The Side Tripper

It was a Sunday at around 11:00 A.M.  I jumped out of the car to register as the 68th customer on Balay Dako’s waiting list. My husband took some 10-15 minutes before getting a park slot due to the long queue of customers on a weekend. My family and I didn’t mind waiting since there […]

If you are like me who was born and raised in Negros and have been fed with Ilonggo cuisine for more than half of my lifetime, you will be able to relate with my desire to always go for the types of cooking and food that I grew up with. Although I have been living […]

Seeing families together in a mall on weekends has become such a common sight these days, especially for people in urbanized areas like Metro Manila. This bonding time has become precious for the time-pressed families, where each member is pre-occupied with a lot of things during the weekdays. Each moment matters, so why bother to […]

On my first visit here, I actually thought I was in a European café due to its store interiors and music. Until I came closer to the menu board and saw that it offers Hainanese chicken, nasi goring, kaya toast (with 2 boiled eggs on the sides), hot chocolate with tablea cocoa, and the crew […]

Passing through Glorietta 3 in Makati, I would not stop by had it not been for the smell of brick-oven pizza, the poster that promises fresh pasta, and the background music that exuded a European Bistro vibe. Think of ‘La Vie En Rose’, ’Un Homme et Un Femme, and ‘Dream a Little Dream.’ Ultimately, the […]

One Sunday, our family decided to go off our usual options when it comes to what we want to eat, and was game for a little adventure when it came to our taste buds. It’s a good thing that Jupiter St. in Bel Air does not seem to run out of something really interesting, as […]

When eating out becomes a way of life that is no longer limited to the upper echelon of society, restaurants, fastfood and other eating places now find themselves in a vast opportunity to grab the largest possible share of the stomach. If the eating establishment is serious about this, then it will also seriously rethink […]

What happens when Mexicali sizzles into a taco street food, with an ambience of Malate on a Saturday night? The result is El Chupacabra, Mexical’s  new dining concept located along Felipe St. in Bel-Air Makati. I first came to know about this hang-out place through my cousin James, who also happens to be managing this […]

The local supermarket I love to visit frequently has this written all over the vegetable section ceiling: “Our lifespan would stretch in leaps and bounds if only vegetables tasted like bacon.” Moreover, a celebrity whose name slipped my mind right now once said that whenever his mom said “Eat this, it’s good for you,” it […]