Panagatan, A Cagayan De Oro City Seafood Restaurant

Nutrients and minerals in seafood can make improvements in brain development and reproduction and has highlighted the role for seafood in the functionality of the human body, thats according to research over the past few decades.

Fish is thought to protect the heart because eating less saturated fat and more Omega-3 can help to lower the amount of cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood – two fats that, in excess, increase the risk of heart disease. Omega-3 fats also have natural built-in anti-oxidants, which are thought to stop the thickening and damaging of artery walls. Regularly eating fish oils is also thought to reduce the risk of arrhythmia – irregular electrical activity in the heart which increases the risk of sudden heart attacks.

You can eat all your hearts out for seafood in Cagayan De Oro's premier restaurant, the Panagatan, situated along the coastline of Macajalar Bay, Opol, Misamis Occidental.

Hit

- Very accessible location, you can see the restaurant along the highway. It also have an ample parking space.
- The ambiance was superb, restaurant was along the coastline and built beneath a pristine sea waters. You can smell the warm and fresh sea breeze and enjoy the view.
- The place was very clean and spacious. You can hardly bump on somebody inside the resto. Comfort rooms were also very tidy.

Misses

- Food doesn't taste good. Of all the dish our group ordered, their was even no stellar one that stands out, they were all like regularly cooked and indistinguishable from other restaurants. Somehow they need to come up with a signature dish that could differentiate them from the rest.
- Foods were a bit expensive. You cannot find a dish below PhP200 pesos.
- Service was very, very slow, it took them almost an hour to serve all our orders. Of all the restaurants I've been to, there were like the title holder in terms of these aspect. I do hope they'll find the best way to cut customer waiting time.
- Garbage floating on the sea water. I hope they could fetched those off because it becomes an eyesore.

Well, people have different taste and liking, my opinion might be different from others and you might find this place ample for a calm and serine dining. Better check it out and see for yourself.

Comments welcome!

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Share Places: Kiwi Swirl

If you happen to visit Cagayan De Oro City, never leave the metropolis without checking Kiwi Swirl, a local shop offering a one of a kind retail combination you never expected to exist. Figure this out, yogurt, kiwifruit, gallery, antiques, etc., all in one!


A cousin of mine brought me to the shop during my recent visit out of craving which is according to her, addictive in a good sense, the icy and sweet yogurt kiwi confectioner offered by Kiwi Swirl.

Well, I do agree agree that it tastes heavenly because of its tangible sourly zest making me day dream every time it touches my tough, but what interest me more is the antique store in the shop, I mean where and how in the world could you find such combination?


Maybe the owners were antique lovers at the same time dessert fanatics thats why they come up with the idea of combining both. I personally like it because the place will not only treat your taste buds but also your artistic sense. It makes me want to create an art masterpiece myself and I mean it literally, go see and judge it for yourself.









Kiwi Swirl is located in Don Apolinar Velez corner Gaerlean Street, Cagayan De Oro City, Philippines.

(Images were taken using Nokia N8)

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Nokia N9 Full Blast

I was able to visit Cagayan De Oro City 4 days ago and very happy to find out that Nokia N9 is already selling in all retail shops around the city. Nokia Flagship Store in Limketkai Mall offered the phone for PhP25,500 for the 16GB variant and PhP29,500 for the 64GB while other retail outlet offers it a thousand less from the above mentioned.

To be very honest, I really missed the phone, obvious proof was my unusual fiddle of the display dummy for a few minutes, to rekindle the memories maybe or just wanting to fell that haunting hold again. I might not be able to afford the phone at the moment because I still have to finished my laptop installment but who knows.

My Nokia N9 fancy will definitely be challenged by Nokia Lumia 800 having the same design and to be offered anytime this month or next month so its going to be a huge weight-out for me. Both phones offer an interesting Operating System gaining positive feedback from everyone.

I've just observed though that the phone did not gain commercial support from Nokia Philippines as compared to Nokia N8 when it was launched two years ago but even so, I really want to stress the phones overall performance here and want to recommend it to everyone. The phone is worth every penny spent you visit any Nokia retail store and grab yours.

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Cagayan De Oro City On An N8 Snap

I got a chance to travel to Cagayan De Oro with a Nokia N8 and as expected for someone to carry a Mobilephone Camera King, mad snap to just about everything down under. If you haven’t been to the city yet, then this is your chance to see a bit if what the city has to offer.

It was November 5 by then when I took this images and I believe I was the very first humanoid/geek/beach bomb roaming around the city with a Nokia N8 since the phone wasn’t available yet, that’s according to the staffs of Nokia Flagship Store in Limketkai Mall and they say that the official day of availability is still November 8.

Anyways dive in to the scenery of the Philippine’s dubbed City of Golden Friendship!

The infamous Cagayan De Oro City river. The top part of this river is where Kayaking action takes place. The city was primarily intersected by this river and everything just revolves around it.























Limketkai Mall






















SM City Cagayan De Oro City

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Not So Funny: Dunkin Donuts

The Dunkin Donuts near Xavier University is utterly ridiculous, costumers cannot access their wifi service unless you buy 65pesos worth of goods.

This is shamelessly atrocious, because it will come out that there forcing their customers to buy their products against there will, how about those who cant afford to eat bunch of dunuts and prefer to buy only 1 or 2, weren't they customers to who have the right and previledge to access WIFI service? Dunots here cost at about 11 pesos each with breverage reachng as much as 28pesos amounting to 39pesos on the average, thats 21 pesos shy to the password and this makes them dumb.

Majority of people can only beef up 1 dunut in one setting with purchase reaching only within 40peso rate so setting a price tag to their wifi is not a public service anymore but a forceful manuever to shell out more money from customers. Yes, its business and it needs to thrive but at least it should have been reasonable so they wont earn harse commentary like this. Even other stores dole out free wifi service to customers and it will earn them support.

