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...
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...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Chinatown with its trademark tikoy, siopao, mami, lumpia – what a long way it has come! How it has leveled up from no-frills, no-fuss in noisy, messy Ongpin to the glamorous heights of five-star cuisine fit for an emperor and his favorite concubine. Just as an...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza But for a case of perfect timing, I would have missed the last few (of 24) episodes of the Korean version of War and Peace, a colossal production about Korea’s war against Japanese invaders in the early 1900’s. Unlike most K-drama couch potatoes, I didn’t have the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Baguio City, a hot topic. Mayor Magalong, aka contact tracing “czar,” tarred, tainted by the city’s scandal of the season, at party where pictures were shot, advertently or inadvertently, of the merrymakers making merry sans masks. “Sapagka’t kami ay tao...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Nineteen days after the Quiapo phenomenon of more than 200,000 devotees turning out en masse to honor the Black Nazarene, we have yet to hear if superspreaders added to the transmission of COVID-19 cases in the NCR. Or if it’s simply a case of no news is good news. The...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza “. . . for the world in its present form is passing away.” From a letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (said to be a sinful people), read in church last Sunday. Whether those words, written a little less than 2,000 years ago, stopped you in your tracks or did not,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It was perfect whether-weather – whether sunny, whether rainy, whether cloudy. We got all three on a pretty day two hours out of Metro Manila. Just as the sun began to set and soften the curves of rolling hills, there was no whether-ing about where to eat. After all,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Baguio weather in Silang, said to be “Cavite’s biggest town.” Who wouldn’t accept the invitation? Baguio takes four to five hours, Silang two. With the RFID pass still to be tested and the promise of Baguio weather yet to be verified, the call of the weekend...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza “No one is safe unless everyone is safe.” A mantra that should be dinned into every pair of ears now that we’re facing a more easily transmissible variant of coronavirus, waiting to see how high the spike will hit after the Quiapo fiesta, and biting our nails as...
