Broken Mirror: ‘A story for all broken people’
Aurora is not her real name, but her story is as painfully real as it can get.
February 21, 2017
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Aurora is not her real name, but her story is as painfully real as it can get.
Dragons several hundred meters long snake their way down pastoral roads and through country hamlets, part of centuries-old Chinese folk celebrations for a mythical creature revered as a blessing.
When the Filipino-Chinese community celebrates the Lunar New Year, there will be fireworks and much feasting on auspicious dishes. Like other cultures, the Chinese ascribe certain meanings to key foods and the other elements combined with them.
While searching for the best tikoy in town, I learned from Joseph Tiu how the interesting tradition of tikoy-eating began.
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.
I still prefer Asian cuisine to the other cuisines of the world. My favorite is Japanese, followed by Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Singaporean, Malaysian and Indonesian.
Centuries before the Renaissance artists were creating their visions of the world through the use of linear perspective, there existed in China a way of capturing not only the appearance of reality but also its spiritual essence. The aim of traditional Chinese painting was to show the natural harmony between man and nature.
Halloween revelers who are tired of going to costume parties and haunted house attractions might want to consider a more historical and cultural activity for next year’s “Undas.”
Her passion for painting started with the curious eyes of an 8-year-old girl.
The stretch of Banawe in Quezon City has been known for so long for auto repair shops selling car accessories and services. A common sight on the Quezon Avenue corner are the men flapping sheets of dark-colored film—car tint, actually—to catch your attention.
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