Chef Rob

Chef Rob

Rob is a Filipino chef writing essays that ask uncomfortable questions about Filipino food: who benefits, who's excluded, and what does eating actually cost? LASA is his platform for those questions.

Tausug cuisine simmering beside a window, sea breeze and smoke folding into the room.

On Tausug Cuisine

Tausug cuisine sits on the tongue like tide. A sip of broth, smoke clinging, pepper biting soft, then sharp. Hands tear bread.
November 4, 2025
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Welcome to LASA. We write essays that treat Filipino food as what it is: a site where climate, labor, capital, and colonialism become edible.

walanglasa → LASA

From tasteless to tasting. From unconscious consumption to critical attention. From swallowing systems to refusing what won't go down.

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