Comments on: Chicken Tinola Cooked in Bamboo a la Marketman

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:54:54 +0000

Utoy, yes, bamboo is single use. Seems wasteful, but bamboo grows abundantly in many parts of the country and is one of the most ecologically replenishable materials. Also a single pole will provide several segments for cooking. It is completely biodegradable and there are no carbon emissions in its manufacture, transport, etc…

Yes, try some light soups. Personally, I am not much of a creamy soup person, but I do occasionally enjoy a bisque, cream of squash, leek and potato and other soups with cream.

By: Utoy

Utoy — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:52:26 +0000

The bamboo? Is it one-off use, MM? I’m actually trying to use things like this but using a lot bamboos for business would have made me felt guilty at the end. I’m a trying-hard-chef cum trying-hard-to-be businessman that put people’s well-being/environment first. Dili ako bisaya so i have never come across Binakol in my life. Being here in the Netherlands opened a lot of doors for me to venture or try things that i would not normally do back in RP. With all modesty, i put myself up on a pedestal when it comes to preparing soup. I always like the creamy ones and somehow i called myself the guy-with-a-carton-of-milk. I make no use of single or double cream (coz i don’t know yet how to make one) but plain full milk alone. Seeing, your own binakol soup makes me feel learned by a guru. Now i have something to experiment with and would try to put non-creamy soup, fresh and light to my top 10 list of my favorites.

Again, thanks a lot and ive just been here for about half an hour and i reckon i would be having a late night readin most of your post. But well, perhaps i have to take it easy. Your posts are addictive.

By: jack

jack — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:08:34 +0000

sarap naman ng tinola lalo na ngayong tag-ulan.

By: Getter Dragon 1

Getter Dragon 1 — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:54:18 +0000

For all we know you might be some covert jungle warfare specialist.

By: millet

millet — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:47:29 +0000

by this time, the crew must have stopped wondering at all your crazy experiements and taste tests, MM, no? because look where all that pricking of the pigskin has got them!

padayon mong tanan!

By: andrea

andrea — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:25:08 +0000

i agree with jen, its very authentic :)

By: Lou

Lou — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:31:14 +0000

You definitely could win “Survivor”!

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:30:27 +0000

My mom used to cook chicken binakol this way. Chicken binakol in central areas of Panay is different from that of what we know of here in Manila i.e. with coconut meat. My mom uses a kind of leaf, I just don’t know what it was… but it made the soup a little sour.

Cooking that chicken binakol inside a bamboo was just amazingly delicious.

By: Trissa

Trissa — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:40:31 +0000

That’s hilarious – if I ever kidnapped you, I would also make sure that the ransom was high enough that no one would pay it so I could get you to cook food like this for me.

By: iyoy

iyoy — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:21:07 +0000

mm, binakol with coconut water and young coconut meat is the ilongo version (i think). the aklan version is just like your tinola in bamboo tube except there’s less broth. two cups of water is max for a cut-up native dumalaga in 4-5 inch diameter bamboo. lots of chopped onions and ginger. plug the open end with a clump of lemon grass. Proceed to cook it ala marketman. And that’s it.
btw, there’s a commercial purveyor of aklan binakol in banga, the town after kalibo on the way to iloilo. tastes almost like the real thing. he cooks his chicken pieces in ordinary kaldero over wood fire. to get that whiff of “bamboo” taste and aroma he places newly split fresh bamboo laths into the batch he is cooking and fishes out the the pieces before serving.
the taste is a notch lower than the “real” binakol, possibly because the latter has to cook ever so slooow because of the danger of the bamboo tube charring/burning if it is placed too close to the embers.
the shortcut would offend a traditionalist. but the last time i passed by his place, he was doing brisk business. who could argue with “success?”