Today being my birthday, my girlfriend suggested we pick up cakes from a Sunday market that she often frequents. We took a jeepney to get to a private development called Eton Centris. If you want to come by Manila’s metro, the station to get off at is Quezon Avenue. From there, it’s a short walk behind Centris Station Mall.
I don’t know what Sidcor is. I couldn’t find an answer online.
If you’ve been to Bangkok, you would have seen many such public markets where stalls are set up selling kinds of foods alongside clothes and other goods. Well, Sidcor Local Sunday Market is similar but on a smaller scale.
There were a line of vehicles blocking the view of the market
They have benches placed so that visitors can sit and eat
After two full days at LiwLiwa beach, it was time to head back home. We went back to Mommy Phoebe’s Place for breakfast.
It was a good hearty breakfast; cost us ₱445 (₹660/$8/€7.3)
We then went back to our room, checked out of Cafe de Liwa, and took a trike taxi to San Felipe Public Market. We then boarded a Victory Liner bus to Manila.
It was raining for much of the journey
The bus would only make a few brief rest stops
We were delayed a bit due to highway traffic closer to Manila. So it was past 4pm when we finally reached the Victory Liner terminal we got down at. We took a taxi, got home, and then went to a restaurant called Fat Cousins’ Diner. It was not good. Just mediocre food at high prices.
Date: January 6, 2023
After doing some work, I decided to step out to check SM City North EDSA, one of the largest malls in Manila.
I headed to the mall on a Grab bike taxi
The main mall has the usual brands you will find in any SM mall. I went to the Annex wing to check out ‘Cyberzone’ — which as the name suggests, is where all the electronics shops are.
I mostly came here to check out the gaming stores
Aside from stores selling PlayStation games, you have pretty much every major brand of electronics available here — from laptops, gaming PCs, TVs, appliances, and of course mobile stores. Lots and lots of mobile stores and accessories for mobile phones.
I spent some time at SM North EDSA, not because I wanted to… but because it was raining outside
Once the rains had subsided, I used the bridgeway to get to Trinoma mall on the other side of the EDSA highway
There was a lot of construction going on at Trinoma mall’s site
I searched on Google Maps and found a few Indian eateries in the Monumento area, just 5+ kilometres from Trinoma/SM City North EDSA. I thought I’d check it out and grab some dinner from there.
After arriving in LiwLiwa yesterday and checking out the beach, we wondered how to spend the day today. We took a trike to San Felipe Public market, and tried to find a money exchange place that would accept Singapore dollars. Unfortunately, I learned that even though there are many Filipinos working in Singapore, in small towns across the Philippines… don’t expect money exchange centers to accept a wide a variety of foreign currency. US dollars are still your safest bet.
The Santo Tomas river of sand
Fortunately I managed to find a money exchange place in the neighbouring town of San Narciso that would accept Singapore dollars and converted some in exchange for Philippines pesos.
Breathing a sigh of relief, we had an early lunch now that I had enough cash in hand.
Cafe de Verde was the name of the restaurant but the food was quite forgettable. Mediocre at best. All this came to ₱590 (₹876/$10/€9.7)
We sat at the restaurant to do some work as the mobile internet in LiwLiwa beach wasn’t always reliable.
After we left the restaurant, we walked around San Narciso
San Sebastian Parish church
An old wooden house that’s now open to visitors
There wasn’t much else to do in this town, so we took a bus back to San Felipe.
