The second leg of our road trip was a stay at White Beach, Puerto Galera in the island of Mindoro. We were only there for one night and half a day but I like Galera better than Boracay; it’s easier to get too, less pretentious, and it feels more alive.
One thing I noticed as we were looking for a place to have dinner is that there are a lot of simple, hole-in-the-wall type restaurants that offer kabab on the menu. Maybe it’s because there are a lot of tourists from the Middle East who go to Galera. There were about ten Israelis sitting at the table behind us, and their conversation was like background music to our meal. It almost felt as if we were in another country.
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My friends and I spent our weekend on a crazy road trip around South Luzon. First stop: Tagaytay, which we reached at around 9 pm because we had only decided to go on the road trip late that afternoon. After checking in at the gorgeous 8 Suites Hotel, we realized that we hadn’t eaten anything since leaving Manila. I was particularly insistent on having bulalo for dinner, a clear beef soup that gets its rich flavor from the bone marrow of the beef shank. Bulalo is a specialty of Tagaytay but oddly enough, we had absolutely no idea where we could find this famous bulalo – or at least, we didn’t know which restaurants were renowned for serving bulalo.
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