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Bicol Express Origins – Manila or Bicol?

September 24, 2013 by Ninah Villa

There is no doubt that Bicol Express is one of the Philippines' most popular dishes. This is thanks in no small measure to the heat this flavorful dish packs. As the story goes, it’s named after the train that plies the Manila-Naga route. For obvious reasons, it is a common assumption that the dish naturally hails from the Bicol region.   Interestingly, the story … [Read more...] about Bicol Express Origins – Manila or Bicol?

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El Filibusterismo Chapter Summaries 36-39

I wish there’d been more chapters, if only to explore Simoun’s passage to redemption, or at least to discover Basilio’s fate. I wonder if, at this time, Rizal had become too weary to press on. Chapter 36: Ben-Zayb’s Afflictions Ben-Zayb writes an embellished account of what transpired at the wedding party, making the Captain-General appear […]

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El Filibusterismo Chapter Summaries 31-35

After all that suffering across two books, you’d have hoped the oppressors would have dined on thorny karma by now. But alas, it is only the oppressed that suffer some more. Basilio, Pecson, Isagani, I’m glad you only exist in fiction, or my heart would’ve been doubly shredded by now. Chapter 31: The High Official […]

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Demystifying the Heneral Luna Phenomenon – A Movie Review

I woke up to a most singular occurrence, Tuesday last week. Heneral Luna, an indie historical film which had opened quietly the week before, had begun trending in Twitter at 4 a.m. Like the brash and vitriolic general of the same name, it had refused to fade calmly into obscurity and continued to pop in […]

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Bayan Ko TV Series Review

I saw one episode of this series on GMA News TV and was impressed. So even if this two disc set seemed a bit expensive at roughly Php400 each, I bought them anyway. I support anything Filipino made that’s better than the usual evening cookie cutter drama fare. Its fictional but faithful account of what […]

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Access the Noli Me Tangere index of chapter summaries in English here.

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