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Tonette Martel’s ‘Between East and West’ : Traveling with mind and body
by SURREAL SUBURBIA By Philip Cu-Unjieng - March 11, 2007 - 12:00am
Between East and West may sound at first like a geo-political treatise on East-West relations, or a novel about a Fil-Am child struggling underneath the burden of his cross-cultural heritage. But in Tonette...
Rally-ing the real estate market
by SURREAL SUBURBIA By Philip Cu-Unjieng - December 16, 2006 - 12:00am
I can tell you all my secrets, but the devil is in the details!" With that delicious quote, and with a Cheshire cat smile on his face, Rally Martinez gamely replies to my query on what sets him apart...
M Café’s carnivore night
by SURREAL SUBURBIA By Philip Cu-Unjieng - December 14, 2006 - 12:00am
When the invitation came for dinner at M Cafe, hosted by Alternatives Food Corporation, distributors of Snake River Farms American Wagyu beef, I blacked out, conjuring up visions of beef heaven. I’ve...
A Japanese trattoria comes to Greenbelt 3
by SURREAL SUBURBIA By Philip Cu-Unjieng - November 23, 2006 - 12:00am
For a restaurant to have prospered for over 30 years, and to have managed to expand to over 150 outlets –found in Japan, Guam, Hawaii, Saipan and Taiwan, and now in the Philippines – it’s got...
London,as seen through cracked lenses
by SURREAL SUBURBIA By Philip Cu-Unjieng - September 3, 2006 - 12:00am
Two recently published novels prove there are ways to take a venerable and oft-written-about city like London, and give it a fresh patina and sheen that defies expectations. First-time novelist Gautam Malkani and...
Saving face
by SURREAL SUBURBIA By Philip Cu-Unjieng - June 18, 2006 - 12:00am
Back when I was in my early 30s, my mom would constantly nag me about how harsh regular soaps were for facial washing, and that while still early, I should create a simple regimen of moisturizing regularly, and especially...
Shaggy dog litter-ature
by SURREAL SUBURBIA By Philip Cu-Unjieng - May 28, 2006 - 12:00am
I’ve always been partial to literature with absurd, off-the-wall, shaggy-dog, irreverent humor. I remember with better clarity how good it felt finishing my first Kurt Vonnegut or Tom Robbins novel than...
Sur-real world history
by SURREAL SUBURBIA By Philip Cu-Unjieng - March 26, 2006 - 12:00am
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Meet the private shopper of Manila’s who’s who
by SURREAL SUBURBIA By Philip Cu-Unjieng - March 1, 2006 - 12:00am
There’s this Asian woman, her family came from Vietnam. She’s a professional, with her own business in the Bay Area. She comes in every so often and looks for me, and she doesn’t bat an eyelash getting...
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