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Lechón in La Loma

I grew up in La Loma, an urban residential neighborhood in the city of Manila. My parents, who are both originally from Laguna, a rural province south of Manila, raised my five sisters and me in a tiny...

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How to Make Lechón Kawali (Deep Fried Pork Belly)

Roasting a whole suckling pig, lechón, is a huge feat and I’m not even going to try.  A simpler variation can be easily done at home.  Lechón kawali is pork belly deep fried in a kawali, which is...

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Trekking Mount Pinatubo and Enjoying Sweet Zambales Mangoes

It was dark out still. Very dark, in fact. It was 3 in the morning and my brothers and I were on our way to Tarlac, a 2-hour-with-no-traffic drive from Manila. I measure road trips back home using...

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Five Favorite Filipino Street Eats

All this buzz around Saturday’s huge La Cocina San Francisco Street Food Festival is making me crave for street eats I grew up with back home.  They aren’t plates of chicken adobo and sisig tacos but...

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How to Make Grilled Chicken Inasal

I am torn.  I cannot quite figure out why I fancy this piece of grilled chicken so much.  Mind you, it isn’t just any grilled chicken.  It is chicken inasal [ih-nah-sal], Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan’s...

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My First Thanksgiving and How to Make Sweet Potato Casserole

My eyes were too heavy but I couldn’t drift off to sleep.  In a few hours, the bus would reach Coalinga and the half-hour stop in the middle of nowhere would surely ruin it.  I was on a Greyhound back...

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V is for Visayas and How to Make Humba (Visayan-Style Pork Adobo)

Vinegar, garlic, bay leaves, salt, and black peppercorns. This is how I cook adobo. I marinate pork, chicken, or a combination of the two in vinegar and spices and let the flavors steep overnight. Then...

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How to Make Pork Ribs Nilaga

A montage of old, black and white photographs of immigrant families arriving on Ellis Island is playing on the screen. I’m sitting in the Paramount Theater in downtown Oakland on a Wednesday morning in...

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