Comments on: Lamayong Sili / Marinated Semi-Dried Eel

By: lee

lee — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:06:32 +0000

betty q… “smoking the herring” sounds a bit psychedelic bordering on the slightly illegal. hehehe..

By: Connie C

Connie C — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:10:01 +0000

BettyQ, I don’t know if you even have time to sleep ,with everything you are doing, but I am jealous with all your energy. You are worse than Martha Stewart!

By: Sheryl

Sheryl — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:40:17 +0000

“Tuba” is actually the drinkable state of the liquid. It’s a healthier alternative for the menfolk in the barrios to drink and gather around at twilight. When it’s fermented, it turns into vinegar which has quite a different taste from cane vinegar.

“Tuba” or palm toddy is made from the nectar of coconut flowers that the “manugtuba”gathers every afternoon. MM even have a post on this: https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/tuba-a-marketman-mini-adventure

By: paolo

paolo — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:08:42 +0000

to maddie : you are partly correct that tuba is coconut vinegar.
tuba is the stage of the vinegar where people drink it and it is either orange or murky white in color. after a longer period , the tuba turns into clear vinegar ( usually with a light orange color )

By: maddie

maddie — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:08:39 +0000

From what I recall, “tuba” is coconut vinegar.

By: paolo

paolo — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:47:34 +0000

hi MarketMan!
next time you get a hold of “sili” , get the ones with thicker cuts so that you will get more of the flavor and texture of the fish!
just a suggestion.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:19:06 +0000

Sheryl, goodness, I didn’t ask. I assumed it was cane because of the color and clarity and abundance of cane sugar… But I guess it could have been coconut vinegar as well, though that tends to be murkier and milkier in some cases…

By: Angela

Angela — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:11:20 +0000

Betty, you’re too funny! Let me know when your neighbor puts their house on the market. I’ll buy it; then I’ll be you’re kapitbahay ;)

Do you know where the tofu store in Chinatown moved to (I don’t remember the name, but they made the BEST tofu)? My mom went to Vancouver the other day because she was craving taho. She got there and found the place boarded up.

By: betty q.

betty q. — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:24:14 +0000

That is why, Natie, I am stuck with making the product a gustatory delight….it is a CREATIVE EFFORT!!!…Neighbours have the patience to wake up in the early morning hours to go to the dock and line up and make sure it (the bucket) doesn’t TIP OVER in their car!!!….hahahaha….then they buy a couple of buckets of herring for me (for siblings and close friends of siblings and close friends of siblings’s close friends….and of course, the neighbour who bought the herrring for me!!! If yoou like this herring like daing and semi-dried and partially smoked and fried to a crisp AND if you are my kapitbahay, you will have a share too!!!

! But I partially smoke my share which I don’t dare tell them it makes it even better or I WILL BE STUCK with smoking the herring as well for them. But my instincts tell me that they know since they can smell the smoke every time I use the fish smoker!

By: natie

natie — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:27:21 +0000

just how taty used to do it…

betty q, if it were the other way around, would it even be edible? did any one of your progenies get your gift?