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Inihaw na Pusit from Isla Restaurant in Chicago Squid (calamare) is now available frozen at your regular grocery stores in the diaspora. And they’re inexpensive too, at least here in the US. You can even buy the large ones that are very good for this recipe. So, if you find the big ones, you might [...]

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Traditional Halo-halo In last night’s episode of Top Chef, the quickfire challenge was for the cheftestants to create desserts. Apparently, desserts are a curse for a lot of chefs – many don’t specialize on it. Dale, the Filipino-American who won the challenge last week for his tandoori ribs in the tailgate challenge, is one of [...]

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I went to the Philippines for a short break – just a week – for a wedding. I am now back, carrying ten extra pounds because of the proliferation of really good restaurants in the Philippines… anywhere I went in Manila, the food places were fantastic. Even in Kalibo (Aklan) where the wedding was … [...]

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