I believe security became bad during the Erap Estrada years, then worsened when tokhang became a thing during PRRD and later Isko Moreno (ironically from Tondo).
Correction, Malate has been a popular hub even before the nineties. The heydays of Malate started in the 70's , Remedios circle was the fashion district with renowned designers and couturiers like Christian Espiritu, Ben Farales, Auggie Cordero to name a few. The legendary club CoCo Banana were the rich of the rich and celebrities gather, rows of restaurant and bars along Adriatico and Hard rock Cafe during the 80's and the famous Library karaoke bar. Malate was the Poblacion of today during that time.
I was a Malate regular. Problem in Malate after many years is the security around the area became bad. People feel safer when the bars transferred to Ortigas, Makati, BGC and QC
Worsened when Erap Estrada imposed discriminatory policies against LGBTQ took place, then tokhang became a thing under Pres. Duterte when drug raids became common, then Yorme Isko's economic policies.
As a former Malate habitué, the opening of hang-out spots in Eastwood (Quezon City) and Greenbelt 3 (Makati City) in the early 2000s took away a big chunk of the yuppie market at that time and at the same time, the Malate market started to “sober up” as they “shifted priorities (ie started families).
This was such an excellent episode! I’m a zillennial but have boomer and gen x gay friends who raved about the old Malate. Very fascinating to hear its history.
Malate at that time was THE BEST !!! Penguin Café, Blue Café, The original Café Havana , Episode , Verve room etc. etc. We had street parties every weekend , the first Fete Dela Musique was in Malate as well as the Pride parades. We even partied inside the National Library. THE BEST ♥️
Malate is dead now compared to how it was 15 years ago... a lot of great restaurants closed around Remedios Circle like Guernica, a lot of our favorite Japanese restaurants (Tanaki and Yakitori House) and a really good steakhouse with the best Oysters Rockefeller (near Ellinwood Church). A lot of Chinese restaurants too like Wok Inn and Sky High. It's sad when you think how Malate used to be the heart of the city. It's a shell of its old self. The Korean samgyup places don't equal the old restaurants in number. I remember the only Korean restaurants back in the day were Kaya and Korean Village 😂 The only institutions left are Café Adriatico,Café Havana,and Casa Armas I think. There are other places now where people go like the Scout area and Makati, but Malate has its own peculiar charm.
I really love how this channel chooses its content. Kudos to the team!! (i hope there would be a segment that u will allow ur followers to join u, even just to observe
Kudos to the FEATR team for producing such a superb documentary! The research, camera work, and the overall treatment are spot on. Looking forward to more content like this ❤
what a memory, the last time I was in a bar called Bed was in 2001. the crowd was mixed of male/female celebrities, and foreigners from around the globe. Malate back then was the West Hollywood of the Philippines
we were part of the last goers of Bed.. that place made us feel safe and feel like we are far from the rest of the world and we can be who we are and what we want to be.. good old days with the members built by the co-owner of Bed , Tata and Doc Tony.. 😢
you may start from United Nations ave.all the way to the end of roxas boulevard - reflections disco,subway disco,coco banana,library,cafe adriatico,hizons bake shop,father’s moustache,hollywood disco,aristocrat restaurant,cruisin manila, ON disco,circuit,siete pecados,etc.
Yes, I remember the Piggy bar in Malate, next to the original Library Comedy Bar in Adriatico Street…… all gone now. Society has changed so much specially with onset of cell phones and social media which adds a whole new dimension with how to meet people……but Malate is still magical !
History has never been a thing for most Filipinos. We forget easily. Too many things from the past which form part of our culture and identity have been buried with passage of time.
Gen X here and my family lived in Malate until I was 6 years old. It used to be a nice residential neighborhood back then. I did experience a bit of its night life and restaurant scene in the 90s and early 2000s.
I currently live in a dorm here in Malate im 18 so obviously I didn't even get a chance to see what life is like out here during the 90's. But still everytime I walk around out here there's a sad feeling everytime I walk across a closed restobar, Old party posters and many relics of the past.
Great Upload! I attended my prep school in Malate that the guy next door from our school is Pitoy Moreno and Bob's studio was in the same building, this was in the 80s a lot things has change since then and I left in 92.
