A sensory Kapampangan feast in the forest, Japanese dishes with Filipino ingredients and flair, and a bold Mexican-Filipino homecoming. Where the past decade was marked by a push of the Philippines into the global culinary limelight, now is where it moves into regional layers and diasporic influences. In Manila, this movement is spearheaded by people who bring their personal stories of living abroad and rarely seen regional recipes to the table, wrapped in warm hospitality and creativity. We check out the forces that are shaping the capital’s culinary landscape in distinctly moving ways.