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At their new restaurant in Buford Highway's Asian Square, Mia Orino and Carlo Gan serve a regular a la carte menu most nights of the week, in addition to hosting regular kamayan-style meals—the ones their pop-up made famous.

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Kamayan in Tagalog translates to “by hand,” and describes the method of eating with your hands. It’s best used during a boodle fight where you share a meal with friends and family over a banana leaf-lined table filled to the max with delicious ulam (or main dish). What’s the meaning of a boodle fight? Eating kamayan was the traditional way…Continue Reading→

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For my birthday last year I held a kamayan feast at my house for a dozen+ of my closest friends. I’ve talked about kamayans before when I took Jen and some coworkers to Jeepney in NYC. This w…

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kamayan, or eating with your hands, is one thing that is truly Filipino. The Spanish stopped this native Filipino way of eating and taught Filipinos to eat “the civilized way” with utensils and silverware. Today in the Philippines, kamayan is not often seen in restaurants but is more often found in the dining rooms and kitchens of peoples’ homes.

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