Missy Bonbon Bakeshop

The aroma of freshly baked bread, caramelized sugar, cinnamon, bacon, and assortments of jam is what Missy Bonbon is all about. But since we were a hunt for our dinner, their bread and pastries have to wait for the next morning.

What I ordered: the Missy Fish Teriyaki with kangkong on the side. The sweet teriyaki sauce glazed on the fish topped with sesame seeds pairs well with the salty taste of the adobong kangkong.


What my friends ordered: the Chicken Firenze with potatoes, string beans on the sides.


This is the mushroom soup with garlic bread.


Missy Bonbon's Waldorf salad. I must say, they don't scrimp on the meat.


On to pastas, one of us ordered the Carbonara.


And their Bolognese.


Missy Bon bon also offers a wide variety of gelato! The blueberry cheesecake was awesome but since my friend ordered the last one, I settled with their cheese gelato which is not that good, though.


I also took home a box of their best-selling ube ensaymada. This is best eaten hot or if you want cold with a cup of coffee. The ube part is halaya made as a filling inside the ensaymada. Best ensaymada I've ever tasted! We also tried some of their pastries and bread for our breakfast on our last day at Cagayan de Oro. I love their bread such as the sweet potato bread, blueberry cheesecake danish, and they even have siomai wrapped in bread! It was truly awesome. =)

I Want Candy's!

As we left Camiguin with a hearty late lunch in J&A fishpen, a 2-hour ferry ride awaits us in Benoni port to take us back to Cagayan de Oro. Then after dropping our things at the hotel, we headed to Candy's at Limketkai for dinner. The funny thing was, before our trip, I was asking if there are any good restos in Cagayan de Oro or Camiguin and the people I asked said there weren't any but because we love to eat we researched and we've got a long list of restos! Now our dilemma now is how to squeeze all the food tripping in our 4-day stay there! So on our first night in CDO, we decided to dine in Candy's for some pizza and pasta.


First off, the classic appetizer of fish and chips. What I like about this is it's not too oily.


For our drinks, we had the Four Seasons shake. I think this is the welcome drink that we had in Paras beach resort back in Camiguin but only they turned it into a shake.


We also had the Chicken and pesto for pasta and ordered the Puttanesca pizza and the Spinach Quattro Formaggi pizza. I so love their pizza! Especially the spinach quattro formaggi, it's a real winner. It's a must-order at Candy's. Now the pasta is also yummy but I'd choose Green Tomato's pesto over Candy's. I must also say, they've got great interiors and Limketkai almost looks like the metro with its restaurant strip. Plus great food!

During the course of the meal, some of us noticed an oddly-shaped dessert on the other table. We all turned to look and laughed at ourselves for looking like it's the first time we've seen a dessert like that. Anyway, we asked the waiter and he said it was Tartufo, an ice cream cake. 'Ooohh!' we exclaimed. And it would go well with the red wine we just ordered. Sweeet!


The outer shell of the Tartufo was a rich chocolate cake which was not too sweet and was also layered with a ganache drizzled with white chocolate. Inside was the vanilla ice cream with walnuts as its core. The sweetness of this dessert was a nice contrast with the bitter taste of red wine.


Looking forward to a fun-filled white water rafting the next day, we all went to dreamland sound asleep. Good thing we had a glass of wine to keep those Zzz's coming from night til dawn.

Breakfast Buffet at Sunburst CDO

The famous Sunburst Fried Chicken of Cebu is now also in Cagayan de Oro, the city of friendship! We barely had any sleep when we arrived in Cagayan de Oro due to our 4AM flight and breakfast was in our mind as Sir Glenn (Elvie's super hospitable boss in BPI) drove us to the port. Since we still had time before the ferry leaves, Sir Glenn dropped us off at Sunburst found in Limketkai for a breakfast buffet which he told us was at a very affordable price of Php 180 (that's what I heard but it turned out that he meant Php 118 and guess what, the actual price was Php 119!).

The resto just opened (for the day) when we arrived so there weren't finished setting up the buffet table yet but that didn't stop us, we dove in anyway. Haha!

Not much to choose from. But they have the best garlic rice in CDO, though! In addition to this, they also have the traditional pandesal with strawberry jam or butter, corn flakes, fresh fruits, scrambled eggs, instant coffee, milo, orange juice, mango juice etc etc.

This is their omelette which I didn't like too much. It was much too loaded with undercooked veggies and too oily for my taste.

We finished our meal on time and headed to the port. Next destination, Camiguin island!