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How Spiral ended my search for the best buffet

By Mary Ann Quioc Tayag | October 17, 2013 - 12:00am

About 500 years ago, Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer, was sailing for Spain because King Manuel I of Portugal refused to finance his voyage to the Spice Islands (then the East Indies and now Indonesia...

Food and Leisure

My breakfast wish

By Mary Ann Quioc Tayag | September 5, 2013 - 12:00am

I wish my body wasn’t so slow in the morning. My brain does not come fully alive till 10 a.m., and my stomach is too lazy to even feel hunger till then.

Food and Leisure

Behind every successful man is an exhausted wife

By Mary Ann Quioc Tayag | July 29, 2012 - 12:00am

I blame your wife for it,” she said smiling before we could even enter her clinic at St. Luke’s in BGC.

Sunday Lifestyle

We eat what we are

By Mary Ann Quioc Tayag | February 26, 2009 - 12:00am

Two days ago, Claude and I had guests over for dinner. As I was coming from Manila, I arrived just before he served them...

Food and Leisure

Philippine food, the most wonder-full in the world!

By Mary Ann Quioc Tayag | November 30, 2006 - 12:00am

Quioc, why is adobo different in cut, color and taste every time," a Malaysian friend asked me. She has tried our adobo from fast foods to grills to deluxe hotel and even to Amanpulo.

Food and Leisure

Nice, isn’t it?

By Mary Ann Quioc Tayag | April 9, 2006 - 12:00am

You are so nice," she said. I did not know how to answer and found myself awkwardly saying, "No, I am not." Then she goes, "Yeah, you are naturally nice." Gee, how do I answer that? If...

Sunday Lifestyle

It all started with the pumpkin

By Mary Ann Quioc Tayag | October 30, 2005 - 12:00am

I’ve always wondered why there are orange pumpkin lanterns during Halloween. But lazy me never bothered to research on it until last year when my cousin Fe Garbanzos sent me two balikbayan boxes of old...

Sunday Lifestyle

Enjoying the spice of life

By Mary Ann Quioc Tayag | October 27, 2005 - 12:00am

When I was a child, my gracious grandmother told me it was bad manners for a guest to criticize the host’s food. Whether the host could hear it or not, it did not matter. My mom said it was very wrong to say...

Food and Leisure

Pinatrekking

By Mary Ann Quioc Tayag | June 19, 2002 - 12:00am

I still remember that day vividly. Wednesday, June 12, 1991. I was watching TV in Mabalacat, Pampanga. Then President Cory Aquino was doing the ceremonial raising of the Philippine flag at the Rizal Park to commemorate...

Travel and Tourism

Pinatrekking

By Mary Ann Quioc Tayag | June 16, 2002 - 12:00am

I still remember that day vividly. Wednesday, June 12, 1991. I was watching TV in Mabalacat, Pampanga. Then President Cory Aquino was doing the ceremonial raising of the Philippine flag at the Rizal Park to commemorate...

Travel and Tourism