SAN FRANCISCO—Overseas trips are full of the unexpected—new scenery, new friends and great new food. This time, our TV...
When my TV show “Foodprints” visited Singapore, a representative of the Singapore Tourism Board showed us around and brought us to places
Every time I am in Cebu, I visit chef Raki Orbina’s restaurants Café Laguna, Parilla and Lemon Grass.
“Foodprints” was scheduled to do a show in Ormoc, Leyte, which is two hours from Tacloban. I was looking forward to something else, though: the food in Otso Otso restaurant in Tacloban. We had such a healthy and memorable meal here last time that I never forgot it.
Through my TV show “Foodprints,” I have been to many provinces where I discover dishes I have never tasted. I also get to meet the people behind these dishes, many of them foodies and great cooks. This show is a dream come true.
It all started with a tip from a friend, JP Paz, about a dining place on Roxas and Banawe Streets in Quezon City. But he requested me not to write about it, “baka mawalan kami nang makainan (there might be no space anymore for us to eat).”
In college at Cornell University in New York, I lived in a dorm. Of my daily routine, I enjoyed dinner the most.
I have always dreamed of going to Japan to experience firsthand its famed cuisine and culture.
Our TV program, “Foodprints,” went recently to Tacloban, the provincial capital of Leyte, which I had never been to
I first went to Japan in my early teens. There wasn’t much I could remember, except the crisscrossing roads seen from the plane’s window, and Japanese steak cooked in volcanic rocks.
