EFJT Food Report

Life with no rice

Published on: 16th August, 2010

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Life with no rice
The doctor has banned rice from my diet in a desperate move to bring down my glucose reading. For a Pinoy foodie, that sounds like a jail sentence. Or so I thought. It’s now going on three weeks and I’m finding out it’s not really as horrible as it initially seemed. In [...]

Piyaya et Piyayitos

Published on: 6th July, 2010

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You bite into these small, slightly sweet flat orbs and you get a mouthful of my province’s past, present and future. Actually biscuits made from unleavened flour, they are the dainty, downsized but no less delicious  version of The Piaya, the famous pastry  of Negros Occidental. My province is known as  [...]

Eating culture

Published on: 14th June, 2010

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Once again, I breezed through Binondo, land of Lorenzo Ruiz,  Chinatown, de facto heart of the country’s finance, trade and commerce and ummm, hometown of real Chinese cooking.
The heat and crowds were there, the streets didn’t get any wider, and the all-too-familiar clack-clack-clack  of horse steps, and yes, the occasional manure [...]

In love with Takway

Published on: 27th May, 2010

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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 [...]