Year: 2010

Ginabot anyone?

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ginabot sa pungko-pungko

No gallbladder and street food – Ginabot

Ginabot is the Visayan term for Chicharon Bulaklak. It is made from pig’s intestines, salted, and deep fried to a crisp that resembles a flowery appearance – a crispy flower-shaped finger food. A finger food. A street food. My food.

This becomes part of my low-budget meal. The pungko-pungko stall, literally means eating while squatting, however has wooden bench, is found in the basketball court near IT-Park along Salinas Drive. But the one I usually go to is situated in front of the Waterfront Hotel – Cebu, I mean right beside the main road going to the hotel. There is one stall in the corner of Salinas Drive and the entrance road of Waterfront Hotel.

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First shot of beer

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Drinking Beer

I had my first glass of San Miguel Beer Pale Pilsen!

7 months after my Lap Chole (Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy) operation, I found myself holding an icy San Miguel beer. Not just holding the glass but drinking the beer.

First reaction – I almost forgot the taste of cold San Miguel Beer. I waited some minutes for my system to react to the beer. And since it was a round-robin shots, I had ample time to feel how my stomach would react. But I only had the normal system reaction – burping. Then I had some more shots and I feel no stomach pain, no adverse reaction.

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