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 …

That means The Filipino Overseas and Filipino Food. The title is in Filipino because:
I am so glad with 10 backflips that we have a new author in the site – Joy or let’s just call her Ligaya (which is the exact meaning of Joy in Filipino). Joy lives somewhere in the Middle East (it’s up to her to tell you where she is), has a very Japanese husband (or I think he’s from Texas) and loves cooking more than Oprah (I actually have no idea). Joy will be quite a …

This post is dedicated to Mr. Mike Wootton of the Manila Times. Click this to read his comparison of British and Filipino food and his observation of a growing number of restaurants in the Philippines.

Food in the Philippines and consumption of it can be classified by a Filipino family’s socio-economic status. Let’s have fun with this:
Señora Doctora De de Espadaña
Judging by the name there, this lady is filthy rich. She always has 2 options for dinner. Either eat in at home with food prepared by a generation of maids or …

If you haven’t read the History of Filipino Food, Malay Influence, click this.

From Wikimedia Commons, this is a picture of Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla, one of the best Filipino Painters of all time. He is of Chinese descent.

Let’s have fun learning some Chinese words that are mostly used in the Filipino language:
mami – a cougar, and by that I mean Demi Moore
toyo – a crazy person
petsay – a politican who spends a lot of money on his campaign but will never win
toge – a graduation gown
miki – a famous …

Let me tell you a story:
But before that, I’d like to ask this question. If aliens stepped on earth and upon landing they declare something in their own language which, in our limited technology, is indecipherable, how would we react? How would the world welcome them without a common language? How would you as an individual react to what is supposed to be sci-fi but is real in green flesh and blood? What if what they are saying is, we will destroy your world in a week, just wait with …