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This article features some updates, guides, curated information, historical timelines, and significant events about Vigan's InfiniTea—Tamag Branch.

• Personal insights from my actual visits were included here, and this article will be updated periodically.

• My opinions and reviews are my subjective views during the time of my visit. My opinions and reviews may change by time depending on the circumstances. My opinions don't represent the opinion of my readers and friends.

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I am a matcha junkie, and the reason why I always go to InfiniTea is because they blend the best matcha milk tea and frappuccino in Vigan (my subjective preference). I discovered their matcha blends in their Bantay branch. However, I always go to their Tamag branch because it's the closest store from home.

As an avid customer of this store, I'd like to share my reviews, thoughts, and insights about this store. Below is my review categorized per tab.

• Operation hours: 8 AM to 7 PM
• Location: G/F El Señor Jesus Apartelle, Quirino Boulevard, Tamag, Vigan City
• Last Visit: 2023-September-08

▼ BLOG REVIEW ▼ MENU AND BEVERAGES ▼ HISTORICAL TIMELINE AND UPDATES

 ►  Blogger's Review and Suggestions

• Customer Service: Based on my years of visiting this store, I can not remember a moment of disappointment. No customer service is perfect, and I'm pretty sure they also have some bad moments. Lucky me, I was always treated with reasonable service. They didn't make me feel like I was a "pahabol" nuisance at the end of their shift whenever they were already set to go home (I usually visit late).

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I usually measure their average customer handling time from ordering to serving time and it averages from 10 to 15 minutes per customer (this is based on my own experience). This handling time is for the beverage preparation though, not for the dishes (yes, they also have food).

• Location and Parking Space: The restaurant is located on the ground floor of El Señor Jesus Apartelle in Tamag. The store's entrance door is not facing the road. You need to walk about 10-15 meters from the road. It's next to a laundry shop.

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I think that the location of the store is perfect for those who are looking for a place where they could slow down a bit. Entering the hallway leading to the store, you will be greeted by the beautiful mountainview of Santa and Bantay in the east. In my case, this switches my mood to a more relaxed, less hurried moment.

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Parking space is not much a problem because roadside parking along the Quirino Boulevard is plenty. You can also utilize the parking area near the laundry shop.

• Interior: I'd be biased because their color is also my color. Its touch of "greenness" inside the store is refreshing. I love their big glass wall/window that would allow me to see the even greener view outside. Based on my visits, they don't open their air conditioning that much, but I don't complain about that. They usually open the door for natural air to come, which allows natural air circulation.

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The glass wall/window allows natural light to come in. In my case, it has a psychological effect on me. I have this impression that the interior is very non-suffocating and naturally breathable. I'm borderline claustrophobic, so I love this kind of set-up.

• Reason to Go Back: I'd definitely go back here for their matcha blends. As I said, they have the best matcha milk tea and frap in town (subjective preference). I haven't tried some of their blends yet, so I would also like to go back to try everything in the menu list.

Note: The content of this blog page will be updated once I get new information about this store or once I get to try new products. You may scroll back to the top to check the contents of the other tabs above.

 ►  Food Review

(1) Frappé: Purple Potato Taro

Review • It's familiar and typical, so I'm good with it.

Highlight • Its purple color looks appetizing.

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Price (as of September 2023) • 160 pesos (with pearl)

Star rating • ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ • 7/10

(2) Frappé: Milo Godzilla Series

Review • Aside from their matcha blends, my personal favorite is their Milo Godzilla series. I found one variation which was the matcha blend. It's topped with Milo powder and frothy creams.

Highlight • Milo malt powder toppings

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Price (as of September 2023) • 160 pesos (with pearl)

Star rating • ★★★★★★★★☆☆ • 8/10

(3) Taiwanese Chicken Poppers

Review • As far as I remember, InfiniTea gave me my first Taiwanese chicken popper experience. The poppers were cut into small pieces that were so crispy. This dish has a spicy and salty-sour taste.

Highlight • Salty-sour taste

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Price (as of September 2023) • 145 pesos

Star rating • ★★★★★★★★☆☆ • 8/10

This section will be updated once I get to try another product.

How do I rate the food? I rate the food based on the average of these three parameters namely:
• Price to quality: 10/10
• Price to service: 10/10
• X-Factor, uniqueness: 10/10

 ►  Historical Timeline and Updates

• 2023-September-08: I visited this store, and I tried their Godzilla Matcha for the first time. I also bought one serving of Taiwanese Chicken Poppers.

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🇵🇭 VIGAN • During this visit, I was able to take a photo of their ceiling for the first time.

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UPDATE HISTORY FOR THIS BLOG POST
• 2023-September-11: This post was published.
NAGUSTUAM DIAY NABASAM/NAKITAM? MABALIN MO MET I-LIKE.
Stories of town explorations.
Stuck inside our house with floodwater encircling our now-island house, I was ironically enchanted by this hardship to write down my musings.

