Sushi and toys always excite me. Put them together in a restaurant concept?and count me in! So when I received some Genki Sushi gift certificates for my birthday, I just had to redirect our college friends? reunion to this restaurant. Genki...

Durian Days, When Excess Is Not Enough: Part 1 The plan is to eat durian multiple times a day for each day that I?m in Bangkok, and I discover that Or Tor Kor (OTK) Market is a fabled place where durian is available year round. Right across the...

It all began with a pallid and tasteless pack of durian, a grossly off-season purchase made last June. The durian dud that it was thus ignited an insatiable craving for the spiky fruit but what followed was a series of well-intentioned but now...

Rumor has it that Café Lidia?s cakes are the same cakes that a popular coffee chain serves. It?s either they supply the coffee chain or they source their cakes from the same supplier. The latest iteration of this rumor is that they share a...

I’m a fiercely private person so you can understand why I’d be hesitant to publish this piece. But Ed knows me well and his questions were thoughtful and perceptive, things only a close friend would know to ask. – Lori Don?t call it a...

Here at DCF, we live (and love!) to travel for food. This piece is about one of the desserts that enthralled one of our contributors during her recent travels. It?s so good that this sweet is also on a list of Top Ten Desserts in America. –...

Chukagai Gate, the main gateway in to Yokohama?s Chinatown. It?s always exciting when two different cuisines come together. We?ve seen this in our own country when Chinese and Filipino cuisine came together, resulting in food items like hopia,...

With the rise of third wave specialty coffee shops here in Manila, it?s not unlikely to encounter beans flown in from all over the world like Ethiopia, Rwanda, Kenya, Brazil, Costa Rica or even Panama. These are some of the leading producers of the...

This article came to life when a long-time DCF reader asked me recently what I thought about the so-called “Tupperware bloggers” so prevalent now on the blogging scene. Spanky, who is one of this website’s most prolific and professional...

This website was built on featuring home bakers, and I’ve featured hundreds. It gives me great pleasure then to have DCF’s contributors share their home baker finds. This one’s easy to love because really, who couldn’t do without another...

  This post was supposed to go up last Friday, August 11, but DCF was having technical issues. Better late than never so here I go with the last video in my Lucena series. Lucena has been an absolute delight and I can’t believe how many hidden...

This is the first of our collaborations among the DCF contributors. It’s gotten off to a great start with these convenience store mash-ups. You can find the first part of this series here. – Lori Words & Photos by Anson Yu Recipes by Edward...

The DCF team is a boiling pot of talent and verve. I’m proud to present our first DCF collab featuring two of our contributors, Anson and Ed! This is a treasury of recipes in two parts, today and tomorrow. If you like this type of feature, let us...

Cover photo credit For the past three months, I?ve been going full throttle working harder than I?ve ever worked since recovering from cancer. I was shooting videos; then I?d be jumping behind the camera for photography sessions with my mentor,...

Serena’s article comes at just the right time: I seem to have a most ferocious craving for Korean food that can’t seem to be tamed. Kko Kko promises to be sloppily, gloriously different from your standard Korean joint in Manila. I only have...

There aren’t too many good Thai restaurants in Manila and Marikina is lucky to have two of them. DCF contributor, Lee, tells the story of Krung Thai and its latest offshoot, Moo Baan Krung Thai. Perhaps it’s time for a food trip to the area. –...

Image credit here. Note: This piece will make more sense if you’ve already read these two articles: Hoping Big And Still Holding On To My Dessert Plate: My Encounter with Cancer The Faltering 40’s: A Commentary on Ageing Last week, on the...

Ok, so I fell in love with the bulletproof coffee at Butter & Coffee, as you can see here. When I got back to Manila, I started looking at where else I could get this specialty brew closer to home. UCC Clockwork serves it and as my sister told me,...

Being a morning person, I am always looking for a new place to have my favorite meal of the day, breakfast. I’m taken by how DCF contributor, Faith, enthusiastically describes her two experiences at Tyler’s Café. And just like Faith, even though...

Like Kirt, I also have my own coffee list when I travel. I’ve been to some places on this list – Kirt’s recos are spot on as always – and as for the rest, I’m eagerly putting them on my coffee list for my next trip to Tokyo! –...

I featured Baker? a few years ago when it was still a home-based business. I’m beyond excited that RJ Galang and his mom now have their own place to proffer feel-good, “Mom-made” food. And yes, there’s no better cheese cupcake than the one...

When Nicky Lozano first tasted Memz Chicharon, it was instantly love at first bite. The year was 2011, and his dad would go on numerous business trips to Butuan, where a chance encounter with a bag of Memz Chicharon at the Butuan Airport had him...

?Process is messy.? ? Austin Kleon, illustrator and writer I agree with the above quote and this one by Edgar Allan Poe who said it in 1846, ?Most writers ? prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy ? an ecstatic...