MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Or, as former colleagues in TV used to say, “in the time of Nick.” The more you think about it – nine months after the first ECQ – the more you realize we need Christmas now, in the year of Our Lord 2020. St. Nick couldn’t be coming at a better, more aptly...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Months before the pandemic shut down our social lives, the loudest whisper was about politics and not your usual society scandal. Whispered or rumored, the talk was to the effect that THE tandem for 2022 was already in the works. The names being dropped were not those of...
If you're looking to have a delectable season, here are the highlights off this chef's notes on his constant search for what's new, what's hot, and what's the best Braided cinnamon buns by The Braidy Buns This pandemic turned the whole world upside down. And as the months moved on, lives and...
Fresh from her collaboration launch of limited edition play sets for toddlers and babies, Isabelle Daza-Semblat has two announcements today. View this post on Instagram The release of maternity leggings under their activewear label Our Recess with Anne Curtis and Solenn Heussaf, along with her very...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza If the Toll Regulatory Board’s RFID system – cashless but equally brainless – was meant to speed up the flow of traffic if not the cash flow, how did they explain the 5km traffic jams that got Valenzuela City Mayor Rex Gatchalian’s goat? Likewise, how was it that...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Before President Duterte showed up to participate in PDEA’s burning of P7 billion worth of drugs last week, a previous total of P13 billion was confiscated. On Dec. 5, in Bacnotan, La Union, PDEA destroyed P60 million worth. November’s hoard was valued at P345...
Photos by Jules Vivas LUNCH AT ST. MARTHA'S From left: Chef Angelo Comsti, the author, MB content producer Jules Vivas, Chef Francis Lim, Chef Kalel Chan, and Richmonde Hotel Iloilo GM Natalie Lim Sometimes we travel far and wide in search of something, only to arrive at it where we travel from. I...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza On his 96 th birthday last Thursday, novelist, essayist, social critic and commentator, bookstore owner Frankie Sionil Jose reported for work as usual, once a week, at his office atop the shop in Ermita. How does he do it, looking the same today as he did 10, 20 years...
Check out chouquettes by Gourmandise by Sunshine EXQUIS CHOCOLAT Gourmandise by Sunshine’s chouquettes transport those who partake of them to the streets of Paris EDITOR'S NOTE This story represents Sandy Daza 's premiere as a food columnist for Manila Bulletin Lifestyle . At the...
The pieces are made out of Halo Halo's signature, truly Filipino banig weave material "We were all once kids, playing, and carefree. Even if we grew up, we all still have that kid inside us," says the HaloHalo team. " want you to bring out that kid again." Founded by siblings Cara and Rocco Sumabat...
“Chinatown is not a place,” declared journalist-author Jullie Yap Daza to her friends. Now that sentence is the title of her latest book. Technically, Chinatown is only one square kilometer in size, an area surrounded by streets whose real estate values rival Makati’s. If it’s not a place,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Pandemic, word of the world in 2020. Following close behind at second spot would be, I guess, “protocol”. Not new or strange, as we’ve been using “protocol” in relation to diplomatic affairs, but since COVID-19 happened along we’ve been using the word as...
