This month, April, Maya Kitchen will be featuring Chef Myrna Segismundo as for Maya’s Kitchen monthly cooking demo. On April 27, 2013, at 9am till 1pm (Saturday), Chef Myrna will be showing her skills in culinary specifically on Filipino Dishes. She’ll be preparing some filipino fusion dishes like Boneless Lechon with Stewed Fruits and Brown Rice, Chicken Inasal with Fresh Ubod, Pomelo and Jicama Spring Roll and Ginataan among others. I really love attending Maya Kitchen’s kitchen monthly cooking demo. They feature famous chefs or a chef of a very known food establishment. I do also...

This coming Saturday, April 20, 2013, Bizu Patisserie will be celebrating their MACARON DAY! and they will be giving free macaron to every patron. You can visit Bizu Patisserie at Greenbelt 2, Greenhills Prominade, ALabang Town Center and St. Lukes at the BGC to avail this free gift. What is Macaron? Macaron is a French cookie that is crisp on the outside with a soft crème ganache and ground almonds in the middle. It is said to have originated in Italy in the 1500s then found its way to France. What was just a simple recipe of ground almonds, egg whites and sugar with no filling and flavoring was then...

Ever heard of Alba Restaurante Espanol? If yes, now’s your chance to wittness Chef Miguel de Alba of Alba Restaurante Espanol to do some delicious Spanish dishes to us at The Maya Kichen on March 23 2013 from 9am-1pm. I’m pretty excited to watch Chef Miguel make and prepare some of his favorite Spanish viands. I know for sure that I’ll be learning lots of tricks and techniques from Chef Miguel. Chef Miguel will demonstrate Jamon con Mangga y Arugula (Homemade Spanish Cured Ham with Mango and Arugula Leaves); Croquetas de Bacalao (Salted Codfish Croquettes); Fabada Asturiana (White...

This February 23, Saturday, 9am to 1pm at the Maya Kitchen, Chef Glenda Barretto will be sharing some techniques in cooking. This is a very rare appearance of Chef Barretto so please don’t miss this one. Aside from sharing her expertise in cooking, Chef Barretto will sharing also her decades-long dominance as a Filipino cuisine icon and how she manage to remain as top in a highly competitive field. Chef Barretto, is an accomplished chef, caterer, entrepreneur and an author and she also one of the force behind a popular chain of prestige restaurant, Via Mare. Chef Glenda has almost single handedly...

I was invited to attend and experience Sykes 2012 year-end party last Dcember 16 at SMX. More than 7000 Sykesers gathered at the event venue and the party occupied 4 halls of SMX in short, they’d occupied the whole 1st floor of the venue. 7000 employees! That’s only the half of Sykes employees who attended the year party at SMX of 15,000. The other half remained at their offices for their regular shift. But then, Sykes management served also food & souvenirs for the employees who’s on their shift at their offices. Going back to the party. The event was hosted by Chico, Delamar...

On December 8, Saturday, from 9am to 1pm, at the Maya Kitchen, Cafe Juanita’s Dr. Chef Efren “Boy” Vasquez will be demonstrating and teaching several great recipes for the Filipino Christmas Noche Buena – traditional dishes such as Rellenong Manok, Lengua Estofado, Baked Fresh Salmon with Mayo-Sigang Dressing, Bringhe, Pinoy Ratatoy and Halayang Mangga Tart and Pinsec. I’m really fascinated that one of my favorite restaurant-cafe will be demonstrating at the Maya Kitchen. The very well known Cafe Juanita, owned by Dr. Chef Efren Vasquez from Barangay San Isidro, Nueva Ecija, is...