A month ago, @Limer35 and @Filipeanut, Filipino foodies from California, sent me a tweet asking me what do I think of adding Betamax to Adobo. To clarify, it’s not that dino-age system that your grandparents use to watch a movie. Betamax is a slang for coagulated blood cubes or cakes as it resembles the tape that you load in your Betamax system to watch movies like Total Recall, Top Gun, Pretty Woman or that Nora Aunor movie that’s famous for the line – “My brother is not a pig”. Well right after they got my attention …

 
Goodness. There are no heavy news about Filipino food this week. As much as I want to indulge every lifestyle section in every news spread in the world telling this Filipino opened that Filipino restaurant, I digress. But not so much though. This just tells us that Filipino food is opening its doors everywhere in the world. Filipino food and the people behind it are being acknowledged. Which leads me to our first article this week.
Adobo Roots
fetched from inq.net
Yes and yes and yes. This is a good conversation topic along …

It was 4 in the morning. I’ve heard that this is the most favorite time of these marsupials to show the power of their leg muscles to another specie of two legged creatures and the roads that they built. I turned on the ignition and heard my car cry as if it was being woken from a very deep slumber. My breaths form thick smoke as my lungs fight the possible hypothermia. My chest feels heavy to what my heart desires. But I drive on through the sun-robbed dawn. I …

Filipino Cuisine Looks for Love
From baycitizen.org
By ODETTE KEELEY AND RENE CIRIA-CRUZ, NEW AMERICA MEDIA
If everyone… anyone who’s had Filipino food say it is absolutely, fantastically, unbelievably, ethereally, delicious why then is Filipino food not famous? Why then is Filipino food unheard of by species who don’t speak Filipino? Beats the peanuts out of me. That is why Filipinos from the Bay area will hold a Filipino Food Festival this coming Independence day to push awareness. That is heart-warming.  The article also mentioned that the Department of Tourism, Philippines is doing an awareness …

Filipino food is not Chinese food. If it is, our Adobo (marinated meat) would be steamed chicken with soy sauce. It is neither Spanish food. If it is, we wouldn’t be eating rice like breathing air. Filipino food is not American food. If it is, Jollibee would have  bigger servings. True? If you don’t agree with me, next time you’re in NY try convincing the hotdog vendor that his dogs are not american hotdogs… in fact it is German because that’s where all the sausages come from. Then brace yourself.
Filipino food …