ADOBONG PUSIT (SQUID) was my food nightmare when I was a kid. At first sight, it was horror, a black ink soup with creepy tentacles. It seemed like the dish was unsafe to eat or not something to be eaten at all. But my mom was successful to let me chew and swallow ADOBONG PUSIT. And it...

I met BAKED ZITI when I was in college. It was when a friend invited me to dine at Sbarro. It was also the very moment I fell in love with Italian Pasta. Every bud on my tongue found the sour tomatoes, pungent onion and overpowering flavor of basil and hundreds of herbs irresistable. Ziti is...

Mang Inasal is now open in Dagupan City! Royce and I were so excited we can barely delay to be at Mang Inasal on opening day. Not because we craved for Mang Inasal’s specialty which is the Chicken Inasal, but we just wanted to check how Dagupeños responded to one of the many food...

    INIHAW NA BANGUS or Grilled Milkfish is one of the most popular dishes of Filipinos, specially for us Dagupeños, who are proud to have the best tasting Bangus in the whole world. Gladly, bangus industry had a fast recovery from the recent fish kill tragedy in the...

This is another version of my first Turbo Broiled Chicken where I used a secret ingredient for lechon manok and lechon baboy which is SPRITE softdrink or you may also use 7-Up. This would make your chicken more juicy and more moist. It allows the flavor sink in to every strand of the chicken....

GREEN PAPAYA SOUP is a hearty and rich vegetable Filipino home-cooked dish boiled with pork bones and some slices of camansi and string beans. Secret to this recipe is to use authentic Pangasinan’s Boneless Bagoong to season the dish and lots of fresh ginger for pungent taste to blend...