I was born in 2003. I can still vividly remember what Malate used to look like from 2005-2007 because my dad used to bring me there every single night, so watching this is pretty much nostalgic. The 'new' Malate I could consider now is Poblacion, Makati.
We had a hack back then if we can't afford the beer sold in clubs (since we were just college kids). We just buy in 711, and drink it along Nakpil-Orosa, since partygoers are mostly hanging out sa streets naman. Hehehe.
It was 08, we had our after party from my best-friend’s debut. We were so young back then, and a lot of the bars around Malate turned us down because of the age restriction. That was my early exposure of what Malate was and how many people from the community can be themselves, just free and having fun. Fast-forward 4 years later, I became a frequent gimikero, became a Che’lu baby, looking forward to the Annual White Party, and I was able to visit The Bed Malate before they moved to Greenfields, Manda. I had the fondest memory of the people, the sight, sounds, and everything during my Malate days. Bring Back Malate.
A friend of mine lived at Bocobo st. and we often hang out every fridays there but people migrate. The old ones pass away and the heirs sell houses. That's basically the gist of it.
Great feature on the once thriving gay night life of Malate - lucky to have experienced the “last days of disco” and have attended the street parties with my friends where we met like minded people. This is where Pride parties were held and everyone practically knew each other because everyone’s “a friend of a friend”. I miss the Malate community! 🥲
I'm in my late 20s. I never experienced the "old Malate" but I frequently go to Malate in the past 10 years for the Korean and Japanese restaurants. I don’t know if I prefer the 90s Malate, but i'm definitely satisfied with how Malate is right now. Although some establishments I loved have closed due to the pandemic. Still, I consider Malate a great place for food trips. Some of my faves are Tang, Zhu ba jie, Kaya, Tanabe, Makchang, and Su Zhou.
It's better sana if you've interviewed someone na legitimate "taong Malate" in its glory days, way back in the 70's, 80's for us to get the feel on how it was. The one you've interviewed was from the province and of course in culture shock when he moved to Malate in the mid '90s.
I was born and raised in Malate in the 60s and 70s. And I do not remember any of these clubs and bars while growing up in the 70s. But I also left for America in 1977. M. Orosa and J. Bocobo streets were my neighborhood.
Its fascinating to know na growing up in the 90s as a toddler to a kid, and 2000s as a teen and 2010s as an early 20s college kid is like Σ>―(〃°ω°〃)♡→ Watching this made me feel like: "damn. So this is what/how it feels like to be part of history" at 34 nowadays. Its surprisingly nostalgic. If you really fail to adjust with the passing of time maiiwan ka e. I title this video "the only permanent thing in life is change 🤗"
Wow the golden years of Malate. Perfectly encapsulated in this docu. I used to be a band member so I hanged out with mostly punks/metalheads so only regulars know of our spot. (Skins) Every night we had to survive the riots against gangsters and chongs and all of us; youths knew that the LGBTQ people are nothing to play with. There’s an unwritten rule that the gay district is a no fight zone cause in our minds, Malate will never be the spot if it wasn’t for them. They are untouchable and there is no known history of violence against the rainbow coalition in Malate, it’s the taste of freedom for all of us growing up but with responsibility.
i think same thing is slowly happening in pobla now, back in 2016-2019 it was packed, lots of street vendors and a variety of people, the last time I went there after the pandemic hit, it was a bit empty and to think that it was on a Friday night.. its not like what it used to be.
This is sad. But it brought back memories. Sa Malate ako nagkaroon ng maraming kaibigan. Di pa uso Facebook nun, pero meron nang "friends of a friend" connection, add ka lang ng add until you all become part of a clique. I've eyeballed new lovers there, ignored exes and kissed strangers in BED. I only stopped going to Malate after a friend became a victim of violence. There used to be guys pretending to be part of the queer community who picked up victims. One of my friends got seduced and agreed to go with a guy, who took him to a nearby dingy motel just pass Taft ave. During the deed, the guy suddenly became violent, hitting him and screaming he's not gay and that my friend should pay him or else he'd be dragged out of the motel and be blamed and shamed in the street. I saw my friend running back to meet us outside O Bar with his shirt torn and very scared. He said he just threw whatever amount of money he got in his pocket and ran out the door. There were bystanders in the motel who saw him and seemed to be part of the modus operandi since they also shouted "bakla!" at him. So yes, after that, Malate became a no go zone.
