Chicken in burnt coconut–startling but tender
Save room for the ‘bibingka’ cheesecake at Alab.
Save room for the ‘bibingka’ cheesecake at Alab.
Is there a place anywhere in the world you would like to return to, somewhere you were so happy you should have never left? I think we all do. Our
Right around the time I hit puberty, I graduated from the ghetto barbershop where I had been getting my crew cut ever since I could remember, to
When the war ended, daddy decided we weren’t going back to Quiapo. We had property in Malate where used to stand a screen-covered chalet being rented from us by an
In his dotage, my father-in-law, whom we all called Lolo Tony, liked to sit on his easy chair for hours, reading the editorials of different newspapers. He was
The romance of the past is the spirit that animates the aesthetic of two contrasting artists, Dominic Rubio and Richard Arimado.
As soon as I’m relieved of the two gift boxes of ensemadas by the maid, I find my way into younger cousin Tina’s air-conditioned living room. It was like stepping into a nursery where twin toddlers, exhausted from play perhaps, have dropped into a morning nap.
Once, on my way to the house of Pipang Quema-de los Reyes in San Juan for our weekly mahjong (our brain workout) session, I noticed the presence of many pawnshops on the major streets of that town. The words “Bahay Sanglaan” were sufficient to push my memory way, way back.
At 65, I’m susceptible to nostalgia. It comes anytime in my workaday world, like when riding the MRT-LRT trains from my Pasig home to various offices to claim my contributor’s checks.
In the sala, furniture was in suites arranged like islands. Our piece de resistance was a long caned sofa mariposa with art nouveau carvings of shells and flowers. Two sloping armchairs with graceful caned backs and elongated arms (silla perezosa or “lazy” chairs) stood on either side. My father and his best buddy would lie back on them with both legs up on the arms and talk away the afternoon.
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