MANILA, Philippines — The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) has taken up the cudgels for “lugaw” or rice porridge, saying the popular comfort food is not only essential as it is also ...

MANILA, Philippines — Rice porridge or lugaw, or any food item for that matter, is considered “an essential good,” Malacanang said yesterday, following a video that went viral on social media. The ...

My grandpa should have been alive to see this. Lolo Osing, who died in 1999, always expressed disdain for lugaw. “Pagkain ng may sakit,” he would say, wrinkling his nose in disapproval whenever he ...

MANILA, Philippines — Rice porridge or “lugaw” and or any food products are considered essential goods and their delivery should remain unhampered, Malacañang said Wednesday. Presidential spokesman ...

The Philippine National Police issues a statement on the lugaw controversy The Philippine National Police (PNP) clarified on Thursday, April 1, that all food items that are “legitimately delivered,” ...

MANILA, Philippines — "Is lugaw essential or non-essential?" This is the question that currently preoccupies netizens after the video of a Grab driver being apprehended for delivering lugaw (hot rice ...

LAST week we presented three iterations of lugaw — the quintessential Filipino rice porridge — created as a result of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB) Culinary Cluster’s Lugaw ...

Food is an essential item, therefore porridge or “lugaw” is essential too, according to a transport and food delivery company. On Wednesday, Grab Philippines shared on social media a photo of the dish ...

Michael V. asked about what is truly important during the pandemic in his new parody song “Essential Lang,” which was inspired by the now-viral lugaw incident. A food delivery rider who was set to ...

Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary Epimaco Densing III on Thursday clarified that his controversial "Si lugaw" remark was made in jest. Densing, however, said it was ...

‘Kasi kung basta pulitika lang, hindi ‘yung husay ‘yung tinitignan, ganitong klaseng mga public officials ‘yung mayroon tayo,' says Vice President Leni Robredo Vice President Leni Robredo fired back ...