Buried fire, shared roots: A Maori and Papuan stone-cooking bond
A Maori hangi and Papuan bubigi cooked side by side highlight deep-rooted culinary parallels, where food becomes both sustenance and a language of togetherness.
Dissecting the Noche Buena—the Philippines’ Christmas Eve feast
Museum director and anthropologist Cora Alvina unravels what appears on Filipinos' Christmas Eve table, tracing many dishes to history, migration, and adaptation.
Hapag and Aya pastry chef plays with Filipino flavors for a serious reason
Pastry chef Sam Singson-Javier fears losing Filipino traditions and flavors—her desserts are meant to preserve them
CNN Travel lists Myanmar’s Meen Hing Kha as one of the world’s 20 best soups
CNN Travel reports that the soup has a fragrant aroma, contains rice flour, and uses fish, a type of meat.
A cup of coffee, entirely Bhutanese
CCH2O Café is modest in scale but it carries an unusually deliberate ambition. Its premise is simple and quietly radical: that a cup of coffee served in Bhutan can be Bhutanese…
Malaysian bun makers to ‘bao’ out after 72 years
Wai Heng, 80, Khai Ming, 77, and Khai Keong, 71, plan to retire at the end of this month after devoting most of their lives to running their shops.
Pho Day Festival brings regional flavours to Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh
The event marks the opening of the Phở Day Festival 2025, held under the theme “Elevating Vietnamese rice, spreading to the five continents,” and has attracted large numbers…
Finding community and culture in a bowl of tea in this Chinese county
People in the shop talked, laughed, and encouraged one another as if a bowl of leicha were more than just food — it was a bond that brought them together, offering comfort and a…
Philippines’ ‘dinosaur egg’ salt gets UNESCO protection
The UNESCO inscription recognizes the centuries-old, labor-intensive process behind "asin tibuok," which involves filtering seawater through the ashes of burned coconut husks…
‘Queso de bola’: The symbol of a Filipino Christmas
"Queso de bola" appears almost exclusively during Christmas and New Year’s. This limited presence gives it a powerful emotional association. Children grow up recognising that…