Ang Peregrino Recommends 35: My Food Trips

My Food Trips
URL: http://​www​.myfoodtrips​.blogspot​.com/

My friend, Shalum, is the food critic/photographer/resto tripper/foodie behind My Food Trips. No, she’s not pay­ing me to do this, and no, I’m not doing this because I am part of many food trips she gets into. Hehe. But I’m doing this because I like how she has evolved into a really good food and resto critic.

My Food Trips started out as a Mul­ti­ply blog, but has now become a full fledged blog in Blogspot. She started the whole blog­ging thing because she was home­sick when my friend Mark (I men­tioned him in another post) whisked her away from her home­town in Cagayan de Oro when they got mar­ried about a year ago. Talk about mak­ing good use of your time! Now, they try out dif­fer­ent restos and eat­ing places any time they get and Shalum would take out her trusted cam while Mark waits duti­fully for her to click away before he digs in. Oh, and some­times I tag along for the ride. :-)

I like her politely hon­est assess­ments of the restau­rant inte­ri­ors, ser­vice, food and over-all ambiance of the places she vis­its. While she gives hon­est reviews, she’s not scathing in her remarks and you can sense that it is a strug­gle for her to give neg­a­tive appraisals of the places she vis­its. The late great Doreen Fer­nan­dez is like that—she’s very polite and does not resort to bad­mouthing in order to increase her read­er­ship. In fact, the ulti­mate insult would be for Doreen not to write about your resto after eat­ing there—because that is how she thinks–if you can­not write any­thing good, then do not write at all. Or Do not bite the hand that feeds you. :p

I per­son­ally like that because it tells me that My Food Trips doesn’t have the usual stiff-upper lip that we have come to view food review­ers of today (think Anton Ego of Rata­touille, or HongKong based Chua Lam of the orig­i­nal Iron Chef). I think being pos­i­tive is a much bet­ter way to talk about food–specially if you’re talk­ing about food!– than find­ing fault with it.

For the great food pics, the hon­est but polite assess­ment of food, resto and ser­vice, and for the adven­tures that keep home­sick­ness at bay, AngPere­grino Rec­om­mends My Food Trips this week.