Food trip in Bacolod City

The AssoTech team went to Bacolod City to do a 2-day training workshop on rice production for our partners in Negros Occidental. We stayed in East View Hotel in Bacolod, our poging Sir in PhilRice-Negros did all the logistics and he's also the one to tour us around, but not for places but mostly for food, thank you, ACS (Albert Christian Suner).  

photo op of the participants with our welcome banner

inside East View Hotel

halata bang gusto namin yung stairs?

After our courtesy visit to the Mayor of Kabankalan City, that's how we do things, we always go to the municipal hall or provincial hall to visit local officials and their municipal agriculturists. Then we proceed with our activities for the day in the area.

for my TODA collection, a tricycle wrapped in plastic because it's raining most of the time (it's July when we visited, already rainy season) waiting for passengers in Kabankalan City hall

Welcome to PhilRice-Negros, the station based at Cansilayan, Murcia, Negros Occidental, going here you will pass by a lot of sugarcane fields, oh well, you are in Bacolod, that's why. 

Additional 2 for my TODA collection, saw these tricycles when we went to Pala Pala.

Pala Pala is a seafood market on San Juan Street corner of North Capitol Road. The style here is very much the same as "Dampa", you pick your kinds of seafood in the market (like what Ms. Lani and Tita Vangie are doing in the photo) then go to the restaurants around Pala Pala and asked them to cook it for you. 

grabe, anlaking mga itlog

halaan nga ba 'to? hulaan nyo =P

pssttttt sarap!

iba't ibang klase ng hipon, di ko na inalam kung anong tawag sa kanila at anong kaibahan, basta orange din lahat yan pag naluto =P

siempre pag may hipon, may crab, partner yan sila 

at dahil nasa Bacolod, siempre not to miss ang masarap na scallops, na ang tagalog pala ay "iskalop" or kabibi...mahal at di masyadong present to sa Laguna, kaya sige Marya, "heeyah scallop" ay gallop pala yun =P

at ayun na nga, sa alaala na lang sila =P

salamat po sa masarap na paluto =)

nakuha pang mag-marang after ng super busog na dinner

lakad lakad lang para humupa ang busog at nadaanan ang San Sebastian Cathedral 

It was a productive official trip and a happy tummy too food adventure with the AssoTech team, till next time.

WOW Bacolod

After Iloilo and Guimaras, our next trip a ferry ride that would take us to Tiny's place in Bacolod...the sweetest place in the Philippines since this is the sugar bowl. The home of masskara festival! The city of SMILES =)!


sleepy Icoy while waiting for our ferry


finally, boarding time!


Tiny's Lola and cute nieces


U2 invasion, we didn't let this Ukayan pass


going around La Carlota




night life in La Carlota park


from La Carlota to Bacolod City aboard this bus....to meet our tour guide Jerome


first stop in Bacolod, the famous pasalubong shop


...where you can buy mascara printed shirts


same products in Biscocho Haus in Iloilo but according to the Bacoleños/Bacolodnon they have the best barquillos than in Biscocho Haus


Posing before the Provincial Capitol of Negros Occidental


Indays day out, meeting Dodongs at the park


they have a lot of old churches like in Iloilo


street food, Bibingka, rice cakes cooked in charcoal


the beautiful remains of an Old Mansion owned by General Lacson in Talisay City, very near Bacolod, it is called "The Ruins". They burned the mansion to prevent the Japanese from using it as head quarters during WWII.


now it is open to public for a minimal fee






and now we're in Silay City visiting Balay Negrense, the ancestral home of the Gaston family.


two stairs going up, the left for ladies and the right side for gentlemen...according to our guide =)


a lot of old stuffs were still kept intact in this mansion, declared by the National Historical Institute as one of the 30 Heritage Houses in Silay City


some of the 30 Heritage houses were still used as homes or commercial building such as this one. El Ideal pronounced as "El-idjal" by the locals...


the home of the sweet and yummy "Guaple Pie"


after going around the many Cities of Negros Occidental the whole day and after a huge laugh in discovering El-idjal and a lot of many interesting stories from our tour guide Jerome it's time to go back home...lining up to get in the new Bacolod Airport with lots of pasalubong from Bong bong's and a lot of happy memories from our trip....


we had too much from Bong bong's that we forget to buy this one pasalubong....too bad we'll just imagine the taste of this one...oh well it's something to go back to


waiting lounge of the new airport...the Indays going back to Manela...vacation's over!