Table for Three, Please.

Harbor View unfolded as quite the surprise. I don’t get around much in the Manila area. And when a family event was scheduled for Sunday lunch at the repurposed dock/pier I really didn’t know what to expect. But when we arrived, I instantly got it. We took the tables at the end of the long …read »

from top left, clockwiseBraised Pork, Hot Pot Duck, Cua Pao and Cold Pig’s Ears I hate eavesdroppers. While having a dimsum brunch at Jasmine with Stitch and his lovely wife, M, our conversation meanders between work, the kids, mutual friends but eventually settles on our favorite topic — food. Specifically, we are having a semi-heated …read »

Braised Beef Dry Noodles There are noodles and then are hand-pulled noodles. While discuss arrangements for a party, Chef Him Uy de Baron enthusiastically told me about this little place in Little Baguio that made amazing Chinese noodles–simple, flavorful, handmade noodles made by a guy who “just got off the boat from China.” I’m not …read »

Crispy Duck Salad Like many of you out there in the interweb, I love Thai food. Maybe it is the levels of balanced tastes in every dish–the mellow interplay of the sweet with the sour and the dramatic tug-of-war between the salt and spice. Or maybe it the sensitive to textures–the contrasting mouth feel of …read »