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Archive for the ‘Food and Dining’ Category
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.
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
Every Filipino has its own delicacies and type of food that he wants to eat. Philippines as an archipelago means there’s a lot of islands. Every island has a distinguished culture and tradition. The three major islands are: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Mindanao is considered to be the province or the most remote island in the Philippines. But they don’t even know that Mindanao has the widest land area among the islands and everything you ask we all have it here.
Cagayan de Oro City is one of the major cities in Mindanao. To describe Cagayan de Oro City it is the most peaceful and friendly city in Mindanao. Rich in culture and friendliest warm people you will ever encounter. Cagayan de Oro City’s food culture includes a variety of world cuisines influenced by the city immigrants’ history. From Western immigrants have made the city famous for Pastel bread, chicharon, ham and crunchy Pizza while Chinese and Korean restaurants are also rampant in the city proper. There are also some street foods that are commonly cagay – anons favorite foods after work. Such foods are good to be shared with friends and loved ones. Most of the immigrants like the Chinese usually own a place and restaurant herein the city.
Cagayan de Oro has a lot of good restaurants to enjoy and to have a delicious meal. It will depend on the demand of your stomach and your taste buds. But most of the restaurants here are inspired by the foreign immigrants like the famous Thai Me Up inspired by the Thai cuisine. The Mandarin is inspired by the Chinese cuisine.
Cagay – anons are fond of eating, when they eat they are happy and they will have it as a sumptuous meal. Cagayan de Oro is very reach in natural resources, we have a wide land area for root crops and fruit trees. We have vast areas of water may it be a salt water or fresh water. Cagayan de oro is really blessed to have all these natural resources that not only cagay – anons will enjoy but also the visitors.
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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.
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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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Finally – a store in the middle of the city that specializes in sweet goodies and pastries such as cupcakes, cakes, cheesecakes and cookies. The new pastry shop is called The Sweet Shop. It opened on July 8, which was a Friday afternoon, and is now fast becoming a heaven for all sweet tooths.
The Sweet Shop is a small air conditioned café located at the right side corner of Park Café – which is at Plaza Divisoria, right in the middle of the city.
With its see-through glass walls, clean white chic interiors, wrought iron chairs and scrumptious pastry displays, The Sweet Shop is a saccharine heaven in the bustling city, where you can sit down and indulge in sugary bliss, unmindful of the sweltering heat and the busy world outside – even for just a couple of minutes.
Here are some delectable goodies to check out at The Sweet Shop:
- Vanilla Vanilla Cupcakes – Cupcakes have become more and more popular lately. However, they’re usually available only for bulk orders. The Sweet Shop allows you to enjoy cupcakes anytime of the day –and you can order as many or as little as you like. Their delectable cupcakes are decorated with sweet and colorful frosting, making it a perfect hit among kids!
- Carrot Cake With Crème Cheese – Another favorite cupcake from The Sweet Shop is their carrot cake, which is topped with cream cheese and a carrot-like icing design.
- Chocolate Oblivion Torte – A bestseller among customers. The Chocolate Oblivion Torte is an overload of chocolates that melt right in your mouth.
- Raspberry Walnut Rugelach – For people craving something new other than cupcakes and cakes, the Rugelach is a crescent-shaped pastry filled with delicious raspberry and walnut goodness.
- Chocolate Chip Rugelach – Another Rugelach version, this pastry is filled with chocolate chips.
- Banana Tea Bread –For those who want something more simple, their banana tea bread is a good choice. It’s perfect with coffee!
- Sugar Cookies – The Sweet Shop sells sugar cookies that come in a number of shapes and colors, such as gowns and dresses, bags and the like. These should be instant hits with the kids.
- Strawberry Shortcake – Fresh strawberries and cream in between and over two slices of cake. This delicacy is a heaven among all other sweets!
- Toblerone Cheesecake – Another twist to the famous cheesecake, the Sweet Shop’s Toblerone Cheesecake is simply delicious. It’s a baked cheesecake delicacy filled with delicious Toblerone chocolate.
These are just some of the delights that you can expect to find at The Sweet Shop. Their pastries and cakes vary daily and weekly, so you might find something new once you visit. Enjoy their delicacies with juice or coffee from 10 in the morning till 10 in the evening everyday!
-Justine B. Raagas-
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