Sutukil and Mactan day 2

The second day of competition we did not thankfully have any events. We still attended to support Wendy for her event(which should have occured the day before, get the theme of how well the tournament was executed?) which I think eventually ended around 2-3PM. Spent most of the time judging, taking pics with folks I know, ect.

My favorite pic of the trip

We then took a late obliatory trip out to Mactan Island which is actually where the airport is. Mactan is the historical site where Magellan met his infamous demise after navigating the globe. As an FMA practitioner, it's kinda tradition to get your picture taken in front of the Lapu Lapu statue.

Sutukil is sort of short hand for the area due to the foods available. Sutukil is a combination of three cooking styles. There are quite a few souveneir shops (with by far the best prices) and we did a fair amount of shopping.
The Sutukil shops display on ice whatever has been caught that morning and you pick it, tell them how you want it cooked and sit down in their place. We had lunch there in 2004 and I still remember the 12" prawns.

Yeah, he was that big.

Headed back to Mactan.
We ended with dinner at Mr. A. It's a resturant in the hills that the better off locals go to, not for tourists. They cook all the traditional foods but do them REALLY well. We found it in '04 when we had time for lunch before our flight home and the gloden Cowrie was closed. Bong asked the taxi driver for a recommendation and we ended at Mr A. Awesome place overlooking the city.

It was a bit late by now as we also stopped to see Fort San Pedro and Magellan's cross, more obigatory tourist spots. I was fine with that, I was along for the ride, so to speak, with no agenda.

Fort San Pedro

Magellan's Cross

Mr A's overlooking the city

I believe that's our hotel in the middle all lit up.

Mr A's offers mostly Filipino dishes but done very well. So I was in a pretty adventurous mood feeling a bit safer. Had some Tanquige fish, Tuna jaw, Kini Lau (pickled fish) and this:What is it? Sisig. Sizling Pork ears. Really not too bad.

As Bobbe recently pointed out, they eat that because they're poor. "You're a rich American, eat the good stuff!". But hey, I went there to immerse not observe.