During the 80' and 90' I used to bring my date and have nice a dinner at Cafe Adriatico. There was also a jazz bar with a famous radio jazz DJ in house. Forgot the name but it was like "Jazz Box"? I also go to the Hobit house to watch some local bands. Rosie's Diner was also famous in the 80s for us college students then. I remember there was Penguins and this was the original hang out place for the gay community. Then in the late 90' early 2000s Rave parties were the in thing and Nakpil was at the forefront of the nightlife with bars like The Verve Room. I also organized a Malate bar hop tour in 2001 sponsored by Cuervo Gold and OST Cafe Del Mar CD album. It was only in mid 2000s that the gay communities spread out to the Nakpil area and its surroundings. Nothing against LGBTQ but I strongly believe this made the regulars shy away from this places and went to other places like The Fort and Eastwood. Now Nakpil is in a sorry state with karaoke bars and low quality food stalls.
Orosa was gay to start with. It's not true that penguin was the only gay space in the 90s, there was Piggy's, Gen Gali, Library, in Adriatico, Zoo cafe, Penguin cafe along Renedios, My Father's mustache in Mabini, and Blue Cafe in Nakpil. It was bohemian and artsy then with plenty of couturiers, there were hardly any other bars in the area orosa area and side streets. The LGBTQ pride was in 1996, this tells you how significant the area was to the community. Blue cafe gave way to Sala then Nakpil started gentrification in the late 90s with addition of Common grounds, Iguana, Firma etc. the courtyard used to be a big house with Marston mat fence that became the home of Bed, NY cafe, all those were gay hangouts. Ladida was a lesbian bar after cafe caribana vacated which in turn became Red banana then o-bar. During all those times a big chunk of orosa was still residential until they got converted that's where you have joy, cafe Breton etc. the street parties started almost the same time as the Pride march, before that Blue cafe would have small street party along Nakpil In the book 'Streets of Manila' printed in the 1970s, the authors described Malate as 'sward country ' with the couturiers living and setting up shop there. Don't even have to mention Coco Banana in Renedios circle in the 70s to 90s.
I remember the days pride month on malate black out night and white party during the time i traveled from pampanga to malate and met interesting people.
Malate didn’t stand a chance with the new developments in Eastwood, Pasig, BGC and Makati. Party goers we’re presented with better and safer options so they chose to go to those places instead of Malate. It’s sad but the area didn’t innovate fast enough to keep the people interested.
Way back 2000 dyn nahubog pagkadalaga ko.. hahaha after class gala sa bar with frends and skulmate.. nauso dati ang GEB grand eyeball.. mga clan sa phone😂😂
I was there almost every Saturday with my friends as we live near by but the problem is security, people from slums snatching bombarding people who go there so we moved to makati and QC more safer
This used to be my chill zone,after a full week of trabaho..my safe zone to eat,drink and entertainment with my friends.. but we had one traumatic incidents and we never came back.. but i still miss this place.🫰
Clean it up, make it safe and organize events supported by high profile LGBT personalities or supporters. The likes, wants and preferences of Filipinos change over time like any other places in the world. Just like Escolta. Or Harrison Plaza. Or even Makati, this city used to be the end all be all yet now is being overshadowed by up and coming newer developments. Give it time as the economy of the Philippines slowly flourishes, any community will see a revival.
Let's be realistic. It's the security in the area-ang squatters ng lugar. It wasn't maintained properly. Safety was a significant issue.
I believe security became bad during the Erap Estrada years, then worsened when tokhang became a thing during PRRD and later Isko Moreno (ironically from Tondo).
Correction, Malate has been a popular hub even before the nineties. The heydays of Malate started in the 70's , Remedios circle was the fashion district with renowned designers and couturiers like Christian Espiritu, Ben Farales, Auggie Cordero to name a few. The legendary club CoCo Banana were the rich of the rich and celebrities gather, rows of restaurant and bars along Adriatico and Hard rock Cafe during the 80's and the famous Library karaoke bar. Malate was the Poblacion of today during that time.
