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Business, Food, Social Media

This Is All It Takes To Be The Number One Restaurant In America

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IMG_6543.PNGCHICAGO, Illinois (The Adobo Chronicles, Indianapolis Bureau) –  The verdict is in.  The top fine dining restaurant in all of America is in Chicago!  It’s called Alinea.

Alinea bested hundreds of other highly-rated restaurants  from San Francisco to New York, from New Orleans to Orlando.

The list was released by TripAdvisor, in its 2016 Travelers Choice award for restaurants.

Now we know it doesn’t really take that much to make it to the very top of restaurant favorites.

For Alinea, just a small green leaf sprinkled with what looks like sea salt, and a side of a very thin slice of lemon.

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Government, International, Politics

Trump: I Will Accept Election Loss If…

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Trump, left, and Goldberg

NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles, Washington Bureau) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump seems to be backing down from his earlier statements that he will accept the results of November’s elections only if he wins.

Today at 3 a.m, Trump took to his Twitter account to categorically state that he will accept his election loss if a President Hillary Clinton will appoint him U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines. (The current ambassador, Philip Goldberg, is stepping down this November.)

Just a day earlier, at the Al Smith Dinner in New York, Trump joked that Hillary would appoint him ambassador to Iraq or Afghanistan.

“I was joking about Iraq and Afghanistan,” Trump tweeted, “but I am dead serious about the Philippines.”

The Republican candidate said that with Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s recent pronouncement that he would “separate” from the U.S. and align himself with China and Russia, “being the U.S. ambassador to the Philippines would be such an honor and would allow me to be closer to my Chinese friends and to Vladimir Putin.”

When asked about Trump’s comments, Clinton said, “I will wait until we have the election results.  I will keep you in suspense.”

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Entertainment, Government, International, Law Enforcement

Philippine National Police Criticized For Duterte And Obama Halloween Masks

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Duterte mask, left, and Obama mask, right.  Inset: Mark Cuban and Joan Rivers

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Philippine cops are distributing paper masks of horror characters as well as of Presidents Barack Obama Rodrigo Duterte to remind the public of safety tips for the upcoming Halloween season.

The Philippine National Police (PNP)’s Community Relations Groups (PCRG) has started handing out horror-themed masks  with safety tips printed at the back in different establishments and train stations in Metro Manila.

PCRG Director Senior Supt. Gilbert Cruz explained that the inclusion of Obama in the police’s Halloween masks was not intended to shame the American president  even after  Duterte’s recent announcement of severing ties with America. In fact, Cruz said they decided to use Obama masks “in a good way” as it would pique the public’s curiosity.

But the good intention of the PCRG didn’t sit well with many Filipinos and Americans residing in the Philippines.  They criticized the masks, albeit for strange reasons.

The critics said neither of the masks looked like Duterte nor Obama.  Rather, they said that the Duterte mask looked like Dallas Mavericks NBA team owner Mark Cuban, while the Obama mask looked like the late comedienne Joan Rivers.

Do you agree? Let us know in the comments section.

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