Part of our New Year upgrade: updated the directory and added a short commentary on Sam Won Garden!

Betty’s Greenhills milk tea source comes closer to home. Enjoy bubble tea and peppery pulutan galore at Serenitea.

Betty finds free wifi and cold coffee a short walk from where she gets her car fixed—as well as lots of food options and a place to hang out during extensive repairs.

This Lenten season, we could all do with some quiet time to reflect. Wria takes us to some of her favorite prayer rooms, perfect places to prepare for the coming Holy Week.

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 […]

Tucked away in a simple unassuming lot in one of the industrial compounds along Sucat Road is the home of a most unusual community of friend and fowl. This compound, known as the UPS Loading Area, is not, as it sounds (or even as its location in Global Business Park, near the airport, implies), […]

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 […]

Unless long, scraggly hair (and that means facial hair, too!) is part of your Halloween ensemble, then it’s high time you should probably get a haircut (considering that the holiday season is fast approaching, best to start looking great!).
Just recently, my twins started sporting unruly do’s – their last haircut was about 10 months ago, […]

Pumpkin soup does not necessarily Halloween make. But in an effort to tie all things together for this month of ghouls and gourds, then everything pumpkin was the only way to go. Only after someone suggested to-die-for pumpkin soup at Amalia’s did the theme seem more interesting, as I had always wanted to try Amalia’s, […]