I'm really happy to see Filipino cuisine starting to really take hold outside of the Pinoy community.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

Italy is hard to beat. It's a family-friendly experience, they like to see kids in restaurants, and at dinner you see all the adults at the table and all the kids at the other end of the table. Maybe they run off and go play.

We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again.

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.