Comments on: Batitis from Bacolod…

By: maddie

maddie — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:53:58 +0000

haaaaaay! craving again. love batitis but prefer it a bit sauteed in garlic to remove the taste of the sea. it is from a certain kind of shellfish i am told. they used to sell bottles of this (still in the same ‘lapad’ type bottle) in every Negros Fair. i’m not sure if they still do. and they run out right away. we eat this as a side dish, best with inihaw stuff. just like bihod (fish roe). yum yum yum!

By: vina

vina — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:41:36 +0000

MM! you should go to bacolod!!! namit gid ya! :P

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:07:14 +0000

Batitis? that is not batitis.. But it is batitis!

wala lang.. just the effect of MM’s post on binagoongang lechon kawali.

By: MrsS

MrsS — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:41:48 +0000

Lex, I have childhood memories of eating adobo nga pitao at my grandma’s house. As for batitis (and sisi) being sold in Tanduay bottles, maybe it’s because Illonggo’s drink a lot of those? Just guessing…
I used to have a boss who would ask me to buy sisi and batitis for him everytime I go to Bacolod to visit me parents. They were so cheap and so good with lots of rice and adobo!

By: thebee

thebee — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:37:07 +0000

Yum! Batitis used to be hawked door to door by the manangs who have it in baskets along with other shellfish. We eat it as a side dish with sinugba na baboy or fish. It’s also good paired with laswa, that soupy vegetable dish similar to Cebu’s utan bisaya.

By: millet

millet — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:41:38 +0000

batitis…funny name. but it certainly sounds delicious…am salivating at just the thought of squeezing calamansi over it, and eating with fried bilong-bilong and hot rice.

i used to buy diwal by the basketfuls at the bacolod airport a long time ago. and then they were gone. i think they made a comeback last year, and i remember gaita fores even had a diwal festival in pepato (i think). but this year, it seems the harvest was not as bountiful. oh, for a basketful of diwal….

By: Jing

Jing — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:46:27 +0000

Used to live in Arroyo St. in Iloilo where Bay-ad is grilled and sold in makeshift kainans (tables and chairs just sprout after 6pm ) together with bbq pork, chicken inasal, etc. We sometimes ask our suki to grill our marinated porkchops or fish for a small fee then we buy grilled bay-ad and dinner is solved. Masarap isawsaw sa chili-vinegar dip.
Lissa, I agree with Natie. You should try diwal. The taste is sublime. Ibang-iba. After the first time, i’m sure hahanap-hanapin mo na, kasi rare na lumabas and diwal ngayon, e haha!
Ilonggo man ko but I’ve never had batitis…looy noh? Or maybe there’s just no batitis in my hometown Roxas City. Have any of you eaten “ugpan”?

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:22:38 +0000

Since we’re in the topic of Bacolod food, “Namets” the much awaited Negrense movie will have its premiere night tonight at SM cinemas… here in Bacolod, land of sugar and batwan.
According to Vince Groyon the scriptwriter, â€œNamets! is a colorful celebration of food as well as love, and the love of food above all, which is central to being Negrosanon, and being Filipino.â€

I hope to catch the movie within the week, a lot of my Bacolod-based theatre friends have cameo roles.

By: GJN

GJN — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:30:23 +0000

I heard that there is a diwal festival held in Roxas City every year. I once found them in Farmers’ Market in Cubao but that could have been a fluke. I had my fill of pitaw recently at the Negros Fair in Rockwell . Namit gid! As for the cadios, I’m happy that it is now available in the palenkes of Manila. (Just have your relatives send you the batuan and freeze them.)

(Tia Pining) Ereneta’s chorizo (recado and hamonado) is available at Rustan’s. An alternative (and slightly cheaper) is Manaloto’s.

Ok since we’re into this anyway, another shellfish found in Silay is bay-ad. No other way to cook this but charcoal-grilled. Amazing flavor that makes your taste buds go into spasms!

By: greasemonkey

greasemonkey — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:26:39 +0000

sometimes i wish i were ilonggo. lex, they should make you the culinary ambassador or something!

i’m a big fan of raw to raw-ish seafood (toxins and bio-accumulation be damned!) but, i don’t think i’d ever had batitis! this is another reason why i keep coming back to marketmanila, i get to see read about all the great stuff i’m missing out on!