Let me tell you a secret. If you want to taste the best Negrense cuisine, don’t go to the restaurants in Bacolod. Just get yourself invited to lunch at a Negrense home and you’ll surely be served with the best-kept family recipes. Of course, it’s a different story if the best-kept family recipes are served […]

We’re off to Saigon Cafe and Garden Resto again and this time it’s for a bowl of piping hot Pho Bo or Vietnamese beef noodles. The weather even conspired with us. It rained hard in the afternoon so it’s a little cooler than the usual summer weather. Just perfect for a Pho Bo Friday. This […]

My first encounter with Vietnamese food was when we had a vacation in Palawan where they call pho bo as chao long.  There were Vietnamese refugees who settled in Palawan thus their  cuisine got integrated into the local culture. However, Bacolod has no such Vietnamese village so Vietnamese food is still exotic to the local […]

I used two drink two cups of brewed coffee everyday but had to give it up when I got pregnant. Everytime I smell the aroma of coffee, I have to fight the urge to drink. So when Betsy asked me to have a Team Tikim review of Buglas Coffee Bar, I almost said no. However, […]