THE GRAND staircase ascends to the family living quarters at the Balay Negrense, the former Gaston Mansion. Silay City is a third-class city in Negros Occidental. According to the 2010 census, it had ...

If I were to choose one province that could perhaps match my own Pampanga’s opulence (pardon my bias) when it comes to matters of the table and hospitality, I’d say it is Negros Occidental. I first ...

Once home to a 19th-century sugar baron, Silay City's Balay Negrense was saved from disrepair when it was turned into Negros Occidental's first museum in 1990. Balay Negrense is now the most famous ...

There really is something about Negrense food that gets me excited. Maybe because my mom is from there and I grew up eating food my mom or grandmother prepared. I have always loved food from there and ...