FLAVOURS OF ILOILO

Dinner at Jo's Chicken Inato restaurant near St. Paul's University proved to be a meal of discoveries and rediscoveries. Though it was their buko halo that lured us to this inasal house that time, we can't say no to their specialty; chicken inato. It's chicken barbecue served Dumaguete style for which the said restaurant originated. A favorite during my college years, Jo's chicken inato has seen many treats, events or even just simple eats. For this dinner, we rediscovered their chicken inato and discovered a new dish, manok sa buko.Their chicken inato was still the same - delicious until to the last bite that I can't help but eat bare hands. Grilled and flavoured like the way I liked it then, it has maintained all throughout these years its distinct barbecue taste with local touch when dipped in a calamansi-soy sauce-vinegar concoction. Manok sa buko turned out to be almost quite like chicken binakol. Akin to tinola, only added with coconut meat and juice, th...

Spaghetti with my Century Tuna concoction Clam soup! Really yummy Buko-peach dessert

First I saw butong or coconut water in a pitcher so I said, coconut meat would sure follow. I was correct so I got myself the usual coconut meat and water in a glass. Very natural since I didn't add milk and sugar, though those two would have made the drink taste really yummy but I still remembered yesterday's warning ..... Then I noticed a bowl of canned peaches so I made another all natural snack, buko-peach without any cream, milk or sugar. Making the drink and dessert plus eating them all took a few minutes but making the look good for the photograph; styling, lighting, angles and the likes almost took 45 minutes. But as usual, I am satisfied.