Tag: desserts
Towering Ice Cream in Norm’s Michigan
One of the highlights of my Michigan trip this year is Norm’s Ice Cream, a seasonal local hang out in West Michigan. They have three locations—Grand Haven, North Muskegon, and Fruitport. My new Michigan friends (Hi, Katie and Nate!) took me to the latter. What’s a digital nomad/modern city girl like me doing all the […]
International Women’s Day With Hershey’s
Happy International Women’s Day! I cried when Hershey’s Philippines sent me the final package design of the campaign they asked me to join. When I started my mental health advocacy in 2012, it was a different time. There were hardly any celebs or influencers talking about mental health on local TV or social media back […]
Rediscovering Station X
It was a clever idea to nickname this location at the border of Boracay’s Stations 2 and 3 as “Station X.” By word of mouth, you’d have tourists curious to ask: “Is it an exclusive beach spot like Station 0?” Not exactly. It’s not one of the island’s unpopulated beaches like the unofficial Station 0, […]
Tony’s Chocolonely is Finally in the Philippines
My favorite Dutch chocolate bar is finally here! I’m not sure exactly when Tony’s Chocolonely started officially distributing to the Philippines, but I was ecstatic to see these bars on the shelves of S&R this quarter. Tony’s Chocolonely was founded by Dutch journalist Teun van de Keuken, who launched a crusade against slavery in the […]
Miyahara Is More Than Just a Hogwarts Lookalike
When our tour guide told us that our next destination, Miyahara, is “Like the Hogwarts of Taiwan,” my inner Potterhead fluttered with excitement. Of course I had to see what the fuss was all about. If you read up on this famous tourist spot in Taichung, the blurbs are similar—“It has a Harry Potter vibe” […]
How To Choose The Best Gelato
When I explored the food culture of Italy, one of the lessons I learned is: Not all gelatos are created equal. Before my Europe trip, I remember eating expensive “gelatos” in Manila, thinking they were all the real deal. Not so, said the locals I met in Italy. There are five simple ways to suss […]
![[Video] Nutella Soup For The Soul](https://katewashere.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/nutella_soup.jpg)
[Video] Nutella Soup For The Soul
Gino’s Brick Oven Pizza first opened in the Philippines back in 2012. With now four branches all over Manila, their famous dessert, Nutella Soup, deserves a revisit. Watch and drool, Nutella lovers!
Nuts About Pili
Whenever my grandparents, Belen and Vergel, visited us all the way from Daet, Camariñes Norte, they would bring a bag of pili candy as pasalubong. My sister and I would dig through their luggage to look for bags of honey-coated pili, pastillas (milk pills) de pili, and other treats coated in sugar or salt. When you go […]
Monster Cookies
Poor Cookie Monster. He’s wants to get his paws at those sweet and savory cookies, but he’s always stuck somewhere—behind the counter, on the chandelier, or in the shelves. But that’s how the cookie crumbles at Schmackary’s. Each time I visited the store on 45th St. and 9th Ave., the plush Cookie Monster toy was […]