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Is she a fashionable foodie? Or is she a foodie who loves fashion? Join Jigs Arquiza as he enjoys an intimate dim sum dinner with the granddaughter of one of Cebu’s food icons, who also happens to be the niece of one of Cebu’s top fashion designers.

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It’s kind of a mix between fashion and food. You could say that on one phone, it’s all about TST and food. On my other phone, mga fabrics!“ “

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In between bites of delicious siomai and dragon balls, I comment on how the Cebu restaurant industry has grown in the past five years. My dinner companion and interviewee, Patrice Uytengsu, replies “My grandfather Henry Uytengsu was one of the people who popularized dim sum here in Cebu.” Patrice then went on to relate how the Uytengsu patriarch opened the popular Chinese restaurant Ding Hao in the sixties.

“In a way,” Patrice relates, “The restaurant Tsim Sha Tsui, here in The Terraces in Ayala, is an offshoot of my grandfather’s restaurant. We’re just continuing the legacy.” And it seems that TST, as the regulars call it, is becoming quite as popular as Ding Hao. “In fact,” Patrice proudly declares, “we were chosen as the Most Promising Retailer” in the 2011 Annual Ayala Merchants Awards which was held in Greenbelt 5 in Makati.”

While 22-year-old Patrice is the manager of Tsim Sha Tsui, it may come as a surprise that she’s never taken courses in restaurant and hotel management. “I took Fashion Design and Merchandising at the College of St. Benilde in Manila, after graduating from Sacred Heart School for Girls.” Patice continues, “I graduated in 2009 and took further studies at the Fashion Institute of the Philippines.”

“So basically, you’re more of a fashionista?” I ask. Patrice laughs, “Siguro I was inspired by my uncle Philip Rodriguez, who’s a fashion designer. I was still in high school when I started helping out in Uncle Philip’s shop.” She then explains, “It’s kind of a mix between fashion and food. You could say that on one phone, it’s all about TST and food. On my other phone, mga fabrics!” referring to the textile store along Gorordo Ave. she manages, called Carolina’s. “There’s also an RTW store inside called Pachuchai.” Patrice adds.

The eldest of a brood of four girls, Patrice had always wanted to be a businesswoman. Her childhood dream coming true at an early age, she still has several projects in mind. “I want to have my own fashion line, maybe this year or next year.” And five years from now? “My fashion line should be doing good by then. People think that the fashion industry is easy, but really, it’s not. So I am really hoping that my fashion line would be popular.” Talking about her design influences, Patrice says that “Whenever I design clothes, it would something that I myself would wear.” She then goes on to name Philip Rodriguez, Valentino and Elie Saab as her favorite influences and inspirations.

With all her responsibilities at Tsim Sha Tsui and Carolina’s, one could wonder how Patrice finds time for family and relaxation. “”Sundays is always for family!” Patrice insists, “and my dad has decreed that everyone has to come home for lunch as much as possible.”

She also makes it a point to go to the beach as often as possible. “I’m a beach person. If there’s good weather, I love to hit the beach, of course, with a good chillout soundtrack!”

Volvo enthusiasts in the local scene will now be able to get up close and personal with the new breed of dynamic, stylish and inherently safe Volvos. These Volvos were introduced at the 2011 staging of the Manila International Auto Show at the World Trade Center, Pasay City last April 7-10, 2011.

All-New Volvo V60 Sportswagon debutJoining the All-New Volvo S60 on the floor this year

is its more versatile and muscular sibling, the All-New Volvo V60 T5 Sportswagon. A true sportswagon created with uncompromising passion, the V60 is as sporty as its sedan sibling, the All-New Volvo S60. High-precision direct-fuel injection together with Volvo’s patented turbocharger and variable camshafts give these four-cylinder 2.0L powerplants the powerful characteristics of larger engines without their high fuel-consumption. Instant acceleration, more responsive handling and a relaxed driving experience can be easily enjoyed in all driving situations. Other fuel-saving features, like brake energy regeneration, help keep carbon dioxide emissions low. Of course, the V60 complies with stringent environmental standards such as the Euro 5.

