Megamall, you will be forgotten no more.There was a time I practically lived in Megamall, all throughout college (it opened when I was a freshman) and for one year when I was working in the Ortigas area. I was there so often that I actually counted how many steps there were in the staircase leading down from the MRT to Megamall...
read more Birthdays are the best.Note: This is a lengthy, possibly manic hunger-inducing post. Read this when you have the luxury of time, and possibly something edible close by. I’m someone who welcomes each birthday with an open heart and a fork in each hand. I regard each birthday as a gift and so I treat it as such: I’m alive and...
read more Have a happy purple day!It’s a triumph when I finally make it to Subspace. I hear about it in early December and I mentally play out many machinations trying to fit it into my schedule. But I blame the craziness that is Christmas and so I don’t make it there until mid-January.Subspace’s motto – nay, manifesto, is “The...
read more This is my favorite milk tea place, but for other reasons than you might think.Manila is currently afloat in a bubble milk tea mania, and the options are mind-boggling. This is made evident to me in last year’s MIYO Monday question asking readers: ”What’s Your Bubble Milk Tea of Choice? At 108 responses, that’s a lot of...
read more At Dessert Comes First, it’s about making sweet wishes come true.Previously featured Christmas Gift List purveyors . My feature on John Sta. Cruz’s Cake Planet is one of this year’s most popular and commented-on posts. Even now, I have people telling me that “… I’m from the south and I didn’t know until I read...
read more Some people call sandwiches “sammies.” In that case, I call these super sammies to savor. Right now.The Bread Bag Pandesal Bar The Burgos Circle store is fast becoming my go-to place when I want an early breakfast. I’m usually there by 7am when they open, so early that the aircon hasn’t even been turned on yet and...
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