JAPA-NICE Unagi Lately, the heat has been unbearable. Anytime I get a chance to do a chore that requires driving from 11 a.m. to about 5 p.m., I jump into my car and happily drive around. Traffic is not as bad and as long as I have my sounds and my air conditioning, I’m good. Whenever this...
And why I need an excuse to go driving around until 11:30 every morning Fish and Chips Any chance I get to drive around, I grab. On weekends, my kids go to visit their mother and many times sleep over, which means I’m alone at home eager to find something to deliver or drive to. Being a Grab...
Aside from fresh produce, what you ought to be looking for is a friend in the market Funny how almost everyone you talk to these days have become doctors. They all have the solution on how to solve this COVID pandemic. They give you advice on what vaccine is best based on what they’ve read on...
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...
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...
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...
Whenever I need to go to areas to do work or a chore, I create an incentive as a reward to myself. That usually involves food. I also like to make use of my time while being in the area anyway by getting other things done. I usually take my car to a shop in Banawe for the usual checkup, tune...
In the early ’70s, as the war in Vietnam ended, many Vietnamese sought refuge in other countries. The Philippines was one of those that took in these refugees. As far as I can remember, they were mostly based in Palawan and Bataan. Not long after that, these Vietnamese residents created their own...
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...
