TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: MAKATI: Discovering Greenbelt 5's Kimpura and Peking Garden

Friday, February 7, 2014

MAKATI: Discovering Greenbelt 5's Kimpura and Peking Garden

I like to explore Makati with friends. Now, for years, I've walked through Greenbelt 5 in Makati, not really paying too much attention. I didn't know there are good restaurants on the top floor of Greenbelt 5. I thought the Makati restaurants were mostly in Greenbelt 3 and 4 - Mesa, Bizu, and Barcino's being favorites in that part of Makati.

One night, the three of us: Guia Lim, Araceli Lorayes and I had dinner at Kimpura's, a Japanese restaurant. We had a variety of dishes, including tempura and eel. Kimpura's apparently has a nice "bento" for lunch.

We just posed outside Peking Garden, which is right next to Kimpura. Peking Garden reportedly has good Chinese food.

There are many places to explore in Metro Manila and I'm glad I have friends who show me the interesting sites.

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tags: Makati, Metro Manila, Greenbelt, restaurants, friends, Philippines

This is all for now,

Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.