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 …
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.
(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 [...]
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 is one of the characters in Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere and is also the name of this restaurant in Bonifacio High Street.
(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 [...]
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 …
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, 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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
(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 …
24. Apr, 2012
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 …
29. Mar, 2012
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 …
24. Mar, 2012
(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 …
21. Dec, 2011
This is a typical Filipino pasta/noodle soup that is inexpensive, highly nutritious and a complete meal in itself- it has protein, starch and vegetable all in one dish.
28. Nov, 2011
Tokwa means tofu while baboy means pork in Filipino. This is a simple mash up of boiled pork parts such as belly and ears and fried tofu soaked in soy-vinegar sauce.
03. Nov, 2011
Chicken Inasal is now big in the Philippines. This is a popular chicken grill that originated from Bacolod in Iloilo region. This dish left a good imprint in my food memory for the first time I tried it when I was a kid. I can …
12. Oct, 2011
Pancit Malabon is a native Filipino noodle dish using tubular rice noodles with shrimp-base thick sauce, just like palabok or luglog, and with generous garnishing of pork crackling and seafood such as shrimp…
22. Sep, 2011
Fish sarciado is a typical Filipino dish which is directly translated as fish with sauce. The fish is usually fried first and then simmered in sauce that is made of fresh tomatoes and eggs. However, I do mine …
14. Sep, 2011
There are only 3 Filipino noodles dishes that are being rotated every time there is a special occasion in my family back home in Manila; it’s either Filipino-style sweet spaghetti, pancit bihon or pancit…
08. Sep, 2011
It could be interesting to know how many versions of Filipino adobo exist currently. There are only a few ingredients used in adobo but there are countless twists and turns that you can do …
01. Sep, 2011
This is no Jollibee or KFC. But in some hidden corner of my mind, I remember my grandmother putting vinegar to chicken before frying them. I asked some elderly Pinoys as well and they affirmed that this is pretty common. Vinegar …
25. Aug, 2011
(Chicago) – This is one hell of a Filipino dish that makes me want to eat 5 cups of rice in one meal. “Binagoongan” is a shrimp paste dish with lots of meat and usually made super spicy. Some people like it with lesser meat but more …
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