To plan or not to plan ....

It was a well-planned itinerary for yesterday but the moment I left the house, I knew there would be something wrong ....

I was to continue my chicken inasal quest at Chicken Sari-sari along Luna St., La Paz but I had a very heavy meal at home so I cancelled it while on the ride.

I decided to go to the Central Market to buy some bujawi, kusay and tahure but the first wasn't available while the other two well let's say .... would you be courageous enough to inside a wet market after it rained (very) hard?

So things went down the drain .... except maybe my planned snack at Panaderia de Molo in front of the University of Iloilo. But it happened that they had no pancit Molo left to be served and ready to cook Molo balls were to come later that afternoon so it was all in vain.

I then decided to have my snack at Roberto's but it was full packed that time so I just contented my self with a take out; King and Queen sio paos.

I saw Kong Kee Restaurant from a distance and decided to check if they serve pancit Molo. Eventually I settled for a snack in this old school Chinese restaurant.

Though if they didn't serve one I might have gone all the way back to Barrio Inasal along Delgado Street for I saw a tarpaulin saying they serve one.

To cap the night off, a friend and I planned on invading San Mars Point along Gen. Luna but the aftermath of the heavy downpour confined us at Robinsons so we just decided to have dinner at Kublai Khan.

Our planned dessert at Coffeebreak almost turned out to be a S'Mores cake galore at Red Ribbon but they don't have slices to serve so we just contented ourselves with a pack of Biscocho Haus' yema. I also learned that their branch outside the mall serve quick snacks including pancit Molo, mentally noting it for my next quest.

So much for a well planned day but still I have lots of blogpost to share, so no harm done. And yes, I will continue to plan whatever it may be but open to adapt changes that may come along the way. That's life isn't it?

Mama's Kitchen and Sinamay House in Arevalo

A stones throw away from the plaza of La Villa de Arevalo is an ancestral house where one can find not only good pasalubong items but also a look into the past of the district. Known as the Sinamay House , this well preserved ancestral house is an attraction not only in the outside but also what it houses inside. A collection of what the past like is housed in the two storey edifice which also acts like a museum of sorts. Sinamay is simply known as abaca by most and, here, a variety of products made from this fiber can be found. I remember watching a feature on tv wherein the owner proudly showed a framed letter signed by the late Princess of Wales, Diana, showing her appreciation of the handkerchief she was given as a gift coming from this very shop. But the attraction I am most familiar with are the chewies and crunchies made by Mama's Kitchen. Attractively packed in boxes showing their current flavours and variety, this is among the better...

An Ilonggo favorite - Valenciana

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Ultimate Ilonggo Favorite: KBL Kadyos, Baboy, Langka

K.B.L. or Kadyos, Baboy, Langka is the ultimate favorite dish of most Ilonggos. It is also one of the most missed native dishes as kadyos and the souring ingredient, batwan , are hard to find when outside of the Ilonggo region. Basically, it is boiled/stewed pork dish owing its "deliciousness" to the combination of the soft and tender pork, the tamed sourness of batwan and the malinamnam na sabaw . One of the "secrets" of the malinamnamn na sabaw , is the fact that the pork, whether just the plain meat or pata (hocks) are first grilled or broiled. This gives the broth a rather smoky taste that makes it more appetizing.. Learn how to make the Ilonggo dish KBL (Kadyos, Baboy, at Langka) with the recipe below. Ingredients 1 kilo Pata (pork hocks) or pork cubes, GRILLED and sliced into bite size pieces 1 unripe Jack fruit, cubed 2 cups pigeon pea (kadyos) 6-8 pieces batwan fruit (or tamarind powder) 1 piece por...

Easy Century Tuna Recipes

If you're looking for simple, easy and delicious Century Tuna recipes online, congratulations, you've found it right here! How about spicy tuna sisig or tuna sinigang ? Maybe stir fried tuna with pickles or just yang chow fried rice . I love Century Tuna from its flakes in oil variety, the spicier the better, but when I discovered the versatility of its solid variant, it became an obsession. At first I was just into the usual tested recipes; pasta and sandwich filling, but then it got simpler – I just eat it straight from the can! Usually with a piece of bread or an apple. I just add a few drops of vinegar to spice it up a bit. Then came the experiments. Yup I got tired of that habit that one day, I decided to test my skills in the kitchen. Serendipity, you might call it yet most of them turned into good recipes that I have shared now and then. Satisfying my Palabok cravings had me experiment on this recipe on the spot. With Century Tuna in lieu of the us...

Takway

The gabi (taro) is just one of those plants which is edible from "roots to tops". The most popular of which is the tuber part which is used in a variety of dishes and mostly in combination with coconut milk. Its leaves, of course, is the main ingredient of a Bicol specialty, laing . It is dried then chopped and sauteed with other ingredients including, again, coconut milk. Then there is takway . The local term for its tendrils/runner, that part which is torn between being a stem or a root for it neither grows upwards nor downwards - it grows sideways . Scraped off of its outer skin, takway is often a key ingredient in vegetable dishes like laswa and the gabi tuber with coconut milk and local snails know as bago-ngon . It is also popular when cooked adobo style with guinamos , the local bago-ong . It is very popular in the region that even big supermarkets sell takway in style - cleaned and plastic wrapped in styro with some additions to make it easier to prepare. ...

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