World Class Chefs
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Ramilo (Ram) Villaluna
Ram is a budding chef from Iloilo City (Molo). He gained his training in Culinary Arts at the Center for Asian Culinary Studies under food guru Gene Gonzalez, Institute of Culinary Education (formerly Peter Kumpps) in New York. He took up bread making, and he studied food styling under Delores Custer of the Culinary Institute of America. It all started in Antique where his father owned a restaurant many Antiquenos learned to love. He continued the culinary legacy of his father and now, Ram owns a catering business, Cindy\'s Catering. Food is Ram\'s life, seriously speaking. I am short in saying that he is married to the food industry that, he spends most of his time teaching and mentoring at the Department of Culinary Arts at the University of San Agustin in Iloilo. If one cannot find him in the classroom, Ram will be on the road crisscrossing Iloilo and Antique having first hand in the management of his thriving businesses from both provinces. He also has a once-a-week TV show in GMA 7 \"Food Trip\". I met with Ram once before and he exudes perfectionism, the character that will beam him up to the limelight of culinary arts. At present time, Ram is extremely busy in Manila. I believe he is one of the finalists in The National Food Showdown 2010 sponsored by ABS-CBN. We wish you all the luck, Ram! Maybe, after this showdown, Ram will have the opportunity share favorite recipe here at ILONGGO LIVING.
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Ilocano Favorite Dishes
Ilocano dishes has so many virtues that it is hard to know where to start listing them. Effortlessly, my chef will categorize Ilocano dishes into meat, particularly goat’s meat and, at the other end of the scale, vegetables. In between, one could fit in other food stuff such as bagoong and other sea foods. Just [...]
Desserts All the Way!
Today’s post is solely dedicated to the desserts served during the parties we had lately. I intentionally did this to give desserts some recognition against its partner, the main courses. Such a sweet repose having desserts after a heavy meal. No doubt, some people skip the main course to give way for the irresistible and [...]
Pinoy Party – Part 3
My last installment for this episode on Pinoy Party happened just recently here in Stoney Creek, Ontario. Our visitors were from Jacksonville, Florida, one of my chef’s closest friends from USA. It was a good-sized party and everyone had pitched in for a Filipino dish. We opted to prepare my specialty, the arroz a la [...]
Pinoy Party – Part 2
The next party we had last month was in the east-end Hamilton, Ontario. It was a birthday party in one of our closest friend’s house . I was lucky to arrive early as the foods they had prepared was still untouched, newly cooked and were in perfect shape. So, I did not waste time, grabbed [...]
Pinoy Party – Part 1
For some reasons, we were entangled to so many parties before I left for the Philippines last month. In fact, three of them in just a period of two weeks! One in New York city and two here in Hamilton. Let me bring you back to NYC, where Filipino foods flourishes, especially home made dishes. [...]
Cibo Experience
I have heard a lot of fuzz from fellow bloggers about this place before. A few months back, while I was at a mall in Manila, I stumbled upon Cibo and right away, the name rung a bell. For me, testing this kind of a place is quite casual but in a unique way… dessert [...]
Local Sea Foods
Being home in the Philippines afforded me to savor local foods at its best. Take for example sea foods. Iloilo is so well-blessed with sea foods that one enjoy them at its freshest form. Not to mention my taste buds are well-honed at its flavor. The bangus (milkfish) and kasag (crabs) are some of my [...]
Shabu-Shabu at Queens
No doubt this post can not past the pages of Ilonggo Living without getting recognition. Shabu-shabu is a unique way of cooking practiced among Koreans and Japanese, as well. If one get the chance to visit an authentic Korean or Japanese resto, it is easy to recognize they offer shabu-shabu cooking. The presence of a [...]
Double Japanese Treat in NYC
It was a wonderful weekend stay in New York City and, I have to share with you a very exciting unplanned rendezvous at the Japanese restaurants in the said city. It all started a day before at a Korean restaurant at Queens borough having our Korean shabu-shabu lunch. As if it was the culmination of [...]
Dinengdeng in New York?
After a grueling eight-hour drive from Hamilton, Ontario to New York City, we arrived early Friday morning. This is my 4th trip to the BIG APPLE and, I look forward meeting old acquaintances and family. No trip to the U.S. is ever complete without eating Filipino foods, U.S.A. version that is! Such as dinengdeng, an [...]
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