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Classic mooncake offerings
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or the Mooncake Festival, is one of the most important occasions in Chinese culture. It is during this season when families reunite, often traveling long distances to be together. These important days are hardly complete without mooncakes, the beloved pastries filled with lotus seed paste, red bean, or other fillings. This year, the Mid-Autumn Festival falls on 29 September. With the season fast approaching, get your delectable signature mooncakes at these places for your lunar reunions. The Peninsula Manila At the Peninsula Boutique, choose from the rich and iconic egg custard, or the traditional white lotus seed paste with egg yolk. These seasonal favorites come in boxes of six (Mini Lotus Seed Paste with Egg Yolk) or four (Mini Egg Custard). Have the best of both worlds with an eight-piece mooncake box that offers these quintessential flavors in one box. [caption id="attachment_181865" align="aligncenter" width="2560"] Mini Egg Custard | PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF THE PENINSULA MANILA[/caption] [caption id="attachment_181861" align="aligncenter" width="1500"] TRADITIONAL mooncake. | PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF NEWPORT WORLD RESORTS[/caption] Email penboutiquepmn@peninsula.com or call 8887-2888 (trunk line), extension 6691 and 6694 (restaurant reservations), e-mail dining PMN@peninsula.com. Visit peninsula.com/manila. Shangri-La The Fort Available until 29 September, Shangri-La The Fort’s generously filled mooncakes come in six flavors: Pineapple and Walnuts, White Lotus with Salted Egg Yolk, Red Bean and Pine Nuts, Mixed Nuts, Jasmine Tea and Black Sesame with Salted Egg Yolk, in mini size (75g) at P588 or regular size (150g) at P788. They also come in elegant and intricate boxes such as the Square Box of two (with two pieces regular mooncakes) at P1,688, Square Box of four (with four pieces regular mooncakes) at P3,388, Cheongsam Box of six (with six pieces mini mooncakes) at P3,688, and Premium Moon Box of four (with four pieces mini mooncakes) at P4,888. Custom Shangri-La hampers are also available with rate starting at P5,888 where you can combine à la carte picks together with your mooncake flavors of choice. Reserve your mooncake boxes and hampers today through eats.slfm@shangri-la.com or 091SLFMEATS (09175363287). [caption id="attachment_181864" align="aligncenter" width="2560"] LUNG Hin mooncakes. | PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF Marco Polo Ortigas[/caption] Newport World Resorts Savor the distinct flavor of autumn with the intricately crafted pastries that come in ube, red bean and lotus flavors at Newport World Resorts. Bring light to these celebrations with these premium cakes that come in a majestic lantern box. The package set of four is available for P3,888 per box. Sample the festive mooncakes in Shanghai Ube for P238, Red Bean for P378, and Crispy Ube and Lotus for P478 each. The signature mooncake collection will be available the whole month of September at the Newport Garden Wing restaurants: Garden Wing Cafe, Victoria Harbour Cafe, Happy 8 and Newport Grand Wing’s Silk Road. Share special Marriott Moments this Moon Festival with The Gold Mooncake Box from Marriott Hotel Manila. Indulge in classic and unique flavors of mooncake like Red Lotus Paste with Salted Duck Egg Yolk, White Lotus Paste with Salted Duck Egg Yolk, Durian, and Wine Cranberry. Available for the whole month of September, each piece is priced at P588, while a box of four is priced at P3,388 and a box of six at P4,388. Every purchase of Marriott Manila’s mooncakes supports a worthy cause with part of the proceeds given to a chosen beneficiary of Marriott Worldwide Business Councils-Philippines. Call +63 917 584 9553, +63 917 624 5980 or email manilamarriottrestaurants@marriott.com. Visit www.newportworldresorts.com. Marco Polo Ortigas Paying tribute to its Hong Kong roots, Marco Polo Ortigas’ award-winning Cantonese restaurant, Lung Hin, is offering a delightful selection of premium mooncakes until 30 September. These authentic delicacies come in four flavors: Red Bean with Double Egg Yolk, White Lotus with Double Egg Yolk, Red Lotus with Double Egg Yolk and Mixed Nuts Flavors, beautifully packaged in auspicious boxes. Available in individual box (P938); box of four (P3,488); box of six (P5,168); limited-edition box of four (P3,688); or limited-edition box of six (P5,368). Reserve your Mid-Autumn Treasures via 7720-7777 or lunghin.mnl@marcopolohotels.com. The post Classic mooncake offerings appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Biden awards Vietnam veteran top honor days before Hanoi visit
Joe Biden on Tuesday awarded the highest US military honor to an army helicopter pilot who saved four troops during the Vietnam War, in a ceremony days before the president heads to the Southeast Asian nation. Larry Taylor, now 81, braved heavy enemy fire so a group of trapped soldiers could cling onto the skids of his two-seat Cobra helicopter, a never-before-attempted feat at the time. "That's valor, that's our nation at its very best," Biden said before placing the Medal of Honor around the retired captain's neck in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. Taylor dabbed his eyes as Biden recounted the story of how the four members of a reconnaissance patrol were pinned down in a hamlet near Saigon on 18 June 1968. His helicopter took several hits as it and another gunship made attack runs for 45 minutes to try to give the men an escape route. But after learning that a rescue chopper had been called off, Taylor, then a first lieutenant, defied