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Seaside Dining in Singapore The only seaside restaurant in Singapore, Barnacles Restaurant in Rasa Sentosa Resort offers its guests a dining experience unlike any other in the city. Romantic and welcoming,... |
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Once a Upon a Time in Summer Palace He hardly spoke English. Fortunately, his dishes spoke a thousand words. While he made gestures and required a translator to express his thoughts, he needed no explanation for his ... |
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Abe: A Filipino Feast Going through the appetizers in the menu, our balikbayan guests wanted to try something out of the ordinary so we ordered arobung kamaru and sinuteng baby squid. ... |
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Country Style Cuisine minus the Kitsch "ld reliable” is a phrase one doesn’t just throw around. This weighty claim is something that is earned. A place like Ang Bistro sa Remedios in Malate, Manila, still going strong at 30 ... |
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Cafe Adriatico: The Flagship Café Adriatico needs no introduction. We know that it is a Malate institution, a fixture in Manila’s nightlife frequented by artists, writers, tourists, show biz denizens, high-profile politicos, ... |
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Fely J's Kitchen: Welcomes You Home “Doesn’t that remind you of your childhood?” the chef asked, hovering as we sipped a bowl of cadios baboy langka. Cadios are pigeon peas commonly used in the favorite ... |
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I'm Angus: A Celebration of Indulgences While some girls, (and occasionally men too), turn to ‘just’ desserts when in dire need of comfort, I like to sink my teeth into a juicy, partly bleeding, moist slab of beef. ... |
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Vive Le French Corner Sitting unobtrusively on Commerce Avenue, the main artery leading from Alabang Town Center to Festival Mall in Metro Manila, is the French Corner. Since 2005, it has dished... |
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The Refreshing Carpaccio As we enter, we can't help but wonder how they manage to stay in operation after all these years. Lina Fernandez talks to us how they depend very greatly on their reputation to keep the ... |
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When Kare-Kare Gets Stylized The moment the appetizers – finger foods in shot glasses – were served at the table, I knew this was going to be a different culinary experience. The fist sampling was a tiny rice basket ... |
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World-Class Winner The Aubergine may be an internship venue for a few months’ time every year, but it is first and foremost a world-class restaurant that quickly carved its niche in the Philippine dining scene and... |
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Gloria Maris: As Authentic as Cantonese Cuisine Get Mention authentic Chinese cuisine and instantly, Gloria Maris comes to mind. Mention the Gloria Maris Greenhills branch and, like three wishes,.. |
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'Goosetatory' Haven Imagine idling by a corner and being handed a martini glass filled with a creamy, scrumptiously satisfying version of eggs benedict, topped off with a piece of bacon tuile. You plunge your... |
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Mesa: Delectably Pinoy Stepping into Mesa restaurant in Greenbelt 5 is like visiting a long-lost friend. It's interiors are comfortably familiar imprints of Pinoy zest: sun-friendly glass doors and walls, ... |
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Cafe Ysabel: The Master's Mistress I was working up a sizable appetite as my cab driver worked his way around the unfamiliar side-streets of San Juan, Metro Manila. More a residential zone than commercial, the ever business... |
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People's Palace: Balance of Flavor There are four basic flavors in the culinary spectrum of Thai cuisine: sweet, sour, salty and spicy hot. These flavors are certainly not exclusive to Thailand; these same flavors may be found... |
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Savoring Sala Bistro If you happen to spot the executive chef of Sala Bistro checking on the well-being of patrons while you dine at his restaurant, he may seem a bit familiar. You know you've seen him before, ... |
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Food, ‘Terryfic’ Food I looked around furtively. Yes, we were still inside a modern restaurant with light mustard walls and funnel lamps hanging from the ceiling. Cushioned metal framed chairs surrounded... |
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In Here Everyday is Friday's The lush wood veneer finish, the striped red-and-white table cloth, the clinking of glasses, the conversations lost in the cacophony of voices and the smells of frying, grilling and tart sharpness... |
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Livin' It Out in the Outback South of Asia past the Polynesian islands, is Oceania and the continent Australia. Aussies live in metropolitan areas like the big cities of Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, but beyond... |
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Teach a Man to Fish Day 1: we make a quick hop around Asia to Fish & Co., the youngest member of the Bistro Group. Fishco, as it is fondly referred to, had its beginnings in cosmopolitan Singapore, probably ... |
