My Manila

The pie that made the small bakeshop Banapple famous, especially among Quezon City residents: Banoffee. Think banana cream pie but the crea...

Remember the rainbow triangles which I posted five months ago? The Hong Kong-based Filipino artist, Joel Ferraris, found my post about it a...

I saw this small Lego city in Trinoma mall the same day I saw the elegant Santa , but it probably has been there since way before Christmas....

Finally, I managed a photo of the Araneta Coliseum which actually shows its dome. Previously, I've shown photos of one of its entrances ...

The atrium of SM City Marikina looks great from the inside, but from the outside, it looks like any other SM mall. Calling all City Dai...

Getting a photo with Santa Claus in his white kingdom at Trinoma mall. Santa's suit was more formal and elegant for his photo shoot—no ...

And behold, the star that they had seen at its rising preceded them, until it came and stopped over the place where the child was. Matthew 2...

Tonight, thousands of Filipinos will gather in churches for the Christmas Eve Mass, the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. When I wa...

I had to buy some things for the office yesterday and ended up in another SM mall , this time the one in Marikina City. SM is the largest c...

I did some last-minute shopping yesterday and saw this charming Christmas Village at The Block in SM City North EDSA. You wouldn't beli...

Frozen cocktails, anyone? Rum and fruit juice or Kahlua? Holiday cheers to everyone! :)

The most popular Christmas decoration in the Philippines is the parol (from the Spanish farol which means "lantern"), the star-s...

We've eaten at Rai Rai Ken Ramen House and Sushi Bar in Harbour Square so many times yet it was only during our last visit there that ...

We weren't able to go to the December 2 Marker Party at Sofitel Manila 's 7Pecados by the Bay , but it turned out that it wasn't...