a "direct order" to return to base, said Biden. "His response was just as direct -- I'm getting my men out." He landed under heavy fire and the soldiers clambered on the skids and rocket pods of the helicopter, which lifted them to a safe location. Taylor waited 55 years to receive the Medal of Honor, following a campaign by fellow veterans. Biden, 80, whose wife Jill tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, wore a black mask for the start of the ceremony but then removed it to speak. He is set to visit Vietnam on Sunday for a meeting with the leader of the ruling Communist Party, as Washington seeks to counter China's influence in the region. The Vietnam War ended in humiliation for the United States, with a traumatic evacuation from besieged Saigon in 1975, but the former foes have since fostered close ties. White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told a briefing earlier on Tuesday that the visit was part of a decades-long effort to "overcome a painful shared legacy of the Vietnam War." The post Biden awards Vietnam veteran top honor days before Hanoi visit appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Mid-Autumn mooncake collection
Mooncakes have long been a highlight of Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations, with many experts agreeing there is no substitute for those created by Solaire’s Red Lantern’s executive chef Tai Siew Hong and chef de partie Ralff Jiang. Available until 29 September with exclusive, limited-edition White Lotus Paste with Dalmore Whiskey mooncakes and White Lotus Paste with Remy Martin Cognac, Red Lantern’s mooncakes are available to order through Solaire’s website. [caption id="attachment_174614" align="aligncenter" width="665"] Snow Skin Mooncake with Solaire chiller.[/caption] Red Lantern’s culinary team first launched this year Solaire’s Snow Skin mooncake with Avocado custard and Chocolate Coffee; and Black Sesame and Chocolate wine and Mango with Chocolate Lemon. Red Lantern has also designed a mooncake box which offers a decadent taste of the season with luxurious collections including a box of baked mooncake with White Lotus Paste and double egg yolk, Mix Nut and Pork Floss, Red Bean paste and Double Egg Yolk, and Black Sesame and Double Egg Yolk. The mooncake boxes are truly an ideal gift for relatives and business associates — or simply for guests’ own enjoyment. Visit www.solaireresort.com/mooncake or call 8888-8888. The mooncakes are available through e-commerce site at shop.solaireresort.com. The post Mid-Autumn mooncake collection appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Reviews: Cinemalaya Shorts B
‘GOLDEN BELLS’ Kurt Soberano’s Golden Bells is the only entry with superior technical craft. However, it severely alienates the audience by picking a subject matter that not everyone can relate to. Sure, it carries universal themes of familial relationships, hopes, desires and sacrifice, but Golden Bells fails to connect emotionally. It’s a monotonous story about a Filipino-Chinese family running a garments business, with one of the sons as its central character. It is through the son’s lens that we learn his perspective of the family patriarch. Too bottled up in its own world on a very surface level, it is largely unrelatable and feels more like a commercial ad for a business rather than a piece of cinema. (1 out of 5 stars). ‘TONG ADLAW NGA NAG-SNOW SA PINAS’ Joshua Caesar Medroso’s monochromatic Tong Adlaw nga Nag-snow sa Pinas starts off quite well. Set in a remote and impoverished coastal town, two young boys, Makong and Renren, are playing, pretending that it’s snowing by making fake snowflakes out of styrofoam boxes. The styro-snow looks great in black-and -white and Medroso manages to evoke nostalgic imagery of a pre-Internet childhood. But underneath the innocent play lies a violent subtext: child abuse cushioned by a melodramatic portrait of compassion and friendship. The short abruptly ends, and it feels as if Medroso’s other video clips got mistakenly deleted and he has no choice but to finally put the end credits and submit his film. (1 out of 5 stars) [caption id="attachment_170059" align="aligncenter" width="656"] Ang Kining Binalaybay Kag Ambahanon ko para sa Imo[/caption] ‘ANG KINING BINALAYBAY KAG AMBAHANON KO PARA SA IMO’ Kent John Desamparado’s family drama is heartbreaking and appeals to the special bond between a grandfather and a granddaughter. It follows a poor, ailing fisherman, who, no longer able to take care of his young granddaughter, painfully decides to give her away to other relatives. The filmmaker takes the viewer along on their journey to inevitable doom. Desamparado manages to capture the nuances of a very loving relationship between the grandpa and the little girl. It breaks the heart, and also becomes a light commentary on the realities of poverty. However, it’s still rough around the edges and the finale is too weak. (2.5 out of 5 stars). ‘MAKOKO SA BAYBAY’ This is so forgettable I honestly could not recall the details of the short. I could vaguely recall a very strong sunset color palette, sea monsters and mothers and little kids longing for their mothers. If something like this vanishes from your mind soon after you’ve left the cinema, then you get my point. (0 out of 5 stars). [caption id="attachment_170060" align="aligncenter" width="600"] ‘Maudi Nga Arapaap’[/caption] ‘MAUDI NGA ARAPAAP’ Daniel Magayon’s psychological horror short is funnier than scary, amusing rather than disturbing. It follows a graveyard-shift female nurse with experiences of traumatic child abuse by her mother, who has recently died. The scenes of a child being abused by the very person that should nurture her is heartbreaking. But the occasional appearance of a demon-like creature related to a plant is funny and fails to evoke sinister vibes. Magayon, however, still manages to send a clear message about the fragile relationship between a mother and daughter, as well as the long-term effects of child abuse. The literal monster element is wholly unessential, offering nothing sinister or metaphorical, ultimately causing the short’s downfall. (2 out of 5 stars) The post Reviews: Cinemalaya Shorts B appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Cinemalaya Shorts B
