Or why I would prefer Angels Kitchen over a Michelin star restaurant serving nouvelle cuisine ANGEL DISHES Clockwise from top left: Caesar salad, beef salpicao, gambas con huevos, and beef caldereta Between a Michelin star restaurant serving nouvelle cuisine and a Michelin star restaurant serving...
Point at anything on this list and order from it. You’re welcome CHOCOLATE LOVE Chef Ely Patisserie Le Choux-Colat Many surprises came out of this two-year lockdown. Out of the forced home stay of millions of us, hundreds of home food businesses were born. Many of them are exceptionally...
BLACK NOODLE CHRONICLES Dried dinuguan pancit Ilocos Norte has always been my second home. I lived there for a few years in the early ’80s, so whenever I visit now, it always brings back memories. A few months ago, I was back but for work. We did three shows for Foodprints. Of course, we had a...
Pasuquin Bakery’s bread and biscocho have to be experienced when going to Ilocos Grilled beef and chicken over biryani rice One afternoon, many decades ago, we were driving around Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte after visiting some tomato farms in the area. Famished from work and the heat, we stopped at a...
College basketball star Eric Farinas’s Java Hotel in Laoag is why you should go on a trip to Ilocos now, if you can Last week, we arrived from a 10-day culinary tour of Northern Luzon. It was the longest yet most fun work I had done ever for our food show "Foodprints." The surprises of new food...
From Vigan to the northernmost town of Ilocos Norte, Pagudpud From La Union, day four of this nine-day taping of "Foodprints" took us to Ilocos Sur. You want to talk about outstanding, unbelievable, pure Filipino dishes, you have to experience the northern cuisine of Ilocos. (I say pure Filipino...
Surfing on the food wave of Elyu Our Foodprints show on Region I just took off. After being locked down for close to a year, I was so excited to start work again. Our mission in the show is to do our part in jump-starting local tourism, showing the hungry and excited traveler where to find good...
