Prior to the new year, California-based T. Hasegawa USA declared in its 2024 Food and Beverage Flavor Trends Report that ube will be the flavor of the year. In 2015, National Geographic wrote, “The Filipino Food Wave Is Coming” while Mashable declared that Filipino cuisine would be a “huge food trend you'll devour in 2016.” When the trend failed to …
Ever since he was a child, nothing has excited John Rivera more than hearing the bells of Manila's colourful two-wheeled sorbeteros carts. More than 20,000 Filipinos — 31 per cent of the total Filipino population in Victoria — live in Melbourne's west, mostly in local council areas like Brimbank, Melton, and Wyndham. Fides Mae Santos and Grace Guinto of The …
Ube: The Filipino tuber taking over the world Veena Nair/Getty Images Some Filipinos hope ube's newfound popularity will encourage more people to get to know Filipino cuisine Vivid and violet, this technicolour tuber is now a popular international ingredient. Stuart Dee/Getty Images Purple ube halaya is often used to top off a bowl of halo-halo "That's why I think there's …
