20 Nov, 2006
I was at the Art in the Park event at the Salcedo Market last Saturday and purchased some photographs from our favorite photo gallery, Silverlens, and the proprietor asked me if I had had any of Baba Ibazeta’s baked goods which shared a table with Tommy’s Coffee. I had not. I featured…
19 Nov, 2006
I have only eaten persimmons 2 or 3 times before… I did some work up in Korea many years back and they were a big deal there…one of those fruits that were presented in beautiful fruit baskets that cost an arm and two toes. Recently, some of Market Manila’s readers have asked if…
19 Nov, 2006
We watched the new James Bond movie, “Casino Royale” with Daniel Craig last night. The verdict? Good, very good. Okay, so I am a bit biased; The James Bond movie franchise is my all-time favorite series of movies, from the time I watched Sean Connery with my parents when I was…
17 Nov, 2006
This is my totally late entry to the Lasang Pinoy 15 Blogging Event: Recycled, Reloaded hosted by Mike over at Lafang. I have had the photos since last weekend but have been swamped at the office (who says I am retired???)… After the humongous platters of chili crabs that we enjoyed last…
16 Nov, 2006
The Holiday Season is fast approaching and with Christmas less than 6 weeks away, planning for all of the silly office parties has probably started in earnest. I noticed from my eyeball that many of my readers are significantly younger than I am, and I suspect a cocktail party in their snazzy new…
15 Nov, 2006
Sampalok candy is an all-time personal favorite. I have written about this before and I would eat it in almost any of the forms it is made – little round balls with salt and sugar, free-form shapes around the seeds, seedless, with the webbing (not shell) still surrounding the entire ripe fruit, with…
15 Nov, 2006
This is a soup or dish that is perhaps much better known to folks from the Visayas and Mindanao, compared to those from Luzon. Frankly, I had heard a lot about it and have searched for the right noodles for months in Manila, to no avail. But in Cebu, the noodles are…
14 Nov, 2006
The terrific looking still life of vegetables I wrote about the other day didn’t last very long… I cooked it for dinner that evening to pair up with the chili crabs. The heat and spice of the crabs were meant to be tempered by the coolness and sweetness of the coconut milk, squash…