‘Love hotel’ for dogs to open in Brazil
Home to a 32-million-strong canine population, the world’s second largest after the United States, Brazil is to open a “love hotel” for pets in the southeastern city of Belo Horizonte.
July 12, 2012
Home to a 32-million-strong canine population, the world’s second largest after the United States, Brazil is to open a “love hotel” for pets in the southeastern city of Belo Horizonte.
Singaporean and other Southeast Asian cuisines may be easily incorporated into a Filipino meal. The flavors are familiar, and the dishes can be eaten as ulam.
Now that school days are back, parents may be wondering what nutritious baon they can pack for their children.
Restaurateur VicVic Villavicencio reinvented Filipino dining in his Kamayan restaurant chain, which adopted the Filipino (or Asian) practice of eating with one’s hands. This was in the ’70s when dining at Kamayan was part and parcel of Filipino lifestyle.
I remember when a salad was only iceberg lettuce, a few discs of thinly sliced cucumbers, carrots, onions and tomatoes with either a Thousand Island or vinaigrette dressing. Caesar salad was the occasional treat we looked forward to.
Thanks to various cultural influences, Filipino cuisine is more than a hybrid. Take fried chicken and spaghetti from the Americans, and pancit canton and chop suey from the Chinese. These various dishes are now our “comfort food.”
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