One noon time I saw a sign at the Laguna Technopark Gate 1, advertising a "Laguna Technopark Square" (or was it really a "square"), with restaurants as Paotsin, Aline Nene's, Potdog, and more.
Turns out its location is just outside Gate 3, which can be accessed from inside the technopark if an insider, or along the Laguna blvd, crossing the bridge to the Binan side, along Don Bosco, Ayala's Santa Rosa Village and San Jose Villages, De La Salle, Westgrove, Beacon Academy, and out on the road that leads towards Palma Real, Dalta, and Verdana Mamplasan.
The place also houses TBS The Blue Corner, which may be a branch of the place at the Paseo Market. At the end of the building, I found Federico's, which has the most friendly and warm staff, and an equally accommodating owner. As she is Bicolano, the specialty of the house is actually LAING with anything. Laing with fried tilapia, laing with chicken, laing with bopis...
There are many Bicolanos in the Sta. Rosa-Silang area, and while they can probably cook up their own native food...I am nowhere near being from Albay so I am happy to have found them. Their food is good, and as I said, they are so very nice.
They also specialize in "Boodle Fights", they lay out the banana leaves and you can choose to put together your own Boodle Fight menu.
I'm sorry my photos are or poor quality, and I am sorry it was a Saturday night, which means there were no employees enjoying Boodle Fights, which means, no banana leaves spread on the tables...
but here I will show you their really delicious and bestselling Mango Graham Shake, served in a corked bottle:
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I'm just a small fish in a small corner of this big Laguna, and this is how I've been swimming it
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12 September, 2016
26 November, 2012
A Lonely Road
Let's mosey on over (MOSEY? who talks like that anymore? here?) to another border. We've already posted about the Silang-Sta. Rosa border. The same road on my title photo above, bears the sign "Welcome to Binan, Laguna" on the opposite side of the road. That's where we are headed on this post. Well, not quite to the main area of Binan, but to Barangay Binan, where a phase of San Jose Village is located (if I'm not mistaken there are 6 phases. The last one is a very quite location full of trees).
At the moment it gives my father the heebie-jeebies (okay, first mosey now this...) After all, it is bordered by nothing but cogon for a stretch. It's the kind of road which in the Southern Philippines screams "ambush! ambush!" to a soldier. Yes he was a soldier (an officer), that is why such an empty road frightens him. (And with this pardon my detour as I pay my respects to those who were massacred in Maguindanao this month three years ago. Clearly, the roads were paved, the hills verdant, more beautiful than this...but the incident horrific). It sure looks and feels like the boondocks, but I assure him, it's still a part of Ayala Land and the technopark.
I'm sure at night it can be scary.
But following my mantra, I mean to enjoy this loneliness, these bare fields, while I can. A brief stop at the grocery in the shopping area with its Sunday crowd and artificial lights afterwards jarred my head again. I need the fields, plains and green mountains to relax me. Oh, the sound of birds, and the sight of them here!
Visible from this spot (facing the other way, down to the city), is the De La Salle Science and Technology complex. I still am wondering why it used to be called De La Salle Canlubang, when the borders I see around belong to Sta. Rosa, Silang, and Binan...I enjoy looking at maps and would like to know why. Can somebody enlighten me please?
This way leads to another gate of Ayala Westgrove and the Laguna Technopark Inc. annex. At the corner is the Metrobank, and a phase of San Jose Village. Under construction are Avida Shophouses. With plans for a 7-11 in one of those, I'm assuming this area is going to be a busy place, and this road not very lonely for long.At the moment it gives my father the heebie-jeebies (okay, first mosey now this...) After all, it is bordered by nothing but cogon for a stretch. It's the kind of road which in the Southern Philippines screams "ambush! ambush!" to a soldier. Yes he was a soldier (an officer), that is why such an empty road frightens him. (And with this pardon my detour as I pay my respects to those who were massacred in Maguindanao this month three years ago. Clearly, the roads were paved, the hills verdant, more beautiful than this...but the incident horrific). It sure looks and feels like the boondocks, but I assure him, it's still a part of Ayala Land and the technopark.
I'm sure at night it can be scary.
The weather was mild too. Very sunny, yet cool. And this is Binan, Laguna, not even Tagaytay.
Visible from this spot (facing the other way, down to the city), is the De La Salle Science and Technology complex. I still am wondering why it used to be called De La Salle Canlubang, when the borders I see around belong to Sta. Rosa, Silang, and Binan...I enjoy looking at maps and would like to know why. Can somebody enlighten me please?
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