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Chi e Italianni Chi è Italianni? That is the question. Who is Italianni? In fact, the correct question is: What is Italianni’s? The American Dream would not be quite complete without the Italians now,... |
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Beyond Borders Consider it a second wave of migration. It all started a little over 20 years ago when Chateau 1771 officially opened its French doors to the vibrant and artsy Malate scene where it was warmly... |
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Toss Up at the TOSCA Immortalized in Puccini’s Tosca, Victorian Sardou immortalized the grand imperial epoch in his play La Tosca. With that nasty habit of torturng the women as a major theme as his key... |
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All Roads Lead to Lutong Macau The well-trod path reveals itself on the naked smoothness of the road where hundreds of steps have carved out an imperfect but clearly visible track upon which others... |
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That's why my happy heart sings It wasn’t a very lucky location; or so the feng shui experts claimed when Nesi and Mattei chose the spot for the first L’Opera branch. However, as un-superstitious as they were,... |
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King of the Park in North Park North of Manila lies an oft unnoticed stretch of paved road leading towards the hills of Antipolo. Out on this road the Medical City, once an old decrepit hospital straddling a short... |
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At Home at the Terrace At 5th With the proliferation of many different cuisines arguing it out for space in a culinary world faced with the prospect of declining patrons, it would seem odd to try and squeeze into this tight niche.... |
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Trattoria Gourmet's-Partners A partnership is born out of mutual need, where one has something that the other does not and together it produces something better. In 1996, the L’Opera group teamed up with the Escaler... |
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Indulging at Il Ponticello A couple of my high school friends and I decided to meet up for dinner one Tuesday evening. It had been a long and grueling day so I really looked forward to a good meal. My friend Mikey... |
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Paseo Uno There are two types of people in this world: Those who eat to live and those who live to eat. Belonging to the latter, I couldn’t resist sampling Mandarin Oriental Manila’s Paseo Uno... |
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A Retreat from the World Not one to move with my eyes closed, I slipped into the warm water with the feeling that, being floated on my back, I was going to scrape my head against the sides of... |
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Cena Cafe and Restaurant The ideal restaurant would have something for everybody: steak for the meat-lover, seafood and salad for the dieter, burger and pizza for the kids and teens, and loads of pasta... |
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Cocorama Humuhumunukunukuapa', Groovy! This has got to be one of the longest words in the English language, only it isn’t English but in fact, Hawaiian. The Picasso Triggerfish is the State... |
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Ode to a Fish Out of Water “We are so much engrossed with our part of history which talks about the infl uence of other cultures on our history. Not much has been said about how much we as a people have... |
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Every day's a Sunday at Zuni Something has to be said about Sundays and dinners with the family. A tradition that is passed down from generation to generation, Sunday dinners remain and continue... |
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South of Crust Asia From the gateway of the Pacific which is the Philippines, the discoverers and navigators of old must have wondered what dreams they would fulfill as they traversed the South China Sea.... |
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Padrino Chef Dan Drilon, who has been in the culinary scene for a number of years, is now in charge of the kitchen at Caffe Maestro. He credits his many trips that have taken him all around the world, ... |
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Claw Daddy When it comes to crabs and shrimp there really is only one way to eat it with the fi ngers. Never mind that the edible yield in every crustacean is less than 50% of the... |
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Heaven and Eggs Goes Irving Berlin’s song and fortunately we don’t have to climb the highest mountain or to reach the highest peak, because it really doesn’t thrill us half as much as heaven and eggs... |
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Chelsea Well on our way to another review at the Serendra, I dread the moment of utter tedium in wolfing down once more a compendium of the four flavors while suffering through dulled... |
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The Swiss Miss that is Chesa Bianca It probably wasn’t a good idea but we pushed forward to the Chesa Bianca, on the ground floor of the Werdenberg International building, and upon entering we’re almost immediately... |
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