Celebrate the 1st Malabon Culinary Festival
In the recently held First Kulinarya Festival of Malabon, I learned that this city is definitely known for more than its pancit! Take part of its amazing diversity of tasty cuisine in celebration of its 413th Foundation Day.
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The Health Benefits of Nuts and Peanuts
Do you know that nuts and peanuts can be used in a lot of ways? From being used as ingredients in soups and stews, to cakes, chocolates, and sweets, peanuts are also included in making cosmetics, medicines, cloth, dyes, and...
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Eating Out in Belgium—Mussels and Fries
Among the many other food that Belgium is famous for, is the combination of mussels and fries. It was winter when I arrived in Brussels—a really cold -10 deg Celsius—and my good friend K immediately took me to a very good...
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Restaurant Review: The New Domino’s Pizza in Makati City
One of the best pizza I’ve tasted (within my budget then, of course) in the early to the late 1990s was Domino’s. I can still remember its old logo, and whenever my friends and I would celebrate, we would just call...
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Cooking Vegetarian Pasta for One
Yes, I’m a solo traveler, and I live alone too. Most of the time, I don’t bother cooking. I just make a sandwich, and presto, I’m good to go.However, I do crave for my favorite food from time to time, and this...
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Remembering the Sweet Snacks of Childhood
Filipinos generally have a sweet tooth. A lot of our snack items, for example, are sweet, from ice cream (a definite favorite!), leche flan, fried banana sprinkled with sugar (yes, the banana cue or turon) to native delicacies...
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Tropical Fruit Wines from Bicol
Bicol is one of the top tourist destinations in the Philippines. Aside from trekking and hiking, which a lot of backpackers and hikers do, visitors also love its water sports activities like wakeboarding in the Camarines...
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Philippines Exotic Food—The Rats of Pampanga
Do you remember the film Ratatouille, where the main character was a rat named Remy? Can you imagine eating him? In Pampanga they do, and they call it dagang bukid (field rat). Field rats being cleaned prior to...
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