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Food articles posted in Jul 2005
Spicy baked plapla
Plapla is what we call the big-sized tilapia. That’s a 1.25 kg. fish in the photo. When you buy fish that you intend to cook whole by steaming, tell the fishmonger to pull out the intestines through the ‘neck’. No incision through the stomach. It is always a good idea to stuff the cavity with [...]
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Hot chicken salad
After the last exam on the last day of the bar exams (ooh that’s alliteration) many years ago, a lawyer friend treated me to dinner. He said I could bring along my friends. It was his way of saying thank you because I helped him collect a bad loan. He brought us to the East [...]
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Pollo con queso
Before we moved to the suburb, my family frequented Shangri-La Plaza Shopping Mall in Pasig. There was a stall in the basement food court called Vincenzo’s and one of the dishes it served was pollo con queso, rolled chicken in a creamy white sauce. Vincenzo’s folded up a couple of years ago. I never thought [...]
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