The Dynamic New Approach to design is also evident and clearly shows the uncompromising sportiness of the V60. “Every detail looks like it’s in motion. All these lines ‘embrace’ the driver’s cockpit. The instruments and centre stack are angled towards the driver to enhance the sensation of focus and control. The new dynamic three-spoke steering wheel and the new sports seats with extra side supports are standard. There isn’t a single weak point or compromise anywhere in the dynamic approach we adopted from the very beginning,” says Jonathan Disley, head of interior design in the new V60.

Go Somewhere. Ride by Volvo.This year, Volvo invites people to simply indulge

in a bit of wanderlust with its summer campaign, Go Somewhere. A bold and daring statement that encourages one to go further and seek new adventures, the new breed of Volvos displayed at this year’s Manila International Auto show is every driver’s dream. With Volvo as the ride of choice, each mile is enjoyed with the

peace of mind and confidence that you are in a car that is safe, stylish and smart.

New breed of Volvos now availableFollowing the introduction of the All-New Volvo

S60, a new breed of Volvos were unleashed to the local automotive jungle, all poised and heaving with sheer animal dynamism.

An all-new Volvo S60 1.6L four-cylinder direct injection petrol turbo engine is now locally available and offers high efficiency in a small package – all to minimize carbon dioxide emissions without compromising agility. The state-of-the-art petrol engine technology utilizes high-precision direct injection and turbocharging which ensure low fuel consumption with a powerful engine response at all revs, while low engine weight means swift handling. This is another engine option for the mid-sized sports sedan, the other two being a 2.0L Powershift engine and a 304hp T6 engine that features the revolutionary world-first preventive safety feature, Collision Warning with Full Auto Brake and Pedestrian Detection.

A 2.0L Volvo XC60 variant is also available in addition to the existing 2.5L turbodiesel engine and 3.0L T6 petrol engine. Still a standard on all variants, the groundbreaking City Safety feature continues to provide peace of mind with its laser-based technology continuously monitoring the area ahead and can brake automatically to help avoid or mitigate a rear-end collision between cars.

Also displayed was Volvo’s seven-seater SUV, the Volvo XC90, which provides an even more enjoyable ride for large families. A Volvo certified pre-owned C30 model was also showcased at the show, enticing guests with its Bright Orange body paint and an array of options to make the nimble sports coupe even more dynamic. Delivering on brand values, warranty and inspection compliance, getting a certified pre-owned Volvo makes as much sense as getting a brand new one.

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“Hanna” is the bad-ass girl-power movie “Sucker Punch” wanted to be – or at least

should have wanted to be – and the thriller that Angelina Jolie’s “Salt” only was at times.

Director Joe Wright keeps this story of revenge and survival moving in stylish, pulsating fashion. And of course he has one long, breathtaking tracking shot, which has become a signature for the director of such films as 2007’s “Atonement.” But at its core, this is actually a coming-of-age drama, and the fact that it features such great performances from such a strong cast makes you care whether these people live or die.

Saoirse Ronan, who was nominated for a supporting-actress Oscar for her portrayal of a sneaky little girl with a secret in “Atonement,” reteams with Wright in a role that could not be more different, or more challenging. She stars as the title character, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, 16-year-old killing machine.

Hanna lives with her father, Erik (Eric Bana), in a rustic cabin in a remote and unforgiving forest just below the Arctic Circle. Blanketed in snow and bathed in bleak, wintry sunlight, the place has the magical and frightening feel of something you’d see in a fairy tale – and the screenplay from Seth Lochhead and David Farr goes back to notion of Hanna as fairy-tale heroine again and again.

Erik teaches Hanna to hunt, fight and speak in various languages. Their hand-to-hand combat scenes are quick, intense, visceral – until one day she tells him, “I’m ready.” But who she is and what he’s training her for are a tantalizing mystery.

Turns out her father is a former CIA man, and the two have been living in isolation for most of her life. Once he leaves her with plans to reunite with her in Berlin, she must embark on the journey that

is her destiny. Hanna is captured by government agents who think she’s a shy and sheltered little girl. But, uh ... they’re wrong. And this sequence, in which she annihilates everyone in her path, is one of many that are punctuated perfectly by an electronic score from The Chemical Brothers. Wright trusts his actors and the choreography, and lets these fight scenes play out without a lot of unnecessary edits.

