Third iteration of this dish, which I first made about two decades ago. Still cooking as of this writing, but I think it's going well. A...

So I've been hooked on World of Tanks Blitz (WoT) lately, playing on the Nintendo Switch. For those familiar with the game, one aspect o...

Yema is one of those Filipino conventual sweets , to use a term I recently picked up from Portugal. The name means egg yolk in Spanish and i...

So I came a cross this restaurant from the post of a Mexican colleague. Of course, as a native of Metro Manila I got curious. El Auténtico...

Featuring food from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Singapore, and Turkey. In chronological order; i.e., as I ate them. See the pictures here .

Erkindik (Freedom) monument on Ala-Too Square , Bishkek Currency: Kyrgyz Som (KGS) USD 1 = KGS 43.40; KGS 1 = PHP 1.11 It is Sunday today s...

Mass-production and good food are two concepts you don't often see in the same sentence, but here are a few products that made them comp...

My Dear and I ate at a lot of places when we went to Hong Kong but the one place we miss the most is this bakeshop, located just across the ...

See the pictures on my Multiply site here .

It's our second day in Hong Kong (see previous posts here and here ) and our feet are killing us.  Started the day with some breakfast ...

My version of we't  (also written as  wot  or  wat ), the classic Ethiopian stew.  My Dear and I first tried this dish at Ziggurat , whi...

Made this dish for my Dear a few weeks ago to help cure her colds.  Basically a spicy vegetable stew ( jjigae ) made with fermented bean pas...

"Jerk" does not refer to the one cooking but to the jerk spice mix from Jamaica.  "Jerk" in this case comes from the Q...

Spanish-style pork stew with chorizos, potatoes, and three kinds of chiles (bell peppers, dried arbol chiles , and paprika), cooked in San ...

Sundays are a great day to stay in and cook, free from the busy hours of weekdays and the errands of Saturdays.  I usually set aside Sundays...

So the big day  was yesterday.  We had dinner with around 40 guests at Alba Restaurante Español on Tomas Morato in Quezon City.  Here's...

There was a time when spices were so expensive in Europe that they were more expensive than gold.  After centuries of subsisting on salt, he...

I first blogged about Terry Selection it more than a year ago when I first tried the restaurant (read it  here ), but after several visits I...

More than elaborate sauces, expensive wines, and Michelin stars, the heart of French cuisine is really the common man's fare: the stapl...

A stew of chorizos, potatoes, and eggplants.  I think it sounds better in Spanish. Ingredients: 2 large links smoked Spanish chorizos (about...