TREATING A BIRTHDAY CELEBRANT AT RAI RAI KEN

Restaurant: Rai Rai Ken | Japanese 
Location: The Walk, IT Park, Cebu City
Camera: Nikita, a Nikon P310
Price: P200 up

I've surrounded myself with beautiful and innocent souls because I do not have it. This pretty girl here is one of those beautiful and innocent souls I refer to.

We decided to go Japanese. We IT-Parked because I wanted to do a bit of work—taking pictures of its elegant Christmas decorations. And, yes, taking them was a minute-long work. :)

After that, we Rai Rai Ken-ed. Perhaps it is more Japanese than Joed's Lutong Hapon. They actually use real Japanese sauce, which my old Japanese student used in her okonomiyaki. But I prefer the Filipinization of Joed's Japanese food. On top of that, it is a lot cheaper. Rai Rai Ken's katsudon costs P220, whereas it is only P65 at Joed's.

But everytime I go out with these beautiful souls, I love being a listener. I love listening to their stories. So, the birthday celebrant shared her family's suffering brought by Pablo. We ate for twenty minutes. We talked for three hours.

     Japanese Gyouza | P65 This food is actually an influence from the Chinese.  

AFFORDABLE JAPANESE FOOD AT JOED'S LUTONG HAPON

Yakiniku? Katsudon? I couldn't decide what to get. Every time I visit Joed's I always end up picking katsudon. But last night, I wanted to try something new. It was a fun night with the girls from work. Joed's is affordable. It tastes good. The presentation is good. 

My Yaki Udon (P110). I thought it would be rice toppings: rice with (yaki) beef. It is udon—a variety of Japanese noodles, not don from donburi—a bowl of rice with toppings. It was a happy mistake.