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Dabawenyo said losing his job of 12 years amid the pandemic was a blessing after all because it gave him an opportunity to start Kapeweñoz Specialty Coffee Davao

“When they eat this I want Filipino customers to be smacked in the face with nostalgia.” Some people will drive three hours just to have a taste of it.

🥃. Learn how to pair your favorite whisky with Filipino food and drinks.

🇵🇭  Nicole Ponseca is a Filipino-American food entrepreneur who has been fighting to get her culture's cuisine more attention. Ponseca, a third-generation Filipina-American whose family settled in Brooklyn when she was nine years old, became fascinated by her culture’s cuisine upon moving to the U.S., but was disappointed by what she found.

💬  Thoughts on the Philippines’ national dish and the push to standardize it. An article on the excellent meryenda newsletter about Filipino Cuisine. "...in a highly globalized world, one in which we are consuming culture and are connected more than ever, dishes are bound to be diluted. Is standardization then a proactive step in preserving the integrity of adobo?"

The Adobo debate continued with panelists on a discussion called 'In a Nutshell: Defining Filipino Cuisine'. 

"I want folks to know that there’s not one singular monolithic adobo out there. It’s good to have the foundations. I’ve always said that about Filipino cuisine, like understanding the flavor profiles. So, once you understand the foundations of what the dishes are, then you can jazz it up however you want. I agree with that baseline foundation, but also celebrating the regionality and diversity that we like to embrace as Filipinos."

This Filipino restaurant is number 1 out of 6000 in Milan, Italy of all places. It's incredible that Filipino food beats every other restaurant in one of the world's greatest foodie cities.

🔥. Sinigang was just hailed the #1 best rated vegetable soup in the world by TasteAtlas with a rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars.

And it seems that every news outlet took inspiration form this accoldate to write their own glowing piece about sinigang.

🥘   This place looks delicious🔥 "Much of the Lasita menu, with its focus on rotisserie-style chicken and pork lechon, remains in place, along with the colorful pours of natural wine, of course. There’s also pancit, roast pork sandwiches, smaller bar snacks, and bites of calamansi cream pie for dessert"

Selena Gomez does Filipino Food in her celebrity cooking show. There seems to be a new celebrity learning how to cook every week.

🔥  One of the sweetest sounds you'll ever hear. 

👨🏽‍🍳.  Would you add this nutty sweet (date nectar and coconut vinegar) kare-kare sauce to every meal?

In the Philippines, the word adobo refers to a popular food as well as a way of cooking. Adobo is also the unofficial national dish. Its main ingredients of vinegar and soy sauce, garlic, salt and pepper are usually boiled together before adding the main ingredients. 

Adobo is a versatile dish and can be made with leafy vegetables such as banana flowers, kangkong, ampalaya or bitter gourd, or okra, as well as the more typically seen pork, seafood, or chicken. Here's vegetarian version that we’re sure you will love, eggplant Adobo or “Adobong Talong”.