Hanna’s purpose is to track down veteran intelligence operative Marissa Wiegler, played by Cate Blanchett in a coldly devious way that’s almost over the top, but always fun to watch. Blanchett is all honeyed menace as a ruthless Texan who can turn on the charm when she has to; she’s also inordinately adept at running in Prada heels. She’s looking for Hanna herself – and has a vested interest in keeping her alive.

But before they can meet up, Hanna must travel through Morocco and Spain and finally to Germany. That she does this alone, and with no money, is a fact you will have to suspend disbelief to accept. Along the way she gets some help from a British family on holiday. Olivia Williams is lovely, and a rare source of warmth, as the New-Agey mother, while Jessica Barden steals all her scenes here, as she did in “Tamara Drewe,” as the sassy teenager who becomes Hanna’s first real friend.

Hanna responds with a mixture of fascination and fear to the normal elements of our daily life – electricity, television, phones – and watching her open up is as satisfying as watching her take down armed men. Ronan’s face can be placid or it can flash with emotion, and because she’s so centered

and confident, it helps make some of the more implausible

parts of “Hanna” more acceptable.

The fact that Ronan is this

good at this young age is what’s truly frightening here. (AP)

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African CatsThe first two documentaries from

Disney’s Disneynature label – 2009’s “Earth” and last year’s “Oceans” – were a stunning combination of vast, sprawling images and intimate, detailed moments. They provided high tension but also tugged at your heart and offered some laughs in between. The latest in the series, “African Cats,” which is opening on Earth Day like its predecessors, has all the impressive visuals but far less story. Shot over more than two years in the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya by directors Keith Scholey and Alastair Fothergill, the film bills itself as a real-life version of “The Lion King.” No one bursts into song here but Samuel L. Jackson, as the narrator, does talk. A lot. And that’s the movie’s major weakness. The images – and the animals’ dramatic interactions – should speak for themselves. Jackson’s narration is constant and overwhelming. It spells out instincts that should be obvious and assigns human characteristics in a way that’s obnoxious. (AP)

Soul SurferWatching “Soul Surfer,” the story of

Bethany Hamilton’s comeback after a shark attack, makes you long for a vivid documentary on the subject instead – preferably one of those excellent “30 for 30” offerings from ESPN. Hamilton’s tale is, of course, inspiring. In 2003, when she was just 13 years old, she lost her left arm to a 14-foot tiger shark while surfing near her Hawaiian home. An up-and-comer in the sport, she wanted to get back on her board as soon as possible. A month later, she was in the water again. Now, at 21, she continues to compete professionally. “Soul Surfer” takes that story of complex emotions, determination and faith and turns it into overly simplistic mush. Director and co-writer Sean McNamara’s film is an uncomfortable combination of pat, feel-good platitudes, two-dimensional characters, cheesy special effects and generically idyllic scenery. (AP)

Veteran singer-songwriter Steve Earle invokes Hank Williams in his new album’s title, ‘I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive,” which also serves as the name of his first novel, to be published in May. As Earle well knows, a song with the same title served as Williams’ epitaph: Hank’s “I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive” was a radio hit at the time of his death at age 29.

But rather than sing about succumbing at an early age, Earle uses this collection of original songs to celebrate survival and struggle.

Working with producer T Bone Burnett, who mixes traditional folk music with bass-heavy rhythms, Earle deals with dark fates, from doomed politicians

to dangerous backstreet encounters to an oil spill that threatens the livelihood of a shrimping family that has worked the same waters for generations.

He counters those songs with tales about how perseverance can pay off, whether it’s New Orleans rising from disaster in the fiercely stated “This City” (first heard on the HBO series “Treme,” in which Earle has a recurring role) to finding lasting love late in life in the tender ballad “Every Part Of Me”.

