Filipino food bloggers around the world in the deepest chambers of their being know that the heart and soul of what they do is to push awareness of Filipino food. I think that is just what we need as Filipino food is so much overlooked and underrated.
Picture this: You are a Filipino, you are hanging out with your friends, you get hungry, would it be unusual if you suddenly tell them, shall we have Filipino food? What do you think? If you are in LA or San Francisco it ain’t …

You wanted to learn how to cook La Paz Batchoy because you were on Ingredients for a La paz Batchoy Recipe
So without further ado, let’s do the batchoy dance.
How to cook your La Paz Batchoy broth
Step 1
Get your pork bones and beef bones ready. If you can’t get any pork bones, like what happened to me, request for a huge cut of pork’s leg (hocks not included). Clean that foul beast with running water. The water should be cold and running because if it is walking, there will be no …

You arrived here because you were reading a strange story about Batchoy.

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The main ingredient that made the La Paz Batchoy recipe is the town …

IT was one of those days that a day shouldn’t be… dark, gloomy and wet. The city’s filth flowed through the gutter as if a chopper squad sprayed metal to everything in sight.
I didn’t even know where I was. All I know was that the stench of butchered flesh was choked by the thick dense of the rain, you can easily identify that something got their belly ripped open and left their guts to spill. Everyone has knives with them here, even the babes. Huge knives that …

From Wikimedia Commons, this is a picture of Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla, one of the best Filipino Painters of all time. He is of Chinese descent.

Let’s have fun learning some Chinese words that are mostly used in the Filipino language:
mami – a cougar, and by that I mean Demi Moore
toyo – a crazy person
petsay – a politican who spends a lot of money on his campaign but will never win
toge – a graduation gown
miki – a famous mouse
bakya – hmmm… a jejemon?
And here are a few chinese sentences for …