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King vs Lorenzo: Who makes the baddest Burrito?
By Cristina DC Pastor A buddy “competition” between a home cook and a professional chef played out on the YouTube reality show Epicurious. Kuma Inn Chef King Phojanakong and home cook Lorenzo Beronilla staked their professional reputations on making the Breakfast Burrito — using each other’s ingredients. Needless to say, there was a lot of […]
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Home cook fan fave with 45M views on YouTube wins Top Chef Amateurs
By Loida Nicolas Lewis Lorenzo L. Beronilla landed his Epicurious 4 Levels Series on YouTube almost like a fluke. But on second thought, he felt, “It is fate. I was at the right place at the right time.” A friend referred him to an Epicurious cooking pilot series on YouTube. They liked what they saw and […]
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3 nurses open the 1st Filipino restaurant on the Upper East Side
By Loida Nicolas Lewis Three night-shift nurses (from 7 p.m. to 7:30 a.m.) working at Mount Sinai Hospital often wished how they would love to eat home-cooked meals after a hard day’s night. What started as “joke only” started to become a “why not”? And thus, was born Bilao, the first Filipino restaurant on the Upper […]
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Remembering: The kind of Adobo I am
Nothing I could do at 72 mph…Brapabump! By Monica Anne Bauer This Sunday morning was heavy mist, light drizzle on my way to work. Sunday morning at 5:00 on the Deegan Expressway is smooth sailing. No trucks, few cars, lots of long bends, and long gradually sloping hills. 70+ is just nice. I came over […]
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Gasa sa Gugma: A ‘gift of love’ from Cebuano New Yorkers to needy families
By Lindy Rosales Last year, amid a raging pandemic, the members of the Cebuanos Engaging in Building Unity (CEBU, Inc.) have been racking their brains on what they could do to be of service to the community. The coronavirus was out of control, people have lost their jobs and grieved the death of friends and […]
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Remembering: Pinoy. Powerful. Personal
Sans Rival to die for By Tricia Capistrano On a cold January morning in 2010, I woke up at 2 a.m. I had jet leg. My husband, our six-year-old, and I arrived from Manila the day before after spending Christmas with my parents, sisters, aunts, uncles, and cousins. My son was on our bed. He […]
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Chicken Inasal will be available in Asian food stores soon
Chicken Inasal, a marinated chicken that is either grilled or baked, will be available in different Asian grocery stores by the end of the year. Ramar Foods, headquartered in Pittsburg, Calif., is launching its frozen Chicken Inasal under the Magnolia brand. “It will be ready to grill or bake for families in the community to […]
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Erna’s International Cuisine: A ’70s Queens eatery that fed activists and a spirited community coming into its own
By Cristina DC Pastor Erna’s International Cuisine in Queens was the watering hole for Filipino Americans in the Seventies, much like today’s Jeepney in Manhattan or Purple Yam in Brooklyn. It was a restaurant where families celebrated special occasions, like a birthday party or a graduation. For families in no mood for home cooking on […]
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Comfort experience and ‘barkada’ vibes at Tradisyon
By Angelito Cabigao We may have experienced missing our favorite Filipino comfort food as a result of the pandemic. Some of our favorite restaurants have closed down and we ended up getting the ingredients to cook them ourselves. Some restaurants have pivoted to stay open to satisfy our food cravings. One of them is Tradisyon […]