November 2005

Balikbayan boxes

November 28, 2005

Balikbayan boxes are boxes that my mom brings to the Philippines filled with Spam, M&M’s, and my favorite toys. It’s hard lugging these boxes around (sometimes 5 to 130 boxes each trip) but once you get there and the family is gathered to open them up, it’s worth the spinal cord injury. Just call the… Read more.

Which one is Filipino?

November 25, 2005

I saw this billboard on Ocean avenue and Capitol in San Francisco, CA. It isn’t up anymore but it brought ‘a tears to my eye’ to see the word “Filipino” on a billboard. Pinoy power.

Life is like a box of lumpia

November 23, 2005

People call it the Filipino egg-roll. I call it the Filipino pocket of suprises. You go to a party and try Tita Baby’s lumpia; it has peas, corn, onions, green beans, and chicken. Good shit. But then the next weekend it’s Ate Ay-Ay’s birthday and you find a different batch of lumpia by Tito Tak-Tak… Read more.

My first time making chicken adobo

November 21, 2005

Adobo is Filipino fast food. Just grab garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, black pepper, and chicken (or pork or beef), in a hot pot and you have your adobo. It’s a Spanish dish, but the sugar and the Filipino making the adobo make it a Filipino dish. Although many Filipinos don’t add sugar to their… Read more.