Earle’s message, it seems, is that even with life’s temptations and tragedies, redemption and meaning can be found_especially in love, in family and in community.(AP)

CHECK THIS TRACK OUT: The autobiographical “Waitin’ On The Sky,” set to a Tex-Mex arrangement reminiscent of the Sir Douglas Quintet, starts with Earle growing up under the specter of the Vietnam War and ends with him declaring that, at age 56, he’s happier than he’s ever been.

Steve Earle, “I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive” (New West)

School is officially out and the children are more than ready for their summer vacation to begin. And while vacation time calls for fun, fun, fun - wouldn’t it be nice if the kids also spend their summer productively? So as the country’s temperature start rising, Play House Children’s Center & B.R.I.G.H.T. Academy is happy to announce that they are now accepting applications for this year’s Summer Workshop 2011! The workshop will kick-off on May 4, 2011 and will run for the whole month of May depending on the kind of class and their respective schedules. The following summer courses are available:

Play Group Basketball, Football Clinic, Baseball Clinic, Taekwondo

and Swimming Arts & Painting, Music and Modern Dancing Reading & Penmanship School of Rock: Guitar Lessons for Kids Junior Master Chefs for Kids & Teens with Chef Lor

Torres of AICA and Chef Marina COdina of Mooon Cafe Junior Journalists with Jigs Arquiza of Sun.Star

Weekend Junior Scuba Divers with Jimbo Sarte of Feel Deep

Scuba Diving Everything French with Alliance Francais Cebu 4-day Outdoor Adventure at BRIGHT Academy and

Talima Adventure and Water Park With all of these interesting activities to choose from,

the kids should be able to have lots of fun this summer!The summer workshop is not exclusive to the students of

Play House pre-school & B.R.I.G.H.T. Academy. Anyone can join! Please call Christy at (032) 416 1500 or Venus/ Marie at (032) 415 9989 | 0927 6923354 for more details!

Summer Workshops at BRIGHT Academy Tonight, April 30

Levi’s Roadwear Party The most rocking summer dance party featuring

the hottest DJ-Supermodels in the world, DJ DNile and DJ Catherine McQueen, happens tonight at 10 p.m. at The Penthouse Cebu, CJRS Bldg. IT Park, Cebu City!

May 7Black Light Costume Ball with Moony

Listen to international artist Moony sing her hits “Flying Away”, “Dove”, “For Your Love”, “He’s All I want” and the mega dance hit “I Don’t Know Why” live at the Mariner’s Court Convention Hall. Party starts at 9:00 p.m. For more details, call 032-4163950 or 0922-8993250.

If you have great, funny or crazy stories, photos or videos of how you are celebrating the enthusiastic spirit of summer, share them now by joining the “Sun.Star Vacation 2011: Your Cool Summer Experience” group on Facebook.

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1. Story, photo or video must show how you spent your cool and unique Summer.

2. Video length limit is three (3) minutes or less. 3. Multiple submissions are allowed.4. Include the following in submitting photos or videos: Full name: Full name of Photographer/Videographer: Location: Photo or Video Title:

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Sun.Star will choose 5 images, videos, and stories that will be featured in our FLIP (Fun-loving imaginative people) blog at http://blogs.sunstar.com.ph/flip/.

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She lost her arm in a shark attack and nearly died, but she never lost her faith. Now a major motion picture, Soul Surfer is the moving story of Bethany Hamilton’s triumphant return to competitive surfing and has continued to be a beacon of inspiration to all who hear it.

They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater in her veins. How else could

one explain the passion that drives her to surf? Or that nothing – not even the loss of her arm – could come between her and the waves? That Halloween morning in Kauai, Hawaii, Bethany responded to the shark’s stealth attack with the calm of a teenage girl with God on her side, resolutely pushing aside her pain and panic while being rescued and brought

back to shore. “When can I surf again?” was the first thing Bethany asked after her emergency surgery, leaving no doubt that her spirit and determination were part of a greater story – a tale of personal empowerment and spiritual grit that shows the body is no more essential to surfing, perhaps even less so, than the soul.

