Sawsawan (sah-sah-wan)
Budgie MontoyaA space for dipping into the rich and complex layers of Filipino food and identity. Sometimes personal, sometimes critical, but always honest, much like the ever present dipping sauces (sawsawan) that enhances every meal with depth and perspective
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Chef Budgie Montoya is dead. Not the person. The persona. The figure people thought they understood. Readers of Sawsawan may have sensed this before I put it into words. The essays have been shifting in real time. The questio...
Roots and Routes
This piece began to take shape after my most recent trip to the Philippines. I spent two months immersed in daily life, not just the tourist narrative. While experience has made this a piece years in the making, it was the months of reflect...
Manila to Acapulco: A Route Without Recipes
For years I’ve chased the idea of a culinary bridge between the Philippines and Mexico. But what if the real story isn’t about recipes, but erasure? This essay follows the Manila–Acapulco galleon trade and the fragments it left behind, not...
The Fight for Filipino Food: Colonial Hangovers and Crab Mentality
Crabs in a Pot: Why We Tear Each Other Down Over Filipino Food
What in the actual crab mentality is this? Each time Filipino food gains global attention, we question who among us deserves to speak for it, revealing a long-standing pattern...
From Service to Story
I write this not just as a cook, but as a Filipino raised in diaspora, the child of an OFW. My work in food has always been about more than what’s on the plate. It’s about the stories we tell, the pride we reclaim, and the legacies we carry...
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