When you usually dine at a typical restaurant, the restaurant dining table is equipped with the usual spoon, fork and plates. But here at the Seafood Island restaurant, for a group of four, viands of grilled meat and seafood are served at the middle of a large tray lined with clean banana leaves. This is done traditionally by some Filipinos when at the beach or in a picnic. Some Filipinos still enjoy this kind of dining style. Anyway, I was invited for a dinner by my friends at Seafood Island located at SM Southmall here in Las Pinas. We had that kind of dining experience and it was my first time to...

I really love eating vegetables and one of my favorite vegetable dish is Pakbet. Pakbet is a tagalog  tasty vegetable dish made-up of different fresh vegetables, pork, and shrimp paste. I know some guys out there hates it because of its one major ingredient is ampalaya or the Bitter melon. The reason why I love Pakbet is because of Ampalaya (bitter melon) and the Okra’t Kalabasa (Lady’s Fingers or gumbo and Squash), they give lots of benefits in our health. Its really hard to find a perfect vegetable dish like this especially the right bitterness of the ampalaya. Good thing I have found...