March Cagabhion
March Cagabhion is a Leyte-raised travel storyteller, photographer, and FPV enthusiast at Suroy.ph. He documents destinations through ground-level details and aerial perspectives, helping readers understand not only where to go, but how a place feels and moves. His work brings a local, visually driven perspective to practical guides and stories from across the Philippines.
Yappari Steak Cebu: Cook It Yourself on a Lava Stone, Prices and Three Branches
Seven visits in ten months, three of them on consecutive days. Nobody eats at a steakhouse three days running, which is the quickest way to explain what this place actually is.
Talisay invented Cebu lechon. Carcar got famous for it.
₱500 a kilo in September 2026, no drippings gravy on principle, and a food park sitting on the beach where the Americans landed in 1945.
7107 Restaurant Cebu City: the name is 534 islands out of date. The bulalo is not.
Five visits between June 2025 and October 2026, one clay pot that keeps arriving built the same way, and a bulalo that now costs ₱1,050.
Siargao Beyond General Luna: The Pacifico, Burgos and Alegria Road Run
Magpupungko only exists at low tide. At high water the rock pools are under the sea and there is nothing to see, which is why the single most useful thing you can do before a north Siargao day is check…
The Philippine Travel Map According to BINI and SB19
Thirteen artists, ten destinations, and one island six of them picked. The full BINI and SB19 travel map, with Suroy field notes where we have been and honest gaps where we have not.
A mezzanine is the floor between two floors. The name is the business plan.
One room on Salinas Drive that is a cafe at lunch and a bar at night, and an espresso machine on the counter that explains how it manages both.
Pungko-Pungko in Cebu: What to Eat and How to Pay
Learn how to choose fried food, open pusô, use the vinegar, count every piece and pay honestly at a Cebu pungko-pungko stall.
Cebu Safari and Adventure Park: What Each Ticket Covers, and What to Check First
Cebu Safari is open seven days a week, but the African Savanna tour and the bird show do not run on Mondays or Tuesdays. Fees, the real schedule, how to get there, and an honest look at the welfare question.
8Cuts Burgers SM City Cebu: The Board Prices, the Best Steal and the Side to Pick
Every price on the board includes VAT and service charge, the bigger patty is cheaper per gram than the smaller one, and the side you pick inside a Daily Steal is worth ₱110.
Din Tai Fung Cebu: The Board Prices, the Delivery Gap and When to Beat the Queue
Ten xiaolongbao on the board, ₱195 for five plain pork, and a ten-piece basket that saves you exactly five pesos. The full menu with prices, what to order, and how to eat one.
Oslob to Siquijor by Ferry: The Mainit Port Route and Four Other Ways Across
Mainit Port’s return gives southern Cebu travelers a practical new way to reach Siquijor. Here is the honest route, cost and timing comparison.
Siargao Travel Guide: Where to Stay, Eat, Surf, and Explore
Siargao rewards a little planning. Choose your base, time the island's key stops, budget sensibly, get around safely, and leave room to slow down.
Churrasco Nights at Blu Bar & Grill: flip the card green for more meat
Thursday 11 September 2025, 6:10 PM, the city already lighting up below the terrace. The skewers kept coming until the card on the table said red.
The Pool at Marco Polo Plaza Cebu: Ember Nights at ₱1,500, and the Lunch It Replaced
Wednesday 23 July 2025, just before noon, with a gray sky and wind bending the palms. Lunch came off the grill beside the pool, and the swim was part of the ticket.
The Boljoon Pulpit Panels Are Home: Missing Since the 1980s, Back on the Pulpit in 2025
The Boljoon pulpit panels are back on the pulpit, where you can see them at any Mass. Four carved 19th-century panels that went missing in the late 1980s surfaced in a donation to the National Museum in 2024, were handed…
Casa Gorordo Museum, Cebu: Entrance Fee, Hours and the Rooms of an 1850s House
Casa Gorordo Museum is an 1850s house in the old Parian district of Cebu City, built of coral stone below and hardwood above, and home to four generations of the Gorordo family, including Juan Gorordo, the first Filipino bishop of…
The Longest Night of 2026: 22 December in the Philippines, and How Short the Day Gets in Cebu
The longest night of 2026 in the Philippines is the night into Tuesday 22 December, when the December solstice falls at 4:50 AM Philippine time. In Cebu City the sun sets at 5:29 PM that day and rises at 5:57…
Simbang Gabi 2026: Evening or Dawn, the Nine Masses and the Times in Cebu
Simbang Gabi is the nine-day run of Masses before Christmas. In the Archdiocese of Cebu it comes in two forms: evening Masses from 15 to 23 December, and dawn Masses, the Misa de Gallo, from 16 to 24 December. If…
December 2026 in the Philippines: The Holidays, the Two Long Weekends, and What Is On in Cebu
December 2026 has two holiday stretches worth planning a trip around: Thursday 24 to Sunday 27 December for Christmas, and Wednesday 30 December to Sunday 3 January for the year end. Before them come Bonifacio Day on Monday 30 November…
Nine Stretches for a Body That Has Been on a Ceres Bus Since 4am
The stretch that helps on a Philippine trip happens at 8pm in a fan room in Moalboal, after four hours on a Ceres bus and forty minutes on the back of a habal-habal, when the lower back has opinions. These…