Category: food
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[Portfolio] Let’s Get It On: A List of Good Eats You Can Get from Metro Manila’s Motels
First published on Pepper on August 1, 2014. I am often asked if I had to actually stay in those places to do this piece. No, but I know even admitting that will only lead to more nagging doubt, wouldn’t it? Hehe! But I hope you had as much fun reading this as I did writing it.…
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Convict Cake: Bilibid’s Nameless Bakeshop and the Inmates Who Run It
Originally published on Marci 6, 2014 on Pepper. Words by me, photos and text editing with additional reporting by Lars Roxas. Photo editing by Mylene Chung. It started with a joke. At least, I thought it was a joke. I was late for a good friend’s party. I had missed the singing of the birthday…
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I tried it! The KFC Cheesetop Burger
KFC Cheesetop burger should work for cheese lovers, in theory. I like my burgers, I love cheese, the idea wasn’t completely appalling. I wonder why most of the criticism came from people who enjoyed Luther Burgers and deep fried twinkies… So I headed out to the neighborhood KFC to try it out. I was warned by fastfood…