Taiwan Invites Filipinos As It Celebrates 100 Years

The Taiwan Tourism Bureau held its “Time for Taiwan – The Heart of Asia” 2011 press conference in Manila, Philippines at the Makati Shangri-La Hotel, on July 26, 2011.

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Malaysian Mission

Looking down through the airplane window, Malaysia looked exactly as I remembered it the first time I visited in 2001. The rolling countryside was thick with endless rows of palm trees in deep shades of green. Back then I only stayed in historical Malacca where I traveled by bus from Singapore…

AUF Wows COHREP with Angeleno Hospitality

As Filipinos, we are known for our hospitality. Those of us from Pampanga like to demonstrate this by overfeeding our guests with the best of our cooking. But somehow Kapampangans from the city of Angeles seem to go beyond just serving great food…

Streetkids Win HeARTs at Bale Anghel

“Congratulations is a small word,” Madame Herminia Pamintuan, wife of Angeles City Mayor Ed Pamintuan, says to the founders of Bale Anghel (House of Angels) Joy Cruz and Myra Vargas Rivera for their community efforts to help the street children of Angeles City…

Kung Pao Pasta in 12 Minutes

Kiong Hee Huat Tsai! Make your own version of Yellow Cab’s Charlie Chan Chicken Pasta or KFC’s Kung Pao Chicken Pasta Bowl at home, in a jiffy .

Another quickie pasta recipe  sans the food styling — I just dumped it on my bowl, clicked my point-and-shoot and ate away!..

Gastronomic Tours On Request

Custom tour events for certified gastronauts, food & beverage professionals, hospitality students — and anyone who is simply crazy about cuisine — are ready.

Country Escape and Overnight Adventure available to groups upon request.

Family Trip (for parents with kids) coming in Summer!..

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Cheating with the Blood Type Diet

Yes, I have been cheating for 17 months now. But despite the first months of suffering where I made the mistake of going cold turkey, then unfaithfully following through with the plan, the positive effects came in a matter of weeks:

My migraine attacks from ever since I could remember now almost gone.
I have less allergies…

Lubenas, The Origin of Pampanga’s Giant Christmas Lantern Festival

Every year in December for over a hundred years now, Christmas in the Philippines is at its brightest and most colorful in the province of Pampanga…

Girl Power, 2010’s New Food Writers at IWFS Dinner

There were men, lots of them. But the energy that pervaded the high-ceiling dining hall of the former Le Souffle now called Chef Jessie was decidedly female. Doñas in major coiffure & regal Filipinana blended with everyone else’s version of dress-y code at this recent International Wine & Food Society event…