by Ludovic EHRET The caviar on the menu of Michelin-starred restaurants may come from an unexpected place: China. The country has endured embarrassing…
Asian food brand Good Life presents “Flavors of Fortune: Food Trip Down Chinatown,” a Chinese New Year festival on Jan. 27-28, at the Robinsons Place Manila Midtown Atrium.
Having the best bodies helped clinch titles in the 2016 Mister and Miss Chinatown pageant as the best in swimwear in both the male and female divisions emerged as the winners at the culmination of the ceremonies staged at Resorts World Manila's Newport Performing Arts Theater in Pasay City on Sunday night.
To be fair, I would like to acknowledge, though somewhat belatedly, some of the kitchen tools that have enabled me to cook more meals than I can count on 10 well-worn fingers. Like dear, cherished friends, these tools are just an arm’s length away whenever I need them, ready to help at a moment’s notice.
The second season of our show “Foodprints” on the Lifestyle channel started doing the rounds to try to find the best places to eat all over the country.
Hostility turned into a joyous mood when the Chinese-Filipino community on Friday ushered in the Year of the Wooden Horse in Binondo, Manila -- the world’s oldest Chinatown outside of mainland China.
The district of Binondo in Manila is the oldest Chinatown in the world. It has a rich history and heritage dating as far back as the early decades of the Spanish colonial period.
The plan was to build a huge bargain shopping place that would dwarf all the popular thrift, wholesale haunts in the neighborhood. Three years hence, and what rose on one whole block on Reina Regente Street in the heart of Binondo has indeed eclipsed every structure in its vicinity. But it wasn’t the discount behemoth originally planned that opened last February, but a posh, multilevel mall that this side of town had never seen before.
Half a century or so ago, Shakespeare Chan made his living as an assistant in a shop in Chinatown that sold exotic tropical fish. But practitioners of the Oriental martial arts knew him as an antiquarian and scholar of Chinese physical forms and dances, the c’hen tau of kung fu. It was rumored he had the capacity to make time stand still.