"Namnama" Ilocos in Binan Laguna

Empanadang Ilocos, superb longanisa, bagnet and some other munchies.... Who would ever imagine that we could enjoy it even here at San Antonio Binan Laguna XD. So come to namnama and have a piece of their superb empanadas, bagnet, and longganisa! X)

Neck-neck balls XD!

Street Foods 101
Location: Pacita, San Pedro Binan Laguna
Food: Breaded chicken neck "aka neck-neck balls" 3 php per piece
Good for: inumang kanto and for those about to rock!

Hello... Its another blog from your's truly... I just have to share this its the famous neck neck balls of pacita complex... I just came across this when i saw a group of guys queing to line up on a pedicab vendor to get these munch... i Ignored it at first.. but had a dose of it when they had these as a snack in pacita complex... surprisingly i got addicted to these and offered these as beer match food.. it was a blast  even though its only breading XD! 

A youtube Cordon bleu!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2SY4nXJRFs&feature=feedrec

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!