MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For China’s donation of 600,000 doses of their Sinovac vaccine, President Duterte thanked the Chinese government and people. At P680 a dose, the P408,000,000 cargo filled eight freezer vans, the first three of which moved ever so gingerly from Villamor Air Base to...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Misencounter! A mistake encounter? Shootout! At the rate our law enforcement officers are shooting at one another, who’s left to eliminate dangerous criminals? Senator Risa Hontiveros, quoting the NCRPO chief: “This isn’t the first misencounter.” OMG, how many...
Local travel can be made fun, especially if you have great food to look forward to The Department of Tourism through our hardworking Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat has started the revival of local tourism. With all the required safety protocols in place, they are slowly encouraging travel to...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Pork is in short supply, too expensive. Eat veggies instead? Some of them are worth their weight in gold. Eat fish? Only the rich can afford the poor man’s fish, galunggong. Now, the poor are also complaining that sardine prices could go up soon, with manufacturers...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza GCQ to MGCQ soon. Almost back to normal. Abnormal has become routine. As that durable cliché goes, change is the only permanence. “I felt trapped.” With those words, 1986 People Power photographer Mandy Navasero made up her mind to live a double life – continue...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza In the season of pandemic, food is a shining star, whether as alimentary consumption or an elemental business. Amateur cooks and start-up chefs found their true second nature as restaurateurs, caterers, and overnight, Richard Gomez is on YouTube cooking, At Home with...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Forgive me if after Chinese New Year’s Day and Valentine’s Day the mood hereabouts continues to be more upbeat than downcast. Look up at the clear blue skies, or the indigo-blue with a trillion stars (mostly in our dreams now that light pollution has deprived us of...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza This is the in-between day. Between Chinese New Year’s Day yesterday and Valentine’s Day tomorrow; both love days, the one for loving yourself and the one for loving another or others. So how subdued did the CNY celebration go? An old friend, retired these many years...
THROUGH HIS STOMACH Framed by unmanicured plants, the entrance to Asiong’s Caviteño Restaurant is as unassuming as its name How would you like this for breakfast? Tinapang Salinas ; estrelladong itlog with burong mustasa , kamatis , bawang , sibuyas ; and sinangag . Served with Amadeo coffee. Or...
In my grade school years, many moons ago, my exposure to Chinese cuisine was whatever we had around places that were reachable by car. For mami and siopao , Ma Mon Luk was, of course, (and still is, but now there’s also Masuki) my go-to place. For authentic Chinese cuisine, it had to be Kowloon...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Kong Hei Fat Choi! (Cantonese) Kiong Hee Huat Chai! (Fookien) In English, “Congratulations, and be prosperous!” No mention of a happy new year, just plain old congratulations for your success and be prosperous! That’s the Chinese way, greet the new year with a...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza That was lotsa fun watching and listening to Senator Dick “Red Cross” Gordon blow his top and challenging the guys on top of the red tape parade at LTO to resign! The only letdown was not being able to imagine the response. Resign? Remember PhilHealth, Dick? You might...
