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After Dengvaxia, ASHfixia!

February 14, 2018 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

849B3CC6-199A-4110-AA6B-6E16E0548741 — Ash Wednesday in the Philippines (file photo)

CALOOCAN CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Many Filipinos skipped their Valentine’s celebration in favor of their Catholic tradition relating to Ash Wednesday. They trooped to their parish churches to be blessed with ash on their foreheads.

But alas, some parishioners of the San Roque Cathedral in Caloocan City got the shock of their lives. Little did they know that they were getting tattoos instead.

According to reports, when said parishioners tried to wipe off the ash from their foreheads because they felt some burning sensation, off came their skin as well.

Ah, the sacrifices one has to make as a devout Catholic. A cross tattoo.

There’s Dengavaxia, now there’s Ashfixia!

Food, International, Sports, Travel

There Is No P.F. Chang’s In PyeongChang

February 13, 2018 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

EE80A055-523B-4460-88FF-48F57B651E19 PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (The Adobo Chronicles, Seoul Bureau) – Hundreds of hungry athletes and visitors to the Winter Olympics have been contacting The Adobo Chronicles asking where in PyeongChang they can find a P.F. Chang’s.

The calls started coming in after ABC News aired a segment titled P.F. Chang 2018. Little did viewers realize it was a satirical piece on the Winter Olympics.

P.F. Chang’s is an Asian restaurant concept founded on making food from scratch every day in every restaurant. Created in 1993 by Philip Chiang and Paul Fleming, P.F. Chang’s is the first multi-unit restaurant concept in the U.S. to honor and celebrate the 2,000-year-old tradition of wok cooking as the center of the guest experience. Since inception, P.F. Chang’s chefs have been hand-rolling dim sum, hand chopping and slicing all vegetables and meats, scratch cooking every sauce and wok-cooking each dish, every day in every restaurant. P.F. Chang’s new Farm to Wok® menu highlights its wholesome, scratch-cooking approach and introduces new dishes and drinks for lunch, happy hour and dinner. Today, P.F. Chang’s has 210+ U.S. restaurants, including airport locations, plus 66 international locations in more than 19 countries across the globe.

Unfortunately, there is no P.F. Chang’s in PyeongChang.

But here’s good news.

There are several P.F. Chang’s locations in South Korea, if you’re willing to make that extra trip out of PyeongChang.

Government, International, Politics

ICC Prosecutor To Investigate Philippine Congress, Supreme Court, Ombudsman And CHR

February 12, 2018 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

GENEVA, Switzerland (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The ICC Prosecutor has clarified that the preliminary examination of the complaint filed against President Rodrigo Duterte for alleged crimes against humanity is not — repeat — not an investigation.

Rather, ICC said that it will investigate Philippine Congress, the Supreme Court, the Ombudsman and the Commission on Human Rights for crimes on infutility.

‘Under the Rome Statute, national jurisdictions have the primary responsibility to investigate and prosecute those responsible for international crimes,” the prosecutor said.

”Our investigation will focus on why these national institutions in the Philippines failed in their duty to respond to allegations against Duterte.”

A11E9427-B37C-4E9E-99B4-36C35B9BEE21 ”Yet, Senator Antonio Trillanes and Representative Gary Alejano had the nerve to come to Geneva to file an additional complaint against Duterte when they themselves are members of Congress, one of the national jurisdictions supposed to resolve national, domestic issues,” the prosecutor added.