Food

In love with Takway

Published on: 27th May, 2010

If there’s a native dish that is sorely underrated, it must be adobong takway,  that slimy but fiber-rich plebian food that no one seems to  bother.  It’s cousin, the laswa, that iconic Negrense vegetable soup, has already made it to our restaurants but takway has remained in our homes.
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I think it’s time takway took [...]

Blessed and Bountiful Negros

Published on: 17th January, 2010

By CHARLIE COJUANGCO
I’ve been to many parts of the Philippines and the world, and if there is one realization I’ve had in all of these travels, it is this: There’s no place like home. It may sound trite or cliché, but it is true. There is no place like Negros. Always, in foreign lands, I [...]

A truly Bacolod beer

Published on: 1st December, 2009

The enterprising architect Bugoy fulfills a long-held dream – and produces Bacolod’s first truly-local beer, complete with muscovado.
Here, now, is beer  brewed, mastered, and bottled in Bacolod.
Although it was conceptualized decades back when Felix  “Bugoy” Hagad was still in the UP where a classmate was experimenting with beer making, Bogsbrew Beer is decidedly Bacoleno.  To [...]

Finger tacos and other Bago tales

Published on: 1st December, 2009

The recent St. John the Baptist feast in Bago brought me back to the town-city I have truly grown to love. After many many months, here I was again in Bago, savoring its clean air, reveling in its calm, and enjoying its simple but delicious food.
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I call Bago town city because it captures [...]

Some unpleasant foodie memories

Published on: 1st December, 2009

It happens even to the best.  Over the years, I’ve had plenty of experiences with our restaurants, mostly pleasant,  but sometimes  not so pleasant.  Even the  very best do have bad hair days
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One time, for example, I was served putanesca in Bob’s Restaurant with slivers of what was unmistakably Chinese pechay or cabbage – [...]

Fried salted eggs

Published on: 1st December, 2009

Just found another way of eating salted eggs.  Eat it fried.  Just buy the eggs  fresh from your  balut vendor and fry it sunny side up. The red eggs that we are used to are simply salted eggs cooked hard boiled. So instead of eating salted hard boiled eggs, try frying them.
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It’s one yummy treat. [...]

Food as fuel and familiarity

Published on: 1st December, 2009

FOOD STRETCH. 6th St., where we have the office, is fast turning into a food strip the way the main street Lacson  is.  At the mouth of the street where you turn from Lacson are Mc Do and Dunkin Do and Mai Pao. As you move down,   you have the Sweet Greens stall, Felicia’s, [...]

What is Sinuglaw?

Published on: 1st December, 2009

Native combo. It may have been there for a long time now, but I only discovered this intriguingly- named dish in Imay’s Resto , 6th St., Bacolod during the December holidays, when the palate was looking for a break from the heavy flavors of the season. It is called “Sinuglaw,” a combination of Sinugba and [...]