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...
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,...
