Ramen Nagi!

This is more of just a shout out to Ramen Nagi! I'm not too much into Ramen although occasionally I would crave for one. So I would eat at random places which served them. There's only two places which served mainly just ramen that I've tried: Ajisen and the one in SAn Jose back in 2009 when a friend took me.. It was good but it wasn't really memorable. Either that or I prefer Viet/Korean/Chinese soup dishes more...

Until we decided to try Ramen Nagi in SM Aura last weekend. There was a line and we had to wait a few minutes to be seated even if it was a very late lunch for us at 3pm. After that first sip of the Original Ramen, I immediately realized what the fuss was about. That was probably the best I've tried so far!!! We weren't so adventurous as it was our first time so we just got the chef's recommendations.

My sister got the Red one and if you like korean spicy noodles, you'd like this one. I actually liked it but it's probably too spicy for me to eat a whole bowl.

Next time, I might try to vary the taste (ex. Richness, spicyness, etc.) a bit but to be honest I'm quite contented with the chef's recommendations. Their ramen is not available for take out so I guess you'd have to bear the line for now to have a taste.

Signages at Stilts

While the beach wasn't as great for swimming as compared to boracay where you'd have a long stretch of just pure powdery sand, Stilts Resort in Calatagan had a few nifty details which made it great for lazing around in a laidback and no-nonsense kind of way. I'd say it's still underutilized but it sometimes is good to enjoy these things at their simplest. For the basic level of course you'd have to rough it out but sometimes modernization and commercialization takes some from the whole experience. The signs with different quotes all over the resort piqued my interest the most probably to warrant this post. Of course, the cottages in stilts would be the highlight but it was fun reading some of the quotes and taking their pictures.

(I've used this line quite a number of times already...)

I especially like this last one too. Well said (creatively):

"I wanted a perfect ending... Now I've learned the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."

*all pictures taken by me using an iphone