Boracay is food. Food is Boracay.

Chocolate Sin-ful

Smoke's Kao Pad

I know of Boracay's fine sand and crystal-clear beach.

But there's more to what your eyes can see, there's also what your tongue can taste. Boracay homes the most mouth-watering dishes and desserts that will make you swim back for more.

There's the artsy-fartsy Smoke restaurant in D'Mall.

When you've been to Soms in Rockwell and Mandaluyong and had a taste of their Kao Pad. Then, you surely need to dine at Smoke and order their bestseller, Kao Pad.

A Thai-inspired dish, you'll go gaga over the battling sweet and sour taste Kao Pad's bagoong-flavored rice topped with mango and scrambled egg.

Then there's Beef Salpicao.

Usual at the first sight of it. But wait until you take a bite of its juicy beef seasoned with fried garlic that will inevitably brainwash your memory of what Beef Salpicao used to be.

When you taste buds crave for that Filipino dish, there's Island Chicken Inasal.

Right at the heart of D'Mall, grab a bite of its authentic Bacolod Chicken Inasal and drool over their Filipino's very own Sinigang. Giving you more reasons to stay on the island.

Thinking of the best dessert on the sand?

Then Zuzuni's the only way.

Enjoy the sand while savoring their sinful Chocolate Sin - a freshly baked chocolate muffin with stuffed with hot fudge and vanilla ice cream on the side.

One true YUM!

And when hunger strikes you in the middle of your booze session, there's always Chori Burger to stuff your alcohol-pumped tummy.

So the next time you're in Boracay, be sure to enjoy all sides of the triangle - beach, food, and booze.

Fiesta ala Pobre

Hobbies: Eating

High school life suddenly flashed back to me as I write this first entry.

I could vividly remember the times when a girl friend asks me to write 

in her slam book - autograph as we Filpinos call it - I always write under hobbies, eating.

As of this writing, I am eating.

I really love eating - may it be the chicken balls that I buy outside our school back in college, or the Grilled Pork Belly that I ate a week ago (the reason why I am 

running out of bread now).

Filipinos are famous for such habit. According to some foreigners I met, any food business

in the country would be successful due to our 5-meals-a-day habit.

5-meals-a-day?

So that would be breakfast-snacks-lunch-snacks-dinner?

I am not a Filipino, then. 

It's a breakfast-snacks-lunch-snacks-dinner-midnight snacks meal for me a day.

And I wonder why I don't get fat. Well, except for my tummy that's getting bigger and bigger everyday; 

thanks to the bottles of beer that I consume and enjoy with my friends every weekend.

We should admit, we, Filipinos, are all fond of eating.

That's why we prepare food, even though we don't have much in our wallet, 

during fiestas, birthdays, and even during vigils.

STOP.

Don't get me wrong here.

This is not a food blog - this intro might mislead you.

Jolly Jeep, for those who doesn't know it, is the most popular eating

haven in Makati. These are installed stalls around Makati who provide 

food for those who can only spend 50 pesos for lunch, that includes me.

Jolly Jeep, in this case, will take you through my different choices in life.

May it be the worst or the best.

Jolly Jeep is a chronicle of all my thoughts and expressing it through writing.

It is my vehicle to release tension. My venue to feature novelties.

My way to convey opinion. My spot to a boundless articulation.

This is Jolly Jeep.

Take a pick.

Grab a bite.