The Foul-Smelling Buro on Batangueño Tables of Yore
Buro jars at a stall in a public market. Among the most frequently told family dinner stories my late mother loved to tell was this one t...Read More
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Kalumpit, a Fruit Named after Batangas, Has Many Medicinal Properties
The kalumpit fruit. Image credit: Tagalog Lang . As a young boy back in the sixties, I always looked forward to foodstuffs that my u...Read More
The Food Invasion of Lipa City
Burger King, one of the recent arrivals, cheekily built right across McDonald's. Years back, if one felt the pangs of hunger, one fo...Read More
Comparing Jollibee Prices, PHL and the United States
There was an item on TV Patrol last week documenting the opening of a Jollibee store in Houston, Texas. My brother and his family live in ...Read More
The Perfect Pinindot
Life is indeed a never-ending learning experience. All my life, if somebody said pinindot, I would conjure an image in my mind of this loc...Read More
Craving for Pinindot
I had been craving for some pinindot; but, these days, I do rather seem to have developed a propensity for procrastination. If you are not...Read More
Ask Your Mom for Her Recipes While You Still Can
Mother’s home cooking is always best. That is a fact; and there is no rocket science to it. It is her cooking that we first taste. It is...Read More
Wada’s Pizzeria: A Reason to Visit Mataas-na-Kahoy
Although the municipality of Mataas-na-Kahoy is a mere three or four kilometres from where I live, over the last five decades, the number o...Read More
Batangueño Food Conundrum: Will the Real Tamales Please Stand Up!
The tamales as I knew it from my childhood. I was just with my elder sister and her two kids when it suddenly occurred to me to ask if th...Read More
Taal Bistro: the Maliputo Alone Is Worth the Trip
Perhaps, the term bistro is a tad misleading. In the original French context, a bistro is a modest and unassuming dining place tucked away...Read More
Ereneo’s Café: A Gem of a Find
How was I to know that there exists a gem of a restaurant just 10 minutes drive from where I live and at most a half-hour from the city pro...Read More
Breakfast Classics: Ménage à trois with the Sinangag and Itlog
The age-old marriage between sinangag (fried rice) and pritong itlog (egg fried sunny side up) has always been, to my mind, the proverbia...Read More
Where There's Smoke, There's A Grill
Anyone who reads this will think I’m fibbing… I bought a kilo of liempo the other weekend thinking, I would treat myself to inihaw … Nev...Read More
Forty Bucks!
I was tired from scrimmage, so I thought I would pass by KFC on my way home and get something to take home. “Fully Loaded Meal to go, pleas...Read More
That Garlicky Smell
Malou at the MCD knows that I’m absolutely crazy about longganisa and tapang Taal. So, the other day, she sent me a text message saying s...Read More
Shabu-Shabu and A Long Ride Home…
Because tomorrow, our American guest Brother Brendan leaves for Manila, we treated him out to dinner tonight at a Korean restaurant called S...Read More
Regional Delicacies at DLSL
The College of International Hospitality and Tourism Management has this delightful habit of organizing these colorful little events; and I...Read More
The Lady at the Eatery
Quick! Examine that empty dish just below the title of this post and tell me in about two seconds exactly what food used to be in it! But w...Read More
Balut Contest
When my Dad was still in the Air Force, he was very much what you could call an officer and a gentleman. He was known for his principles o...Read More
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