29 Sep, 2006
There is something about incredibly fresh fish that looks like incredibly fresh fish. I know, that sounds dumb, but it is the same principle that applies to wine… until you have tasted really good wine AND really bad wine, you can’t really say when a wine is really good… Before the fish…
28 Sep, 2006
Manila has just been ravaged by the strongest typhoon we have seen in decades. With winds gusting to 200KPH when the center of the storm crossed at midday Thursday, we saw tree after tree uprooted (photo above is our back yard, it was decimated) and neighbors’ roofs take off and just spectacular damage…
26 Sep, 2006
I wanted to take this opportunity to reiterate just how much I appreciate your comments. Apparently, 95+% of Market Manila’s regular readers (who visit more than 3x a month) have rarely, if ever left a comment on this blog. Yes, that’s 95+%. That means that the vast majority of readers fall…
26 Sep, 2006
The Kid is home sick for the second day in a row. Some vile flu bug is going around her school. I distinctly remember when I was sick as a kid; sick meant lugaw or pospas in our house. It eventually turned into an incredible comfort food for me but I…
26 Sep, 2006
The most pungent of aromas was wafting out of our kitchen a few days ago and since I am on a quasi-diet and my sense of smell is heightened when it comes to food, I just had to get up and stick my head in the kitchen to see what was cooking. Omigosh,…
25 Sep, 2006
My sukis at the Nasugbu market practically screech with glee whenever they spot me coming into the seafood section early on a Saturday morning. “Here comes that tall fleece-able tourist from Manila!” is likely what they are thinking to themselves. Show him some live prawns, prepare your biggest alimango, thrust those talakitoks…
25 Sep, 2006
Entertaining well at home need not be expensive. In fact, I find that I feed more folks better food, for less than a meal in a decent restaurant, when I invite them home for dinner. Plus you can linger and chat all you want without neighbors overhearing your juicy conversations and eat…
24 Sep, 2006
Fifty pesos or roughly one U.S. dollar doesn’t generally buy very much these days, or does it? I was at the Nasugbu market over the weekend and for some reason it seemed to be bursting with all kinds of things that caught my fancy. I always find markets visually appetizing, with the…