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I was just at the bookstore and ooooh(!) if there was a cookbook that enticed me, this is it!
Finally, a fusion-cuisine take on our local dishes. “The Filipino-American Kitchen” by restaurant-owner and Chicago chef Jennifer Aranas looks to me a great resource for those wanting to learn Filipino cooking, me topping the list.
Honestly, (and […]
AJ Tabaldo - he does look Filipino, doesn’t he?
This American Idol Season 6 top-12 male finalist confesses he is an “ethnic mutt” - part Filipino, part Spanish French, Italian and Chinese.
His last name is a definite give-away to his Filipino roots.
Here’s the rest of his bio from the American Idol site:
When did you first […]
The Philippines claimed the Guinness world record for the “Largest One Time Toothbrushing Activity” on February 21. The event, billed as the “Mega Toothbrushing Drill”, was a collaborative activity of the Health and Nutrition Center, Colgate Palmolive Philippines, Inc., and the Philippine Dental Association.
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Here’s some news that could cut the 20-year wait for some immigration visas to the U.S.
U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka has reintroduced a bill to make it easier for children of Filipino World War II veterans (to) immigrate to the United States.
Akaka said the bill would reunify families who are separated because of a backlog in […]
Unfortunately for Filipinos, this anecdote is all too true.
I read this from The Expat, an Australian artist living in the Philippines, and I cringed at the story, fictional though it may be. On reflection I decided to link this because behind the humor is a bitter-taste about Filipinos that unfortunately is all too true.
Is […]
Where else can you find a blog that features Filipino schoolchildren’s art work, like this?
Or this one by Jhon Ricky Navarro (age 13) of Zapatera Elementary School?
Sunstar hit a fitting tribute to local pinoy kids by featuring them in its blog called Sun.Star Kidsters. Kids can email their art work and the blog will post […]
Sister Y of Chowhound reviews DJ Bibingkahan’s Carson branch and describes it as “Filipino food that moved me“. She had some chicken on a skewer, roast pork and laing. Here’s how she described the experience:
After my horrible day (one of my colleagues ended up fired, if that tells you the kind of day it was) […]
Expats. There are a million of us out of the Philippines trying to make a life for ourselves and our families in the adoptive land where we are right now. It’s not an easy life. There’s the culture barrier and shock, being torn away from eveything familiar and comfortable, and starting anew. And then there’s […]
This is the place ‘Jumongers’!
Thanks to jules_henderson, check out this forum thread for the latest pictures, spoilers** and recap of JUMONG, Korea’s number 1 telenovela.
Tread carefully on the forum if you don’t want to know what the next episode is.. Otherwise, go for it and enjoy pages of Jumong!
To get us giddy and started-
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Wow, I thought this was just talk… but not being present in the Philippines I may be the last to know about this. Still, it shocked and dismayed me that boxer Manny Pacquiao is really running for Congress in the first district of Cotabato.
Read this editorial by the Cagayan de Oro Sun Star:
If Pacquiao were […]
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