I’ll just wing this like a feral 5-year old with a bat wanting to hit that hanging pot in a chidren’s party. So get hit. Yes? Ready?
I’m sorry, I think i’m blackouting. I don’t know what to say. It’s like University exams all over again.
Why? Because if you want to learn how Filipinos celebrate special occassions, google has answered that even before my firstborn learned how to say “Help!” So I don’t really want to but since this series needs to have an introduction. So yeah, let’s just wing this steaming, …

This week we will talk about Filipino classics, the big dishes, the ones that we only release when visitors camp out of our house waiting for the eve of the fiesta and then scramble on the table like animals. And the best way to open this week is of course to have our resident chef, Chef Mike to conduct the prelude. Enjoy! – Ziggy
 
Lamb Caldereta sa Gata
with Black Olives and Sautéed Peppers
In line with fiesta dishes, I have decided to post my specialty dish. I learned about having …

You are what you eat. Raise your hands and eat money if you believe this!
If there is a Filipino street food where all the other street foods got their name it would be from intestines. Everyone calls it “Isaw” in the Philippines and it has somehow found it’s way to name every other animal meat organ barbecue after itself. Right. I thought I confused myself there.
It’s yucky, it’s icky, it’s ew-wy, it’s dirty, if you don’t clean it properly. In the Philippines where butchering and slaughtering in the household is a usual event, the cleaning of chicken or …

 
 
I think Chicken Gizzard barbecue is the ultimate Filipino street food. And what I meant by that is, it is my favorite. It is a food juxtaposition. It is molecular gastronomy free from the hands of mad-scientist-chefs. It is God’s humor in the flesh. If you don’t know why, you have to eat one and simmer in all its fowl-wonder.
It is one of the most worked organs or set of muscles in the genus of birds, crocs, some dinosaurs and fishes. Since swallowers like birds have no teeth, it is the …

 
 
Instead of ranting about people’s misconception on eating animal meat organs, like what I did on the previous post, I’d rather focus on what is good about our feature today which is skewered barbecued chicken hearts. Chicken hearts are one of the rarest Filipino street foods. Once you see them lying freely on the stall, grab them. They won’t last long. I don’t know why… it maybe because of its firm texture which confirms our being carnivores that we love to nibble on them. Or maybe each chicken only has one little …