Many people have mentioned that they enjoy reading about food, so I am adding another post about food from Manila. I noticed that knives are not very common here. Instead, people eat with a fork and spoon. The spoon has many uses, from spooning out soup to cutting through food. For example, they don’t use their hands when they peel/eat shrimp. They cut the head, then the tail and then maneuver the silverware to peel the rest of the shrimp. I wish there was a way to label each of the photos. I tried the following dishes on Christmas:
Sisig – Made of parts of the pig’s head and liver, as well as onion and a little pepper for spice. They don’t like to waste parts of the pig, so the bones will be used to make broth and use the left over parts in this dish.
Dalandan shake – Juice made out of a local fruit. Delicious!
Lumpiang ubod – Spring roll with hearts of palm, topped with a peanut sauce.
Fried Pla Pla – The fish.
Gising-Gising – Usually this dish is served with lots of hot spice, but they tamed it for me. The menu said that you would need to use a fire extinguisher!
Pork binagoonan and morcon – One of the dishes was quite salty.
Thank you to the Santos family for showing me (and readers of the blog) the cuisine from the area!
I'm so hungry! It was not a good idea to ready your blog before going to bed
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