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One of my good friends was coming over from Dubai for a very quick visit. She asked me to set up a get together/mini-reunion with our ex-Saudia colleagues. She didn’t really care where we would eat.. but her only condition was that it should have PORK! hahaha
Dubai has its own share of Filipino food, but my friend misses good old Filipino pork dishes. After discussing with the rest of the group, we decided Kanin Club (Kanin = Rice) would do the trick and satisfy her craving… so did it?!?!
TOP:
Sinangag na Sinigang. This is my FAVORITE!! I can eat the rice alone and be happy. It already had a sinigang flavor despite it being dry (i.e. with no sinigang broth), which was perfect! It was topped with crispy kangkong and thin slices of PORK belly
MIDDLE:
Crispy Liempo (PORK belly). It was thinly sliced belly strips, which reminded me so much of bacon (minus the salty bacon flavor)
Crispy Dinuguaan. I’ve never eaten dinuguaan before, and I still didn’t want to try it even if it is a best seller at Kanin Club. Dinuguaan’s main ingredients are pig’s blood and pig’s innards (not my cup of tea).
BOTTOM:
Crispy Pork Binagoongan - it wasn’t too salty and the bagoong was not overpowering.
Fully Loaded Fried Rice - this my least favorite among all dishes. Nothing special, but it still did have PORK in it ;D
So yes, I think our friend left full and satisfied after eating so much pork! Us, her friends, on the other hand, left with higher cholesterol levels hahaha
Kansi Bulalo from Pat Pat’s Kansi.
This is the Ilonggo version of a Filipino classic, Bulalo. Some say that Kansi tastes different from the bulalo we know from Batangas. But I honestly can’t tell the difference, except that in Pat Pat’s, you have to order the Bulalo Laman (the meat) separate from the bone. Oh, one thing I miss in this kind of bulalo are the vegetables ;) My favorite part of it though, is the marrow! YUMMY!
Comfort food = Sinigang.
Sinigang is one of the more popular Filipino dishes, and one of my all-time favorites! For me, what makes this dish special is its broth. In fact, I can eat this with just the vegetables (usually water spinach, string beans, eggplant, taro and okra) even without any pork, shrimp or fish. I am after the sourness of the soup base and I like my sinigang a little bit spicy with a slightly thicker broth from the taro (but I don’t eat the taro! haha). Best eaten on top of steamed rice :) Hungry yet?!
**SIDE STORY: I normally only eat sinigang when I know JodiesDaddy is not going to be around. He’s from Mindanao, and according to him, the Bisaya’s don’t have sinigang. So, he’s really not a fan**
JodiesDaddy loves batchoy. I don’t mind eating it, but it isn’t something I crave for. I honestly think it’s because of the liver that is mixed into the soup (I get annoyed when the liver is cut into tiny pieces which makes it nearly impossible to segregate — can you sense how much I dislike liver haha). If only I didn’t have to battle the liver pieces… tsk tsk tsk (sometimes, if I am lucky, I can ask for the liver to be removed).
This is from Deco’s in Alphaland.
A very Filipino dinner for us tonight. YUMMY!
You can’t really go wrong with:
Inihaw na Liempo (grilled pork)
Adobong kangkong (water spinach cooked the Pinoy adobo way),
Rice (this is brown rice… yes, JodiesDaddy and I are trying to be healthy haha)
Turon for dessert (inside this dessert spring roll is banana and jackfruit. It is deep fried with a coating of brown sugar).
Each province in the Philippines boasts of having the best lechon (roast pig). Cagayan de Oro and Bukidnon are no exception. I know I may seem biased, but to me lechon from here is the best ever.. It actually rivals the lechon from Cebu :)
When I was a child, I always associated arroz caldo (literally, it means rice broth in Spanish) with getting sick. It was our family’s chicken noodle soup. As I grew up, I realized it was a good midday or afternoon snack. And as more years went by, I was shocked that some people actually ate it for breakfast!
If you ask me now, when I prefer to eat arroz caldo, it would be anytime! :)
** Arroz Caldo is a Filipino-style congee served with chicken. It is actually the only Filipino congee I enjoy, because the other variations like, goto, actually has tripe and some innards — something I am not particularly fond of **
Chicken Pork adobo. A Filipino favorite. My favorite.
Our company had its annual team building over the weekend. We normally go out of the country. However this year, since they were cost cutting, we just had an out of town trip. Imagine the disappointment of everyone! haha
To make up for this, HR decided to make the activity fun and exciting by adding an Amazing Race flavor to the event. We were given clues and had to complete certain tasks before getting to the very secret venue.
Of course, one of the tasks was to eat something exotic. We did NOT see this coming!
Top: Crickets!! — If only it wasn’t actual crickets, I would have eaten more than 1 hahaha it was actually very tasty
Bottom Left: Sizzling Balut (without the chick) — the one thing I did NOT eat. Besides, everyone reached for this first.. I on the other hand, am not a fan of egg yolk and this looked like one big yolk.. *goosebumps*
Bottom Right: Stuffed Frog legs — I ate 2 of these!! hahaha it was tough (the “thigh” at least). The stuffing wasn’t too bad :)
All from Apag Marangle in the Petron Station, Lakeshore along the NLEX.
A non-food post.
CWC - CamSur Watersports Complex.
No, I didn’t knee/wake board. Honestly, didn’t have the time, nor the courage too ;D oh and it was raining too!
