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We’ve Been Eating Generosity This Whole Time
an ode to the ones who gave too much
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100% That Filipino
The Essay I’d Submit to the Philippine Embassy if DNA Was Enough to Get a Philippine Passport or Something.
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Food is a Universal Language - Yes, You and I Eat the Same. But We Also Feel the Same.
Texture Carries the Language of Emotion.
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Can Filipino Breakfast Teach the World Something?
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The Extreme Push-and-Pull of Filipino Food (And Why It Changes Everything)
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What Is Filipino Food?
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‘Filipino Time’ — The Missing Ingredient
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The Act of Self-Love I Didn't Ask For
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Home & Away
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Can Filipino Breakfast Teach the World Something?
On crunch, memory, and the most underrated ritual of the day.
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‘Filipino Time’ — The Missing Ingredient
Unpacking the ‘Lazy’ Narrative. Hurry up and read it.
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What Is Filipino Food?
Filipino food is a taste of contrast, felt in every bite.
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Why Meghan Markle’s Show Feels Off (And Why I Spent Two Weeks Trying to Get It)
Not Filipino food, but oh boy, I still cooked up something sour.
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Home & Away
Authenticity is a wound we keep reopening—both at home and away.
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The Act of Self-Love I Didn't Ask For
Finding Unexpected Inheritance of Care in a Tiny Blue Jar.
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The Extreme Push-and-Pull of Filipino Food (And Why It Changes Everything)
Forget Colonisation—This is the Real Language of Filipino Food
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How my Ensaymadas Defeated my Ego (but I'm fine really)!
How a perfect Ensaymada made me question everything (and what I learned from it)
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An imperfect start
Sometimes when you give yourself a pat on the back for randomly writing these thoughts and suddenly finding a nice nugget of gold.
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In The Foreground by Luisa Brimble
What we taste, what we carry, what we bring forward.
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