We’ve done a number of posts recently on original locations of Filipino food favorites, though for the famous Bacolod chicken inasal, I doubt we’ll actually be able to go to the place that started it all… in fact, I’m not too sure whose claim to fame this regional Pinoy specialty is. I was born in […]

I’m beginning to appreciate the “Holiday Economics” that our government recently legitimized: many long weekends, ergo, an opportunity to satiate the discriminating appetite for adventure (and food) of one’s wanderlust. During the recent long weekend, our family had the chance to get away from the busy streets of the metro and retreat to the very […]

It’s such a shame that I’ve been living in Sta.Rosa for so many years, and that I’ve gotten so used to the old Sta.Rosa that I’ve forgotten to roam around my city (YES! We are now a city! Tough!) to experience the new establishments that have sprouted like mushrooms from the wee-wee of a doggy […]

It’s shaping up to be a really hot summer… and what better way to beat the heat than that old pinoy standby—halo halo! Revisit Digman with Betty as she hunts down this Cavite classic.

“Here’s what’s cooking, good looking.”
That’s what it says on Amber’s brochure and menu list, and I find it an absolute riot. Not that one needs a brochure to know what’s cooking at Amber. This place is best known, after all, for its Pancit Malabon and its can’t-eat-just-one Pichi-Pichi. But hey, having someone refer to you […]

Over the last few years, there’s been a huge boom in commercial activity in Tagaytay… lots of new cafés, restaurants, hotels, and spas, giving the weekend warrior more to do there than just sit and contemplate the horizon (though contemplation is one of the best things to do in Tagaytay). There are always places to […]

I don’t usually make it to the inner (more like western, or coastal) reaches of Parañaque, so it was a treat for me when two native Parañaqueños (who actually grew up in the area when the area was a bonafide probinsya: there were still rice fields to explore and clean rivers to swim in) invited […]

When we featured Steak Station, the steak place along President’s Avenue that serves steak for only 99 bucks, a lot of people sent in comments to share their own steak secrets. One of our readers directed us to Steak of the Nation, a then-newly opened place along Onelia Jose in BF Resort Village, which serves […]

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For a long time now, I have been on an on-and-off attempt to lose weight, thus going through various regimented diet practices. Unfortunately, for a guy who loves to cook (and eats what he cooks) and finds guilt-free pleasure in savoring all the kinds of taste in the […]