I agree….my generation 👍…..from adriatico all the way to the discos in mabini like Gaiety,Reflections,Circuit,etc. from mabini to roxas boulevard!
Agree
Disco!
It was the best!!!
I was a Malate regular. Problem in Malate after many years is the security around the area became bad. People feel safer when the bars transferred to Ortigas, Makati, BGC and QC
Agreed. So many memories… Red Banana, Joy, Biology, Bed.
Worsened when Erap Estrada imposed discriminatory policies against LGBTQ took place, then tokhang became a thing under Pres. Duterte when drug raids became common, then Yorme Isko's economic policies.
@@KennethPoriowhat were the discriminatory policies?
More of these kind of videos please before we lose parts of Manila that will be long forgotten. Thank you Erwin! This was wonderful.
As a former Malate habitué, the opening of hang-out spots in Eastwood (Quezon City) and Greenbelt 3 (Makati City) in the early 2000s took away a big chunk of the yuppie market at that time and at the same time, the Malate market started to “sober up” as they “shifted priorities (ie started families).
This was such an excellent episode! I’m a zillennial but have boomer and gen x gay friends who raved about the old Malate. Very fascinating to hear its history.
Malate at that time was THE BEST !!!
Penguin Café, Blue Café, The original Café Havana , Episode , Verve room etc. etc.
We had street parties every weekend , the first Fete Dela Musique was in Malate as well as the Pride parades.
We even partied inside the National Library. THE BEST ♥️
I swear this channel is so underrated… no one does it like FEATR
So true!!!
Malate is dead now compared to how it was 15 years ago... a lot of great restaurants closed around Remedios Circle like Guernica, a lot of our favorite Japanese restaurants (Tanaki and Yakitori House) and a really good steakhouse with the best Oysters Rockefeller (near Ellinwood Church). A lot of Chinese restaurants too like Wok Inn and Sky High.
It's sad when you think how Malate used to be the heart of the city. It's a shell of its old self. The Korean samgyup places don't equal the old restaurants in number. I remember the only Korean restaurants back in the day were Kaya and Korean Village 😂 The only institutions left are Café Adriatico,Café Havana,and Casa Armas I think. There are other places now where people go like the Scout area and Makati, but Malate has its own peculiar charm.
Well said!
Cafe Adriatico now closes at 9pm instead of 2am
Verve Room, Insomnia, Pepe N’ Pilar.. Matina (resto).. Is The Hobbit House still alive?
Used to live in the Scout area as a kid, surprised when I heard it's now a hip place.
Tanaki & Wok Inn are still very much flourishing.
I really love how this channel chooses its content. Kudos to the team!! (i hope there would be a segment that u will allow ur followers to join u, even just to observe
Kudos to the FEATR team for producing such a superb documentary! The research, camera work, and the overall treatment are spot on. Looking forward to more content like this ❤
Malate was amazing for me as a young man in my late teens. I became comfortable with the community and myself
what a memory, the last time I was in a bar called Bed was in 2001. the crowd was mixed of male/female celebrities, and foreigners from around the globe. Malate back then was the West Hollywood of the Philippines
we were part of the last goers of Bed.. that place made us feel safe and feel like we are far from the rest of the world and we can be who we are and what we want to be.. good old days with the members built by the co-owner of Bed , Tata and Doc Tony.. 😢
kakamiss kumaen sa silya after gimik ^ ^
And Fluid Bar. Right beside Bed. And the other bar at the corner forgot the names.
Silya restobar is still in the place. I miss it in my glory years. It will soon rise up.
This deserves a part 2! most of the owners of the clubs mentioned are still around. would be great to get their side of the story.
you may start from United Nations ave.all the way to the end of roxas boulevard - reflections disco,subway disco,coco banana,library,cafe adriatico,hizons bake shop,father’s moustache,hollywood disco,aristocrat restaurant,cruisin manila, ON disco,circuit,siete pecados,etc.
those were fun happy glorious years! so happy to have been part of it.🥰🎉🥂✨️🎊
This used to be my playground back in the late 90's. Bed, Joy, Piggy's, Red Banana. The white parties. So many memories.
