09 Nov, 2009
Deadly. In a wickedly good way. Do not attempt this when you are particularly hungry, like a half hour before lunch, as you will eat far more than you should. After the Zubuchonwich experiments, we just HAD to test a Pan de Sisig. OMG, why hasn’t anyone else done this before?…
07 Nov, 2009
I was messing around in the kitchen, trying to come up with a sandwich that was first delicious, and second, used lechon somehow. First I made a paksiw na lechon and shredded the meat and placed it in a pan de sal. It tasted great, but it looked pretty boring. I…
04 Nov, 2009
I’m not sure what gave rise to this, but the past year or two has really seen the renaissance of pork or anything porcine in nature. When the magazine Time Out New York issued its annual “100 Best Things We Ate And Drank This Year” in December 2008, and this $9 sandwich from…
29 Oct, 2009
I regularly browse through the second hand or unsold food magazines at mall stores like “Book Sale” and other shady re-retailers of books and magazines. Sometimes the stuff looks like it might have come out of someone’s garbage, other times they are unsold issues of magazines that somehow make it to the Philippines….
25 Oct, 2009
For some reason the Japanese have really taken food (and other) packaging to incredibly lofty levels. A visit to any major Tokyo department store’s food hall is always so incredibly awe-inspiring. So it didn’t surprise me at all when I spied a very eye-catching section of pork products for sale at the…
24 Oct, 2009
This is express comfort food. Easy, economical and relatively healthy. We cook some version of this soup in our household at least twice a year. A more detailed recipe was posted a couple of years ago, here, but even this version is slightly different. From the freezer into the…
26 Sep, 2009
Ever since the No Reservations Philippines episode of Anthony Bourdain, I have received dozens and dozens of requests to purchase the same kind of lechon served in that show. The subsequent feature on Jessica Soho’s program only increased the inquiries for the accupunctured pig. I have steadfastly responded that it is not…