Now that the Lenten season is here, Catholics are urged to abstain from meat every Friday as a way of doing penance. Some may question if this would really constitute penance since abstaining from meat may not be a real sacrifice. Eating seafood, such as lobsters, crabs and prawns, is far from being a deprivation, after all, and if one is a vegetarian, one abstains from meat all the time anyway.
Here is a dessert that will surely blow your mind away. If I were to label it, I’d simply say, that it is currently Manila’s best dessert, by far, hands down!
AHA Chef Bambi shows how to prepare and cook Pasta with Chorizo and Tomatoes
PF Chang’s China Bistro started out in 1993 with a simple idea: California needs a restaurant that serves “authentic” Chinese food. Now it has over 204 branches in the US, with 13 others spread around the world.
To her numerous friends, Estee Rivera Wallace is the closest thing to being the Martha Stewart of the Philippines. Smart, resourceful and full of creative energy, Estee can cook a gourmet meal and decorate a room with equal aplomb.
Ensconced deep in San Juan City, deliberately away from the city hurly-burly, is Maimee’s Garden Café.
Hong Kong. Asia’s New York. That “concrete jungle where dreams are made of,” as Alicia Keys would put it. But for now, forget the dream-chasing for a moment—and just eat! With Holy Week just around the corner, it’s just a credit card and a quick flight away. Here are some places fit for a real chow holiday in Hong Kong.
Chef Philip Chia, one of Singapore’s noted Peranakan chefs, talks about his life, his food and his culture. Peranakan means “locally born.”
The event was billed as “Dinner in the Dark.” We wouldn’t see what we were eating and that made it all the more mysterious as to how that could be achieved. When our hosts were asked, they were evasive and so I said, we shall see. Oops, I forgot. We shall not see.
AHA Chef Bambi shows how to prepare and cook Chili Con Carne. Video by INQUIRER.net’s Frances Mangosing
