Comments on: The Banca Ride to Culion Island, Palawan

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:49:32 +0000

Hi Cindy, I have a recipe for kinilaw na malasugi and kinilaw na dilis in my archives…just type it into the search function and KEEP scrolling down and down again until you find the recipes. For kinilaw, your best bet in the states is sashimi quality tuna belly…the kind that Japanese restaurants use. I would NOT use any frozen fish at all. I also have posts on TULINGAN the fish in several areas of the archives, type it in the search function and keep scrolling. It has scientific names, closest fish to it, etc. As for sinaing na tulingan, I unfortunately have not made this at all, in fact, I haven’t tasted it yet…

By: Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:33:14 +0000

Hi MarketMan :)

I can’t remember how i got linked to your website, but it’s been more than a year now that i read and refer to your writings… when i need recipees, just have time to read or browse and get balita from back home. I am based in Pacifica in California and has been residing in America for 7 years now. I am on the way with my second child and have a 10 month old baby girl, and have an American partner and in-laws of swiss-italian-american decent. We all love to eat and cook and all that. Every now and then, i cook something really pinoy and most of it they’ve liked – of course our adobo, bicol express, kare-kare, etc. Right now, i am craving for sinaing na tulingan and kinilaw na tangige. I am not sure they will like the sinaing na tulingan, i usually back home whenever i craved for it would just cook it on a small kaldero or clay pot, put lots of our rock salt on it and in between the slices of cleaned fish and butter too, put a few cubed of taba ng baboy, sampaloc na hilaw if there is, and can’t remember if it needs garlic and ginger… or i am confusing it to paksiw at this point… i learned to eat and cook that sinaing na tulingan from friends from Batangas during the almost every other weekend we would go to the beaches there. The kinilaw na tangige i learned from my mom – just some vinegar (am not sure if she used del monte or our native sukang paumbong), ginger, onions, limes, salt and pepper… and i think that’s it! I guess my in-laws will like it as it’s similar to their seviche here. I need your inputs tho’ when you get a chance, if you don’t mind – are my recipees correct or complete?, what’s tangige and tulingan in English, if you say tulingan is baby tuna? I’m not sure what fish to buy in the Asian stores here or at a Safeway or Albertson’s. Please help…

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:10:39 +0000

Zita, I am back from Palawan but out of town at the moment at the beach… Tetet, airfares to Coron are around PHP5000-7000 round trip, we stayed in a hotel for PHP800 a night for two persons (more details on hotel in upcoming posts), we rented bancas for our private use for PHP3000 or so a day for a large one with three bangkeros with us, and the food is wicked cheap…so it would cost less for a week on this trip than a day at El Nido Resort… but its much cheaper if you stay at el Nido town… Ali, yes the seas can get rough and that was what I was worried about, but it was incredibly calm during my trip. pixeldose, yes, look it up on google earth, it is an amazing view… mikel, it is totally worth a trip and lojet, stay tuned for more of the trip!

By: lojet

lojet — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:34:39 +0000

Your pictures and narrative is the next best thing to being there right now. Thanks for the virtual experience MM.

By: mikel in paris

mikel in paris — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:21:06 +0000

LOVE IT!

By: pixeldose

pixeldose — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:11:44 +0000

Good job on the imagery, MM. Your description of the place gave me the idea to fire up Google Earth to check if I could make out the details of the islands from Google's satellite images. Zooming in, I could make out some details ... the outlines of the lakes in the Coron islands are clearly visible. It's amazing how many little islands there are in that northern tip of Palawan and I'm guessing that's probably true all over the Pinas. Oh and if anyone hasn't seen the satellite images of Manila and nearby suburbs, the resolution is pretty good actually ... you could actually see the tiny cars on the streets when you zoom in.

By: Ali Figueroa

Ali Figueroa — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 03:44:01 +0000

This post reminds me of our own visit to Culion last year. I’m afraid that boat trip was far from serene and simple though, as we travelled in the wake of typhoon Milenyo, and the seas were still rather rough. But despite the harrowing and frightening journey, we could not ignore the spectacular beauty of the islands, and I’m looking forward to returning soon.

By: Tetet

Tetet — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 03:32:38 +0000

Hi MM, This Coron trip looks so amazing. Im just curious, how much does it cost to do this Coron trip? And also the incidentals… I was thinking of El Nido, but I guess this is better.

By: Zita

Zita — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 03:28:05 +0000

MM,

Are you still on holidays though?