Ang Sarap (A Tagalog word for "It's Delicious")

Beef Ramen

Raymund — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:00:39 +0000

Ramen is a Japanese noodle dish made out of wheat noodles served in a meat or seafood based soup, often flavoured with soy sauce or miso then topped with different ingredients ranging from sliced meats, dried seaweed, kamaboko, green onions, pickled bamboo, wood ear fungus and occasionally corn. Today the true ramen can be only … Continue reading »

Cracked Crabs

Raymund — Thu, 16 May 2013 07:00:33 +0000

When we crave for crabs we usually go to Asian shops and buy some, but recently they are always out of stock even if we go early hours in the morning. I guess some Asians are faster them me and crave more than I do. Anyways I was glad that a colleague of mine introduced … Continue reading »

Guisadong Upo at Sardinas

Raymund — Wed, 15 May 2013 07:00:56 +0000

Guisadong upo is one of the sautéed vegetable dishes popular in Philippines more commonly on provinces where bottle gourds are abundant. We had posted something similar like this and it uses pork as its main ingredient but today this dish is even more frugal as we will be using sardines. This is a fairly common … Continue reading »

Apple, Walnut and Sultana Logs

Raymund — Tue, 14 May 2013 07:00:19 +0000

When you cook or even bake a lot sometimes you would have accumulated a lot of excess ingredients and sometimes you are wondering what you would do with all this unused or leftover items. For me I treat it is as a time to get creative otherwise these ingredients will be all wasted, so for … Continue reading »

Bistek Tagalog

Raymund — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:00:10 +0000

Bistek is a very popular Filipino dish, it is in fact considered as one of our national dishes. The name came from a Filipino slang word which was derived from the word “Beef Steak”, but this beef steak is cooked differently, meat is usually pan fried then cooked again by simmering it in a thick … Continue reading »

Mixed Seafood in Oyster Sauce

Raymund — Fri, 10 May 2013 07:00:05 +0000

I guess I will eat any seafood that is served in front of me (except for sea urchin), I love everything about them the taste, the texture, the aroma and the variety. Combine them all together then my jaw would easily drop and my salivary glands would produce its secretion non-stop. It does not matter … Continue reading »

Laing

Raymund — Thu, 09 May 2013 07:00:31 +0000

Laing is not the most visually appealing dish out there but trust me this is a good dish, it’s so good every Filipino gathering I attended this is one of the most sought after dishes. This dish is made out of taro leaves, coconut milk and chillies, it is very popular in the Bicol Region … Continue reading »

Vietnamese Style Grilled Lemongrass Pork

Raymund — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:00:04 +0000

Thit Heo Nuong Xa or Vietnamese Style Grilled Lemongrass Pork are grilled pork pieces usually served as a side dish to fried noodle and noodle soups. These addictive meat dish are sweet and savoury and sometimes with a sticky outer layer. The secret on this recipe is the marinade used and the way it is … Continue reading »

Iskrambol

Raymund — Tue, 07 May 2013 07:00:56 +0000

Iskrambol or Ice Scramble is the Filipino version of Slushy made out of banana flavoured frozen condensed milk usually sold by street hawkers. During my childhood this was really popular and it was sold outside schools in big styroboxes, I still remember kids queuing for this one while the vendor scoops it out from the … Continue reading »

Lo Ba Bung

Raymund — Mon, 06 May 2013 07:00:22 +0000

Lo Ba Bung, Lurou Fan or Rouzao Fan is a very popular Taiwanese street food made out of braised minced pork topped over a freshly cooked rice. The taste is so addictive hence its popularity over the region, it is fragrant, oily, salty, sweet and sticky accentuated with a side serving of pickled turnip, pickled … Continue reading »