Yes, I remember the Piggy bar in Malate, next to the original Library Comedy Bar in Adriatico Street…… all gone now. Society has changed so much specially with onset of cell phones and social media which adds a whole new dimension with how to meet people……but Malate is still magical !
History has never been a thing for most Filipinos. We forget easily. Too many things from the past which form part of our culture and identity have been buried with passage of time.
Gen X here and my family lived in Malate until I was 6 years old. It used to be a nice residential neighborhood back then. I did experience a bit of its night life and restaurant scene in the 90s and early 2000s.
I currently live in a dorm here in Malate im 18 so obviously I didn't even get a chance to see what life is like out here during the 90's. But still everytime I walk around out here there's a sad feeling everytime I walk across a closed restobar, Old party posters and many relics of the past.
Liminal Spaces :) - thats what we call it hehe
Great Upload! I attended my prep school in Malate that the guy next door from our school is Pitoy Moreno and Bob's studio was in the same building, this was in the 80s a lot things has change since then and I left in 92.
prime street party years
What is the BeST for this Vlog of Chef 👨🍳 Erwan is there's a lot of Information and Lessons that you can Learn.. ❤😊
Whenever I'd fly out from Cebu in the 2000s, I'd make sure to swing by Malate.
I was born in 2003. I can still vividly remember what Malate used to look like from 2005-2007 because my dad used to bring me there every single night, so watching this is pretty much nostalgic. The 'new' Malate I could consider now is Poblacion, Makati.
We had a hack back then if we can't afford the beer sold in clubs (since we were just college kids). We just buy in 711, and drink it along Nakpil-Orosa, since partygoers are mostly hanging out sa streets naman. Hehehe.
It was 08, we had our after party from my best-friend’s debut. We were so young back then, and a lot of the bars around Malate turned us down because of the age restriction. That was my early exposure of what Malate was and how many people from the community can be themselves, just free and having fun. Fast-forward 4 years later, I became a frequent gimikero, became a Che’lu baby, looking forward to the Annual White Party, and I was able to visit The Bed Malate before they moved to Greenfields, Manda. I had the fondest memory of the people, the sight, sounds, and everything during my Malate days. Bring Back Malate.
A friend of mine lived at Bocobo st. and we often hang out every fridays there but people migrate. The old ones pass away and the heirs sell houses. That's basically the gist of it.
skins
The inclusivity of this channel. Props.
Cool, to start a video and immediately see where I grew up. Shoutouts to Maria Orosa.
Such fond memories.
Great feature on the once thriving gay night life of Malate - lucky to have experienced the “last days of disco” and have attended the street parties with my friends where we met like minded people. This is where Pride parties were held and everyone practically knew each other because everyone’s “a friend of a friend”. I miss the Malate community! 🥲
I'm in my late 20s. I never experienced the "old Malate" but I frequently go to Malate in the past 10 years for the Korean and Japanese restaurants. I don’t know if I prefer the 90s Malate, but i'm definitely satisfied with how Malate is right now. Although some establishments I loved have closed due to the pandemic. Still, I consider Malate a great place for food trips. Some of my faves are Tang, Zhu ba jie, Kaya, Tanabe, Makchang, and Su Zhou.
I LOVE THIS episode!
It's better sana if you've interviewed someone na legitimate "taong Malate" in its glory days, way back in the 70's, 80's for us to get the feel on how it was. The one you've interviewed was from the province and of course in culture shock when he moved to Malate in the mid '90s.
I love this kind of content is an eye opener to everyone for all the filipinos how fun the phillippines way back time philippines is a happy country❤
I was born and raised in Malate in the 60s and 70s. And I do not remember any of these clubs and bars while growing up in the 70s. But I also left for America in 1977. M. Orosa and J. Bocobo streets were my neighborhood.
Its fascinating to know na growing up in the 90s as a toddler to a kid, and 2000s as a teen and 2010s as an early 20s college kid is like Σ>―(〃°ω°〃)♡→
Watching this made me feel like: "damn. So this is what/how it feels like to be part of history" at 34 nowadays.
Its surprisingly nostalgic. If you really fail to adjust with the passing of time maiiwan ka e.
