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Pinoy Christmas Recipes with Chef Jessie Sincioco at The Maya Kitchen

Cook Pinoy Christmas Recipes that family and friends will love! Chef Jessie Sincioco is coming back to The Maya Kitchen! This event will be the last event for Maya Kitchen’s Culinary Elite Series this year. Today she’s preparing Pinoy Christmas Recipes titled The Flavors of an Elegant Filipino Christmas. I can tell that The Maya Kitchen went all out with the preparation for this event. The band was playing Pinoy classic Christmas songs when we we entered The Maya Kitchen. There were people mingling and laughing and I couldn’t help but smile myself. There were Christmas decorations and a drool worthy Christmas table setup by Rustan’s. The event felt like a

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A Kalamay Is a Kalamay Is a Kalamay

Sweetness has always been one of our ways of enduring. It arrives in many forms in Filipino kitchens, rice coaxed into chewiness with coconut milk, sugarcane boiled into molasses, bananas

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Santol Is Peeled In One Long Strip

It’s amazing what your mind remembers when you pause long enough. This is the season when santol trees are generous, heavy with round, woolly fruit from July to August. The

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Pasko sa Pilipinas: Four Months of Christmas?

I was nine years old, living on the island of Marinduque, when I first heard the curious claim: “Sa Pilipinas, Setyembre pa lang, Pasko na.” In the Philippines, Christmas starts

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Shaved Ice Fusion in Binondo and a Binignit Halo-Halo Experiment

A bowl of shaved ice in Binondo is doing the most — and somehow pulling it off. At Uncle Fish Balls Coffee Collection, taro and sweet potato balls, grass jelly, snow fungus, and goji berries swirl together in a cold, creamy fusion of Taiwanese, Cantonese, and Filipino dessert traditions.

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The Taste of Typhoon Season

The Storms of Memory I remember the darkness after the typhoon – the electricity gone, the skies strangely clear, and the smell of woodsmoke rising from neighbors’ kitchens. In late

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Hi I'm April!

I write from the heart of a Filipino home, where every recipe has a backstory, every hack is born of necessity, and every tip is tested by real life.

RelaxLangMom is my evolving diary of practical homemaking with flavor: tipid cooking, smart home tricks, honest reviews, and quiet reflections from the kitchen to the keyboard.

I’m a writer, mom, and weekend food alchemist who believes that simplicity is about doing what matters.

Let’s make life easier, tastier, and a little more intentional.

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