Hey guys, JLeo is the newest addition to write for us here in the site. If you missed her “first appearance” click here. Enjoy! – Ziggy
 
Are some foods just an acquired taste? Do you have to grow up eating certain things to like them? For example, bagoong.
My nephew is 10 years old. I don’t know anyone who gets more excited at the sight of bagoong. The other day he opened up the fridge at his grandparent’s house and screamed “Bagoong!” in delight.
He has been eating bagoong with Kare-Kare (a Filipino …

Let’s pound this topic until the juices in our cranial husk ooze out like lubricants.
In the post – Filipinos and Aphrodisiacs, Bambi told me about Durian and how it somehow makes Durian enthusiasts “in heat”. So I was thinking, what is it in aphrodisiacs that turn people into frisky pups? Let me try to answer that. And I will try my very best and please, correct me if I am wrong OK? Are you ready?
There is a presence of Harmaline in Durian kernels (I am now telling myself – I …

I was supposed to post this on Valentines day but the urge of satisfying my wife (that means, making a woman happy, quite difficult these days mind you) was quite intensive and extensive that I dropped anything in my schedule (including my clothes) to at least give her a decent Valentines’. We went here.

While I was writing this post, my mind says “Yes! Yes! Yes!” I don’t know. It’s a guy thing that when you know a lot about sex it makes you feel like a tribe chief or an …

Before you start reading, I would like to ask a favor. Can you please send a link of my previous post (click this) to a non-Filipino who has no idea what Filipinos eat. Get their reaction and place it as a comment on that previous post or you can do it here.
Now that previous post, that entire article, is a joke. Of course Filipinos eat normal food. We eat fried chicken, we eat pork roasts (and it was actually endorsed by Anthony Bourdain as the best pork roast in the …

Like the awful position of that image in this post, sometimes it is so uncomfortable to answer the question of “What do Filipinos eat”. This question pops up like an irritating pimple on the epicenter of my large nose from time to time and up to this moment, I still haven’t prepared a proper reaction once that question crowds the conversation space that’s supposed to be filled with more important sentences like, “What time is it?” I have just started writing but I can feel a growing storm inside my gut. I had …