I title this video "the only permanent thing in life is change 🤗"
obar, chelu and bed manila. bat pa kase nagkalat kalat mga bars, sana isang streets na lang T T.
Ang ganda ng story telling and edit👌🏻
Malate used to be the musicians haven
Wow the golden years of Malate. Perfectly encapsulated in this docu. I used to be a band member so I hanged out with mostly punks/metalheads so only regulars know of our spot. (Skins) Every night we had to survive the riots against gangsters and chongs and all of us; youths knew that the LGBTQ people are nothing to play with. There’s an unwritten rule that the gay district is a no fight zone cause in our minds, Malate will never be the spot if it wasn’t for them. They are untouchable and there is no known history of violence against the rainbow coalition in Malate, it’s the taste of freedom for all of us growing up but with responsibility.
That’s a good question… In the 90s there were street parties there
Awesome vlog content 😮
Meron pa dito non yung Ratski, tsaka Cafe Breton. Malate was the place to be back in the 90s.
I miss Malate… Nice Documentary
i miss malate. thanks for making this..
i think same thing is slowly happening in pobla now, back in 2016-2019 it was packed, lots of street vendors and a variety of people, the last time I went there after the pandemic hit, it was a bit empty and to think that it was on a Friday night.. its not like what it used to be.
there is a resurgence now hehe but it is most packed during halloween
This is sad. But it brought back memories. Sa Malate ako nagkaroon ng maraming kaibigan. Di pa uso Facebook nun, pero meron nang "friends of a friend" connection, add ka lang ng add until you all become part of a clique. I've eyeballed new lovers there, ignored exes and kissed strangers in BED. I only stopped going to Malate after a friend became a victim of violence. There used to be guys pretending to be part of the queer community who picked up victims. One of my friends got seduced and agreed to go with a guy, who took him to a nearby dingy motel just pass Taft ave. During the deed, the guy suddenly became violent, hitting him and screaming he's not gay and that my friend should pay him or else he'd be dragged out of the motel and be blamed and shamed in the street. I saw my friend running back to meet us outside O Bar with his shirt torn and very scared. He said he just threw whatever amount of money he got in his pocket and ran out the door. There were bystanders in the motel who saw him and seemed to be part of the modus operandi since they also shouted "bakla!" at him. So yes, after that, Malate became a no go zone.
Grabe sobrang daming memories ❤
Such a heart warming story! ♥️♥️♥️
During the 80' and 90' I used to bring my date and have nice a dinner at Cafe Adriatico. There was also a jazz bar with a famous radio jazz DJ in house. Forgot the name but it was like "Jazz Box"? I also go to the Hobit house to watch some local bands. Rosie's Diner was also famous in the 80s for us college students then. I remember there was Penguins and this was the original hang out place for the gay community. Then in the late 90' early 2000s Rave parties were the in thing and Nakpil was at the forefront of the nightlife with bars like The Verve Room. I also organized a Malate bar hop tour in 2001 sponsored by Cuervo Gold and OST Cafe Del Mar CD album. It was only in mid 2000s that the gay communities spread out to the Nakpil area and its surroundings. Nothing against LGBTQ but I strongly believe this made the regulars shy away from this places and went to other places like The Fort and Eastwood.
Now Nakpil is in a sorry state with karaoke bars and low quality food stalls.
Orosa was gay to start with. It's not true that penguin was the only gay space in the 90s, there was Piggy's, Gen Gali, Library, in Adriatico, Zoo cafe, Penguin cafe along Renedios, My Father's mustache in Mabini, and Blue Cafe in Nakpil. It was bohemian and artsy then with plenty of couturiers, there were hardly any other bars in the area orosa area and side streets. The LGBTQ pride was in 1996, this tells you how significant the area was to the community. Blue cafe gave way to Sala then Nakpil started gentrification in the late 90s with addition of Common grounds, Iguana, Firma etc. the courtyard used to be a big house with Marston mat fence that became the home of Bed, NY cafe, all those were gay hangouts. Ladida was a lesbian bar after cafe caribana vacated which in turn became Red banana then o-bar. During all those times a big chunk of orosa was still residential until they got converted that's where you have joy, cafe Breton etc. the street parties started almost the same time as the Pride march, before that Blue cafe would have small street party along Nakpil
In the book 'Streets of Manila' printed in the 1970s, the authors described Malate as 'sward country ' with the couturiers living and setting up shop there. Don't even have to mention Coco Banana in Renedios circle in the 70s to 90s.
