Ilonggos love laswa for it is among the simplest local dishes to prepare. Just take the freshest local vegetables like okra, saluyot, kalabasa, takway,patola and a host of other veggies then stew them with crabs or shrimps and seasoned with a little salt. You'll get one of the most nutritious, most visually appealing (depends on the play of colors) and the easiet to prepare Ilonggo specialties around. You can even re-invent this using the available vegetables in your place and enjoy the simple pleasures laswa.
It was only today that I remembered buying a pack of ready-to-cook pancit Molo. Locals are fortunate to buy them at groceries here saving them time, money and effort in the tedious preparation of pancit Molo. Anyway every pack of the RTC pancit Molo has the balls and the lang-lang . Its the balls that entice the buyers and the lang lang that "dictates" the price and weight. For this blog entry, I opted for the AR brand (150 grams for PhP 21) since they had the more photogenic combination at that time though I'm more partial to the Cares brand. Separating the contents makes you realize that what you actually bought but for that price, it's already a bargain, can be cooked in many ways and can serve 2-3 people. It is then up to you what you can make out from a pack or more. For this preparation, I used 2 chicken broth cubes and just estimated the amount of water. Upon taste test I added a pinch of salt, a dash of pepper and few drops of soy sauce. I boiled the lang