The usual itinerary in Bali includes a lot of temples. However, our tour guide, Jick of Be Happy at Bali Tour & Travel, suggested that we must limit our visit to temples to three because in all honesty, we wouldn’t fully enjoy and understand them since we have different culture and religion. We agreed to

It’s rainy but nothing’s gonna stop me from eating cold dessert, especially when it’s banana split! Banana Split is usually served as a sundae, if not on a boat-shaped dish. I’m gonna tweak the usual a bit by making a parfait. Why does it matter? What’s the difference anyway? Actually, the taste is just similar

In the Philippines, there are numerous barbecue grill stands scattered in every street corner. In the afternoon, people would flock to buy barbecue, which is popular local street food. By barbecue, we do not only mean grilled chicken and pork meat. Vendors usually sell and grill parts of chicken and pork like pork fat, pig

Arancini – a rice or risotto formed into balls and deep-fried into croquette. I never heard of Arancini until I discovered it on Netflix’s Best Leftovers Ever! when a contestant tried to transform leftover rice to Arancini. Speaking of leftovers, January is the month when we get a lot of it. We still have remaining

We already tackled our Bali swing, Bedugul-Ubud tour, Bali beach, Hindu temple and campur dinner experiences on my previous blogs. It’s time to talk about our cliff-hopping adventure in Nusa Penida. Nusa Penida is a separate island in Indonesia. It belongs to the province of Bali but it has a spectacular natural landscape that is

I’m a fan of Netflix’s Street Food TV Series. Well, actually, I watch almost all Netflix reality shows about food because as a foodie, I naturally enjoy learning about them. Street Food: Asia, Street Food: Latin America and Street Food: USA are few of the documentaries that interest me because I got to explore cultural

Tapa is a Filipino-style cured or dried pork of beef. Served with fried rice and egg, it’s one of my favorite Filipino breakfast. But I also like it on sizzling plate with gravy. On the other hand, shawarma a popular Middle Eastern dish that is prepared by wrapping roasted meat slices with a coned pita

Iced Tea is American. But make it Pandan Iced Tea, then that’s screaming Asian! I first tasted Pandan Iced Tea at Banana Leaf and I instantly felt love with the natural taste of Pandan transformed into drink. It tasted like home since I grew in a place where Pandan is used as flavoring to desserts

“Bring us to something unique and some place we don’t have in the Philippines.” – This was the first advise we gave to our tour guide, Jick, when we finally landed at Bali. Beaches and other ocean adventures are prominent in the Philippines so we wanted a place that truly represents Bali. I must say