Cake, Guapple Pie and Bacolod’s other sweet fixes
IT IS no understatement when locals and tourists alike refer to
Bacolod City as “sugarlandia.”
After all, the city is the central district of Negros Occidental,
the...
Battle of the Ube Cheese Pandesal!
IT’S a new trend that’s proving
more and more inescapable: From the numerous viral posts on social media, to
the long lines you have to endure...
The grind of the everyman in Zambarrano’s ‘Flexible Nerves’
ANATOMY reveals that if you stretched out the human
nervous system from end to end, a person’s peripheral nerves would extend
around 60 kilometers – that’s...
Take a bite: Iloilo’s cult street food
ILONGGOS are down-right serious about street food.
To the point that a handful of unassuming local hawkers here have amassed
cult-like followings and hordes of loyal...
Farida Kabayao and the house full of music
FARIDA grew up in a house full of music.
The middle-child of Ilonggo musicians Gilopez and Corazon Kabayao, she recalls
waking up during most mornings to...
Why bloggers love Dinagyang
YEAR after year, Iloilo’s Dinagyang Festival
is a popular destination for travelers, photographers, and bloggers. Is it the
colorful costumes, the captivating performances, or Iloilo’s party...
Mi Ultimo Adios: Retracing Rizal’s final days in Intramuros
ON Oct. 6, 1896, Jose
Rizal was seized in Barcelona, Spain, while on his way to Cuba to serve as a
military doctor. After being deported...
Eat like a local! You can’t leave Iloilo without trying these delectable local delicacies
BLESSED with a rich culinary history
and the fertile resources of both its land and sea, Iloilo has grown to become
a burgeoning culinary haven –...
Fall in love with Iloilo: Myriad sights to enchant any traveler
IT’S no easy task to take into account how multifaceted
Iloilo Province is, much more whittle down a list of just ten or so must-visit
tourist...
ILOILOSTRADO: The city’s manifold old-world charms
VIBRANT Iloilo has been a cosmopolitan city and
multicultural enclave since the turn of the last century, first catapulted into
economic dominance after its port was...