25 Jun, 2005
Freshly fried peanuts with garlic and salt are really good. I used to buy those little brown paper bags filled with fried peanuts as a kid (you know the ones that absorb all the excess oil into the paper) outside school or later as an adult when I worked for a bank in…
24 Jun, 2005
You know something is good when there are a lot of imitations… so there must be something really good about the Good Shepherd brand of delicacies in Baguio and other locations around the Philippines as the markets and other tourist traps are chock-full of Good Shepherd wannabees… I wasn’t consciously keeping track but noticed…
23 Jun, 2005
What interesting body part is the avocado named after? Read on for the amusing answer. They are up to their eyeballs in avocados at the markets right now! What is usually a fairly long season from May to September, the weather this year must have played a role in the massive volume and…
23 Jun, 2005
A perfect snack for many folks on a brisk morning at the Baguio market is Binatog, a warm concoction of boiled corn, coconut, sugar and milk. Last year I happened to be in Baguio on a record cold morning (8 degrees celsius or roughly 46.5 degrees fahrenheit, the coldest temperature in nearly 10…
22 Jun, 2005
The thrill of the “hunt†is often enough to get me up at an ungodly hour to trek to a market and poke around. Occasionally, the hunt yields a brilliant find… in this case, superb Sagada grown oranges. I always knew that the North was producing more and more oranges of various…
22 Jun, 2005
I visited the FTI AANI Market at Taguig on Saturday and was terribly dismayed by the quality of produce on offer. Like I said in my post for the Salcedo market, this is close to the worst month for greens… the end of an extremely hot summer that has wilted just about everything,…
21 Jun, 2005
Santol (Sandoricum koetjape) is an extremely familiar fruit to most Filipinos and for me, another top hit on my list of local summer fruits. The tree is believed to have originated in the Indochina region, specifically in the Cambodia or the Southern Laos area, according to the Purdue University website on tropical fruits….
20 Jun, 2005
I am back in Manila and gosh is it hot and muggy or what? By all accounts, the month that I was away was wickedly hot, but now we have the twin downer of heat and high humidity! But weather report aside, it was time to hit a market — and…