Another place I go to when I finish eating my week-old left-over adobo is In and Out burger. I swear every time I visit one there’s a line of cars at the drive-thru and a choir of angels singing. On top of all that, there’s always a beautiful woman in line waiting to order or… Read more.

At my house, all you’ll find is Filipino food on top of the counter and in the fridge. Whether it’s the 5-day-old adobo on the stove or the 1-month-old leftover pansit palabok from my cousin’s birthday in the fridge, it’ be there waiting for me to eat it. It’s when I actually leave the house… Read more.

Don’t you hate it when you have kulangot, muta, or a white piece of crap on your mouth and no one tells you that it’s there? Or even worse, after talking to a beautiful woman, or a priest, you go to the bathroom mirror and find out you had a lechon hoof in-between your teeth… Read more.

I hate okra. I hate string beans. I hate bitter melon. But tell me why all these ingredients united in a dish called pinakbet tastes like Jessica Alba? The pinakbet photo above is like a group picture of the Superfriends. You know the Superfriends, that group of super heroes that band together once a year… Read more.

It’s a double KO.

One slow-roasted pig: $135. A town fiesta banner made in the Philippines: P2000. One night’s rent for a community hall: $1000. A once-in-a-year opportunity to chill with folks from a town thousands of miles away: priceless. There are some things money can’t buy, for everything else, rob somebody. A Filipino fiesta happens once a year… Read more.

This is Maria y Pau, two cool Spanish folks from, well, Spain. Since Filipinos we’re named after and colonized by A spanish king, I asked them to apologize in his behalf. They looked at me weird so I just asked them to get me some jamón and help me find a new name for the… Read more.

Yea I said it, chocolate-flavored suman with peanut chunks. Have you ever had a wonderful dream and then woke up and had that same dream come true? I haven’t, that’d be crazy. But I was fantasizing about chocolate suman with peanut chunks when I realized that we still had some frozen suman from 1986. When… Read more.

I was reminiscing on iphoto again and found photos of a python who was fed dogs and cats. Welp, that’s it with that. But if someone calls you a “dog-eating Filipino” your response should depend on your opinion. If you’re an informed dog-lover, you respond with a clarifying, educational lecture on the background and misconceptions… Read more.