If you’re looking for unconventional takes on familiar flavors, check out Butterboy, a Manila-based bakeshop that specializes in freshly-baked croissants with flavors like caldereta, pizza, strawberry cheesecake, and others.

Butterboy, which is located in Sampaloc, Manila, offers a caldereta croissant. The treat is stuffed with beef meatballs in a cheesy tomato sauce and topped with a pickled pepper and sesame seeds. The pastry is light and flaky, which contrasts against the richness of the che

In her thesis photo collection, which she shared on Facebook, the University of Santo Tomas - College of Fine Arts and Design graduate recreated pieces of classical art – like Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Alexandro of Antioch’s Venus de Milo, Myron’s Discobolus, and Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring – to feature people with disabilities or features society may not consider "ideal."

Anomali is a portmanteau of the words “anomaly,” meaning abnormal, peculiar, or unconventional, and “ano’ng mali?” whic

For the people of San Miguel in Bulacan, it's more than that – they think of handcrafted, vibrant wrappers that transform the traditional pastillas into something much more special and personal.

The carabao milk-based, sugar-dusted sweets, which are rolled into small logs, are made different by the town of San Miguel by the pabalat or wrappers. Pabalat, which is derives from the Tagalog word balat meaning “skin,” is a local tradition of cutting small, intricate designs on delicate papel de japo

There's also the Ifugao deity called Ovug. According to the late Francisco Demetrio, who authored books on Philippine folklore, Ovug was born from the god Dumagid and the human Dugai. Dumagid, who lived in the skyworld, often went down to live among the people, and on one occasion fell in love with a human. They got married and became parents to Ovug. When Dumagid had to go back to the skyworld, the people urged him to take his wife with him and leave his son to them. As traveling to the skyworl