Every dish, every dialogue.

Episode 05

Tinola

The one that breaks a fever

Ginger, chicken and green papaya in a clear broth. The Filipino comfort soup that turns up in Rizal's novels and at every sickbed - older than colonisation, built to make you sweat.

Episode 01

Chicken adobo

The dish that started it all

Vinegar, soy, garlic, bay leaves, and patience. Chef Fhred walks Liem through the dish - and the long line from Spanish marinade to a bamboo tube over fire.

Episode 02

Silog at Ceres

The eating episode

Three kinds of silog - tocilog, tapsilog, longsilog - at Ceres on Spring Street, and the conversation about why the show exists in the first place.

Episode 03

Balut

If you know, you know

The street-food classic. Fertilised duck egg, late-night snack, and a side-by-side with the Vietnamese cousin hột vịt lộn.

Episode 04

Pandesal

The bread that wakes the neighbourhood

Soft, warm, dusted with breadcrumbs. The morning bread roll - and what it means to bake the smell of home.