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[2 Sep 2010 | 10 Comments | ]
Differences between Filipino dishes and Spanish dishes

Click this if you want to read first the History of Filipino Food, Spanish Influence
To the Spanish guy who will talk to us about Spanish dishes, I am still looking for you. I have a relative in Dos Hermanas, Spain but the English language is of no use to him. Filipinos, impressive as we are when it comes to speaking in Spanish, are not all born from Zamboanga. Yes, there is still a part of the Philippines where bastardized Spanish is lingua franca and those are the Chavacanos de Zamboanga, …

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[6 May 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Fish, Coco Milk and Shrimp Paste Recipe

On this recipe, you can choose between, pork, chicken or fish. I will choose fish, specifically Tilapia for reasons of world domination. This recipe is called Ginatang Tilapia in the Philippines meaning – Tilapia in Coco Milk.

Globally, Tilapia is fast becoming huge and I am only waiting for a matter of mere moments until it is used as a weapon of mass destruction. It’s kicking salmon out of the aquaculture throne because those orange-fleshed bear-huggers demand too much royalties and tilapia laughs on carp because plainly, they don’t have taste. …