13 Sep, 2005
Last week was a bit crazed and I returned to Manila from an overnight trip to Cebu somewhat exhausted. Some large convention cornered all the rooms in the city on Thursday night so I had to settle for a room at the Waterfront Hotel at the Mactan airport. The room was substandard…
12 Sep, 2005
One of the wonderful stops we had during our Binondo Food Tour (see previous post) was at a dumpling restaurant. Authentic Northern Chinese cooking was on offer at this small but delicious outlet. I promised our guide I would not publish its whereabouts so you would have to take his tour to…
12 Sep, 2005
Last Saturday I finally went on the Binondo Food Bowl walking tour of Ivan ManDy, the self-professed “streetwalker†in Chinatown. Along with my wife and a couple of friends, we agreed to meet at the Binondo Church at 2 pm. Despite leaving Makati early, traffic from the Jones Bridge (last 1500 meters)…
11 Sep, 2005
What the heck is plum powder? A year or two ago some friends suggested that I try some “plum powder” from DEC, this Chinese grocery in Virra Mall. Never a big fan of things that come unlabelled, I hesitated for the longest time until finally my curiosity was piqued. I brought…
11 Sep, 2005
This is my take on a thai pomelo salad. While you generally see this in thai cookbooks together with other ingredients such as lettuce or even singkamas, I like the purely pomelo version particulalry when you have pomelos coming out of your ears. To make shred some pomelos and place in a…
09 Sep, 2005
A whole box of Nenita pomelos freshly transported from Davao…how could I resist? I put an earlier post on pomelos but I thought this source deserved a mention here. A family friend sent a text yesterday and asked if I would be interested in trying a box of freshly delivered pomelo…
08 Sep, 2005
As kids we didn’t have chocolate Starbuck’s frapuccinos with cinnamon or nutmeg sprinkled on it. We had hot chocolate. And our hot chocolate was made from fresh tablea (blocks of cocoa powder) made from cacao beans grown in the Bohol town I used to visit as a kid. Unless I put…
08 Sep, 2005
The broas (ladyfingers) from Osang’s somewhere behind the Baclayon Church in Bohol are simply spectacular. Broas are my number one favorite locally baked sweet crunchy snack. It’s a kid thing. Growing up I used to get dragged to my mother’s ancestral summer home in Bohol and on the arduous jeepney…