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UPDATED: 9/2 – Final List of 55 Food Vendors. Here are some foodie tips for the upcoming Ultimate Taste Test Event at Rockwell: 1. Make it memorable by sharing the experience with your closest friends or family. It is best to enjoy the tasting event with your family and friends who enjoy food. This is … Continue reading The Foodies’ Guide to Rockwell’s Ultimate Taste Test
One of the notable food bloggers in Manila is Jin Loves to Eat because she loves eating as much as we do and she probably goes to more restaurants too. 🙂 It was a pleasure meeting her on her birthday when our friend Tina invited a few foodies to try out Chef Ed Bugia’s Pino restaurant. … Continue reading Pino and the Girl Who Loves to Eat 🙂
Ramen is our ultimate comfort food, especially when it is raining really hard. A steaming hot bowl of noodles always cheers us up even on the gloomiest of days. In our search for the best ramen in Manila, we were surprised to discover that UCC also serves Tonkotsu Ramen in a special branch in Makati. … Continue reading UCC’s Tan Tan Mian Tonkotsu Ramen!
Chihuahua’s Hot Sauce Bar! I like my Mexican food hot and spicy, and that’s exactly what Ines Cabarrus and Elian Habayeb offer. They have just created the perfect hangout with good Tex-Mex food (and Margarita to match!) 🙂 Since Ines and Elian wrote the coffee table book, Manila’s Best Kept Restaurant Secrets, and created the … Continue reading Chihuahua Tex-Mex and Hot Sauce Battle 🙂
Ever since the man behind the once-popular Tequila Joe’s opened Ristras, a Mexican Revival has swept Manila and has led to the opening of really good Mexican restaurants (Tex-Mex, Cal-Mex, and other Mexican variations) in the metro. The market has even come to accept buying really good burritos at the P250-P300 range. One of Manila’s recent favorites … Continue reading Órale! Ole!
This is Part 2 of the Beer Pairing Basics with San Miguel Lifestyle Brews. This time, it was a private, by-invite-only event. (Maybe because matching beer with French food is risky and experimental?) The premise is, if we can pair French food with wine, why not beer? Let me share with you our experience… San … Continue reading Beer Pairing Basics 2: French Food with Beer?
We ❤ Manang’s Chicken! It has the double-fried crispiness of Bon Chon Chicken, but with a sweet/spicy Filipino sauce comparable to (if not better than) Charlie’s Chicken. Their story is typical — Jill’s Manang (a trusted househelp) created this fried chicken at home with a signature Filipino sauce. Every time Jill’s friends would come to their house, … Continue reading Manang’s Chicken – the Unofficial Story…
When I first visited Hong Kong Roast, I had this nagging feeling that the food seemed familiar… Later on, we found out that this HK-canteen-type resto along Bagtikan St. in Makati was actually the morphed version of Fortune Empire, an Ultimate Taste Test 5.0. winner and one of the pioneers who helped us launch Mercato … Continue reading Hong Kong Roast: A Bagtikan Hole-in-the-Wall Favorite
Manila’s Philly Cheese Steak scene just got interesting… The Cheese Steak Shop is the first international franchise of the company known for serving the original Philly Cheese Steak in California. This new shop brings a good mix of options to the already-popular cheese steak offerings of Elbert’s Cheesesteak Sandwiches and Charlie’s Cheese Steak Sandwich. It would be … Continue reading The Cheese Steak Shop: Authentic Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich, Anyone?
For the longest time, I was only eating three types of ramen in Manila: Shio (salt), Shoyu (soy sauce-based) and Miso. But that finally changed when I recently tasted Tonkotsu Ramen. I love its rich, milky taste with the deep tones of pork bones. Now I understand why people rave about Tonkotsu Ramen and why … Continue reading Genya Tonkotsu Ramen
