September 2021

Lake View Dining (Queenstown, New Zealand)

“Culinary delights served in modern surroundings and topped off with the panoramic view of one of New Zealand’s most iconic lake Wakatipu”, this is what we were expecting when we booked this place but because it was heavily raining that day and the sun had already set the time we...

Ginataang Kamoteng Kahoy ay Saging

Ginataang Kamoteng Kahoy ay Saging is a Filipino snack popular in the Bicol region where cassava and saba bananas are simmered until tender in coconut milk with palm sugar. Sharing my grandma old recipe where she prepares it by reducing the coconut milk until it renders coconut oil. When I...

Remarkable Sweet Shop (Queenstown, New Zealand)

Are you the type of person with a sweet tooth? Well, if that is the case then you will enjoy what we have in store for you today, a visit at New Zealand’s premier retail confectionery store. Yup its it like a Willy Wonka factory in real life. If you...

Cabbage, Mushroom and Lap Cheong Stir Fry

Cabbage, Mushroom and Lap Cheong Stir Fry is a simple Chinese inspired stir fry prepared with cabbage and lap cheong as its main ingredient then is accompanied by young corn, mushrooms, spring onions and red pepper. The Lap Cheong on this stir fry gives it a lot of flavour that...

Napoleones

Napoleones is a Filipino dessert/snack dish and pasalubong item prepared with a small square flaky pastry layers filled with custard filling and topped with sugar glaze. Napoleones, it may look alike or sound like something that you had tried already, if that is the case then it is because the...

Patagonia Ice Creamery & Chocolaterie (Queenstown, New Zealand)

If you come to Queenstown then a visit won’t be complete without heading over to Patagonia Ice Creamery & Chocolaterie, what you will find here are the best ice cream flavours in New Zealand and it’s just around the corner from that famous Fergburger. They offer artisan ice creams, sorbets...

Caldo de Pata

Caldo de Pata is a hearty Ecuadorian soup is prepared by simmering cow’s feet and tripe for a long period of time until soft and tender accompanied with other ingredients like cassava, hominy and peanuts. Bulalo, Kamoteng Kahoy and Binatog, the only thing common on those three ingredients are they...

High Country Salmon (Twizel, New Zealand)

Last time we vested Lake Tekapo and its surroundings was five years ago, during that time one of our itineraries was this Salmon Farm, sadly we did not make it during that time because we were quite tired and we not enough time to spare for our itinerary that day...

Giniling with Alugbati at Kalabasa

Giniling Kalabasa at Alugbati is a simple Filipino vegetable soup dish prepared with minced pork, alugbati (Malabar spinach) and buttercup squash. It’s simple, delicious, nutritious and affordable, this is what a dinner should be! In your home country what does the typical daily meal look like? It’s interesting to see...

40 Cloves Garlic Chicken

40 Cloves Garlic Chicken is a classic Provençal dish of chicken pieces pan roasted in olive oil and aromatics together with copious amount of garlic cloves. Say what! Yes, its forty, nothing more and nothing less but why? It may sound absurd but trust me, it’s not, in fact it...