Dried fish in Taboan market

Danggit – in english is Rabbit fish or spine foot, these are then halved, dried and sometimes salted. It usually comes in different variants – they have the boneless danggit, which costs more than the regular ones. You can also choose between salted, and unsalted. In our case we got the boneless salted ones.

Where to buy

If you want to get these pasalubong at a reasonable price, it’s best to go to Taboan Market in Cebu. There are lots of dried sea foods sellers in this area, you can haggle the price among them until you get the best one.

Danggit is best eaten with champorado. In my opinion, at least. Salap! hehe

You can also get your other pasalubong’s here, like dried mango’s, otap and candies.

Casa Verde

Coming to Cebu, one of the food / resto we wanted to check out was Casa Verde, somewhere near the capitol area. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to find it there. Luckily though, we find another branch of this restaurant at Ayala mall instead.

Supposedly, the original branch is spanish-inspired but the one in Ayala mall had an American-inspired ambiance.

There were lots of American pop-culture decorations inside the restaurant, and a few other miniature and toys.

A marily monroe bust, and statue decoration inside Casa Verde

According to our research, the must-try in this restaurant are the ribs. It was – very good, then again, you can’t get wrong with ribs, eh?

the famous ribs from Casa Verde

;So that’s what I got, while Jeff on the other hand tried their steak.

Steak from Casa Verde

Fees

Baby back ribs – P188.00

The Dax (Steak) – 250.00

Parklane hotel in Cebu

After a day of staying at Seaview Pension, Jeff and I decided to transfer to a hotel in the city, closer to the malls and other spots are.

We asked a taxi driver on his recommendation for a good, cheap hotel to stay in the city. He brought us to Parklane hotel, which is not quite cheap at all, but fortunately for us, they had a promo rate the day we came, and our actual hotel expense became P2800 from it’s regular 4k price.

The hotel is just walking distance from Ayala mall, and a few steps away is a  main road that has jeepney’s passing by to take you around Cebu.

Our room rate also included a buffet breakfast. Though I think it was part of the promo rate we got.

Breakfast

There’s also a swimming pool located in the hotel.

Rates

• Superior room 4,000
• Parklane room 4,500
• Corner room 5000
• Boutique room 8700
• Parklane plus 5500
• Corner Plus 6000
• Boutique plus 9700
• Executive suite 15000
• Penthouse 30000

Address

Corner Arch. Reyes Ave. & Escario Street, Cebu City, Philippines

Contact

Cebu Phone number: 411 7000

Manila Office number 812 9984

Lechon from CnT

After our city tour at Cebu, it was now time to grab some dinner at CnT’s restaurant, home of Cebu’s famous lechon (roasted pig).

How to go there

From SM Cebu, exit at Mcdo,  accross the street is where you’ll find CnT’s restaurant.

What to see

Cebu’s lechon was dubbed as the ‘best pig in the world’ by international chef Anthony Bourdain. We definitely had to add CnT’s lechon as one of the must-try food we have to taste when we get to Cebu.

From what I’ve heard, you dont need a sauce for this lechon, because the pig is injected with the sauce prior to roasting. That’s why this pig is so tasty and juicy. Though for us, it tasted like a regular lechon. In fairness though, we came there at closing time, and they we’re almost out of roasted pig to sell.

Disclaimer: While creating our itinerary to Cebu, I’ve stumbled upon several sites saying we should try CnT’s lechon, that it was dubbed by Anthony Bourdein as the best pig. Anthony was referring to the entirety of Cebu, as the best pig in the world. not CnT itself.

Fees and Fares of this tour

• Lechon – 320 per kilo

Magellan's Cross

How to go there

Magellan’s cross is located beside the church of Basilica del sto nino. Passed the street in front of the church, to the right is where it’s located.

What to See

Preparing for our itinerary, I was getting confused with Magellan’s cross and Magellan’s Shrine. The two are actually different places. I was warned by people who went their that the place smells like pee, but luckily my super smell didn’t catch that foul odor.

Outside Magellan's cross

Magellan’s cross is located in Cebu city. This is the cross that Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer brought to Cebu when he got there. The cross is now housed inside a chapel near the church of Basilica del Sto Nino.

Fees and Fares of this tour

• none