Anything’s better with bacon, worshippers of the Church of Bacon claim. Who am I to argue? Ever since I was small, bacon has been a favorite. To this day, we split bacon fair and square at my house, with skirmishes erupting when I try to sneak some off my mother’s plate. So what happens when bacon comes to Krispy Kreme?

I received an intriguing invitation. They were launching a new product, obviously, but what did the question, “Are you sweet or savory?” mean? My first guess was, “THEY’RE PUTTING BACON ON KRISPY KREMES!” My heart promptly skipped a beat, imagining how lovely the fusion would be.
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Some things are just cuter when they’re smaller. Kitties. Baby things. Re-ment miniatures. Does it apply to donuts? When we’re talking Krispy Kremes, they are! I was surprised to see a box of Krispy Kremes waiting on my office desk yesterday. I was even more surprised when I opened the box and saw the cutest doughnuts ever!

Despite the earlier trip, December had me back in Singapore. Ready to do all the food things I missed out on in October (find Bickford’s Sarsaparilla, eat at Din Tai Fung), I found it a bit funny that my first meal was at Mc Donald’s.

Yes, after basking mostly in Singaporean food during my previous trips, I actually found myself in a fastfood chain that’s all over Manila. Of course, after biting into their Spicy Chicken Sandwich, I readily ate my words. It was yummy! Flavorful, crisp on the outside, juicy on the inside—why can’t McD’s here do fastfood sandwiches as good as this?
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A treat I always enjoyed as a kid was homemade polvoron, a traditional Filipino snack made of toasted flour, powdered milk, butter and sugar. Growing up with my family’s version, I am very particular about how polvoron should be like. In fact, I never eat a certain local bakeshop’s popular polvoron because the texture and taste doesn’t cut it for me. So, I wasn’t expecting much when I received some samples from House of Polvoron, or HoP.

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