With Christmas day just a few hours away, I’m sure everyone is busy preparing all sorts of delicious dishes for tonight’s celebration. Cooking hams, baking desserts, roasting turkeys, making pasta. I’m sure careful planning has gone into making everyone’s Christmas menu.

Nothing says Christmas like a delicious Christmas ham on the table at noche buena. While the ham-hamon as it is locally called- originated in the west, Filipinos have whole-heartedly embraced it; adjusting and cooking it to suit the Filipino palate–making it a part of Filipino Christmas tradition.

As a kid, it is easy to think that Christmas is about presents, aguinaldo and noche buena. But as people get older, these perceptions are trimmed down to one important thing: having the entire family together for one day. People adjust their schedules, making sure that they have freed Christmas Day of any other commitments. [...]

For Filipinos, Christmas is the most-awaited season not only because we get to spend time with our friends and loved ones, but because we get to enjoy the special and unforgettable holiday flavors associated with this time of year. We always make sure that we prepare the perfect noche buena to usher in Christmas day, [...]

You cast your votes and now we have our winners! Three winners will be receiving a Php 1,000 gift certificate for Healthy Shabu-Shabu.
And our winners are…
AJ, of baklaako.com for this funny line:
Wagyu na tanong, dahil ang sagot me is King Crab. lol. So King Crab, wag yu magreklamo. wahehehe
Peter, who doesn’t cook. I hope you [...]