Tag Archive: Manila

Teachers’ Day, Baguio and Two Strawberry Ice Creams


I took my Creative Writing class to Baguio as I had always done every year for more or less eleven years.  This year, it really was more important to return, to find my… Continue reading

Passion Fruit Ice Cream drizzled with Coconut Honey Over a Slice of Dragon Fruit.


  Flowers in the Sagada cold are stronger. They push out their lips and are totally petulant. Take this lush Bougainvillea. In Manila, it would not be this passionately alive. Cold, tangy, perfect.… Continue reading

Tablea Ice Cream with Caramel Honeycomb Chunks. (Cold Sepia – 1)


This ice cream tastes like a scene through a wooden capiz window and feels like waiting. Dark tablea in all its smooth and grainy moods is spiked with shards of amber honeycomb. This… Continue reading