com soon. I’m still in the process of getting in touch with them. In the meantime, enjoy looking at the photos!

The Fashion Institute of the Philippines booth.

Check out FIP-CDO at #1 San Agustin cor. Rizal Sts, or call them at (088) 857-4884

The Oro Fashion Designers' Guild displayed several wedding gowns...

Awesome wedding gowns from the OFDG...

Look how beautiful the back details are!

Gowns by Alma Mae Roa of Cameron's and Mark Yaranon of Iconic Fashion...

Gowns by Gil Macaibay and Joshua Guibone

Wedding Cakes by Dicky Go (Contact #: 0917-7249331/FB:dolce vita catering by dicky go)

Cakeistry CDO by Awi G. Chaves (Contact #: 0922-8589938/09209212154)

Cakeistry CDO is located at C-10-10 New Super Highway, Kauswagan, CDO

D&C Unlimited by Corinne Bollozos

D&C's specialties are desserts and cocktails

Yummy treats from D&C Unlimited. Contact them through 0922-8578926

Jannina's Cakes & Pastries

Jannina's offers dessert buffets for all occasions and events. Call them at (088) 880-1811 or (08822) 740-413/0949-3612713

Shutterbug Creative Lounge

Shutterbug's Save-the-Date Videobooth Contest. Call them at 0917-7003108/0922-8964108/0922-8604052, or check out www.shutterbugpartyphotobooth.com

Blues Marquez Photography (www.bluesmarquez.com)

Happy Kasalan, CDO!

-Text & Photos by Maia Fortich-Poblete