Great vid as always.
Twas the best times of my life....
I remember the days pride month on malate black out night and white party during the time i traveled from pampanga to malate and met interesting people.
Oh I love this.. this is very timely.
Ang talino ng producer at writer niyo!!!!! ❤❤❤
Luv the present spaces part :) Great story telling cause it's from the point of view of someone who's part of the LGBTQIA+
community.
Whay can be done? Also, can you do a series of these, places that have become outdated?
I love this! I hope this will be a series where we explore urban spaces 🥹💗
Nakaka-miss ang Nightwish Bar at Penguin Café. Tsaka magtambay sa circle. Peak era ng OPM, Fete, Lomo, SLR, college days. ☹☹☹
Lagi kami ng friends ko before se Che’Lu .. then naka attend ren ako dyan ng white,red and black party :) sobrang saya!! Nakaka miss! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
The proliferation of street crimes and scammers destroyed the reputation of this place. This is a tourist destination before but not anymore
So many memories!
The old Penguin Gallery, I miss it.
Malate didn’t stand a chance with the new developments in Eastwood, Pasig, BGC and Makati. Party goers we’re presented with better and safer options so they chose to go to those places instead of Malate. It’s sad but the area didn’t innovate fast enough to keep the people interested.
Way back 2000 dyn nahubog pagkadalaga ko.. hahaha after class gala sa bar with frends and skulmate.. nauso dati ang GEB grand eyeball.. mga clan sa phone😂😂
I was there almost every Saturday with my friends as we live near by but the problem is security, people from slums snatching bombarding people who go there so we moved to makati and QC more safer
The food is good and affordable.
Grabe. Malate days
I miss this place... ❤
dito ko unang naranasan mag-party noon with lgbt community. masaya, lipat lipat ng bar ^ ^
tambay ako noon dyan
No, they get support from the government. Malate would still exist like in Bangkok if it were a safe and clean space.
Love love love
This used to be my chill zone,after a full week of trabaho..my safe zone to eat,drink and entertainment with my friends.. but we had one traumatic incidents and we never came back.. but i still miss this place.🫰
Clean it up, make it safe and organize events supported by high profile LGBT personalities or supporters.
The likes, wants and preferences of Filipinos change over time like any other places in the world. Just like Escolta. Or Harrison Plaza. Or even Makati, this city used to be the end all be all yet now is being overshadowed by up and coming newer developments.
Give it time as the economy of the Philippines slowly flourishes, any community will see a revival.
fond memories of cafebar piggys this was before bed, before joy or obar.
Malate used to be the hub of Manila’s rich and famous. Not anymore.
❤️❤️❤️MALATE💙💙💙
Akala ko nagpakalbo si Cong Tv sa thumbnail hahaha
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The DRag Shows is BKK are still quite present.
Clubbers guide Malate. Para sa mga purita college students like me during mid 2000's.
Malate bars and clubs was heavily infested with gangs in the 90s to early 2000.
Caribana morphed into Ladida and the lesbians found their safe space. Yo, where you at, my sapphic sisters from the late 90s, early 2k. 🌈
Malate.. saan ka pa.. late na, malas pa 😢
Empathy is to remind someone with mental illness, that society will not adjust to their mental illness! That’s empathy! But do it in a kind way!
3:30 I'll just correct you on that, you guys aren't looking for "ACCEPTANCE"
... You want SPECIAL TREATMENT
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Lugi sila simula nun naglockdown dn nakabangon pati un mga payong payong wala na,lumipat na ang night life ngayon s makati
Place was already dead way before lockdown. Only Chelu remained then and it was hardly populated on Saturday nights
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A good way to end the 🏳️🌈 month.
Joy ... cute door handle LOL
If only... Haaayst
I Remember being banned on several Club's here because of group fights due to "angasan" by other groups. haha
Club Bed and Chelu was the bars I went to. Treasure island restaurant, I also remember. 2005-2007
vernon hoy