INDEPENDENT restaurant operators in Davao City have been facing an unprecedented crisis since the lockdown of the city in March 2020. Cash strapped and definitely not expecting…
Posts published by “Michael Ebro Dakudao”
Lifestyle Writer
ONE of the surprise gifts I received last Christmas is a handsome coffee table book sent to me by the society philanthropist mother-and-daughter team…
“WE treasure 2020 as a year of resiliency and care for one another. Despite the challenges that this year has brought globally, we are thankful to end it…
IT WAS last mid-October when I got this message from the devoted member of Gawad Kalinga (GK), Arch’t. Sylvia Puyod-Rieta, which read, “Rene (Rieta) asked me if…
“GAPANG” is how the young chef cum restaurateur Patrick Co of Fat Cow and Asian Cow restaurants would describe the food business at this time. It was…
FOR the past years, I have been attending festive gatherings in Davao’s various hotels for their annual Christmas tree lighting events. Excited and happy guests coming from the various sectors…
IN modern China, the number eight (8) is associated with wealth. It is considered the luckiest of numbers. Eight is believed to invite great wealth and fortune. So when the…
THERE is a bongga quality to watching a narrow, modern building of raw concrete standing recognizably different in the midst of nondescript commercial buildings that have mushroomed along the Dona…
IT HAS almost been a year since I last stepped on the white sand (not dolomite, mind you) of a seaside resort since the Covid epidemic lockdown. So when Dusit…
THE PINOY term for traditionally-made sweets of glutinous rice and coconut milk, two important ingredients that tropical countries like ours have in abundance, is “kakanin.” Kakanin is said to be…
