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Food & Stories

At the Table

Filipino food is memory, identity, and conversation. Stories from the kitchen, the market, and the table — told by the people who live them.

Every dish carries a story worth telling.

Food in the Philippines is never just sustenance. It is the language of welcome, the record of migration, the argument between generations about whose adobo is correct.

This section gathers the writers, cooks, and memory-keepers who understand that the truest way to know a place is to eat it — slowly, with attention, and in good company.

Featured in Issue No. 1

Chef Myke Tatung Sarthou in his kitchen wearing a Simpol apron
Food & Stories

Restaurant Feature

Tatung's Takes You "Home"

Celebrity chef Myke "Tatung" Sarthou celebrates Filipino food culture through his most personal restaurant yet.

By Maan D'Asis Pamaran

12 min read·Issue No. 1
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Full table spread at Tatung's showing multiple Filipino heirloom dishes
Food & Stories

At the Table

Filipino Heirloom Cooking with Intention

From the Whole Pampano Braised in Coconut Milk to the crisp Okoy, the menu at Tatung's is a love letter to the dishes passed down through hands, not recipes.

5 min read·Issue No. 1
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Coming December 2026

More stories from the Filipino table.

Issue No. 1 arrives December 2026 with recipes, portraits, and the food memories that shape who we are.