Filipino food

Finally! Hawaii's getting a Filipino Food Week

After moving to Hawaii during my freshman year of high school, I learned that Filipinos were viewed in different ways. Some saw us as unfashionable FOBs that dressed in loud colors. Others saw us as potential troublemakers with an affinity…

Haute Filipino menu at Chef Mavro’s

San Francisco food blogger @TheDapperDiner proclaimed that this is the year Filipino food gets recognized as the most hip and trendy cuisine, and he’s probably right. You’ve seen it featured in mainstream media, from street food to fusion to elevated plates.…

Props to the pop up, Province SF

Since our flight to Dubai originated in San Francisco, we had time before and after that adventure to have another mini-adventure in the City by the Bay. One of my favorite people there to eat with is my Twitter friend…

This Saturday: Tasting the Philippines of 1898

I know almost nothing about Filipino food. Nothing beyond adobo, sari sari and a thrillingly sour deconstructed sinigang that Sheldon Simeon made at Vintage Cave, where a tamarind broth poured tableside dissolved the bed of chicken fat powder under a…

Did this: Eat the Street Philippines

The year’s first Eat the Street paid tribute to the Philippines, Kakaako’s monthly street food fest both a fund-raiser for Typhoon Haiyan rebuilding as well as a celebration of all foods Filipino. Vendors cooked up versions of lechon, pancit, sari…

Hello, Sheldon!

It’s official: Sheldon Simeon, Top Chef season 10 finalist, is unleashing his bold, contemporary Filipino flavors in Honolulu for the first time at a four-night collaboration at Vintage Cave.If you watched Top Chef, you know Simeon (and why I couldn’t…

Thanks, Sheldon

Dear Sheldon, I wish you’d won. I know many Top Chef fans in Hawaii who feel the same way, and more beyond these shores. From the beginning of season 10 you brought the show home, flashing the shaka with a…