How this OFW cook in Kansas turned his non-Pinoy workmates into fans of Filipino food We’ve seen one too many cooking tutorials and reaction videos of non-Pinoys trying out Filipino food—and honestly we’re as “umay” with them as much as we are about people making a fuss of the latest Taste Atlas survey. But when we came across these TikTok videos of a Filipino cook treating his multi-racial workmates to his own cooking—from his take on sisig to pansit to bistek—we thought, hey, these we like. Welcome to Chuckie’s Kitchen. It’s a vlog run by Dexter Chuck Reyes Tiongson, 28, a friendly, lanky Valenzuela-born fellow now doing the grind in a big Italian restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri. His videos are a combination cooking tutorial and, yes, reaction shots but there’s also something endearing about this Pinoy cook in a foreign land sharing a bit of his culture to his workmates, showcasing the full experience of enjoying food the Filipino way—cooking it with lots of love, a bit of improv here and there, and enjoying the results with one’s closest and dearest.