When I dropped by one of the restaurant for dinner yesterday, the waiter introduced their signature dish Kaldereta to me it sound and pronouns like a calculator. Never got to eat a "calculator" in my life I ordered it. Kaldereta is a dish popular in the Philippines, especially in Luzon island. Its common ingredients are cuts of pork, beef or goat with tomato paste or tomato sauce with liver spread added to it. In Metro Manila it is more commonly added with potatoes but in other regions such as Southern Tagalog provinces, it is simply the sauce and the cuts of meat that are used. There are other meats that can also be used such as chicken but pork, beef and goat are the three more popular cuts of meat used. Price P120
Sightly Different Our Claypot version. By using our clay pot the recipes need less fat, are easy to prepare and don't require extensive monitoring. Meats and poultry cooked in clay are fabulous -- the meat is so tender it falls off the bone, and the flavors are locked in.In fact the key to healthy cooking is no secret,we don't have to be a heath guru to stick to salads or soups. We can limit our intake of fat, cholesterol, calories and sodium by simply paying close attention to what goes into your cooking the dishes. My personally opinion balance and moderation are essential in maintaining a healthy diet.Price P120
A python snake was caught in the backyard, I guess they going to EAT it. The 1st step to eat a snake is to catch one and kill it. The next step is to clean and skin it.If you plan on eating venomous snakes be sure to remove both the head and the glands before cooking, with some snakes such as Rattle Snake you can bleed the venom before killing the snake into a jar (Directions found elsewhere) and sell the venom to a lab for making anti-venom.Cooking the snake meat has a couple of options, there is the roasted over the open fire on a stick or sliced and fried.Once the snake is cooked thoroughly, serve with vegetables and GSM favourite acoholic among the local here. However, in the rural areas, snake oil are consigned and relegated to alternative forms of treatment: hand-me-down herbal concoctions or some form of rural alchemy for the skin disease.
Power failure in Philippine Gamu is a common occurrences the outage adversely affected business in the province sometime can last for 2 or 3 day. Therefore, our trusted generator is part of our essential item for our business. Ideally the generator restores power within 30 seconds of an outage automatically that was on my wish list. However, due to cost saving we designed to power directly into our business premise electrical system though a manual switch that professionally wired as a plug-in situation.
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In Singapore power failure carried a high penalty cost... Hmmm Extract from Channel NewsAsia 21 Dec 06
Power supply restored after blackout, Senoko Power could face fines
By May Wong and Pearl Forss
Power supply restored after blackout, Senoko Power could face fines
By May Wong and Pearl Forss
SINGAPORE : Several parts of Singapore experienced a power failure on Thursday afternoon.
Callers to the MediaCorp News hotline reported the blackouts in several areas around the island. Hawkers at Golden Mile Food Centre simply took the power outage in their stride, as they continued to tend their stall with the help of candles. Power supply there was disrupted for about two hours. Other areas affected included Choa Chu Kang, Bukit Batok, Bukit Timah, Woodlands and Jalan Eunos.
The reason for the blackout - two power generation plants at Senoko Power Station tripped. The two power generation units failed because Senoko experienced a disruption in gas supply from Petronas, Malaysia. Senoko says this is its first gas supply incident here. Senoko supplies about 30 percent of electricity to Singapore. The incident today caused its supply to dip by about 10 percent.
Senoko says the incident was sudden and instantaneous. "We have normally, in such circumstances, switch to both either diesel fire-generation or to switch to alternative gas supplies. But the instantaneous nature of the supply disruption meant that we were unable to call in such backup capability," explains Roy Adair, president and CEO of Senoko Power.
Senoko says the incident is also not due to the wet weather or poor maintenance. "In fact, the whole facility is regularly maintained and it's been recently checked, so the entire infrastructure related to the gas supply is working perfectly. So at this stage, we're looking to the results of our investigation," says Adair.
Senoko says a comprehensive investigation is underway and the losses it says will be penalty enough. The last time such a major power failure took place was on 29 June 2004. Since then, the Energy Market Authority (EMA) has imposed new regulatory controls on the energy market to prevent blackouts from taking place again.
More than 300,000 homes were left in the dark in June 2004. What happened then was that piped gas from Indonesia to Singapore's power stations was disrupted by a technical fault. And most turbines were unable to switch to the backup source of fuel - diesel. This severely affected power supply and the result was major economic losses of over $6 million and "a harmed reputation" for Singapore according to the government.
