Alpas, which means “to be free” in Tagalog, is a place where owners Ken Cazeñas and Kimberley Eng invite people to experience a different side to Filipino cooking in the country.
Read MoreRussell Yee Awat, General Manager of Kagay-Anon Restaurant in Cagayan de Oro city, keeps a notebook in her purse describing things she’s eaten and what they taste like - particularly useful for field research, as on a recent trip to China to sample local variants of savoury hopia, a flaky pastry Filipinos have come to make their own.
Read MoreThe second those mushrooms grilled over charcoal hit my nostrils, I knew Chef Chino Mempin’s cooking was the real deal.
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