Have you ever felt like you were living under a rock or experiencing life through other people’s online photos? That’s how I felt when yesterday on ASEAN holiday, I met up with my friend, Cielo, who recommended lunch at Todd English Food Hall, SM Aura; this opened in the first quarter of 2014! (English is the chef’s…
Category: Food
Healthy Option at Dean and Deluca, Rockwell with Edith
My friend and teacher, Edith, and I met up for lunch. We had healthy Quinoa Salad with Smoked Salmon and Mango. The saltiness of the firm smoked salmon met the pungent aromatic red onions that dominated the quinoa and other vegetables. The light vinaigrette dressing with bursts of red beet puree and the sweet mangoes…
Sunshine Puey
Sunshine Puey went to culinary school at Tante Marie’s in San Francisco in 2001 and Ecole Ritz Escoffier in Paris in 2005. She has been working since with over fifteen years’ experience in the culinary industry abroad and here in Manila. She was co-founder of the premier degustation restaurant, The Goose Station, and she is…
Osaka 24-Hour Eat Drink Walk
For a day of exploring food and drink around town, one must exercise a stronger determination to say no to the array of food on offer that comes with the room and just go for a light salad to start the day with. Where you won’t be required to have one food order per person,…
Western Tea House, Osaka
Aki confirmed that the Japanese sign on this building says, “Western Tea House!” The beloved and I wanted to try something new this time so we headed for the longest (2.6 km) shopping street in Osaka: Tenjinbashisuji Shopping Street, consisting of some six hundred shops of Japanese food, clothing, souvenirs, specialty shops. My favorite find was…
12 Hours in Kobe
On a roll of appreciating nature in the Autumn season, the day’s blessing was the beloved’s surprise of an impromptu day trip to Kobe with a new stop. Nunobiki Herb Garden From Osaka, the Shinkansen Train to Kobe takes only 13 minutes plus a good walk to the entrance of the Herb Gardens on Mount…
Autumn in Arashiyama, Kyoto
Peeking through the doorway of Autumn season, the glorious backdrop of cerulean sky flecked with fluffy patches of clouds made for glorious walk-thru outdoor paintings. ARASHIMAYA Getting off the Hankyū Arashiyama Line from Katsura at Arashiyama Station, we just followed the crowd and within a few hundred feet was the Ōi River straight ahead. The Togetsukyō Bridge is…
Trump and Neverland: Two Tea-for-Two’s, Vancouver
The imposing facade spells modern luxury. Situated in the heart of downtown Vancouver’s Golden Mile, the recently (2017) opened Trump Hotel offers a snazzy Afternoon Tea at the lobby just next to Mott 32. Lisa and I arrived at 4:11pm. “Our Afternoon Tea just ended at 4 o’clock. Can you come tomorrow?” the host courteously…
Mott 32 Vancouver
The year is 1851. The first Chinese convenience store in New York City opened on 32 Mott Street. From that address developed present-day lively, bustling NYC Chinatown celebrating Chinese culture, tradition, and cuisine offshore among people from all over the world. The symbolism of that address inspired the name of the luxury Chinese restaurant, Mott 32 in…
Anh and Chi Vietnamese, Vancouver
Anh and Chị [/ aĭŋ / ænd / ţi /] in English is “elder brother and elder sister; a respectful form of address for a friend or a even a stranger, man or woman respectively, generally above one’s age; address for fellow members of the same community.” It is also the name of a chic Vietnamese…
BUTTERFLY IN THE SPRING 