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La Cocina de Tita Moning: Dining back to the 1930s
Posted by oggie on 10 Feb 2010 under Feature, Gut Feel, Sweet Talk · 3 Comments
We’re already 10 years into the new millennium but stepping into the foyer of La Cocina de Tita Moning, I can’t help but feel like I’ve left the 21st century at the doorstep and slipped back to another era. The gleam of the afternoon sun and chandelier reflects off the polished hardwood floor. Old paintings and photos hang all over the walls. The air conditioning was on but I seem to smell (or imagine smelling) a faint musty odor in the air, reminiscent of the redolence of old houses. I pass by the souvenir/pasalubong shop immediately past the sliding doors and save for the air conditioners and big refrigerators, I can easily mistake the decade for the 1930s, not the 2000s.
Bale Dutung: Feeding the tummy, filling the mind
Posted by oggie on 2 Feb 2010 under Feature, Gut Feel · 9 Comments
When traveling to the north, making a stopover in Pampanga is always a sensible decision. And why not? Kapampangans are really known for their rich food tradition. But eating takes on a deeper, and should I say cultural, meaning when you make a stop at Bale Dutung. Tucked in a residential village, the place looks more like a house than a restaurant which it actually is, being the abode of chef/cook/artist Claude Tayag and his wife, Maryanne. That said, the treatment we got was more akin to dining in a friend’s house.
On the Chinese food trail with the Big Binondo Food Wok Map
Posted by Ferdz on 21 Jan 2010 under Feature, Gut Feel · 5 Comments
Say Chinatown and one of the first things that comes to mind is the chow. It’s almost a sacrilege not to sample the food when one ventures to Binondo. Little wonder that Manila’s foremost streetwalker, Ivan Man Dy, came up with the Binondo Food Wok Map.
He was getting too many texts and calls from people asking about the whereabouts of eating places in Manila Chinatown that he felt compelled to come up with something to help people find their way to the divine food offerings that await in the busy streets.
Three at Steak: Fireplace, I Am Angus and 22 Prime
Posted by Ferdz on 13 Jan 2010 under Feature, Gut Feel · 6 Comments
Majority of Filipinos are still meat eaters. We love a good and flavorful steak. And those looking for a more exquisite kind of meat would be glad to know that Manila isn’t short of restaurants serving high grade steaks. We only have to choose the dining experience to match with that sumptuous food. Here we steaked-out three restaurants offering some of the best tasting steaks in Manila.
Remembering Sichuan and more in Singapore Food Street
Posted by Ferdz on 15 Dec 2009 under Feature, 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 Feature, Gut Feel · 5 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 Feature, Gut Feel · 2 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.
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