(New York) - There must be something about a restaurant if people are cheerfully willing to wait for more than an hour to get seats for dinner. I was forewarned by some of my New Yorker friends about the notorious wait at Momofuku but such warning does not have any impact on me. It thrills [...]
(New York) - This city can be really exhausting. Waking up early to start travailing the touristy routes, shopping, food tasting, meeting up with local friends, club hopping and so forth. Coming to New York surely breaks the monotony of my life in Chicago but it solicits some verve. Sometimes I just want to sit [...]
(Miami) – What is a trip to Miami without trying some ceviche? I brought my friends to Ola at the Sanctuary Hotel in South Beach to have a taste of the phenomenal “Fire and Ice” ceviche. It’s exceptionally good- a perfect balance of the extremes: hotness of jalapeno with the chill of granita and the [...]
(Chicago) – I still remember my Lola (“grandmother”) gathering the stale pan de sal from the previous days’ breakfast. She brought out the llaneras (oval metal baking pans) to be used as mold for her impromptu bread pudding. I never actually saw how she made it, not even the ingredients she used. I was too [...]
(New York) – I love almost all kinds of cuisines and you bet that Filipino food is on top of my list. Everywhere I go, I plan to visit a Pinoy restaurant if some place exists. Well in New York, you got abundant options to choose from. So, I researched and found 2 seemingly good [...]
(Singapore) – My all-time favorite flatmates back in 2006 introduced me to a Japanese buffet restaurant at Suntec City Mall when I was still a newbie in the Singapore world of multi-cultural cuisines. 4 years later, here I am, going back to indulge in a variety of an all-Japanese buffet spread. The sushi is nice [...]
(New York) – There are probably hundreds of restaurants in Chinatown and to pick a place to eat is an arduous task when me and my travel buddies only allotted one meal to try this famously tumultuous New York area. I made a shortlist of food places and I let the locals pick the topmost. [...]
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