Food and Dining

What is your favorite ‘ulam’? Filipinos love good food. And we’re blessed to have a well-rounded cuisine with a variety of dishes to choose from. There’s something spicy, something sweet and sour, something salty, something refreshing, something ma-umami. There’s always something for everyone! Among these dishes, what’s frequenting your dining …

Most of us would choose to bring our own home-cooked meals to the beach rather than rely on the resort restaurant’s menu considering how one order would cost you. Just wondering, what are the usual foods you bring to a summer beach outing? Do you have the same items as …

Nothing else could be much sweeter than having someone in the family who can bake and make the yummiest desserts! I tag Monday nights at home as “rapsa night” (rapsa = sarap) because it’s the only day in the week that my brother Drix is off from work and usually, …

Bulalo or beef bone marrow soup is a special dish here in Batangas, not only for the rainy season as it is always available anytime of the year. There are a lot of tourists who drive down to Batangas just to satisfy their craving for this hot and mouth-watering soup. …

The vast water resources in the province of Batangas serve as one of the sources of income for the Batangueños. The marine species found in lakes and bays of Batangas assure profit and abundant economy for the locality. Because it is in the waters of the province that some of …

As the saying goes, “You are not a Filipino if you don’t know how to cook adobo.” Adobo is a traditional dish of Filipinos. We can assume that if you conduct a survey as to what would most likely be the national dish of the Philippines, probably more than half …

What sets gotong Batangas apart from the other version Filipinos know is that goto in this province has no rice. Other than envisioning it as a congee, gotong Batangas is a soup with beef tripes and innards. Gotong Batangas was said to have originated in Lipa City. Hence, the rising …

Great things come in small packages. Just like the Sardinella Tawilis (or Freshwater Tawilis) a small fish which can measure up to 15 cm and weighs about 30 g and can only be found here in Batangas particularly in Taal Lake. A kilo of tawilis normally costs around P100-P150, depending …