One month later, EMA announced new regulatory controls. The aim is to improve reliability by imposing tougher penalties for poor performance. This included a $1 million fine for blackouts affecting areas, for example, the size of a housing board estate. The penalty rises to $2 million for the third and subsequent occurrences within a year of the first incidence. A $50,000 fine is imposed for blackouts affecting a few blocks of flats. This rises to $100,000 for the third and subsequent incident occurring in a month. Companies also face a fine of up to $50,000 if power is not restored within 3 hours of a blackout that affects, for example, a hotel or commercial building.
It is still uncertain at this point what penalty Senoko Power will face, at least after a thorough investigation is conducted. After the June 2004 incident, a high-level committee was also set up to look at how to prevent such disruptions.
The panel suggested that Singapore import liquefied natural gas (LNG) to diversify the fuel mix and increase energy security. The government approved this proposal and a LNG receiving terminal, costing some US$500 million, will be built by 2012.
The committee also urged Singapore to move to an open access, interconnected gas transmission system. In an open access system, any gas producer can offer gas into a common pool and importers can draw from it to meet their needs.
Currently, about 70 percent of Singapore's electricity is generated by natural gas, sourced from Malaysia and Indonesia's West Natuna and South Sumatra fields. The panel said Singapore should have more diversified sources of natural gas. - CNA /ls
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Things to Do and see in Cagayan
Rev. Fr. Gerry Z. Fillipe Ho, Ofm Memorial Museum (Sta. Ana)Constructed in loving memory of the late founder of the Franciscan Apostolate Sisters. Contents of the museum include all the personal belongings of Father Ho, such as prayer books, vestments, missals, and memorabilia like pictures, clothes, and the first vehicle used by the sisters in apostolating to the barrios. A chapel dedicated to Padre Pio exists in the premises. The museum is about 175 km. from Tuguegarao City. It is owned by the Franciscan Apostolate Sisters.
Enrance fee is Php25.00/pax. Tel. no. (0917) 981 7752. Contact persons: Sr. Miluna Ruiz Cielo, FAS, and Mother Agnes H. Cabote, FAS." Located inside the Cagayan State University campus at Carig, Tuguegarao City, it showcases the tradition of the native Ibanag and Ilocano from birth to death by using mannequins. The museum also boasts of a shell midden from the archeological site of Lallo, old coins and political history, and home and farm implements, among others.
Open during weekdays. On weekends call (078) 844 1949 for appointment. Entrance fee is Php10.00/pax."
The Cagayan Robina Sugar Milling Corporation is built amidst thousands of hectares of sugarcane plantation. The building stands along the highway of Sto. Domingo, Piat which is about 30 kilometers from Tuguegarao on the way to the Basilica Minore of Our Lady of Piat.
Callao Caves Tourist Located within the Peñablanca Protected Landscape; 24 kilometers from Tuguegarao. The seven-chambered Callao Caves boast of massive limestone and other rock formations, skylights, and a chapel. Other pristine and undisturbed caves with living rock formations in the area include Sierra Cave, Quibal Cave, Odessa-Tumbali Cave System, Jackpot Cave, Roc and San Carlos Caves, among others. These caves can be explored with guides from Sierra Madre Outdoor Club (SMOC), Adventures and Expedition Philippines, Inc. (AEPI), and North Adventours.
More than 300 caves dot the area, 75 of which have been documented by the National Museum since 1977. Within the area is the Pinacanauan River conducive for river rafting or boating, kayaking, fishing, and swimming while the mountains are perfect for trekking and mountaineering. Daily circadian flight of bats from a bat cave occur at dusk."
