The Happy Home Cook: Vegan Filipino Chicharon

The Happy Home Cook: Vegan Filipino Chicharon

Vegan Filipino Chicharon is a fun little snack that has dried shiitake mushrooms coated in rice flour and sweet rice flour then deep-fried. Another way to make it is by deep-frying dried yuba skin.

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The Wacky 1978 Chess World Championship

The Wacky 1978 Chess World Championship

How the Conjugal Dictatorship’s international public relations baby, the 1978 World Championship in Baguio, turned into an opera bouffe—with a lot of logistical, pre-match posturing and chess rivals Korchnoi and Karpov trying to rattle each other.

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The Happy Home Cook: Buko-Pandan Gelatin (Young Coconut-Pandan Gelatin)

The Happy Home Cook: Buko-Pandan Gelatin (Young Coconut-Pandan Gelatin)

The green gelatin and the vanilla ice cream make an attractive combination. The coconut juice sweetens the gelatin, and sugar becomes unnecessary.

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Root of the Philippines’ Pork Shortage

Root of the Philippines’ Pork Shortage

The meat for the pork adobo or sisig you just ordered at your favorite Philippine restaurant may have been imported.

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O.M. France Viana’s Ube Art

O.M. France Viana’s Ube Art

The lowly tuyo, tasty ube, and the Filipino habit of pointing with the lips all make star turns in O.M. France Viana’s art.

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Watch Out World: Roni Bandong Dreams of Filipino Adobo in Every UK Home

Watch Out World: Roni Bandong Dreams of Filipino Adobo in Every UK Home

Chef Roni Bandong has begun making the UK take to Filipino food one chicken relleno at a time.

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The Happy Home Cook: Rellenong Manok

The Happy Home Cook: Rellenong Manok

This is UK Chef Roni Bandong’s prize-winning recipe for Rellenong Manok which was judged “Best Alternative Christmas Dish” on the TV Show “Kirstie’s Handmade Christmas” with celebrity host Kirstie Allsopp.

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A Slur By All Means

A Slur By All Means

An Asian American Band wants to be called ‘The Slants’ because...

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Exceptional Philippine Churches

Exceptional Philippine Churches

Centuries-old churches testify to the Philippines’ lasting links with Spain and its friars’ goal of establishing a permanent Catholic presence in the archipelago.

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Han Ong’s Homage to Gil Scott-Heron Should Be Televised

Han Ong’s Homage to Gil Scott-Heron Should Be Televised

Filipino Chinese American playwright Han Ong delivers a dazzling paean to the late “bluesician” and reputed “godfather of hip-hop” Gil Scott-Heron.

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