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In: Food
18 Feb 2007
Kung Hei Fat Choi, everyone!
I don’t have Chinese blood but I love Chinese food. And since it’s Chinese New Year, everyone’s got an extra stock of tikoy or nian gao. Yum!
Anyway, here are some tasty tikoy recipes to get [...]
Aaah. Sweet October nearly gone. Oktoberfest dusk is nigh. The kegs of San Miguel downed and boxes of paracetamol and ibuprofen chewed the mornings-after. And perhaps the occasional shrieks of horror from waking up in some other person’s bedroom. Or some toilet cubicle.
I never get to enjoy Oktoberfests. For one, I never was a big [...]
In: Food| Health| News| Politics and Society
17 Oct 2006Short post, just before hitting the sack.
Let us all face it. Coffee must be the most prized commodity in the Philippines. Forget about Great Taste or (my favorite coffee for the grassroots) Blend 45. I am talking about those Php 45 (US$0.90) per wee cup of capuccino.
I know that it might cost more in first-world countries in terms of the US [...]
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