McDonald's Coca Cola Can Glasses

It's finally here! McDonald's Coca Cola Can glasses are now selling like hotcakes in all McDonald's stores nationwide. Everybody wants not only one nor two but the entire collection of the newest collectible item from the world's largest fast food chain.

Unlike the previous collections, these Coca Cola Can glasses are made with real glass though the downsides others say are that they are quite thin and hits the bridge of your nose - that’s when you actually use it. Otherwise it proves to be good collectibles from McDonalds and Coca Cola.

When I got wind of this online, I immediately Googled and found out it’s an additional PhP25 to any McDo Extra Value Meal. I immediately thought it would be the Big Mac Meal or a 2-pc Chicken McDo Meal since these are the ones which can be classified as extra value (read more expensive) meals. Good thing it turned out to be just any medium size Value Meal from McDonald’s with the Burger Mcdo Meal (medium) being the cheapest at PhP83.

These Coca Cola Can glasses come in 6 colours – blue, charcoal, pink, purple, green and lime. And for a limited time only - that’s from July 2 to July 15, 2011. So there’s still a week to complete the McDonald’s Coca Cola can glasses collection and troop now to any McDo outlet for dine in and to-go orders and get them now. You can even have them for delivery orders too!

UPDATE At a different branch of McDonalds herein Iloilo City (Marymart Mall) even just for a small size value meal (PhP63), I got these Mcdonald's Coca Cola Can Glasses - the pink and purple ones above.

FINAL UPDATE Yes! I've finally completed my McDonald's Coca Cola Can glass collection! But another good news I got is tha the promo is extended until the end of the month so there's more time to enjoy treats from McDonald's in order to get these Coke can glasses. But if know someone working in McDo you can probably buy from them without the Value meals since they have this privilege. Hmmm, I'm thinking of another set of these collectible glasses ....

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 pork broth cube (

An Ilonggo favorite - Valenciana

Found in almost all occasions like fiesta, birthdays, reunions and others, Ilonggos really love valenciana because most if not all have grown accustomed of having it in special gatherings at home. A complete " go, grow and glow " dish because it has the carbohydrates, protein and vitamins and minerals in just one spoonful, Valenciana is really an " occasional dish ". Here's the recipe for Valenciana

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.

Batwan

Ilonggos know batwan or batuan by heart as the fruit is almost endemic to the Western Visayas. Its scientific name is Garcinia binucao, derived from the Tagalog name for the fruit, binukaw. It is a large green fruit with large seeds and its a favorite souring ingredient in most Ilonggo dishes especially KBL or kadyos, baboy, langka and the Ilonggo-style paksiw known as "pinamalhan". It is characterized by a tamed sourness compared to tamarind and kamias . The fruit is sold by pieces or kilo in wet markets and even big grocery stores. Batwan is the preferred souring ingredients for the Ilonggo favorite- KBL. The photo shows boiled batwan with skin and without skin (right) A favorite riddle when we were young - "Among the many fruits in the forest, but one (batuan) is the best. What is it?"

A cooking weed called Lupo

Lupo is a weed that is commonly found in ricefields and roadside in provinces. It is most prevalent in Ilonggo cooking compared to others as it is mostly the Ilonggos who can recognize lupo , though maybe called differently in other places. Most commonly used in laswa or monggo dishes to add greens like kamote tops, it also makes a good partner in sinabawan na isda recipes. It has hints of bitterness but don't expect it to be ampalaya-bitter like. It is mostly sold in wet local wet markets by the tumpok .

FLAVOURS OF ILOILO

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