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Ma Mon Luk: Still home of the best-value mami and siopao

By Argie C. Aguja | January 27, 2017 - 7:49pm

We Filipinos love to eat. As a food-loving nation, we have cultivated an enormous variety of staples, viands, desserts, dishes...

Modern Living

Basta’t matiyaga…

By Ms. Anne | January 7, 2015 - 12:00am

ISINILANG siya sa Guandong, China at nagtatrabaho bilang grade school teacher nang magdesisyong lisanin ang bayang sinilangan upang maghanap ng mas magandang kapalaran sa ibang bansa.

Punto Mo

Legendary comfort food

By Lydia Castillo | February 26, 2012 - 12:00am

To our mind, the original comfort foods are mami and siopao.

Starweek Magazine

Content & customers

By CTALK | By Cito Beltran | May 17, 2010 - 12:00am

What would you do if the company you work for tells you that they want to include sexy photos and interviews of women as well as advertisements and articles on alcohol and tobacco for a magazine that is suppose to...

Opinion

We need a pro-business president in 2010!

By Wilson Lee Flores | September 14, 2009 - 12:00am

Whenever people ask why I enjoy writing about business people — most especially the greatest of them all, the self-made entrepreneurs — I explain that it is my belief that Philippine society has for generations...

Lifestyle Business

Siopao and Siomai through the years

By Lydia Castillo | June 7, 2009 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines – Time was when Ma Mon Luk was the preferred restaurant for siopao, siomai and mami.

Starweek Magazine

Siomai sa Mactan Shangri-la

By Dr. Nestor Alonso ll | April 15, 2008 - 12:00am

It belongs to a group of dishes popularly called dim sum (literally, to touch your heart); it includes a variety of dumplings, steamed or fried, buns, tarts and other assorted small dishes.

Freeman Cebu Lifestyle

Is the ‘cure’ worse than the disease?

By BY THE WAY | By Max V. Soliven | June 8, 2005 - 12:00am

Now I feel like Ma Mon Luk. Yesterday morning’s frontpage photograph of this publisher paying my "last respects" at the bier of our friend and colleague, Teddy Man Benigno, was EMBARRASSING to say...

Opinion

Not enough

By Lydia Castillo | May 8, 2005 - 12:00am

Poor homemakers. We have been getting a lot of tips on how to save power. We have switched off one of our refrigerators, desisted from using airconditioning when the weather was still bearable, turned off lights...

Starweek Magazine

All-time favorites — Prewar and post-tsunami

By Rey Gamboa | March 5, 2005 - 12:00am

Everybody loves a foodie, and that is most eloquently felt in this beloved country of ours. Foreigners find it terribly amusing, if a little bemusing, to see that food is such a major part of our everyday lives,...

Business