Comments on: The 10 best desserts in Manila (and the vultures who eat them)

By: Sugar Series December 2008: Pleasure for Plaisir(a bakery and a dessert — #4 of 8) at Dessert Comes First - An obsession with dessert and other unabashed opinions of a food writer

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:39:39 +0000

[...] I like and then there are my favorite bakers. I briefly mentioned Kitchen’s Best (KB) in my 10 Best Desserts 2005 post (sigh, the early days of this website!) Back then, it was Kitchen’s Best by Roselyn [...]

By: Chef Trishia

Chef Trishia — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:03:02 +0000

Ministop has recently launched a killer dessert that really melts in the mouth. It’s a “cassava cake with a twist” due to its very distinctive recipe and special leche flan topping. They call it “Creamy Cassava Cake”. It’s almost similar to “Chef Myra’s cassava cake with real butter” that Chef Nancy Reyes-Lumen mentioned in her Business Mirror article, “Cookie Jar” here…. http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=32:life&id=19273:the-cookie-jar-no-1

By: amore

amore — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:06:15 +0000

we already tried the buko pie at mondragon bldg in makati, but sad to say that the bakeshop was already close and i got the supplier for the buko pie, had several deliveries at our office and our chairman from KL love it so much, but Ms. Amor Zantua transferred from Taytay to Pagsanjan and i can’t locate her anymore. . . our chairman is asking if any other bakers had that kind of buko pie (refrigerated)

By: Sabine

Sabine — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:49:38 +0000

Great desserts! I am droooooling…

You might want to correct though, French “macarons” not “macaroons”

By: Manila

Manila — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:06:51 +0000

WoW… I definitely have to go try any of the desserts in the photos you have just shown. Thank you for sharing such an interesting and informative article. – Manila

By: ry

ry — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:20:08 +0000

is there another contact number of melissa lim? tried calling her but invalid number.

By: gerry

gerry — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:09:53 +0000

my wife started a cake shop a few months ago and so far we had very good response, please try visiting http://www.sweetfork.com , thanks

By: nyc

nyc — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:44:47 +0000

We had Joyce’s Rum Cake last Christmas… it was divine! i was looking for Ms. Gina Navarro’s contact number because i wanted to inquire about food styling and i came across your blog. Thanks for posting the contact numbers we could call for that intstant dessert-fix! They’ll be under the YUM Group in my phonebook from now on. =)

By: mitch

mitch — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:10:35 +0000

Sorry, but I am a true Filipino in taste and I guess most of our friends, too. we still prefer our local desserts like kakanin, casava cake and leche plan plus a lot of my friends have problem with their blood sugars.

they look good though.I hope that it is not all icings and toppings .

By: varga

varga — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:15:28 +0000

hahaha…like vultures huh. you must have all been silently laughing at the sight, at the same time getting horrified at your work’s utter destruction.

this “hospitality” trait is very much misread by our very own sociologists. it’s a mistake to market this abroad just the way it “is”. our homegrown brand of hospitality is contextualized in the rural home. some foreigners took note of our humility & openness to welcoming visitors. this is why we love to talk about our very own “hospitality” with our foreign visitors (which they find weird given our supposed southeast asian humility). unfortunately, our hospitality refuses to open its arms to the bigger world. it remains in the realm of “halika, kain tayo”, or “upo ka”, to name a few.

pag tayo-tayo na, bahala ka dyan no. kakain ako, at kukuha ako para sa kapatid ko, nanay ko, kaibigan ko, at…..hehehehe