Posted by: rina on: September 14, 2006
We’re inundated with projects left and right, I haven’t had more than 4 hours’ worth of sleep at a time in more than a week, my allergies are acting up because of the stress, my eyes are turning red for no particular reason, I just received what arguably was my worst tongue-lashing at work yesterday [...]
Posted by: rina on: August 15, 2006
this is a rather belated entry, but for the record, here are the food items i brought back from my five-day-three-city Visayan work trip last week:
from Cebu: dried mangoes
from Bacolod: butter scotch, pastillas de manga, tuna chicharon, cream meringue, napoleones, macapuno candy, jar of spicy herrings in olive oil and capers
from Dumaguete: silvanas
Okay, I [...]
A Taste of Binondo
Posted by: rina on: August 26, 2007
“Nibbling our way through Chinatown: Four hundred years of history and up to four hours of decadence!” says the promotional material for Ivan Man Dy’s “Binondo Food Wok.” Indeed, Binondo has such a long and rich history that its story is inextricably tied with that of the country.
Binondo, according to Nick Joaquin in [...]