After collaborating in Manila months before, Manila restaurant Hapag and Roots Siargao reunited this time at Roots on the ...

June 15, 2014 | 12:00am CEBU, Philippines - If you live somewhere within the Visayas and Mindanao area, you don’t need to go to far Baler to ride the waves.

Siargao is perhaps what Bali might’ve felt like in the early 1970s, when the island’s waves first started drawing foreigners. And like Bali 50 years ago, Siargao is on the cusp of change.