Japan’s top convenience store has just opened at Glorietta, offering what is getting to be the hot-selling food-to-go, which for sure, foodie town Metro Manila will binge on for weeks to come—katsudon and chicken adobo rice.
I consider myself fortunate to have welcomed to my home Pio Boffa—a fourth-generation winemaker of Italian descent whose family’s wine heritage dates back to the 1800s.
Almost every last Friday of the month, there’s Wine and Tapas Night at the Mandarin Oriental Manila Deli. It isn’t a formal, sniff-sniff sort of affair with costumed attendees in long gowns and black ties. It’s informal, with drink-all-you-can on the featured wines and eat-all-you-can appetizers.
One of my favorite chefs on the Asian Food Channel is Anna Olson. It’s not just because I met her during her visits to the Philippines and found her very personable; it’s also because her TV shows “Fresh,” “Sugar” and “Bake with Anna Olson” are all very informative and helpful.
It was almost 12 noon and the group was undecided on where to lunch. The car went past a gated village in Makati, on to Pasong Tamo extension, and a most satisfying meal was had in a restaurant quietly located in an interior area, away from the main road.
When I was a student in a hotel and restaurant school, I stayed in a dorm where a group of schoolmates and I put up a food group. We were eight in the group, with seven coming from different countries all over the world.
How we stamp ourselves is how others see us. Someone who, even unwittingly, considers himself limited, or doubts that he deserves to attain his dreams, generates precisely that level of vibration about him. Thus, success and happiness will remain elusive.”
At a recent meeting of the United Nations Environment Program (Unep) at its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, hundreds of high-ranking government officials dined on food rejected by supermarkets in the United Kingdom because it was not pretty enough for their customers.
Italians are famous for the three Fs—fashion, furniture and food—said Dario Reicherl, director for Asia-Pacific of the Italian furniture brand Novamobili.
I don’t think I’ve ever felt a hotter summer than this one. Not so much because of the actual soaring temperatures, but rather the intense stress and hectic schedule of the ongoing campaign season for the national and local elections.
Dutch brothers Alex and Han Van Hagen mounted another successful exhibit, “Van Hagen & Van Hagen: Brothers in Art Part 4,” held recently at The Gallery of The Peninsula Manila.
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