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Konichiwa!
I have written this and this because as far as my research goes; we don’t have a Filipino dish where the Japanese stamp of influence is marked all over it.
I cannot find any information about dishes or recipes that were handed down to us by the Japanese during their occupation in the Philippines. Aside from being the shortest colonizer, they were distant when they were here. Maybe that’s why the exchange of culture was limited to us sharing our way of …

Happy Easter! Before this conversation goes downhill.
I have talked about this a couple of months ago and I am again resurrecting the issue because this month this issue has floated again on the dailies. Yes, the rice issue.
If you ask the majority of the Filipinos about the issue of us importing rice instead of developing it within our shores, you will get all the angst of 7,107 islands. Except of course for people who don’t really care or don’t know what’s happening around. I don’t even know what to say anymore. Here have a read …

 
 
Before I start blabbering about this, I want the world to know that Filipino hearts go out to those who fell, survived, fought and to those who are moving on to victory against disasters and the adversities that our very kind neighbors, the Japanese are facing right now.
This should have been part of the series – History of Filipino Food but it didn’t make the cut. Read along to see why.
The bad thing about me is when I simmer myself with images or whatever stories of unfair misfortune, I instantly get the feel and the emotion …

 
If you knew where the Filipino Sweet Style Spaghetti came from, please click this to go to the post where everyone is asking about it.
Five hundred  grams of spaghetti, one bar of kraft cheddar cheese, a bottle or 400 ml of tomato sauce, specifically Italian Passata because they are the only ones that are not sour in my local supermarket but if I were in the Philippines, grabbing a tetra pack of spaghetti sauce would be fantastic,  500 gram pack of hotdogs, (if I were in the Philippines, it would only …

Some cooks believe that food is for delighting and pleasuring one’s senses.  But what if a certain type of food can stimulate fear?
The fear of death.
I am sure that some or probably most of us are familiar with the dreadful Fugu in Japan and for some who have not encountered this term, Fugu is a type of blowfish which is currently being served on a Japanese table as a delicacy mainly as “sashimi” that is usually cut and served in a shape of a chrysanthemum. A flower that symbolizes “death”. …