The truck slowly turned behind the stone church and onto a dark, dusty road. Past a few closed hardware shops lit by single lights, a fishing pond reflecting the nearby glow of the city’s infant nightclubs, and the occasional sari-sari store decked with industrial-size speakers… Read More
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Caipirinha Pang Uma: Filipino Farmland Caipirinhas
They’ve got it all wrong. You see, most Philippine travel blogs (not the ones written by rich balikbayans talking about their latest jaunt to the Mall of Asia or the ones who can afford to stay at Boracay Station 1 away from the unwashed masses… Read More
Further Down Ongpin Street: A Binondo Food Tour (Part 2)
“Too much eating…can we take a break?” whispered the man next to me. Blasphemous statements if I ever heard it. Apparently some of us (amateurs) thought that there wasn’t enough of a break between food! Please. You guys don’t take breaks at buffets. Nor do… Read More
I Don’t Know Where Home Is: A Binondo Food Tour (Part 1)
“The story you will hear today,” began our guide in the stuffy lobby of the Minor Basilica of San Lorenzo Ruiz, “is a story of migration. Of entire cultures fusing to create new ideas, mannerisms, and of course as this is a food tour…dishes”. Home… Read More
Kanin Club: Filipino Food Done Right
(Side Note: maybe I should Instagram my pictures first before posting them here…or get a better camera :P) I once read that you shouldn’t buy pizza in Italy. That unless you’re in Naples, pizza in Italy is a far cry quality-wise from the deep dish… Read More

