26 Mar, 2009
Growing up in Manila, I always associated “guinamos” with a murky grey brown fermenting fish sauce. My dad used to dip his rare (in Manila) and precious fresh, blanched, peeled and hairy pili fruit into guinamos before closing his eyes and letting out a little Bicolano “mmmm” that was his food equivalent of ecstacy….
25 Mar, 2009
My family and a guest ate at Chili’s Greenbelt 5 last Sunday, and had a horrible experience waiting for our table. I was so annoyed that I wrote the General Manager of Chili’s, and I am publishing my letter in full (except names, addresses, etc.) for those of you in the mood for…
25 Mar, 2009
Tita VM, our wonderful “host” for Sunday morning, picked us up in Bacolod at 630 a.m. and we drove to the Murcia market, some 15-20 minutes away, eastward towards Mt. Kanlaon. Located at sort of the crossroads of several surrounding towns, market day at Murcia is a local spectacle with an abundance of…
24 Mar, 2009
My first close up with betel nut occurred some 30 years ago, while as a high school student, I spent a few days in Banaue, Bontoc and Sagada and observed a large segment of the population chewing on betel nut, tobacco and whatever else they pleased, before spitting it out onto the ground. …
24 Mar, 2009
You folks are just too funny. I knew my previous post asking readers to identify the subject of a photograph would elicit at least 100 comments in less than a day, and a few of the answers were accurate, but some of them were just downright outrageous! I actually burst out into…
23 Mar, 2009
Care to hazard a guess? I have been so stressed out over other matters more important than this blog, hence the lack of substantial posts for the past few days. So in the meantime, I am curious just how many of you can figure this one out. The last time I asked…
23 Mar, 2009
As a child, we often purchased fresh sugar cane on our way to the beach in Batangas. I was always fascinated by the fact that everything sweet (or at the time anything that contained sugar) came fromt these fibrous, chewy, juicy and sweet stalks of what is a type of grass, if I…
22 Mar, 2009
How to transport three humongous super-ripe langka or jackfruit on a motorcycle. Just pile them out back, secure them with synthetic straw, and pray that they stay together for the duration of your journey home…