Table for Three, Please.

There are quite a few steak houses in Manila but oddly enough, if you ask people where to get a good steak Mamou will definitely come up in that list. Odd because Mamou is not a steak house per se, but an establishment that serves comfort food done the Malou Fores way. Which is basically …read »

I was quite saddened some months ago to hear that one of my favorite Japanese restaurants Sushi Kappo Kobiki-Cho had shut down.   The owners of the place had decided to transform it from a sushi bar to a slightly more affordable venue that features a broader spectrum, now called Rikuseki An. (A Place of …read »

Pansit Batil Patung. Sounds so exotic. To me at least. But it’s a popular dish up in Tuguegarao and I have only recently understood why. It’s primarily made of miki noodles cooked in this richly flavoured brown stock, piled with ground carabeef (carabao meat), chopped liver and crowned with a sunny side up. Here at …read »

…thus far, was under this tamarind tree …eating this… …and this… …and this… …with sand under my feet and a view like this. All simply prepared food. Where fish is grilled as is, skin and scales on, unseasoned; and it tastes like fish. Where lato (seaweed) is just given a squeeze of calamansi to make …read »