When our office was still in Port Area, we made regular visits to Binondo – for a lunch of maki-mi and xiao long bao at Mezzanine café followed by shopping at Carvajal and Ongpin streets, with a side ...

Most of the spectators gathered along and at the vicinity of Jones Bridge, where a stage was set up behind the China-funded Binondo-Intramuros Bridge, venue of a fireworks and drone display.

Eventually, they will grow old anyway. The esplanade stretches from Jones Bridge to near the end of the Manila Post Office. The Binondo-Intramuros Bridge is another attraction along the way.

Manila's Binondo, arguably the country's most popular ... the Manila sky lit up as people cheered the fireworks and drone show over Jones Bridge to cap off the celebrations.