Soul Surfer (film tie-in) by Bethany Hamilton

Have you ever had one of those dreams wherein you were aware that you were dreaming, where the images were vivid and the sensations were as tangible as in real life? Did this dream linger on afterwards, leaving in its wake residue more powerful than most other quickly-forgotten dreams? Did you have the conscious capability to manipulate the world within this dream?

If you have, and if it happens frequently, you’re a lucid dreamer; you’re one of the lucky ones. You have the natural capacity to be the king of your dreamscape, your own boundless playground to surpass any man-made theme park in the waking world.

And that’s not all. It’s been told in stories time and again: a person finds a breakthrough in a dream. Paul McCartney brought “Yesterday” back from that shadowy place. Scientists (Nobel Prize winners!), mathematicians and inventors who have spend years searching for a solution, a missing element to their research, have uncovered it in the depths of slumber. Some even claim to have had glimpses of prophecy from within Morpheus’s realm.

Artists of all sorts have done this, and so have writers. Especially writers. (On the list are Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Rice, RL Stevenson, and more.) Probably because, in Stephen King’s words, “Writers are scavengers by nature.” And what a wonderland dreams are for such scavenging! While they might rarely be

story-shaped and operate generally on topsy-turvy logic, they often yield some fantastic little gems- surreal images and concepts that one may not even be able to conceive in real life. And so a lot of authors, classical and contemporary, have taken these little gems, and with a little polishing, used them as elements in their stories.

So if you’ve been looking for a creative project, I highly recommend starting a dream journal.

Now, let me make this clear. Maintaining a dream journal does not mean you will have to start analyzing your dreams, translating them symbol by symbol as Freud would have. That’s killing the golden goose all over again. What you will ultimately have is a storybook. The Storybook of your subconscious, and you will have authored it in your sleep.

And as a bonus, you’ll find it increasingly easier to remember your dreams. You’ll be fueling your conscious imagination. You’ll also be providing yourself (and others, if you wish) with some very interesting reading material. I can think of nothing more delightful.

PS. But how does one recall his dreams?

Different methods work for different people. Keeping your eyes closed and staying the same position while trying to gather the dissipating fragments may work. Keep your pen and journal at your bedside and write in the present tense. Some find it helpful to set their alarms an hour or two before their usual waking time, to ensure that they are still in REM state.

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I can call her “nurse” - for the way she took care of me from that moment the pregnancy result turned positive up to this very day. No one could ever take care of me better than she does.

I can call her “teacher” - for she taught me the most important lessons in life. Lessons that i could never learn even if I stay in school for the rest of my life.

I can call her “lawyer” - for her enormous strength to always defend me, no matter what.

I can call her “operator” - for she is always there to answer every call I make. No matter what time of the day.

I can call her “best friend” - for all the times she understood me no matter how difficult I am to decipher and for all the times she has listened to me when no one else wanted to…

I can call her any name… but there is one that can encapsulate all those…

I call her “mama”……for all those things she does for me, and

more…She is the driving, pushing force i need

whenever i slow down…She is the person I would like to be someday…She is everything I need all summed up into

one…I love you ma…

While sitting here on my font porch I think I saw the guy to take the blame For all this rain from the sky ‘Cause I have watched for several months He plows his field in vain No sooner does he finish and it begins to rain There is no way to calculate the odds that you would get That he would simply plow a field and always end up wet He comes to till the field turning soil with a plow Goes back and forth the whole day long behind his carabao And everytime he finishes at last his work is done The sun is shining brightly and perhaps he thinks he’s won. You know it can’t rain everyday and he deserves a break. I mean there’s only so much a man should take,Yet once again just like it did now several times before,that very night the clouds arrive The rain begins to pour Now when the clouds have lifted with the ending of the flood He sees the place for planting corn is now a sea of mud But don’t you think with all of this he’d get it in his head to say “ The hell with raising corn I’m raising rice instead” “And even if that does’nt work I know just what to do I’ll name my swamp Balili 2 and sell it to Cebu

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I have a variety of names to call her…by Katrine Ann