Located at Sitio Tumallo, Barangay Quibal in Peñablanca. At 115 meters, it is the second deepest cave in the Philippines. The cave has a walking-size passage, shafts and drops of varying depths that provide for a lot of rope works. Meandering streams and gour pools of varying sizes abound. A sump of undetermined depth backs up on wet season flooding the lower section of the cave to the roof as evidenced by large logs jammed in the roof of the cave. Located at Sitio Abbenditan, Barangay Quibal in Peñablanca. At 12.60 kilometers, it is the third longest cave in the Philippines. Known locally as Abbenditan Cave, it is active, flood prone, and provides excellent wet sport caving. It has superb formations and passage shapes, canals and lakes for swimming, photography and cave diving opportunities, and varied fauna. Acknowledged to be a perfect cave system, it has five known entrances with potential to exceed its length to 15 kilometers. Probably one of the toughest caves the Philippines could offer. When inside the cave, spelunkers will learn the art of cave crawling. A chamber called "Ice Cream Parlor" contains a cluster of white stalagmites that resemble scooped ice cream. The "John the Baptist" chamber is a very deep underwater sump that one has to take a deep breath and swim to the other side of the chamber. Sharp and rough stones could scratch the skin and tear clothing. San Carlos requires a lot of swimming because more than half of the cave is covered by cold running subterranean water.
Vicente, Sta. Ana Camp; the Palaui Island - Ideal water and sports fishing destinations. Sta. Ana, Philippine Sailfish Capital, is famous worldwide for its abundant marine life and is the site of national and international gamefishing competitions. The Cape Engaño Lighthouse in Palaui Island dates back to the Spanish Regime and is the only operational lighthouse in the northeastern coast. The island boasts of rich marine resources and uncontaminated environs, has been declared under Coastal Environmental Protection by the DENR, and is very ideal for ecotourism activities. The island is 30 minutes from the mainland by "lampitao" and is very ideal for all types of water sports. Picnic areas include Mavidad Islet and Mapurao Beach at the east of the mainland. Also in Sta. Ana is Port Irene which is being developed as an international port of call by Cagayan Economic Zone Authority and Free Port. The town of Sta. Ana is about 158 kilometers from Tuguegarao City.
There is a wide expanse of these beaches sprawling along the coastal towns of Sanchez Mira, Sta. Praxedes, Claveria, Buguey, Buguey, Aparri, Ballesteros, Abulug, and the islands of Palaui, Fuga, and island municipality of Calayan. Sanchez Mira, Claveria, and Sta. Praxedes have facilities for homestay while Fuga Island is being developed as a world class recreation and tourism center. The airstrip at Claveria could be used as a jump-off point to Fuga Island. Located in Sta. Paxedes, it is one of the tallest falls in Cagayan. Approximately 15 meters in height, it has three drop off points and a big man-made catchbasin for swimming. Sta. Praxedes is 194 kilometers from Tuguegarao and the falls is about 100 meters from the highway. Cagayan River / Rio Grande de Cagayan The Philippines' mightiest watercourse – the longest and widest river in the country. Small streams originating from Balete Pass, Cordillera, Caraballo, and Sierra Madre Mountains meet other streams and rivers and flow to the Cagayan River. The famous "lurung" fish abound in this river during the rainy season when the river is murky and the fishes swim upstream from the delta of Aparri to spawn. An impressive expanse of land where one can see the Cagayan River meet with the China Sea. Walk into the jetty at the juncture of the river and the sea to find the awesome mouth of the vast Cagayan River. Stand windblown, experience the beauty and power of the place.
Basilica Minore of Our Lady of Piat-The Lady of the Visitation was originally called the Lady of the Holy Rosary, perhaps because it was supposedly brought from Macao to the Philippines in 1604 by devotees of the Rosary, the Dominican friars. This almost four-centuries old image of Mary was first enshrined in Nueva Segovia of Lallo but was brought to Piat to convert the Itawes people to Christianity. On June 20, 1954, the Church was declared a National Shrine for Catholic Philippines. The image is famous in the country and abroad as the Black Mary, thus making Piat the pilgrimage center of the Northeast. Pilgrims are drawn to the shrine every year, especially on the Lady's feast day on July 2.
Iguig Calvary Hills & Parish of St. James the Greater (San Antonio de Galicia)Located about 16 kilometers from Tuguegarao City. In the 11-hectare rolling hills are the larger-than-life-size concrete 14 Stations of the Cross depicting Jesus Christ's suffering before his death at Mount Calvary. The statues were completed in 1982. The place also features a three centuries old well, Dominican convent ruins, and the prosaic view of the Cagayan River which resembles that of the River Jordan. Built of concentric bricks, the church has buttresses, one of the very few left in the country.
