Comments on: Corn Meal, Bogo Market

By: diday

diday — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:36:24 +0000

Guinamos from Pulang Bato, Bogo, Cebu is the best. Unfortunately, Australian quarantine frowns on anyone bringing this type of ‘delicacy’.

By: diday

diday — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:29:34 +0000

Maiz, as we call it at home in Cebu, is what i think the Cebuano version of the Couscous. My mother’s helper would cook it ‘instant couscous’ style in a ‘kulon’ as we pronouce it ‘kuon’. Boil the water then add the maiz for 5 to 6 minutes and when ready fluff with a fork and serve. Maiz is best with ‘utan bisaya’, ‘humba’, ‘kinilaw’, ‘paklay’ and other Cebuano recipes. My father, who was born in Bogo, would remind the helper to buy the #16 Maiz.

By: icemanila

icemanila — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:30:33 +0000

HI MM, where can I buy cornmeal here in Manila, what we have here are grade 2 I think and are sold for animal feeds. I looked at them, they looked inedible since there’s a lot of foreign mixed to them.

How about those in Cebu, can we compare the purity of the grain? Please advise. More Power

By: sylvia

sylvia — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:21:50 +0000

Edee, assuming you are a foodie, you might want to visit the Ferry Building Marketplace on Embarcadero St. It’s like foodie heaven and on Saturday mornings, there’s a big farmers market there. The farmers market is also open on weekdays but Saturday is the biggest.

By: Toping

Toping — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:05:56 +0000

I love corn! It’s an acquired taste, though, with a smell that can be off-putting to the uninitiated. I’ll take it over rice any time. It’s super filling too!

By: natie

natie — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:32:20 +0000

what??? a ”meet and greet” soiree?? that’s fun. i love the fact that we meet kindred souls thru this site. enjoy the get-together, betty q…hope the knee is better. i had my arthroscopy 2004. it hardly bothers me now–

uh oh–out of topic..thanks for the space, MM.

By: betty q.

betty q. — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:06:55 +0000

Hey Ted…thanks for the tour tips as well…I’ll suggest to my dear husband to take our time seeing Frisco…

Edee…you’re not the only one in winter clothes still! We’re here in Vancouver and I’m still wearing my bulky sweatshirts!

Sylvia…would love to meet you as well..hopefully, we get to go as soon as my knee surgeon gives me the “green light” to travel!

THANK YOU SO MUCH, MM! I really enjoy interacting with your other readers and commenters. SILLY LOLO is right….Blog Awards should have a category for us commenters and readers!!!

By: edee

edee — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:34:36 +0000

Thanks Ted for all the info! …really can’t wait for June, just want to have 2weeks of warmth and sunshine :) ….it’s supposed to be summer now here in Ireland, but we’re still in our winter clothes, we’re all hoping that we’ll have a good summer here if not at least a semblance of summer :)

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:16:49 +0000

Edee, also if you want to visit Alcatraz, you need to buy tickets ahead of time specially in June (2weeks ahead is good). And you would want to buy the ticket that will actually bring you to the Alcatraz island, not go around “The Rock” ;-) There’s one and only one boat concessionaire that will bring you to the Island, and i forgot which one (the original one lost the bidding 2 years ago) just google it.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:03:00 +0000

Sylvia, i live in Fairfield, Edee, when visiting SFO, places to see are as follows: Golden gate bridge, crooked street, pier 39, twin peaks, powel and market street where the cable car turntable is. By driving to these places, you get to go around the whole of San francisco already. Place to eat, if you like chinese food, Chinatown is the best place, so many places to eat there, just park and walk the 5 blocks of Grant street, its just a block or two from powel and market (Market and powel st is the heart of downtown SFO, everthing is within walking distance from there). If you like fine dining, there’s a few resto’s at Embarcadero (Scotts seafood) and downtown SFO (Michael Mina, Kuleto’s, etc..). There’s Westfield Mall on Market and Powel If you like to do window shopping, there’s plenty of restos there too, i believe Charles Phan? of the well known Slanted Door (vietnamese food) opened a place there too. Bring a wind breaker or a light jacket when coming to SFO even in June.