Aside from the wifi issue, this store also sell smaller dunuts than others and their hot choco is the worsiest of all, its tasteless, its like your just drinking water with a color. Pretty bad for a dunut shop that is facing stiff competion with Mister Dunut, it will sure be a grunge against them.

Readers please, if you happen to visit Cagayan De Oro or lived there, dont go to this Dunkin Donut branch, you will surely be more disappointed in their services.

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Another 5800 XpressMusic Update!

Nokia 5800 has arrive in the City Of Golden Friendship, Cagayan De Oro City, Philippines. Been there last week and took time to scroll in big mobile shops to eves drop on whats going on around. I've been to the Limketkai Mall, the biggest mall in the city, and SM City Cagayan De Oro, the mall that failed to take off being far from the city proper, and found interesting price range of the device.

First stop, Limketkai mall were I visited 4 of the biggest mobile phone shops, the Graphics All in One which tagged the device the cheapest with 17,890 pesos. It was only 3 weeks ago that I bought this phone for my brother for 18,890 at Junrex SM City Cebu and there have already been significant drop of the price. I wish my brother would have waited a little longer, we would have save a thousand bucks. Minimum allowable charge via credit card, 10thousand and you will then need to pay the remaining amount by cash.

Just beside this shop is Nokia's very own flagship store that post a hefty Php19,143 price tag on the device, aside from the fact that your getting the genuine device from this shop, this is the only store to that accepts credit card installment of up to 6 months. The best option in my opinion because it will breakdown payments to a cheap and reachable status.

Next stop was the NexGen Mobile, and they labeled the phone for Php18,590 cash basis only. Quite expensive here knowing the fact that you can also purchase the device cheaper via cash or single straight or installment credit card payment in other nearby shops. Its likely that they wont attrack consumers in this manner.

Celwave, another major mobile phone supplier designate a Php17,898 device cost which is only 8 pesos shy from being the cheapest against Graphics, but what was better about this shop is that they accept a full credit card charge for the unit with a single stright payment option compared to the limit charge set by Graphics.

Going to SM City Cagayan De Oro shops, there were really no significant difference in the price, the Graphics store in SM cost 50 peso higher than the Limketkai price which I believe was due to the high rent cost of SM. This comes out similar to other mobile shops as well that has a branch in the mall.

Cheapest price of this phone on eBay.ph though is 16,900 pesos from a powerseller, and its now a matter of choice if you trust eBay.ph or not.

Nokia 5800 ExpressMusic continues to wreck sales all over the world and its undeniably the fastest selling phone from Nokia so far and as time passes, the price of this phone will further dropped giving away affordability and opportunity for the mass market to avail.

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Cagayan De Oro City, Longing Love

Cagayan De Oro, the city of Golden Friendship is located along the northern coastline of Mindanao, Philippines. It is the regional center and a booming city both for business and pleasure. Ever since I've graduated from high school way back in 1997, their have been many developments in this city, I was actually amazed by it, knowing how this city looks like 10 years ago and to what it had become right now, really breathtaking. I would even say it developed faster than Cebu City and Davao City.

I'm going to discuss how to access this city in my upcoming blogs, for now let us enjoy the scenery of the city, far and beyond.




The city's seat of power, the Cagayan De Oro City Hall.
Don't be deceive, the facade, inset picture is just the tip of the iceberg. If your wondering how the city works with just this small two story building, mark my work, it does, the secret is inside, visit this place to find out.





Gaston Park, a city landmark. Located just a few steps away form the City Hall and from the Saint Agustine Cathedral. This place have been a major destination for people who wants to relaxed during weekends, the huge fountain explains it all.




Plaza Divisoria, another important city landmark. This park was dedicated to national heroes of the country with several statue erected. Nowadays, this park is famous being the venue of Night Market, a weekend overnight shopping event. Being surrounded by food chains, banks, coffee shops among others, this place became a people magnet.




San Agustine Cathedral, the city's spiritual center, majority of the people here are Roman Catholics which comprises for about 75% of the total population.

Shopping:




The city's Biggest Mall in terms of leasable area, The Limketkai Mall. The mall houses the Plaza Fair Department Store and the Robinson's Department Store. The city has several big malls. Shopping will never be a problem in this city. Inset image is the facade..Huge and Accessible.




Inside Limketkai Mall, Attractive and Colorful, Huge Space.





The Grand Caprice, one of the most expensive chinese fine dining restaurant in the city. Grand, For Rich People Only, To Unreachable.







Robinson's Cagayan De Oro, an extension to the Limketkai Mall yet different and unique. Stands with his own style, with his own prowess.





Another big mall that shoppers will droll about, Gaisano City Mall, their were several Gaisano Malls in the city, 4 to be exact and this was their biggest. Accessible and Cheap.




Inside the Gaisano City Mall, Small and Full.





Ororama Megacenter, the lost glory. Once known to be one of the best in the city, now it houses small shops that were selling fake DVD, cellphones, among others. Quite disturbing this place have become. Old and Fake Haven.





SM City Cagayan De Oro, the countries premier mall. Far and Famous. I will be featuring more images of this mall as well as the early mentioned in my upcoming blogs under Love Malls.




Among the other tourist attraction of the city are the White Water Rafting along the Cagayan De Oro River. Malasag Ecotourism Village, nature at its best, Macahambus Cave and Gorge, an underground cave with circular gorge, breathtaking and picturique among others.

Definitely a must see place..
Visit this website www.cagayandeoro.gov.ph for more inquires and information.

Travel and Enjoy life to the fullest.

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