Sink your teeth into soft, delectable and fresh buns with creamy yema filling. I think this is better than the original from Camiguin.

Maitum is a gem of a municipality in Sarangani, a young province located at the bottom of Mindanao Island. It is a beautiful place with interesting history, culture and sights to offer the traveler.

The northern city of Tuguegarao in Cagayan province is not only famous for the adventure, natural and heritage destinations that tourists and travellers come for but, for the first time visitor, one’s curiosity is immediately piqued when almost all eateries, from hole in the wall joints to carinderias and restaurants are offering pansit batil patung (or patong).

In the town of Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte, the biscocho comes in three forms with the most popular are the soft ones. Anise flavored, it’s one of Ilocos Norte’s popular pasalubong.

Sticky rice cooked in coconut milk inside a bamboo tube, the Bolinao binungey is better eaten with ripe and sweet mangoes.

Interesting (or tacky?) decors doesn’t distract you from having this delicious halo-halo in Halo-Halo de Iloko, up in the city of San Fernando, La Union.

The first time I heard about the flavor, guava-basil sorbet, my eyebrows raised. Not that I was taken aback but I was rather excited. I’ve always liked the taste of basil primarily in pesto and in other dishes but ice cream?

People have been raving about the Japanese style carinderia that is Joed’s Lutong Hapon with many blogger friends attesting to its tasty Japanese dishes at cheap prices that I got curious with it. Can tasty + cheap = Japanese cuisine go hand in hand?

It would have been the perfect complement to Vigan’s empanada but the okoy was a bit of a let down. It was more flour, and lots of it, a few pieces of small shrimps and kutchay.

It was the pizza baked in Olive’s wood fired oven that I can not forget. Thin crust, savory and just memorable. The Quattro Stagioni was perfect and so is the Pizza Ilokano.

The best lechon (roast pig) in the Philippines is found in Cebu. And the best one in Cebu is traditionally from Talisay City. Twelve kilometers south of Cebu City and facing the rising sun, it is where my roots are from. My hometown.

There are so many things in Macau that for the uninitiated, will be surprised by the variety this small territory has to offer. It’s not at all a sin city that is governed by the roll of a dice, the flash of cards, or the turn of the roulette at the casino. Macau is one interesting enclave that is a blend of the old and the new, the exotic and the familiar.

Little Turtle’s cantonese dishes wowed us when we tried it. But discovering other aspects of Macau cuisine was a pleasant discovery that have parallels with our own. These three restaurants showcase what Macau food is all about, with a bent on Portuguese and Macanese.

It was enough to make me close my eyes in ecstasy, savoring the succulent and tender meat of Norwegian salmon loin while I was trying to think of adjectives to describe that piece of heaven.

You will better know a country and its people through their food and Macau is one destination that a gourmand should never miss. Like Filipino cuisine, it’s good fusion food, a beautiful marriage of the orient and the occident plus modern international dishes.