Chosun Chicken

Amazing food and students' budgets are two things that don't go well with each other... and then there's Chosun Chicken.

Located in a corner of the second level of Mango Square mall, it looks a little dodgy and a lot suspicious- what with the lighting or the lack of it. Nevertheless, it was a peaceful kind of dark lighting because they have little separate rooms which would be perfect for dates and the like. Unfortunately, we, the Feeding Curiosities team, are awkward critters and dates are alien to us. This is us trying to say that it's okay to have meals with a date feel with friends and family!

A zoomed-in view of the wall beside the table:

Those things say that they have the best chicken in Cebu. We had to make sure that they weren't just full of themselves so we all ordered their talked-about Chosun chicken.

Their proudly-plastered posters aren't for nothing. Their chicken has got to be one of the best we've had in the city. It comes with rice, a side of coleslaw, and a special sauce which amplifies how good it tastes. They don't have the biggest cuts but for a 90php dish, it's more than worth it.

As it's a Korean place, one of us got ramyu

To say it was "spicy" is putting it gently because it was the kind of spicy that gives you runny nose and leaves your lips feeling sore. If spicy food is your thing, we definitely recommend this. It comes in a bowl big enough to share between 2 persons. Their ramyu comes with a side of kimchi. We love kimchi. Kimchi is good. Kimchi is the Bellatrix Lestrange of side dishes. We could go on and on about kimchi. Chosun chicken's kimchi was good.

Chosun Chicken doesn't have the best service crew or the best-smelling restaurant (it smells a little weird, we think it's the coleslaw that causes it) but they adhere to the two most valuable rules of the service industry:

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Sam's 50's Diner

This is a themed diner that's stuck to its theme. America in its golden years polished and brought into this generation is what it is.

They pay attention to every little detail and we love that about Sam's!
We, Feeding Curiosities, assume that Sam's from the diner's name refers to America because, well, one look at the interior would give that one away.

On the walls, you'd see pin-up girls, Hepburn, and a lot of Presley. It's not just the decorations that give off the feel of old America, the music they play in there is always reminiscent of those black and white movies from the 40's and those pin-up girls of the 50's.
On to their food... being a diner, you'd expect the greasy kind of diner food, right? That, however, is just not the case with Sam's. Here are our two favorite dishes:

Burger steak with egg (95 php)

Bibimbap (140 php)

Their steak has got to be one of those things in life that you can't have too much of. Topped with sloppy, fattening gravy on a sizzling platter, it's a complete treat. We guarantee you that once you get a taste of this bad boy, you're sure to come back for more.

Surprising, it may be, but they have Korean food in their menu as well. Their Bibimbap is another thing that keeps us coming back.
When you go to Sam's, get their Sam's special iced tea. We don't know what it is about it that makes it so special or so good. It looks like your ordinary iced tea but it sure doesn't taste like it. It could be a special potion from a Harry Potter book, we can't tell for sure.
If you're in a big rush, though, we'd advise you to look for somewhere else to eat because they don't get your food ready in record time, unlike how diners most likely would.

Nighttime at Sam's is red. We're not exaggerating, it really is. Red lights- red everything.
Located a block away from Cebu Doctors' University, North Reclamation. They're open from 10:00 AM - 9:00 PM from Mondays to Saturdays.
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Cleve's Gourmet Coffee

The clouds hung low on Thursday morning, when we asked ourselves the question of the ages, the eternally unanswered question, this: "what do we do on a too-long break?"
And being the perpetually indecisive OT kids that we are, we drove around for a while until we drove past the Gallery and decided that we'd stay there until our afternoon class starts.

Cleve's Gourmet Coffee called to us, almost literally. When we walked past it, a welcoming couple (they were the owners!) talked to us a little bit and we found ourselves walking into this Kiwi-themed cafe.