Comments on: A Simple Breakfast http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/a-simple-breakfast A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:00:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Blaise http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/a-simple-breakfast/comment-page-1#comment-52697 Blaise Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:48:32 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=698#comment-52697 For this past week I've eating a lot of fruits: plums and nectarines, mangosteen and mango (haha!), satsuma and dragon fruit.. did I miss something? Oh yeah, mangosteen again.. ;) For this past week I’ve eating a lot of fruits: plums and nectarines, mangosteen and mango (haha!), satsuma and dragon fruit.. did I miss something? Oh yeah, mangosteen again.. ;)

]]> By: corrine http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/a-simple-breakfast/comment-page-1#comment-12738 corrine Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:14:18 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=698#comment-12738 Gosh, Millet, you make Mindanao (or Davao?) sound like paradise! It's just so sad that it has lots of fruits to offer and only Millet can eat them! hahaha! Patikim!!! I agree, Philippine mangoes are the best...my absolute favorite...I'm yellowish na nga eh... but I ate a variety in Vietnam that came so close. Gosh, Millet, you make Mindanao (or Davao?) sound like paradise! It’s just so sad that it has lots of fruits to offer and only Millet can eat them! hahaha! Patikim!!! I agree, Philippine mangoes are the best…my absolute favorite…I’m yellowish na nga eh… but I ate a variety in Vietnam that came so close.

]]> By: millet http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/a-simple-breakfast/comment-page-1#comment-12710 millet Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:12:53 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=698#comment-12710 no, no, apicio, the only way is to come over to mindanao late next month till late october. you know how different canned cherries taste from fresh? or worse, maraschinos (were they ever cherries once at all in their past lives?). some fruits really don't take too kindly to manipulation - about the worse they can take is a gentle washing; marang is one of them, and it does not even need washing! i dare not insist on davao, but i say mindanao when i talk of fruit, lest i hear the rest of the island in a collective howl of protest, since kidapawan does have the best rambutan, camiguin the sweetest lanzones, and jolo does have the best, THE ABSOLUTE BEST durian and mangosteen..native varieties, mostly wild and organic. corinne, our mangosteen in davao is sweet, although there are sweet-sour varieties. no, no, apicio, the only way is to come over to mindanao late next month till late october. you know how different canned cherries taste from fresh? or worse, maraschinos (were they ever cherries once at all in their past lives?). some fruits really don’t take too kindly to manipulation – about the worse they can take is a gentle washing; marang is one of them, and it does not even need washing! i dare not insist on davao, but i say mindanao when i talk of fruit, lest i hear the rest of the island in a collective howl of protest, since kidapawan does have the best rambutan, camiguin the sweetest lanzones, and jolo does have the best, THE ABSOLUTE BEST durian and mangosteen..native varieties, mostly wild and organic. corinne, our mangosteen in davao is sweet, although there are sweet-sour varieties.

]]> By: connie http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/a-simple-breakfast/comment-page-1#comment-12654 connie Wed, 23 Aug 2006 01:47:33 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=698#comment-12654 I could easily get fresh rambutan, mangosteen and lychees at the Asian Market here, expensive but worth it. About the cousin of the jackfruit, I could get durian which come frozen, it does not compare at all from eating it fresh from the market. They are good enough for making durian pies however. Let's not even talk about mangoes, the Mexican varieties does not even compare to Philippine ones and the US market is saturated with Mexican mangoes, in fact where I live it's the only mangoes you'll ever get. Yuck! My previous boss who was introduced to the local mangoes on his first year to the Philippines would actually travel back during the mango season just too have a taste of the "heavenly" mangoes as he call it, for him it was all worth it! I don't blame him a bit, if you've tasted heaven, why go back to those dreadful Mexican or Brazilian mangoes, which are equally dreadful. Yuck! About the bananas, I've always love the "lakatan" kind and I could easily eat a bunch of them. Too bad they are not known in the US as well. Another fruit I miss is lansones, I'll do about anything right now for a basket full of lansones. LOL! Anyway, that's one heavenly breakfast, MM. I could easily get fresh rambutan, mangosteen and lychees at the Asian Market here, expensive but worth it. About the cousin of the jackfruit, I could get durian which come frozen, it does not compare at all from eating it fresh from the market. They are good enough for making durian pies however.
Let’s not even talk about mangoes, the Mexican varieties does not even compare to Philippine ones and the US market is saturated with Mexican mangoes, in fact where I live it’s the only mangoes you’ll ever get. Yuck! My previous boss who was introduced to the local mangoes on his first year to the Philippines would actually travel back during the mango season just too have a taste of the “heavenly” mangoes as he call it, for him it was all worth it! I don’t blame him a bit, if you’ve tasted heaven, why go back to those dreadful Mexican or Brazilian mangoes, which are equally dreadful. Yuck!
About the bananas, I’ve always love the “lakatan” kind and I could easily eat a bunch of them. Too bad they are not known in the US as well.
Another fruit I miss is lansones, I’ll do about anything right now for a basket full of lansones. LOL!
Anyway, that’s one heavenly breakfast, MM.

]]> By: Apicio http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/a-simple-breakfast/comment-page-1#comment-12633 Apicio Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:09:08 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=698#comment-12633 Exactly what I fear Millet. If and when the shippers develop a process to export them, they would have made compromises with its point of harvest and played around with the ambient temperature and God knows what exotic gases they should be kept in in transit and by the time they hit the trays here their cheerful appealing good looks will just be hiding flesh that is wan in colour, weak in aroma and bland in taste, not even the slight suggestion of what they ought to be although still frighteningly expensive. Better learn to preserve them in syrup and congeal or crystallize them in sugar when they are most plentiful and cheap and amaze yourself with the whiff of paradise when you open the jar long after their season has passed or you are far and away at the opposite part of the globe. Exactly what I fear Millet. If and when the shippers develop a process to export them, they would have made compromises with its point of harvest and played around with the ambient temperature and God knows what exotic gases they should be kept in in transit and by the time they hit the trays here their cheerful appealing good looks will just be hiding flesh that is wan in colour, weak in aroma and bland in taste, not even the slight suggestion of what they ought to be although still frighteningly expensive.

Better learn to preserve them in syrup and congeal or crystallize them in sugar when they are most plentiful and cheap and amaze yourself with the whiff of paradise when you open the jar long after their season has passed or you are far and away at the opposite part of the globe.

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