just another personal blog of a bisdak
In Philippines where I came from, we enjoyed eating Green Mango with a dip which could either be salt or even better, a bagoong. Simply put, Bagoong is a salted fermented shrimp paste and they smell so deliciously stinky but it gives a nice rich umami olala flavor. No other words can describe the taste….
I do not think anyone goes to McDonald’s as often as we do. We told ourselves that we could pay less in Asian restaurants and with better food too so we try to avoid it nowadays but somehow, we cannot stop going there for Breakfast. So here we are again on a Sunday, occupying the…
Applying what little things I was able to catch up with our Kochevent at work, I made Yaki-gyoza and my girl helped me with it. And to further prove just how lazy I am, I bought a gyoza wrapper which I find cheaper compared to the hours I would have spent making it from scratch….
Philippine’s tablea de cacao in its raw pure form where cacao beans are harvested, fermented, dried, peeled, grounded and formed into this shape. No sugar, no emulsifiers and any other additives. Cheap and bitter. And we enjoyed it as a sikwati (cacao drink) for breakfast together with mango and puto maya (sticky rice). Gotta love…