Eat This Now: Bola-Bola Siopao at Chowking

When we start calling Anaheim home to OC's own Little Manila, the epicenter of it all will be the plaza at the corner of Euclid and Crescent. When Jollibee and its sister Red Ribbon joined Kapit Bahay and LBC (the balikbayan box courier used by...

Filipino Fill-UpReaching maximum capacity and then some at Ellen’s Pinoy Grille Filipino food has been misunderstood, underappreciated and disrespected—even by me. When I was younger, I got exposed to it at catered events (weddings, baptisms)...

Just about every country in the East has a food that features pillowy steamed bread stuffed with meat. The Chinese begat the original, bao. The Japanese call theirs nikuman, while the Koreans have wang mandoo and the Filipinos siopao. Even...

You may have eaten bao, the pillowy white Chinese buns usually found three to a basket at dim sum. You may have even ventured to Buena Park’s Mami King for the Filipino version called siopao, or to Little Saigon’s food-to-go shops at which they’re...

Crispy pata, the well-loved Filipino dish of deep-fried pig’s trotter, is known for its meaty opulence. Boiled in spices until the meat approaches liquefaction, hung out to dry and then blasted with hot oil, the final product is a plunder of salt,...