• The flood lake stays at the vacant lot near Ayusan-Paoa boundary for...

• 10 years ago, I only had to think about my self. It's amusing how time flies so fast. I'm now in a crossroad where I have to...

🇵🇭 VIGAN, ILOCOS SUR
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I find it interesting that instead of blogging about my previous travels, I've found myself again blogging about a super typhoon. This is the second super typhoon to hit my hometown in a span of a month. Stuck inside our house with floodwater encircling our now-island house, I was ironically enchanted by this hardship to write down my musings.

I'm that type of person whose spring of ideas and introspection disgorge when I'm faced with challenges. From an idle pool of thoughts that occasionally oozes out of random triggers, some serious events that break normalcy give me mental diarrhea of words and introspections.
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 ►  Habagat Season and the Airport Road

I'm trying to compose my thoughts, while I am watching ASAP Natin 'to. Regine Velasquez-Alcasid is singing while I'm typing these words. The rain has stopped momentarily, but the flooding continued. How long?—that, I don't know. The floodwater has never left us for more than a month now since the onslaught of super typhoon Egay.

The habagat season is also the flood season in our residential area. I said "in our residential area" because we are victims of a particular circumstance that involves the road and our location.

It seems like this will continue for months—our annual problem every rainy season. Well, we've been used to it. I just wish that a public engineer would assess our situation. I don't know whose jurisdiction is this. I'm not sure who is tasked to study our problem. Is it DPWH or our City Engineering office?

The Vigan airport road running through Ayusan Sur was elevated, and it followed that the accumulation of rain water east of this road gets stuck with no quick escape route. The elevated road has obstructed the natural flow of water. Our barangay's name "Ayusan" means "channel or a place where water flows." Rain water from the hills of Tamag and Paoa (Mira Hills and Silang Hills) flow through Ayusan on their way to the Pantay River. Our barangay is a gentle slope between the hills and the river.

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🇵🇭 VIGAN • A month after super typhoon Egay, typhoon Goring followed.
This situation is no longer reminiscent of being an "Ayusan." It's now "Layusan." Only fellow Ilocanos could understand the latter quoted word.😅 The flood lake stays at the vacant lot near Ayusan-Paoa boundary for weeks to months; but during rainy season, it becomes a permanent lake. It overflows when there is habagat or a new typhoon, then enters our residential compound—affecting 7 households and about 40 people who are all my relatives (from 3 month-old pamangkin to my 80+ year-old lola).

We only wait for this flood lake to dry through "evaporation." It's the only escape route of the floodwater—natural means, no engineering intervention. 😅⛅️

 ►  Egay versus Goring

What makes typhoon Goring different from Egay is the heavy rainfall. Typhoon Egay was stronger and abrupt. Typhoon Goring was slower but with heavier rainfall.

Fortunately, we didn't have to deal wih power and internet interruptions for typhoon Goring. The only challenge was the overflowing of the floodwater from the flood catchment few steps away from our back door. Floodwater enters our residential area when the catch basin could no longer handle the volume.

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🇵🇭 VIGAN • The floodwater that entered our residential area was above ankle deep.
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🇵🇭 VIGAN • This photo shows the flood lake that was created since typhoon Egay's onslaught. This flood lake never emptied since. The entry of typhoon Goring made the situation worse.
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🇵🇭 VIGAN • Flooding in our area (east of the airport road) has been our yearly encounter for as far as I can remember.
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🇵🇭 VIGAN • Our front yard literally looked "dinaanan ng bagyo."
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🇵🇭 VIGAN • The floodwater has already entered our terrace with random floating objects.

 ►  Ending Thoughts

On this day, I would say I was dead tired from family responsibilities: looking after my sick mom on dialysis, braving the strong rain to buy food supplies from the market and medicines for my mom, and dealing with floodwater.

I started writing this blog earlier at 12 noon while I watched ASAP Natin 'to. I had a lot of stories to write that time, but the momentum was cut when I realized that we've run out of food supplies and medicine stocks for my mom. You know, I plan my mom's diet. Her situation is delicate, so I have to purchase foods that are suitable for her. I also do the cooking. I'm hands on in nursing my mom, but the continuous rain has made me unable to buy for supplies.

As I write this line, it's now 10:51 PM. I have lost all the things I wanted to say, but I'm glad that I was able to write one blog entry tonight.

10 years ago, I only had to think about my self. It's amusing how time flies so fast. I'm now in a crossroad where I have to plan the future ahead of me while looking after my ageing parents. It's a reality that I am not yet ready to face. However, I have the moral duty to face this. Bagyo man ng buhay o bagyong may dalang ulan, kailangan kong kayanin 'to! • END OF STORY

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UPDATE HISTORY FOR THIS BLOG POST
• 2023-September-03: This post was published.
NAGUSTUAM DIAY NABASAM/NAKITAM? MABALIN MO MET I-LIKE.