What is Your Favorite Filipino Street Food?
Filipinos or Filipino food lovers: Share your opinions, thoughts, recommendations and memories of Street Food Sa Atin! Continue reading What is Your Favorite Filipino Street Food?
Category: Asia
Giada De Laurentiis’s Filipino Chicken Adobo, Cultural Appropriation and the White Savior
“Turn on the Food Network right now,” Jenny texted me, “Giada’s making chicken adobo.”
Cook This: Filipino Chicken Adobo
Tonight, I’m cooking the quintessential Filipino Dish: Chicken Adobo.
Our family is from the northern part of the Philippine islands. For every Filipino cook, there’s a different adobo. For example, my cousin adds Sprite/7Up instead of water and a hot chili pepper. This is my interpretation of my mom’s recipe. I like to douse my rice in adobo sauce so I make a lot of it. Continue reading “Cook This: Filipino Chicken Adobo”
Oh, it’s THAT KIND OF PARTY: Spa Lei, Seoul, South Korea
Returning to Seoul after our meeting-packed first day, we wanted to go to a spa, a can’t-miss activity said a Korean-American friend. We hadn’t shaken jet lag and needed pampering.
Lonely Planet‘s Seoul guidebook reported that Spa Lei operated 24/7, catered to a female-only clientele and offered an English-language menu. That last bit was incorrect. After a half-hour of earnest communication attempts, we dialed the free Korean-English translator hotline to order full spa access and body scrubs, mud body treatments and cucumber facials. I’d read in the LP guidebook that many women head straight to a spa after work or clubbing, spend the night relaxing, then drudge back to work/home in the morning. We can stay and luxuriate all night? Sounds amaze balls! Continue reading “Oh, it’s THAT KIND OF PARTY: Spa Lei, Seoul, South Korea”
