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Personal Blog: Must Try Local Food at Southern Leyte

It's important for us to remember the history, culture, language, and other remarkable things in each region.

Southern Leyte is one of the most unique places you can go to, not only that it has the most beautiful beaches, but also has must-try local food that you can't find easily in any part of the Philippines. Here are 3 of them that you need to try!

SUMAN LATIK

Suman Latik is a sweet Filipino snack made from rice dish and caramel sauce. The ingredients are Glutinous rice, young coconut milk (Strips), White Sugar, Sesame seed, Salt (optional), Water, and Banana leaves as the packaging. There is also a version of Suman Latik which the side rice dish is paired with Bukayo (sweetened coconut strips). Price ranges from 10 pesos to 30 pesos.

2. BINAGOL

Made from Glutinous rice, kalamay or brown sugar, and taro pudding with nuts. This sweet delicacy is widely known due to its sweet taste and unique packaging. Covered by coconut shell or "Bagol" in Waray-Waray term that's why it's called Binagol. Binagol is one of the top delicacies that tourists looks in Eastern Visayas. Its price ranges from 100 pesos - 220 pesos.

3. BUCARILLOS

You might hear and about Bucayo, but Bocarillos is the Southern Leyte's version of Bucayo. It is made of coconut strips, evaporated milk, egg, sugar, and calamansi juice. Bucayo and Bocarillos are both sweets but the difference is that Bucayo uses brow sugar making it color brown while Bocarillos is lighter in color because of its ingredients. Today, Bocarillos is one of the most popular delicacies in Southern Leyte.

These are only a few of the delicacies in Southern Leyte, if you want to experience and venture more when it comes to the culture and roots of a certain region, why don't you start at Southern Leyte. I'm sure there are more adventures there!

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Odette Typhoon Experience: Limasawa Volunteer Operation

The most devastating event that happened exactly last year from now has grown a heavy part on each one of us. Typhoon Odette left a hallmark that forever will be ingrained in our most painful days, it haunts us and gives us the horrors of what a typhoon is like.

Just like everyone else, I was also devastated and broken when Odette rampaged the whole Visayas. I got to see the horrors of living in a hellhole of climate change due to the colonial-imperialistic policies and systems that cater most to urbanization, deforestation, and other activities that damage environmental well-being. And by that, when times like this happen, the government is easy to dismiss their part of giving climate justice and holds their policies accountable.

But what pains me the most is that the government that promised us a good system is the government that is easy to rely on volunteerism and charities, and ultimately failed to protect the most vulnerable actors in situations like this.

the relief goods distributions

Here are some of the photos I took when we volunteered to help distribute relief goods and raise charities for Limasawa Island victims who were the most graveyard victims of the typhoon.

We were also able to take some photos of ourselves!

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Travel Blog: Mirador Hill Peace Memorial

Personal Travel Blog

The beauty of traveling is finding comfort and serenity in places. Baguio is the best place for holidays and the cozy season, it makes us feel the beauty of winter even if the Philippines don't have that season.

Baguio is one of the great vacation places in the Philippines, for sure it's nondebatable, but have you seen the beauty of Mirador Hill Peace Memorial already?

If you haven't yet, here are some of my personal documentary photos for memories and some.

Taken earlier this year!

Japan? It's Baguio! Perhaps it gives a cozy Japanese aesthetic, but for real, Mirador is so much more of that.

I remember there were also a lot of people going there, makes me feel validated that I'm not the only one who thinks Mirador is one of the best places!

Oh, spirited away? It's Mirador Hill Peace Memorial world we're living in. One of the qualities I love is it unleashes my inner Studio Ghibli kid, I'm a cool anime boy.