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Remembering Sichuan and more in Singapore Food Street
Posted by Ferdz on 15 Dec 2009 under Gut Feel, Sweet Talk · 4 Comments
Chinese cuisine has always been one of my favorites. I remember Mapo Tofu being one of my favorite Chinese dishes on a local restaurant. When I went to Chengdu China and ate at Chen’s Mapo Tofu where the dish actually originated, I realized that the Mapo Tofu here is worlds apart from the original taste. Since then I haven’t tasted anything close to it or any of the Sichuan dishes I tried there. That is until I went back to Singapore’s China Town Food Street and found some restaurants that offer something close to what I remembered.
An All-Potato Thanksgiving at M Cafe
Posted by Ferdz on 7 Dec 2009 under Gut Feel · 6 Comments
Ask a typical Pinoy what food he/she associates with potato and chances are, it would be (a) French fries, or (b) mashed potato. Can’t blame us Filipinos for thinking that way as we are rice and not potato eaters. So when the invitation to share thanksgiving dinner with the people of the U.S. Potato Board and U.S. Department of Agriculture at M Café in Makati, came up, we wondered how an all-potato full course would taste like. How could anyone, even a chef the caliber of Sau del Rosario, can get away with an all-potato course was a question on everyone’s mind.
Taal Bistro: a hearty lunch in a heritage town
Posted by Ferdz on 2 Dec 2009 under Gut Feel · 5 Comments
We came to Taal Town in Batangas to revisit this heritage town and bring home some captures. But like in previous out-of-town trips, we had a hidden agenda: to eat something out of the ordinary. We prepared for the shoot but we weren’t able to research well in advance where it’s good to eat. Good thing the kind lady seller we brought some panucha from at the Basilica de San Martin de Tours went out of her way to show us Bistro Taal. It was just 5 or so minutes away from the Basilica and while it’s not really a bistro in the real sense of the word, we thought we had a hearty lunch alright.