Being in a very competitive industry such as Information Technology requires hard-work and continuous technical training, but for young CEOs Maan Madrasto-Brown and Carlo Nova, this certainly was the way to go. Equipped with all the necessary skills and guts, these two set up their own business solutions firms and have found success being CEOs at 25. Back in her high school days, when every one else in her batch was busy with Science projects and day-to-day homework, Maan Madrasto-Brown burned hours in the internet cafe, playing— not with RPGs or Flash games—but with free web builders. Maan was learning something alien to the average computer user back when beepers still ruled, and that was basic web programming. In 1996, being a web programmer involved building websites with a minimum of about two to three pages. That meant one thousand pesos per page for Maan. This is why, at 17 years old, Maan decided to quit college—to her parents’ disappointment—confident that she would succeed in freelance web development. Web development was then a burgeoning industry with very few people skilled enough to compete with her business—Maan was bound to make a mark, but not without a little challenge. She was about to score a new multi-national client, only to be denied the contract because she lacked a formal degree. “This led me to enroll at Informatics Computer Institute in order to acquire an International I.T. Professional License. This has definitely fueled my booming IT career and grew my business bigger and paved the way to the birth of Infoteq Web Solutions, now with more projects, more employees, more equipment. Eventually I decided to enroll again at Informatics International College to specialize in multimedia and the Internet,” shares Maan. Today, Infoteq Web Solutions offers a broad range of IT, branding, system security consulting, and multimedia services and services the likes of Rotaract Manila, Saga Events, Philconstruct Online,

as well as other offshore clients from the United States, Canada, and UK. John Carlo Nova graduated BS Computer Science in Informatics Philippines, Eastwood, in 2006. While studying, John, known to friends as Caloy, already started doing freelance work, creating systems for small enterprises and executing software development projects for his peers. Fresh from college, Caloy exhibited three great qualities that set him above other graduates: excellent IT training, an entrepreneurial spirit, and project management skills. After studying in Manila, Caloy retuned to Olongapo to form a team of skilled IT professionals and set-up Victa Software Solutions. “Success doesn’t happen overnight. Don’t be impatient or focused on immediate financial rewards. To be successful you must take the risk, be competitive, have unique ideas. You have to be creative and think big,” says Caloy. Following this entrepreneurial pursuit are years of significant success for Caloy and his team. Victa Software Solutions won the Best Website Award in the 11th Philippine Web Awards and the 2008 Asia Pacific Award for Most Promising Software Solutions Provider. They have also been nominated Outstanding Software Solutions Provider in the 2008 Global Excellence Award and the 2009 Consumers Choice Award. “Venturing in IT demands continuous learning to keep up with advances in computer technology. This is why we constantly introduce new courses to students as well as enforce a project-based curriculum. Writing computer programs are part of our academic requirements so that, like Maan and Caloy, we are able to develop young, skilled, and in-demand IT professionals who can work as early as their first year,” says Leo Riingen, CEO of Informatics Philippines. This year, Informatics will introduce new courses to ensure that the Philippines could have a more highly skilled IT workforce: this is to say, more Maans and Caloys who will contribute to the growth story of our country.

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Cebu’s fashionable crowd and Cebuano clubbers got together at Luxx at VUDU last Wednesday, April 27, for a two-in-one treat. 9:00 p.m. saw the start of the fashion show featuring the designs of boutique Sunny Side Up. Emceeing duties were handled by Patrick Rizarri during the showcasing of the summer-inspired designs.

Once the models took their bows and made their final walk around VUDU, the music started pumping as resident DJ Marlon Orellano took to the platters.

As the night progressed, the clubbers at VUDU were given a final treat: several hours of heart-pounding music played by award-winning international DJ Chris Garcia for his second (or is it his third?) visit to VUDU.

Pretty much the whole house was dancing along to the music, with a few old-timers on the sidelines just enjoying the night.

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VUDU’s Kaiser Tan and Tyrone Tan

International DJ Chris Garcia

The models showing off the Sunny Side Up designs DJ Marlon Orellano and a bud

DJ Maxie Perez and VUDU’s Meyen Baguio Entrepreneur Leon Quimpo with wife Ji

Patrick Rizarri AICA’s Chef Lor Torres with Michelle Marie Petty and Becky Thompson Paula Jimenez-Lontoc