What is omurice? Is it Japanese, Korean or Taiwanese?
Omurice, or omelette rice, is a Japanese rice-and-egg dish that fuses local cuisine with the Westerner’s love for ketchup. …
Food Tales
Sate / satay is not peanut sauce
Sate / satay is skewered meat. Not only chicken but just about any meat including organ meats. It’s Indonesian / Malaysian …
Snack attack: toasted flatbread with cheese dip
Make an easy snack by toasting flatbread and serving it with flavored cheese softened in the microwave. It's ready in five …
What your coffee says about you, and why psychologists want to know
It's a marketing game. Psych studies on coffee drinkers and how they want their drink are used for ad targeting.
Ambrosia: the colonial root of Filipino fruit salad
Filipinos look forward to noche buena and the most important Christmas dessert. Fruit salad. I wonder how many realize how …
Is there such a thing as “pure” cuisine?
Ramen, beef pho, banh mi, Thai curry and khao soi are fusion dishes. Colonization, trade and migration gave birth to fusion …
The truth about Filipino adobo
There is a misconception that Filipino adobo is part of the Spanish legacy. It is not. In fact, despite the similarities in …
Let’s talk about chocolate, shall we?
Chocolate comes from the fruit of the cacao tree. There is no credible scientific study to prove that it is an aphrodisiac …
Food bowls: Asian versus non-Asian
Food bowls are traditionally Asian. Bibimbap, donburi, gaifan, bun cha — all of which are about harmony of ingredients. …
The evil drink I can’t live without
Did you know that coffee used to be called Satan's drink and Catholics were forbidden to drink it? Then, a Pope decided to …
The truth about bangus as the Philippines’ national fish
National symbols are declared by law, and there is no law that names bangus as the national fish of the Philippines. In fact, …
Who invented the snack called nachos?
Nacho is the nickname of the man who prepared the first plate of the eponymous snack of crispy tortilla chips and cheese.