Manila

For Hokkien families, Mid-Autumn isn’t only mooncakes and lanterns. It’s six dice, a porcelain bowl, and sixty-three prizes to play for.

A dish-by-dish look at how 17th-century Fujianese cooking became Filipino cuisine — and why it may preserve that heritage better than China itself.

Nine courses at a counter wrapped around an open kitchen in Makati, where the fire is the thing you're meant to be watching.