‘GOLDEN BELLS’ Kurt Soberano’s Golden Bells is the only entry with superior technical craft. However, it severely alienates the audience by picking a subject matter that not everyone can relate to. Sure, it carries universal themes of familial relationships, hopes, desires and sacrifice, but Golden Bells fails to connect emotionally. It’s a monotonous story about a Filipino-Chinese family running a garments business, with one of the sons as its central character. It is through the son’s lens that we learn his perspective of the family patriarch. Too bottled up in its own world on a very surface level, it is largely unrelatable and feels more like a commercial ad for a business rather than a piece of cinema. (1 out of 5 stars). ‘TONG ADLAW NGA NAG-SNOW SA PINAS’ Joshua Caesar Medroso’s monochromatic Tong Adlaw nga Nag-snow sa Pinas starts off quite well. Set in a remote and impoverished coastal town, two young boys, Makong and Renren, are playing, pretending that it’s snowing by making fake snowflakes out of styrofoam boxes. The styro-snow looks great in black-and -white and Medroso manages to evoke nostalgic imagery of a post-Internet childhood. But underneath the innocent play lies a violent subtext: child abuse cushioned by a melodramatic portrait of compassion and friendship. The short abruptly ends, and it feels as if Medroso’s other video clips got mistakenly deleted and he has no choice but to finally put the end credits and submit his film. (1 out of 5 stars) [caption id="attachment_170059" align="aligncenter" width="656"] Ang Kining Binalaybay Kag Ambahanon ko para sa Imo[/caption] ‘ANG KINING BINALAYBAY KAG AMBAHANON KO PARA SA IMO’ Kent John Desamparado’s family drama is heartbreaking and appeals to the special bond between a grandfather and a granddaughter. It follows a poor, ailing fisherman, who, no longer able to take care of his young granddaughter, painfully decides to give her away to other relatives. The filmmaker takes the viewer along on their journey to inevitable doom. Desamparado manages to capture the nuances of a very loving relationship between the grandpa and the little girl. It breaks the heart, and also becomes a light commentary on the realities of poverty. However, it’s still rough around the edges and the finale is too weak. (2.5 out of 5 stars). ‘MAKOKO SA BAYBAY’ This is so forgettable I honestly could not recall the details of the short. I could vaguely recall a very strong sunset color palette, sea monsters and mothers and little kids longing for their mothers. If something like this vanishes from your mind soon after you’ve left the cinema, then you get my point. (0 out of 5 stars). [caption id="attachment_170060" align="aligncenter" width="600"] ‘Maudi Nga Arapaap’[/caption] ‘MAUDI NGA ARAPAAP’ Daniel Magayon’s psychological horror short is funnier than scary, amusing rather than disturbing. It follows a graveyard-shift female nurse with experiences of traumatic child abuse by her mother, who has recently died. The scenes of a child being abused by the very person that should nurture her is heartbreaking. But the occasional appearance of a demon-like creature related to a plant is funny and fails to evoke sinister vibes. Magayon, however, still manages to send a clear message about the fragile relationship between a mother and daughter, as well as the long-term effects of child abuse. The literal monster element is wholly unessential, offering nothing sinister or metaphorical, ultimately causing the short’s downfall. (2 out of 5 stars) The post Cinemalaya Shorts B appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Nepal finds black boxes of aircraft after deadliest crash in 30 years
KATHMANDU — Searchers found the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder on Monday, January 16, 2023, from a passenger flight that crashed, killing at least 70 people in Nepal’s worst plane accident for 30 years, officials said. The data on the recorders may help investigators determine what caused the Yeti Airlines ATR 72 aircraft, […] The post Nepal finds black boxes of aircraft after deadliest crash in 30 years appeared first on Cebu Daily News......»»
Hunt for cockpit tapes
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Divers scoured the seabed near Indonesia’s capital Wednesday for the cockpit recordings of a crashed passenger plane, after investigators said it would be days before they could read the flight data recorder that had already been salvaged. The two “black boxes” could supply critical clues as to why the Sriwijaya Air […] The post Hunt for cockpit tapes appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Indonesian divers hunt for crashed plane s black boxes
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Ashley Tisdale buntis sa 2nd baby: ‘We can’t wait to meet you!’
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EXPLAINER: Why did the Baltimore bridge collapse and what is the death toll?
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The significance of Holy Thursday
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LIST: Dragonpay’s payment channels schedule for Holy Week
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