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Braised & Grilled Octopus

26 May, 2014

Except in some snazzy restaurants in Manila whose kitchens are run by foreigners or influenced by Filipino chefs who have trained abroad, I don’t think octopus is a common ingredient on local menus at all.

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Seafood Lunch at Sugar Beach, Bantayan, Cebu

24 May, 2014

After shopping at the Bantayan fresh seafood market in this previous post, we took our purchases to one of the cooking stalls at Sugar Beach, left some instructions on how we preferred each type of seafood cooked, and went back to our hotel to pack up and check out before lunch.

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A Simply Luxurious Crab Dip a la Marketman

21 May, 2014

It’s more about the engraved piggy board than the crab dip, really.

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Baltimore-Style Steamed Crab a la Marketman

15 May, 2014

When I was about 14 years old, my sister and her family used to make a “pilgrimage” to Baltimore from New York once every summer or so (when I happened to be in New York on holiday) to get some Maryland style steamed crab.

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