Zubuchon by Market Manila here in Cebu

*updated

Please do try the tastiest lechon since CNT here in Cebu. Market Manila, the country’s Anthony Bourdain, is serving Cebu palates in Banilad Town Center, Cebu from 10am-1pm. Zubuchon is priced at P385/kilo. Anthony Bourdain, world reknowned chef, called it “the best of the best” among all roasted pigs he has tasted.

Read about Market Manila’s Zubuchon here. Photo taken from the web.

(photo from Anton Diaz)

The ZUBUCHON logo from the Market Man

Zubuchon stall at Banilad Town Center (photo by the Market Man)

Zubuchon is about doing things the old-fashioned way. They use good olive oil, prepare and accupuncture and cook the pig by hand with no mechanized systems at all. They cook the pigs on natural bamboo poles over charcoal from small scale manufacturers. Their pigs are carefully selected from folks who generally raise them in their backyards, not from large commercial piggeries. That’s the tedious part because they really have to drive at least an hour to get to their houses and the part where they have to go from one house to another and negotiate with the owners. MarketManila had to attest how tedious that was.

Zubuchon uses only the freshest and often home grown organic lemongrass (that’s tanglad for you!), green onions, siling labuyo or peppers, local sea salt and other herbs and spices. INDULGE.

Zubuchon Banilad Town Center

(63917) 627 4761
Store Hours: 10AM to 7PM (except Mondays) or until supplies last

Price:

Fresh / Frozen Lechon (P450/ Kilo)
Frozen Lechon Ready to Cook Sisig (P295)
Lechons from PHP4,000-PHP6,000 (depending on the size)

Zubuchon Mactan Domestic Airport, Pre-departure Lounge
Store Hours: 6AM to 9PM or until supplies last

Price
Zubuchon
Fresh/ Frozen Lechon (P490/ Kilo)
Frozen Lechon Ready to Cook Sisig (P295)

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Philippine Blog Awards 09 at the City Sports

This will be my first Philippine Blog Awards Night since its establishment three years ago! The event is set to be held at the Ayala City Sports Club this Sunday, Oct 18. I wanted to meet the CebuBloggers for the second time because the first time we met, there really wasn’t time to get to know everyone. There are so many of them! Good luck also to the nominees and the finalists. I’ve judged the Best Visayas Locale Blog by the way. Just keep yourself posted for the winners. You wouldn’t want me to give it away, would you? *Wink* Congratulations also to Elyoo! I judged and pined for her to win the Best Fashion Blog. Her site was neat and clean even if she was only using the WordPress default template. I think blogsites that have a lot of ads and flash content in it hurt me eye. Or I think I’m getting old. Anyhoo… Elyoo’s content posts were original and very local-Manila-Fashion-that-is-rich -in-flavor. I hardly follow fashion blogs that have a lot of “Hollywood” content in it. The best fashion blogs are always local, yes, local and uniquely Filipino. Again, congratulations to Elyoo and of course, the rest of the finalists for the Best Fashion Blogs!

This Sunday, I want to see (and I’m tagging them, here) boyfriend Beejing, the Obnoxious Queer, Orville, Karen, Sinjin, Vernon and Rod. Oh, I realized I don’t have that many friends. Now what is Stylecebu’s problem now? What to wear and Who to Wear! Haha. See you all!

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Post Birthday Blog Post

Yes, the birthday blog. I’ve managed to make a habit of doing this here, here, here and here. I know this is kind of late but hell, I declare October MY MONTH. Now let’s get to the essentials. See below my birthday resolutions:

1. Style wardrobe for tomorrow the night before
Don’t you just hate it when you wake up in the morning and you scramble to find your clothes let alone mix and match it? From now on, I vow to style my clothes the night before! Even celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe said so! Actually, I just want the extra minutes of sleeping. Hahahaha.
2. No more bad vibes. The Secret!!
My friend, Michelle, has been urging us to live life the “Secret” way. This of course is referring to the popular book by Rhonda Byrne that talks about the universe bending over just to do what you want – if and only if you think positive and generate a lot of good wives, vives, bribes – errr, vibes.
3. No more “customer from hell”
If waiters and cashiers run away from me when they see me entering the establishment, that will really freak me out. I need to practice the “count from one to ten before steaming” so that I will no longer bark at really crappy service. I understand that no one really has to put up with crap and just tolerate really bad service but sometimes I get carried away and give hell to the waitress who is just doing her job.
4. Save. Save. Save.
In all honesty, I am not rich. Strip me off my parent’s money and the only assets I have are my boobs. Haha. I’m kidding. Besides that I mean, they can hardly sustain Cambodia so perhaps 2010 would be a good year to start, yes?
5. More trips to the salon.
If you have noticed lately, my hair has gone through so many processing it can hardly breathe now. I just can’t help but touch up my roots I like them brown. Perhaps in the future when they are already treatment-free, I can go back to straight black hair.
6. Be more timely from writing to uploading photos to simpy just being on time during dates. Yes, I apologize to my friends who keep patiently waiting for to me arrive. Oh, wait. My mom will be using the laptop for the meantime. Bummer.
7.  Be more spiritual and this is not because I now live near the church.
8. Write a bucket list.
9. Be thankful for everyday blessings!
10. Read more books.
11. Be more challenged with everything.
12. Not really pressuring myself to do all these resolutions!

Whew. Before I made this I only had 5 bullets. Now there’s more! Hahaha. Here is the list of the things that I’m thankful for this year:

1. The end of mom’s agony at the Phil. bar exam
2. Good health and generous insurance companies who supply your super expensive Asthma maintenance
3. Events that didn’t botch up
4. Skills that are polished by constant practice and an endless support group (photography, makeup, HTML, etc). I have to boast that although I didn’t start this theme from scratch, the fact that I tweaked it myself from margins to adding sidebars is already overwhelming.
5. Friends, friends and more friends
6. Family that are always there accepting you and loving you
7. For a job that doesn’t require much from me except to do everything right
8. Basti and him

I love you all!

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