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Dim sum and more at Golden Fortune Seafood Restaurant
Hearty eating is compatible with dining with my parents. Three times in a row, we ate at the Golden Fortune Seafood Restaurant that has been around for quite a long time at the first floor of Peace...
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The rise of bakery-cafés
Pasta and cake seem a better match lately. Did you notice, there’s a whole new slew of restaurants with bakery, or vice versa? Is the bakery-café just a trend? Or it must be the Filipino culture and...
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Quick Cheesy Quesadillas Recipe
I have a new super easy and fun recipe perfect for you. Not only kids love cheesy quesadillas. With added creativity, you can transform basic quesadillas into holiday pica pica. Make our own tortillas...
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The Buko Roll and Lechon Bread craze hits Laoag
K’s Bakeshop and Delicacies, originally from Tuguegarao City, arrives in Laoag, offering fresh ways to love bread. Karen Bayog’s twist to the buko pie, a bread roll filled with glazed young coconut...
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The Bacarra that I know
A little north of Laoag is the balikbayan town of Bacarra. It is also the home of the Leaning Bell Tower, the Museo de Bacarra, the crispiest empanada, Petrina’s Pastries and Delicacies, popular for...
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The L in KBL
Ever wondered what the heck has a political party of the old society got to do with an Ilocano meal? KBL is short for kamatis, lasona and bugguong (the Ilocano fish sauce that’s similar to bagoong...
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Laoag Adventure: Sand Dunes and Isaw
To match the thrills at epic Laoag Sand Dunes, we proceeded to Tayamen’s Place for what else but the cult isaw. We also had fishball and kikiam. Trust me. Written on the sands of Laoag — Ilocos Sand...
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Balikbayan Padaya
I knew more or less what Tita Sarah’s Fine Foods would be serving at my balikbayan cousin Samantha’s birthday lunch. After all, Tita Sarah (a bilas, our husbands are brothers) inherited most of my...
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Woodfire Roasted Currimao Tupig
Ilocos is also known for that roasted sticky rice cake called tupig, wrapped in I-need-someone-to-unwrap-it-for-me banana leaves. My favorite tupig are the ones with black lenga (sesame seeds) like...
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Crocodile Hotdog
A crocodile hotdog from the Hero hotdog stand at a Wilcon and your Louis Vuitton crocodile skin bag might come from the same crocodile from a crocodile farm somewhere in the Philippines. I’m not...
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Almost Summer!
Thank you to Jana Siratranont, former Tourism Officer of Ilocos Sur, for leading me to the Kannawidan food and product fair featuring the indigenous products of the different municipalities of...
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Food at Cafe Bonita
Northwestern University President Ferdinand Nicolas, wife Mich and Isaiah. As guaranteed, I reached the occasion to remark about the food at Parklane’s Cafe Bonita. Firstly, the morph-ication of that...
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Iloilo’s Jewel that is Jaro
My week-long sojourn with Chef Sandy Daza and FoodPrints in Iloilo, an enigmatic destination in Western Visayas, was fruitful, as proven true that culture is the widening of the mind and the spirit....
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Photos from Guimaras Island
Bucolic and bounteous, Guimaras, 15 km off the Iloilo Ferry Terminal, is a must-visit when vacationing in Iloilo. The island province’s famous sweet mangoes are being exported to countries such as...
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Laoag’s The Boodle Fight
Approximately 4.5 km of pinakbet, igado and rice laid on banana leaf-lined tables for everyone to partake at major streets in Sunshine City Laoag was the highpoint of the month-long Pamulinawen...
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FoodPrints with Chef Sandy Daza in Timeless Baguio
Chef Sandy Daza’s Foodprints is now on its third season. He drove to Baguio with daughter Ali just like any cool and loving dad would want to do for a daughter on a school break. Among Sandy’s...
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Abra’s Pillow-Soft Puto by Princess
The first time I visited Abra was to check the free-range chicken and French pates of the Pamora Farms (here). Then I went back to check the famous antique binakol weaves (here), and bought preserved...
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Craving Kopi Roti
Ali, Jeng and I almost missed our flight to Iloilo because of this Kopi Roti breakfast at Kopi Roti at the NAIA Terminal 3. And as usual, I am to blame because I had a difficult time choosing which...
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FoodPrints with Chef Sandy Daza in Iloilo and Guimaras
The Filipino food culture is so diverse, with a very colorful history indeed, that there’s more than meets the eye. Next to Baguio, Chef Sandy Daza’s adventure in Iloilo and Guimaras unearths the...
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Edmaration vs BlauEarth | Make empanada, not war
Opposite poles attract, I hit it off right away with Edmar Guquib, the blogger from Vigan, Ilocos Sur. We had the honor to tape (guest) for FoodPrints with Chef Sandy Daza in Ilocos Sur (still to be...
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