Manong Ken Ilio's Carinderia

The last Filipino chef on Top Chef got eliminated last week. She almost made it to the top four but her last dish clearly was the worst among the last five. She consistently second-guessed herself … Here is her swansong: Leah’s Eggs-it (I can’t seem to embed it). var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname=”Leah [...]

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Tonight’s episode, Restaurant Wars, is the biggest episode in Top Chef. This season, they chose two winners for the quickfire challenge who then became the leaders for the two restaurants competing. And guess what, the remaining Filipino (part Filipino) chef, Leah, was one of the winners and became the leader of one of the competing [...]

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So last night, after making an impressive ‘banana lumpia’ which he mentioned was a Filipino dessert (hurray!) and which actually wowed the judges (one of them said, very creative) for the quickfire challenge in which the top chefs were to make desserts without sugar, Eugene got eliminated with his whole fish concoction (maybe the judges [...]

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