Not to suggest that political correctness doesn’t have a place in food—but we can certainly be politically correct in ways that matter A kind of murky narrative looms over the origins of batchoy, a ...

MANILA, Philippines - For 71 years, Filipinos have come to love Deco’s original La Paz batchoy, taking time to travel to the district of La Paz in Iloilo City just to savour this Ilonggo specialty.

BEEF “salpicao” served in Banusing’s The Brewery restaurant-pub in Iloilo PHOTOS BY PJ ENRIQUEZ In the steamy, funky-smelling stalls of La Paz market, the mecca of batchoy, Iloilo’s signature pork-and ...

A number of years ago, a high school friend and I were having a conversation about food from the Philippines. Our Scarborough high school had a large Filipino population. But during our talk, it ...