How to have even more fun in this archipelago
Get a copy of Linamnam by Claude Tayag and Mary Ann Quioc.
Linamnam, Php395 at National Bookstores
Proceed to eat your way around the Philippines. This culinary travel guide is arranged by region for easy reference: now you know exactly where to go and what to order. What! You’ve never had the Crispy Itik and Peking Duck at Tindahan ng Itlog ni Kuya in Laguna?? You call yourself a foodie but you’ve never tried the Chupaculo at Ermin Ray Lim Saavedra Home Suite Home Hotel in Zamboanga?? You need this book.
This one we’re saving for Roland Garros
The Map and The Territory, hardcover, Php995 at National Bookstores.
Perfect for those clay court rallies in which one player stands in the 17th arrondisement and the other stands in the 15th, and the ball goes slowly back and forth until one of them dozes off. Kidding. We have to go.
We’re still not sure whether we like Houellebecq but for some reason we can’t not read him.
The Ermine of Czernopol, Php600-something at National Bookstores
Design is the second thing we love about NYRB Books; the novels are the first. We’ve loved Gregor von Rezzori since we happened upon the NYRB reissue of Memoirs of an Anti-Semite; with the return of The Ermine of Czernopol a nearly-forgotten European genius reclaims his place in literature.
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