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[10 May 2011 | 11 Comments | ]
This is going to be a Filipino Street Food Series starting with a Pork Barbecue Prelude

 
 
Marinating meat for your Filipino barbecue is easy.
Skewering them with a bamboo stick is not.
Grilling them is harder.
I am now thinking this is going to be a long post just like the extensive and intensive How to cook Caldereta process that I made months ago but I should remind myself to not tire anyone (including myself) because of the need to be precise and concise. Let’s just kill it quickly like what we do when we slaughter our animals.
But before we proceed, let’s take a detour to a previous post …

Kitchen Siege »

[26 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
How to make Miso in Filipino and confuse yourself altogether.

 
 
So currently, i’m researching Philippine Miso – how they make it in the Philippines and how different is it from the Japanese Miso. I’m not finished yet because I cannot find enough local information in the internet about it. It just goes to show that Philippines is not really that adulterated by the internet but I don’t know if it is a good thing or not. If you are abroad though wanting to know more local information is quite a challenge. I might even end up with no information at …

Food for Thought »

[7 Mar 2011 | 11 Comments | ]
Filipino Food & Eating Healthy

 
 
We always tend to describe our cuisine as “fatty, succulent and delicious” (I believe it’s the perfect description for Lechon haha) but I couldn’t help but wonder… in these times that healthy living is a fast becoming trend, and people are getting conscious of what they eat, is there any room for Filipino food in anyone’s stomach?
One of the greatest attributes of our cuisine is comfort. Simmering pork belly for an hour in soy sauce, vinegar, garlic and pepper until it’s very tender, is not really one person’s idea …

Food for Thought »

[15 Sep 2010 | 6 Comments | ]
Food and the Philippines

This post is dedicated to Mr. Mike Wootton of the Manila Times. Click this to read his comparison of British and Filipino food and his observation of a growing number of restaurants in the Philippines.

Food in the Philippines and consumption of it can be classified by a Filipino family’s socio-economic status. Let’s have fun with this:
Señora Doctora De de Espadaña
Judging by the name there, this lady is filthy rich. She always has 2 options for dinner. Either eat in at home with food prepared by a generation of maids or …

Food for Thought »

[13 Sep 2010 | 4 Comments | ]
A year of writing about Filipino Food, looking back

First of all thank you very much to all who dropped by to say their congratulations and well wishes on our first year anniversary. I appreciate it very deeply and it is a bit of an accomplishment for me that I have made you aware how good Filipino food is. And thank you very much to Lei for the anniversary post and the little give-away to readers or should I say, Kitcheneers.
If this is your first time in this site, this is the article for you because I have a …