Or a year that wasn’t. As far as I can remember this website died around June last year.
 
I would like to blame the Lumpia series that started the whole mess leaving me in a comatose state but I am the one who plunged a blunt butcher’s knife into my own skull. I still blame the Lumpia series though. And by the way, thank you to those who came looking for me and asking me why myfilipinokitchen.com has not been updated especially that person who sent an email with a question mark as …

 
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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 …

First of all thank you very much to all who dropped by to say their congratulations and well wishes on our first year anniversary. I appreciate it very deeply and it is a bit of an accomplishment for me that I have made you aware how good Filipino food is. And thank you very much to Lei for the anniversary post and the little give-away to readers or should I say, Kitcheneers.
If this is your first time in this site, this is the article for you because I have a …

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 …

Let me tell you a story:
One day in heaven, the creator of all things, Kabunian, woke up all giddy because he decided that he would cook humans. And by cooking he means to create them. So he molded from clay the face, limbs and the whole glorious figure of the human form… then he prepared fire and cooked it. After cooking he blew the breath of life on the culinary wonder. The concoction giggled and jumped from his palms and wandered on the face of the earth. Unbeknown to the creation, …