317 – On Mom’s Indonesian Foodtrip, Circa 2011

Let me begin this post with a short story. Months after Mom died, Dad and I started putting away most of her clothes and other things. In the course of this cleanup, we discovered two USB flash drives among her things. I scrutinized one of the drives and found pictures of her 2011 trip to …

313 – On The Fish & Co. Experience

Months ago, I dined at Modern Shanghai in Trinoma mall – an hour's drive away from where I live. I mentioned in that entry how it shares dining and kitchen space with Fish & Co. Little did I know that I would eventually manage to return and try out dishes from the other restaurant, which …

311 – On Quarantine Cooking, Part 2

AUTHOR'S NOTES: 1. This serves as a sequel to an earlier triptych of the same title I published back in September 2021. 2. The featured image from this post came from Jean van der Meulen on the free stock image site Pexels. The pandemic has been raging on for two years, and so is Manila's …

304 – On The Peri-Peri Experience

I've been to several restaurants specializing in grilled fare ever since I was a child. There's the old Kenny Rogers Roasters when it still had décor of the eponymous country singer in its outlets. There's also Racks, a homegrown chain known for its baby back ribs. Lastly, there's also Peri-Peri Charcoal Chicken & Sauce Bar …

303 – THIS OR THAT 7: Binggrae Acafela Vanilla Latte or Mr. Brown French Vanilla Coffee Drink

Let's start 2022 right with how most of us would start our regular day – with coffee, of course! My blog is no stranger to bottled coffee. In fact, one of the most-viewed posts here is my bottled coffee triptych from April 2016. While that post featured three bottled coffee drinks from that period, this …