Tipple Tales Drinks That Give Us Tito and Tita Feels The holiday season is all about reunions and catching up with good ol’ friends, and what better—and more fun—way to celebrate history and friendship than with throwback drinks from your college years? Here are a few certified tito and tita drinks that deserve to be reintroduced. Rum Coke It was the defining drink of Generation Y, who grew up during … Read More
Tipple Tales Throwback Drinks Time flies when you’re having fun. And before you know it, you’re already part of the infamous Titas and Titos of Manila, having merienda at Mary Grace (which I hear is the ultimate “Tita” place), trying to figure out what the new slang is, and complaining about how loud bars have become. It’s like we blinked and now the best … Read More
Cocktail Soju + Yakult Who would’ve thought that Yakult, the innocuous milky-yogurty drink in the iconic little plastic bottle (Remember the commercial with the cartoon “good bacteria?” Lactobacilli Shirota strain!) could be paired with alcohol. It seems unlikely, but paired with Soju (Korean distilled rice liquor), it definitely works! Just mix equal parts Yakult and Soju in a glass with ice and you have … Read More
Cocktail Cosmopolitan Sex and the City (1998-2004) was groundbreaking. No one had ever seen anything like it before. No show before it centered on the lives of four single women in their 30s. It openly discussed sex, tackled relationship hits and misses, and showed real female friendship. It dictated fashion and set trends. We all tried to see which ones in our … Read More
Cocktail Super Submarine This was a staple at Penguin (RIP) in Remedios, Malate. Take a bottle of Red Horse beer, pour it into a large beer mug and drop a shot of lambanog (coconut vodka) and enjoy this cold beverage that is sure to give you a swift kick. The sweetness of the lambanog (from Quezon, not the mass-produced flavored ones you see … Read More