A Kalamay Is a Kalamay Is a Kalamay
April Bewell
September 19, 2025
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Sweetness has always been one of our ways of enduring. It arrives in many forms in Filipino kitchens, rice coaxed
Santol Is Peeled In One Long Strip
April Bewell
September 16, 2025
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It’s amazing what your mind remembers when you pause long enough. This is the season when santol trees are generous,
Shaved Ice Fusion in Binondo and a Binignit Halo-Halo Experiment
April Bewell
August 23, 2025
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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.
The Taste of Typhoon Season
April Bewell
August 18, 2025
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The Storms of Memory I remember the darkness after the typhoon – the electricity gone, the skies strangely clear, and
Waiting for Halo-Halo
April Bewell
August 12, 2025
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“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his