Musings on Dance, Food, Geek Stuff
I wanted to see if I could improve on the standard boat tarts you find at most Filipino bakeries. These come in lots of fun flavors, typically in a brightly colored cellophane wrapping. Here’s my version of two of my favorite flavors of boat tarts: macapuno (coconut strands) and ube (purple yam.) It’s super easy…
Okay, all my Pinoys and Pinays got to check out the Filipino flavor on this krump performance. Hysterically funny and amazing dancers! I think that's my main problem with krump is that it is just got two emotions: angry and angrier. This is much more my style.
Chef King Phojanakong, the wizard behind the Filipino tapas joint Kuma Inn in the Lower Eastside, has recently opened a new Pan Asian restaurant in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Christened "Umi Nom" (Filipino for "to drink"), the new spot is at the corner of Classon and DeKalb Avenues, just a stones throw from Pratt University (Google…
My friend Ardith and her sister Arlene announce that their Filipino-themed tee-shirt company Barkada(ko) has launched their new website. Back in the day, you had to hunt them down at at a street festival in New York or San Francisco and hope they had your size. Now you can get them on the online any…
If you go to your local Jollibee fast food franchise now, you can score one of these sweet Jollibee dolls. This one comes in a traditional filipino Barong Tagalog dress shirt, with black dress slacks, a chinese-type hat, and a cool bamboo backpack that plays a silly Jollibee jingle. (Sadly, no balisang knive was included.)…
I was super excited to find this plush Jollibee doll now available at your local Jollibee filipino fast food franchise. As you can see, he's wearing a lovely barong tagalog dress shirt, black dress pants, a somewhat Chinese-looking hat (??), and a bamboo design backpack. When you press a button on the backpack, it plays…