Soaked feet and instant noodles.
Right now is the proper Manila rainy season: torrential rains, sudden floods and horrible traffic. Oh wait. Horrible traffic doesn’t really pick any season; it just happens. But the flood. Dear god,...
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Bread from Shangri-la.
Bern and I were following Leo to the lighter store yesterday afternoon when the three of us passed in front of a bakery. At once and without discussion, the inviting smell of fresh bread made us stop,...
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Pulpy Orange.
Minute Maid now has this in their bottles: No Preservatives Added. Bern told me how, one time he and Leo were out grocery shopping, they approached a Minute Maid promo girl who was offering free juice...
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Kuya, that is NOT shrimp! (Or, the creepy-crawly noodle incident.)
Thursday night found me at the Ayala-Buedia area meeting Bern for dinner. We decided to go to 101 Hawker Food House, an Asian/Singaporean restaurant near Burgundy and PeopleSupport Center. Bern heard...
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Street food na pina-sosyal.
Macy contacted me and asked for a tarot reading last Friday. We finished around midnight and she offered to drive Bern and I home. I suggested we have a night cap first at Lime 88, which was really...
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Random stuff from the Interwebs: Dancing Cephalopod.
When I saw this shared in Google+, I initially thought it was some sort of trick: Come to think of it, it is a trick. But not in the way I initially thought it was. There is such a thing as odori-don:...
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The very democratic chocolate.
Explaining how some kind of food is made usually will take away the fun out of eating it. There are some things we do not want to know about what happens before a particular product reaches our plate....
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The Great Tinapa Hunt adventure of Mandaluyong (and a recipe for tinapa and...
Since I will be working on New Year’s Day, I promised the co-workers that I will be bringing some pasta for a little post-New Year celebration. I decided I’ll cook some tinapa pesto spaghetti. Tinapa...
View ArticleDream, interrupted: A food market date.
So just now, I fell asleep while at work and I was dreaming I was on a date with this guy I like who works for a museum. We were on an open field like the Sunken Garden and there was a food market. We...
View ArticleDough it yourself.
There was a time I was into food literature: non-fiction about the food we eat, why we enjoy some food, and the history of the food we consume. Learning about the hidden intricacies of mundane things...
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