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Hot Bitcho-Bitcho
Bitcho-bitcho, also spelled bicho-bicho, is fried elongated bread dipped in sugar. It might have been introduced by the first Chinese settlers in the country. Here’s the Chinese version at a Chinese...
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Cheese Pimiento | Nicole Ortega
Packaged so neatly that you’d think it’s another foreign all-purpose spread hitting the country, but then you realize it looks like your favorite cheese spread, the kind of filling in your old school...
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Going Nuts
Do you like snacking on nuts? Nuts are known to provide vitamins and minerals essential in organ function. They are also a good source of protein and fiber. Found nuts from Bicol at Marsha’s...
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Ahmad Brothers Café: Another best of the best eats in Baguio
A melting pot of flavors, Baguio has another winner in the best places to eat that’s not overpriced. Ahmad Brothers Café specializes in authentic Indian and Pakistani Halal food. The menu: Ahmad’s...
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FoodPrints with Sandy Daza in Laguna
Chef Sandy Daza continues his FoodPrints adventure in San Pablo, Laguna, roughly 88 km south of Manila. A city with an even-tempered personality, San Pablo is also known as “The City of Seven Lakes”....
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Balicucha Making in Ilocos (step by step photos)
Little did I know that as early as childhood I was already absorbing influences for a blogging/writing career. Balicucha candies were among the things my second mom, my yaya Cion, would buy for me...
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Special Polvoron Recipe
Yesterday was crazy! Tropical cyclone Egay hit parts of the country. In Ilocos, it rained the whole day. We felt at least two earthquakes at past nine o’clock in the evening, and then crazy winds left...
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To be in the Vogue of travel magazines
My food photos are on the pages of the Condé Nast Traveller Middle East The Asia Issue – July 2015. Condé Nast is synonymous to a portfolio of the most iconic titles in media which I’ve grown up...
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How to cut a pineapple like an Ilocano
Have a great new week ahead! Photographed by Blauearth © Blauearth™ All Rights Reserved 2009-2015
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Neighborhood Milk
The gentrification of Silver Lake is good for my neighborhood. Burgeoning left and right, hip establishments are getting closer, and more diverse like there’s an organic coffee bar that supports...
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A foodie must: The Donut Man
Among The Food Network’s Top Ten Sweets in the US, The Donut Man strawberry donuts look awfully delicious with glazed super fresh strawberries, wow! Elvis was a fan of the donut stand on Route 66....
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Modern Ramen: Modan Artisanal Ramen
The day I gave Ericke my flight details, I asked that we go eat out after the long flight. She suggested ramen, but we had freezing green tea ice cream and shaved ice with sweetened red beans and a...
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Porto’s Bakery and Cafe of Los Angeles
How can Porto’s Bakery and Cafe be a riddle wrapped in an enigma? For me, at least. I heard it first in Laoag. I’ve been coming to LA since 1987, and no one in the family has ever mentioned even just...
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Le Pain Quotidien: Breaking Bread Together
In distinction to the simplicity of bread and elemental communal tables, it is the warmth of a sense of community that brings patrons together at Le Pain Quotidien, a boulangerie with a few locations...
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Legends Classic Diner on Route 66
Odette picked me up in LA to go to Glendora, home to Pinky’s office. We ate lunch at a local diner famous for fun reminders of the 50s. Befitting of its name, Legends Classic Diner is located on the...
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Across the Border
Tijuana, roughly two and a half hours from LA, and the next-door neighbor of San Diego, is not as exotic as I thought it would be. “En globalization de Tijuana.” My sister thought I saw it somewhere....
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Los Angeles K-town’s Bulgogi Hut
A non-archetypal immigrant neighborhood in LA, Koreatown is a reinvented district in LA. Hyper ’til midnight, the mid-Wilshire area known for Art Deco buildings has turned into a fashionable...
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A taste of Tsukemen at SilverLake Ramen
The global ramen trend hasn’t waned just yet. At SilverLake Ramen, a ramen spot at a lifestyle arcade on Sunset Blvd., the groups of people outside hint at the kind of ramen they offer. They have...
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Döner kebab and more at Spitz
Döner kebab is to Turkey as shawarma is to the Arab world and gyro is to Greece. In multicultural Los Angeles, Spitz is the home of this hearty rolled sandwich filled with roast meat together with...
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Fried chicken and maple waffle ice cream, anyone?
I’ve been craving exceptional ice cream since I arrived. Bennett’s Cabernet Sauvignon sorbet doesn’t count. Well, I had a pleasurable trip to a gourmet ice cream shop in Pasadena after a visit to an...
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