The Philippines (Part 2)

Hello! gonna head back to SG tml & so i'm gonna blog all e pics i've transferred to my com. hehe~

alright let's continue about the philippines!

this is 5th December, my birthday. Dad drove me out to

Chinatown for DimSum breakfast.

I like e name of this road sign, there's hardly any road sign ard & they r all so small n high up.

See, there's no lane dividers on the road, just drive only!

 

Lots of ppl selling stuff on the road. 

But comparing to my last trip 10yrs ago, i see much lesser homeless kids begging on the road.

Here we are, Manila Chinatown.

I dont know why all the chinatown in asia countries has to look dirty.

According to my dad, this is the chinese's fire engine. 

Somewhat like supported by the Chinese association.

I've had dimsum @ about 3-4 places during my trip. I'll say come only to chinatown, it's not fantastic but it's good enough to satisfy u if u're craving it. (to sara, fy, ernie: Better than tunglok) 

@ other places, my fried wonton turns out to be chicken filling, my har kau is steamed wonton. siew mai is plain disgusting. VERY ANNOYING.

Pretty fountain right outside china town.

Then we head off to MALL OF ASIA for my birthday cakes =)

Beautiful weather, not hot & humid like SG.

MY LOVE! I had KFC twice, it's heeeeeeeeellllllllllllllll yummy!!! the chicken parts r smaller, but e chicken here are like those in Malaysia- very tasty!

Oh! & they dont only have flavours in Original & Crispy, they also have Spicy Lime. 

See what i mean by they freaking love sour food? & I LOVE SPICY LIME!

& im very impressed with their delivery, comes with rice, ICE and plastic cups!
Maybe they dont do it in SG cos if they deliver ice to SGrean, & 2 of the ice cubes melt we will complain.

Approaching Mall of Asia!

Macapaga, Pasay City

Here's a brief intro from Wikipedia:

'SM Mall of Asia is the 3rd largest shopping mall in Asia and the 4th^[1] (Ref. Forbes' World's 10 Largest Shopping Malls) largest shopping mall in the world.' 

Reminds me a lil' of our Vivo City. 

What u see in the picture is only half of Mall of Asia, imagine an exact mirror image to what u see extending through the right of the pic.

Here's one of my dad's favourite cake shop.

The cakes r very rich so we shares 3 slices + smoothies. I like! 

My all-time fav: cheesecake, tiramisu & baileys~

Shopping in Mall of Asia will cost you about 1900 ~ 6000 Peso for a single dress. mostly 2000 ~ 3000 peso. divide it by 32.5.
it's pretty much like shopping in ION Orchard.

End of my simple birthday!

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SO next day Uncle Charlie came back to work & i was complaining to him tt it's so expensive @ Mall of Asia, i want to find BARGAINS! Tt's e whole point of shopping overseas right?!

So he brought me to a local mall, i didnt see any tourist there.
& dad says it's where the middle class & below shops.

Dad got a blister from walkin & we had to leave be4 e local end work cos it'll be too crowded in there.
I'M DEFINITELY GOING BACK THERE NEXT TRIP!

All of the above (including the bags) cost me a total of S$77. 

E quality is slightly better than those u get in thai fleas. 

Then we da bao Andok's Chicken & Pork back for dinner.

This is the salty chicken i was telling Fangyi abt, he confirm like! 

Very well marinated!

168 is really cheap compared to what i got from the robinson's mall (Previous post). Only managed to get below for S$70. Maybe cos gifts for my sis more expensive.

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Nothing much e next day except tt we ordered Pizza Hut Delivery.

CHEAP!

Gotta stop here, dad kp-ing cos need to walk up early for my flight. bye!