Sts. Peter and Paul Metropolitan Cathedral- The seat of the Archdiocese of Tuguegarao. The church with belfry is the biggest Spanish-built church in Cagayan Valley, constructed under the supervision of Fr. Antonio Lobato, OP on June 17, 1761 to 1767 (Cagayan Souvenir Program, 1968). The cathedral suffered massive destruction in WW II and was rebuilt by Msgr. Bishop Constance Jurgens. It is considered as one the of the most beautiful works of art in the country and the world today. Its picture appears at Rome Basilica.
St. Hyacinth Church or San Jacinto Chapel- An elevated chapel whose construction dates back from 1604. It was reconstructed after the war and was dedicated on August 16, 1724. It was used as headquarters by American soldiers during the Filipino-American War in 1899. It is 100 years older than the Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral. Located along the Maharlika Highway. Built in 1881, it stands as a mute witness to the several regimes that have enriched the province's cultural heritage. Alcala town is also famous for its carabao milk candy. Found in Camalaniugan's San Jacinto de Polonia Parish. Forged in 1595, it was brought to Manila in 1937 as part of the attractions during the 33rd International Eucharistic Congress. The Quadricentenial Anniversary of the evangelization of Camalaniugan town was celebrated on June 15, 1996. Camalaniugan is 93.6 kilometers from Tuguegarao. Situated 2.5 kilometers from Tuguegarao City proper. Its length of 1.124 kilometers makes it the longest river bridge in the country. It offers an unobstructed view of the Cagayan River. One ofthe first of its kind in Asia, it spans the Cagayan River at Lallo and is 0.76 kilometers long. The hanging bridge links the first and second districts of Cagayan going towards the Ilocos Region via the scenic Patapat Road on the Ilocos Norte-Cagayan Inter-Provincial national highway. Travellers can have a good view of the hanging bridge on their way to Aparri. Barangay Magapit in the town of Lallo is about 74 kilometers from Tuguegarao City, or a one hour travel.
Founded on May 10, 1907 by the sisters of St. Paul de Chartes, four French, and one Chinese nun, the school now boasts of being the only university of St. Paul in the 39St. Paul Colleges in the country. It was formerly called Colegio de San Pablo in 1907 and started with three classes only, then the name was changed to Sagrado Corazon de Jesus. The last World War heavily damaged the buildings and equipment but the college trudged on bravely, changing its name to Sacred Heart of Jesus Institution, and transferred to where it stands today, then to St. Paul College of Tuguegarao to St. Paul University in 1983. It is a co-educational institution. Observance of the passion and death of Jesus Christ through larger-than-life-size concrete 14 Stations of the Cross spread on an 11-hectare rolling terrain. Iguig town is about 16 kilometers from Tuguegarao. Fluvial Parade (Aparri, Cagayan; May 10)A local festival featuring a fluvial procession of about a hundred boats of different sizes and shapes in thanksgiving to their Patron, St. Peter Thelmo. Aparri town is about 102 kilometers from Tuguegarao City.
Feast of Nuestra Señora de Piat (June 23-30)Sambali is a war dance of tribes that were united and converted to Christianity through the intercession of the Lady of Piat. The Feast Day of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Piat follows the festival on July 1-2. Piat Basilica Minore, the fourth in the country, houses the image of Mary. Piat town is about 41 kilometers from Tuguegarao City. It is in commemoration of the establishment of the civil government of Cagayan which took place on June 29, 1583.
The Tuguegaro patronal fiesta celebrating the feast of St. Hyacinth.
Scuba Diving, snorkeling and Game Fishing at Palaui Island in Sta. Ana
at Claveria and Sanchez Mira
Town of Peñablanca and Palaui Island at the Caves of Peñablanca and Baggao Bird Watching and Bonsai exploration at Periablance.
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Our additional member in our restaurant, brought it before they cook it. Over here
Kilawing aso (dog) is considered a delicacy by some drinkers.
"Pag nagkakasarapan ng inuman, ng stainless, bilog, biglang may makikitang aso, masarap daw na pulutan [When they're having a drinking session, they might see a dog and catch it because they say it's a good dish to have while drinking],".
Incidentally, the eating of dog meat is not just limited to the provinces. One of the practices for preparing dogs for kilawin is to hang the dog upside down and blowtorch it to remove the fur. Those preparing the dog then cut the animal to small pieces suitable for kilawin.
Some cases of rabies deaths are due to such instances when the drinkers catch stray dogs. By the way, we DO NOT HAVE ANY DOG meat on our menu.
