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The First Malabon Kulinarya Festival

The City of Malabon launched a month-long celebration to commemorate its 413th Foundation Day. In connection with their founding anniversary, the Malabon Tourism Council launched the first Malabon Kulinarya Festival yesterday at the …

Nagsasa’s Secrets

The municipality of San Antonio, Zambales is home to several beautiful coves. The most famous of them all is Anawangin Cove as people who have visited all deemed it the most beautiful and the easiest to reach. The coves of San Antonio are devoid of electricity and urban development due to their geographical location: all of them are bounded by great mountain ranges in the east and by the South China Sea in the west.

Street Food @ The Venice Piazza Night Market

  (Taguig City, Philippines) – Since the growth of outsourced jobs in the country that brought night shifts to normalcy in the Philippines, most establishments have started to embrace the 24-hour operating hours: convenience stores, fast food chains etc. It also started the craze for night markets with Banchetto in Ortigas leading the pack. Lucky [...]

Pinoy Chicken Curry

If I will think of one Filipino dish that can’t be eaten without a lot of rice, I think it is Chicken Curry. The coconut-curry sauce is just perfect for white steamy rice. Though not originally Pinoy …

Elias: Turn of the Century Filipino Dining

Elias is one of the characters in Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere and is also the name of this restaurant in Bonifacio High Street.

Taralets Bagnet!

  (Makati, Philippines) – I rarely get lost. In fact, the few accounts that I do get lost is because of bad direction given to me or the sheer difficulty of finding the destination. But being lost can be sometimes frustrating especially when you are in a hurry, hungry, being ripped off by a cabbie [...]

Embutido: Pinoy Meatloaf

Americans have their meatloaf and Italians have their meatball. We, Pinoys, have our very own embutido. The sweetness of the vegetables, meaty juice from the meat and a touch of creaminess from …

Gourmet Breakfast Meets Kanto

Delicious. Gourmet. Inexpensive? I bet you did not see that third word coming in a progression of adjectives to describe a certain restaurant. When my friend, Julie, showed me Kanto’s Facebook page, I could not believe …

Cagbalete Island: Another Outdoor Culinary 101 with the Lakwatserong Kusinero

(Cagbalete Island, Quezon Province, Philippines) – The menu when we went to Cagbalete Island early this year was probably the most Pinoy of all the food that Chef Janjie had prepared for his …

Calaguas: The Virgin Island with Lakwatserong Kusinero

If you live in the Philippines, I am pretty sure that you have been in summer trips before. You have probably gone to a beautiful beach, rented a nice room by the shore and pigged out every …

All Roads Lead to Jollibee

Jollibee is the most popular fast food chain in the Philippines and now branching out to big cities in the US where there are big Filipino communities.

D Talipapa in Boracay

Boracay is one the most popular tourist destinations in the Philippines and famous for pristine waters, powdery white sand, beautiful rock formations and of course, fresh seafood.

Pig-out at Max’s

Max’s breakfast buffet offers popular Filipino breakfast fares from daing, tocino, scrambled egg, longganisa, sinangag, lugaw, garlic rice, paksiw, itlog na maalat (salted eggs), etc.

Lamon at Patio Filipino

My San Francisco friends brought us to Patio Filipino during my last visit there. The food is outstanding, according to my standard at least. Actually, my standard is pretty simple – if a dish can make me eat more than 2 cups of rice, then it passes my taste standard.

Unveiling Coron, Palawan

(Coron, Palawan, Philippines) – I am a born skeptic. When people say that this place is beautiful or that restaurant serves great food, I normally do not buy it, particularly if the person’s taste does not have that many entries in my …

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