Guest recipe: Crispy Kankong

Guest recipe: Crispy Kankong 

Contributor- A.Ruiz

Ingredients:

• 4 bunches kangkong leaves, cleaned

• 3 cups corn starch

• 5 cups cooking oil

• salt and monosodium glutamate ( MSG) to taste (vetsin)

• 1-1/2 cup water

• 1 cup flour

• 1 pc boiled egg, grated medium 

For Mayonnaise Dip:

1 cup mayonnaise

3-4 drops Maggi Savor liquid seasoning

Dash of pepper

Directions:

1. Clean kangkong and draw off leaves thoroughly.

2. Remove leaves from stem. Set aside.

3. Combine cornstarch, flour, egg, MSG, salt and water ( batter mixture ) in a clean mixing bowl.

Mix until smooth in consistency.

4. Heat oil to 250°F and reduce fire to medium. Dip kangkong leaves one by one in batter and deep fry until crispy.

5. Put fried leaves in a plate lined with table tissue to drain oil from kangkong leaves.

Serve with mayonnaise dip on the side.

Alden Notes.... Seems this could be also used for eggplant and spinach.

Shop wise at Shopwise.... or any other shop

Binan Market freshness

     Market duty can start at any part of the day, I used to wonder why does the older peeps tend to wake up early and i mean really early to go to market places, groceries and wet markets. Based on my experience as a Dad fond of going to the wet market and groceries i have came to some important points when it comes to shifting to the palengke mode on status.

1. freshness of food
2. most of the choice stuff are released in the morning
3. the exotics and the rare stashes (e.g. shark meat/skatefish meat) are available
4. morning marketing gives good vibes to the vendors especially if you are one of their first few customers... they believe that you are good luck.... haggling is on easy mode.
5. markets are not that jampacked when you are an early bird.
6. there is a feeling of a good market atmosphere everythings cool but still be careful of pickpockets.

For people in San Antonio Binan Laguna our local wet market tips are  the ff:

1. Veggie trucks come it at night time- 10 o' clock trip to the market will give you a good stash of green leafy veggies.... fruits are also delivered at this time... it will be nice to be there by exactly 10.
2. Buy pork, beef, and chicken at 5:30 am exotics are also seen at this time like octopus, shark, skatefish, and good snails for escargot. Papaitan package as well as dinuguan and bopis  package are available and is still warm.
3. Whatever you do don't initiate eye contact with beggars.... sometimes there are incidences of budol budol daw.

this is a pic of the local market near the fruit zone (taken from the net)

Shopwise freshness

8 am is the opening time for shopwise it is an advantage just look at the pics below:

actual pics!!!

Oh yeah!

neat!!

absolutely nice!!

Ninja Turtle drink recipe

recommended glass is highball glass... contains 8-12 oz 

Ingredients

Place desired level of ice on highball half glass would do

 add

1 1/2 oz gin

1/2 oz blue curacao

 fill with orange juice and serve

COWABUNGA!

 its supposed to look like this.. sample pic is not placed in a highball though!

hmmmmm kulay turtle sya  noh!

Tried to serve this twice already its good if you also have some Zamboanga hummer prepared..... this does not give a strong punch but it is really a point of discussion.... why because its color is unique... cute yung pagka green... if you serve this on an afternoon the rays of the sun would make this drink look like water with moss XD.... i presume that oscar the grouch would really like to have this.. cheers!

PS... Do not recommend this drink to those who have hyperacidity.... make sure to have a full meal before drinking.

A dose of Kung-fu!

Was grocery shopping the other day when i stumbled upon these weird tonic like drink stuff called siok tong...  nobody was even looking at the stuff.. well then i was curious so i took a nifty snapshot of the 2 bottle of siok tong i found at puregold XD.

Well my curiosity did not stop there i took some research... sabi ng iba pampamacho.... sabi ng iba pamparegla... sabi naman ng iba pampajerbs, pampapogi, pampabango?, pampalambing, pang gayuma, pampastroke etc. because the data i have gathered was all just hearsay from local old school hippie tambays and several senior citizens... I made an ultimate decision to end the inquiries i have about siok tong that is to GOOGLE it!

WikiPilipinas

Sioktong was the brand name of the medicinal wine that was the flagship product for many generations of Destileria Limtuaco, a distillery that was founded by a Chinese immgrant named Lim Tua Co. Within two years after his arrival in 1850 Lim Tua Co concocted a secret recipe that he carried with him from AMoy. It was a concoction of bittersweet herbs that was in the family for five generations. It was first named Vino de Chino, then later Sioktong. It was distilled in 135 Gandara Street, Binondo for many years. It became a bestseller for its legendary qualities of imparting stamina in the same way that energy drinks are consumed now.

Sioktong has many popular qualities among the rural folk that consume it in prodigious amounts. A Pinoy komiks character by Rico Bello Omagap for example was named Susanang Siyoktong who was a toughie girl transformed into a beautiful girl by the alcoholic elixir she ingests.

... there ya go case closed XD I even get to know Susanang Siyoktong!

zamboanga hummer

this one is for the drinkin' does not pack so much of a punch but it could get naughty after a few collins filled widda stuff....

first off prepare the collins:

this is not the actual pic of the concoction but i just wanna suggest that it should be prepared like this just to make it fancy for a party.... a beer tower will do as a container of the bulk prep.

the ingredients...

1/2 oz rhum (gold)

1/2 oz gin

1/2 oz brandy

1/2 oz curacao (not the blue one) or triple sec

2 oz orange juice

2 oz pineapple juice

1/2 oz lemon juice

1 tsp. brown sugar

1. fill glass with 3 oz ice

2. add all ingredients

3. shake well

4. strain into collins glass filled with ice

enjoy.

Oddly shaped food...... XD nyahahahah!

My friends.... this is a dish it is really oddly shaped but most of us especially those who are fond of street foods have already eaten this.... yep this one is really rampant and is often disguised under heavy breading deep fried in skewers...... it is 

Proven (sometimes also "Chicken proven", or spelled "Proben") is a type of street food popular in some regions of the Philippines. It consists essentially of the proventriculus of a chicken, dipped incornstarch, and deep-fried. It is served either in a small bagful of vinegar, or skewered on bamboo sticks to be dipped in the vinegar just before it is eaten.

Proven is particularly favored among towns in Laguna, and by students of the University of the Philippines Los Baños, where enjoying a taste of the snack in the afternoon has become a popular part of campus culture, similar to the iconic status given to Isaw at the University of the Philippines Diliman.

"starch or breading seems to be the chin chun su of most street foods"- Alden

Chic-Boy Peculiarity @ San Pedro Laguna

Garlic Goodness!!!

only @ Chicboy

One peculiar thing that i've seen exclusively at San Pedro Laguna Shopwise

Tinatakal na ito XD har har har 

anyway good munches could be eaten here at a fair price

chow time folks!!!!