look what i found..

i was searching online for a place to eat. i remembered this chinese panciteria where we used to eat when i was small. my dad used to work as a professor in PMI colleges in sta. cruz and when there is a chance, he would take us to that panciteria. i don't know if it is still standing, but the food was great. i love their chopseuy rice and their pancit canton and the lumpiang shanghai was so delish!
anyhoo, i was checking google to see if there is info about it. i've never been there on my own and i would like peejay and me eat there sana. it has been years since i last went there. siguro it was way back 2000. i've asked my dad where it is exactly. ang lola mo, sabi saken, "dun lang yun. malapit sa PMI". eh, i've never stepped foot in the vicintiy of PMI, much less even know where it is! the closest i've been to PMI is dun nga sa restaurant na yun. di ba ang gulo?
so, here i am consulting google. i was able to find something on clickthecity.com. though, i'm not sure if this is the one i'm looking for. i don't even know the exact name of the place. all i know is that it's called toho. we've been calling it toho as far as i could remember.
so, before i found the info on clickthecity.com (i used the keyword to ho binondo), i found a link on the search results. it said: SIGNS IN DA PILIPINS
i know it's not anywhere related to what i was looking for pero, na curious ako. so i clicked it and here's what's inside..

Can you decipher the word play in these REAL pinoy signs?

• Alabank (rural bank of Alabang)
• Anita Bakery
• Babalik Karinderia
• Balut Eggspress
• Bote Nga Sa'yo (used bottle shop)
• Candies be Love? (candy store)
• Christopher Plumbing (plumbing contractor)
• Caintacky Fried Chicken (in Cainta, Rizal)
• Cinna Von (a laundromat)
• Cleopata's (bakahan and manukan)
• Crispy per minute (crispy pata eatery)
• Curl up and Dye (beauty salon)
• Doris Day and Night (24 hour eatery)
• Elizabeth Tailoring
• Fagoofyt (a children's hair salon in BF Paranaque)
• Felix the Cut (barber shop)
• Fernando Pe's Box Office Hits (video rental shop in Palawan)
• Goldirocks (gravel and sand shop)
• Happy Birthday Toyo (a soy sauce brand in the '70s)
• Holland Hopia (owned by Mr. Ho in Binondo)
• Poland Hopia (next door to Holland Hopia, owned by Mr. Po)
• Leon King Video Rental (Las Pinas)
• Let's Goat-Together (kambingan cum beer garden)
• Maid to Order (maids placement agency)
• MacDonuts (donut shop)
• MangDonald's (burger joint, Naga city plaza)
• Meating place (meat shop)
• Meatropolis (meat shop)
• Memory Drug (a Mercury Drug clone)
• Miki Mao (noodle eatery)
• Nacho Fast (mexican food)
• Pansit ng mga taga-Malaboni (along Boni Avenue, Mandaluyong)
• Petal Attraction (flower shop sign near UP Diliman)
• Saudia Hairlines (beauty salon)
• Side-saki (side street eatery beside Mandarin Hotel)
• Sophisticut (unisex hair salon)
• Susan's Roses (flower shop)
• Sylvestre's Salon
• TapSi TurBi (Tapa and Sinangag, Turon at Bibingka)
• The Fried of Marikina (fried chicken shop)
• The Way We Wear (boutique)
• Wrap and Roll (lumpia outlet, Quad<>
• Le Cheng Tea House (in Chinatown)
• A menu on a seafood restaurant has these entrees:

Isda Best

Pusit to the Limit, and

Hipon coming back

in addition to these, i'll be adding a couple of signs i saw a few years back..

• Kentabi (a small eatery beside KFC along San Sebastian St. in manila. i used to eat there with my classmates and the food was not bad)
• JollyBeer (this is a classic. my brother and i saw this sign while we were on a bus on the way home from bulacan where my dad used to work. we couldn't stop laughing because the picture was of jollibee holding a mug of beer and jollibee is looking tipsy)
• JollyBack (according to my friend in college, Happy, she used to see this on her way home and it's an eatery at the back of a jollibee branch in cainta)