Cute Dancing Baby at Asilo Orphanage. Wait for it…

Check out our other post with more highlights from this first 1-4-Life Foundation event – http://www.wheninmanila.com/1-4-life-outreach-program-to-asilo-orphanage-in-the-philippines This video is from the kids of Asilo De San Vicente De Pavl orphanage performing a dance routine. Wait for the cute... 

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Pirurutong na Biko with Coco Jam, Suman na Pirurutong

Suman is traditionally cooked during the Christmas Season, there are countless versions and types from patupat of the Ilocanos to the sinukmane of Laguna. Local names are based of what type of rice, method of cooking or type of leaf wrapping used. I have to post my suman na pirurutong now before the... 

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Seafood Bringhe Valenciana

Traditionally paella or valenciana is served at our Noche Buena every year. The blog is now about 2 1/2 years and I also made as a tradition to post those Noche Buena paella dish whether it’s arroz, valenciana or bringhe. Last year it was my own seafood paella and the year before it was the rice cooker... 

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How to make Tocino for Tosilog

This is the best bacon in the world. If you doubt my word, buy all the bacon imaginable in the deli, follow the Tocino recipe below, invite every red, yellow, black and white neighbor around your postcode and let them vote which is the best bacon in the world. Tocino will win in 3 different weights because: 1.... 

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Ababu Persian Kitchen / Middle Eastern Food in Manila

Where I’m from, in San Diego, California, you usually go for some Mexican food when you need to feed an insatiable hunger. It’s also the best cure for hangovers and for late night after-party tummy growls. But here in Manila Philippines, you never go wrong with some Persian food! Ababu Persian... 

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Rice and Shine

It’s only yesterday that me and Jay R had the pictorial for the rice contest. Yeah, with a cup of rice, a white blanket and my untidy bedroom..  here’s two edited photos that we came up with. So what d’you like? One thing I realized. Do not ever ever take a pictorial after a four-hour... 

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South East Asia: Center of the Rice Crisis

Rice is the most staple food in this country, where in every corner of this archipelago, people are looking for rice. We never thought that there would be a rice crisis – or shortage of rice production, – but here we are now, at the center of the rice crisis. The government spends about $0.46 in every $100 of agriculture output, a level much lower than those of developing countries, which spends $0.53 in every $100, and much much lower in highly industrialized countries at $2.00 in every $100.

Now, where is the Philippines in this picture? Let’s not pin-point the Philippines as the main culprit. But yes! We do have contributed in this crisis – and we are in the forefront of the crisis. But there are many other reasons why we do have this crisis.

Read more on this topic in How to Blog an Exploding Man?

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