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Ate Jo’s Pares, Lacson st. UST
The best beef pares you can ever find in the metro, not too fatty, or overpowered with star anise, thicker but more flavorful sauce. You can never go wrong on having this as your lunch or merienda, at a very affordable price of 35 pesos.
PINASaya: Hanapan ng Piso sa Harina
Nalaro niyo na ba ito nung maliliit pa kayo? Hindi ba nakakamiss?
PINASarap: Laing and Bicol Express
Laing is a Filipino dish native to the province of Bicol. It is a spicy and creamy dish of Gabi (Taro) leaves, pork, and chili peppers cooked incoconut milk.
Bicol Express Origin
Cely Kalaw, a native of Laguna and an owner of a restaurant located in Malate, Manila, is believed to have been the woman behind this spicy and appetizing dish. She went to Nagawhen she was three years old and was exposed to the palatable dishes of Bicol. When she grew up and returned to Manila, she created Bicol Express. She named the dish after the train that travels from Paco Station to Bicol.
Bicolanos also claim that it was derived from an original native recipe of Bicol, Gulay na Lada, which is cooked the same way as Bicol Express but originally had no meat.
PINASarap: Beef pares
Pares, literally “pair”, means the combination of rice and beef. In Philippine eateries, the customer may opt to enjoy his beef with noodles instead of rice. What characterizes the beef pares from other beef-and-rice or beef-and-noodle dishes is the very tender meat. Cuts with lots of litid (ligaments) are used to achieve a texture that is tender and sticky at the same time. Brisket and shanks are ideal for makingbeef pares.
Now that I’ve tried my first bowl of pares, I can truly say, that I deserve my URL.
PINASenti: Palabunutan
Define their Destiny, can you still remember playing this during your town fiestas? You’d pick a small paper from a pouch, point it up towards the sun and try to decipher the hidden symbol or number to win a Chick, Quail or a Duckling. Putting it in Water to let you know if you win over the game.
What a pity those chicks have to go through, being soaked in dye just to appear Cute and Cuddly to kids at the age 4 to 12, and who does take care of their so called prize? I’m sure after a week, it would just be another form of thrash or something.
But when I was little, I’m proud to say that I raised mine, that it was good and clean enough to be eaten as adobo and tinola (well, i cried when after school, I didn’t see my Prizes at our backyard, instead we had adobo for dinner, and then that’s when my Dad told me that we were eating the chickens that we won, I was crying but at the same time I was muching on a piece of leg)
My sympathy to those living things, every time I saw “palabunutan” few questions come in my mind.
Do they deserve to be in that way? Do they need to suffer to death in the hands of innocent children? And the fact that they put colour in those chicks it’s so inhumane they suffer just to attract children to use them as their toys. It is enough that those animals provide us human the daily food we need to live? This questions leaves in my head blank.
I know I can’t do anything about this; all I can do is to talk to children every time I saw holding their pet from palabunutan. I really can’t blame them they are just kids, And for now I don’t talk to the trader of those “palabunutan” because when I try to talk to one he gets angry with me and told me that mind my own business.
Are we really living for ourselves? Aren’t we sometimes can think we are being selfish busy making money without noticing that we are doing harm to others? Oh well I am not perfect but at least I have this heart for Innocent animals. And yet I still believe that the world is not just for us Humans. Every living thing has its rights in this world that God provide us and every right associated with responsibility.
PINASaya:Flores de Mayo
Flores de Mayo (flowers of May), sometimes called Flores de Maria is a flower festival celebrated annually in May to honor the Virgin Mary.
The custom and the celebration originated in the Tagalog region after the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1854 and after the publication circa 1867 of Mariano Sevilla’s translation of the devotional Flores de Maria or Mariquit na Bulaclac na sa Pagninilaynilay sa Buong Buan nang Mayo ay Inihahandog nang manga Devoto cay Maria Santisima (The Flowers of Mary or the Beautiful Flowers that in the Meditations During the Whole Month of May are Offered by Devotees to Mary the Holiest)
PINASarap: Pancit Palabok
Also called Pansit Malabon, is a Philippine noodle dish from the Tagalog region, consisting of rice noodles called bihon or miki flavored with a thick, bright orange sauce. It is similar to pansit luglug, except with thicker noodles.
Pansit Malabon is a staple in Tagalog festivals, celebrations and gatherings. Many food franchises have Pansit Malabon as their specialty.
The dish was named after the city of its supposed origin — Malabon, Metro Manila. Different varieties throughout the Tagalog region use different garnishes or variations on the sauce. The main similarity is the preparation of the noodles.
The noodles are first soaked, then blanched in boiling water. The brightly-colored sauce is usually made with fish sauce (patis) and crab fat. This sauce is called paalat or palabok in Tagalog which roughly means ‘for flavoring’ or ‘for thickening’.
The dish is then served with a variety of toppings and garnishes. The most popular are shrimp, sliced hard-boiled eggs, and crushed pieces of pork crackling (chicharon). Some may prefer flakes of smoked fish (tinapa), fresh spring onions, bean sprouts, salted eggs (itlog na pula), and pechay Bagiou (bok choy or Chinese cabbage). Some of the more exotic toppings include oysters, adobong pusit (sauteed squid), and fish eggs. People also add a squeeze of calamansi (citrus) juice.
Chickenjoy @Jollibee for dinner
Tagtipid, pero I don’t think hindi ako nakatipid haha
MANILA, Philippines—Philippine tourism got a boost in the United Kingdom with the rollout of 75 iconic London black cabs and double-decker buses sporting the new “It’s More Fun in the Philippines” banners.
According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Philippine ambassador to Britain Enrique Manalo and the head of the Philippine tourism office there, Rosario Afuang, led travel trade partners, media representatives and members of the Filipino community in a motorcade around central London aboard the “More Fun” vehicles last May 1.
The motorcade passed through some of London’s most famous and visited areas, making an unscheduled stop on Oxford Street—one of Europe’s busiest commercial districts—to allow passengers to disembark and give delighted British shoppers an impromptu performance of Philippine song and dance.
“This is just a sample of what you will experience when you visit our country. A culture of fun, beauty and excitement await every visitor. With 7,107 islands, guests are sure to find islands that will suit their adventure, and with more than 90 million hosts, you are definitely going to have more fun in the Philippines,” Manalo said in a DFA statement.
According to Afuang, apart from the exteriors of 50 black cabs and 25 double-decker buses, “It’s More Fun in the Philippines” images will appear on 75 panels at some of London’s busiest underground stations, including Piccadilly Circus, Covent Garden, Leicester Square, Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Circus.
“There will also be 30-second ‘More Fun’ ads appearing on 1,400 digital screens onboard London cabs,” she added.
The DFA said the advertisements in the UK are part of synchronized efforts with the Department of Tourism in Manila as it launches a worldwide campaign on CNN International which began last April 30.
“The UK campaign will remain in time for the millions of visitors from around the world attending the Queen’s Jubilee in June, the Olympic Games in July, and the Paralympic games in September,” it said.
It added that UK ranks first in Europe in number of tourist arrivals to the Philippines, and 10th overall.
“Over 100,000 British tourists travelled to the Philippines in 2011 alone—an all-time high,” the DFA said.
