Food articles posted in Oct 2006

Pho Bac Vietnamese Restaurant

October 1, 2006 was the fourth day we had no electricity after typhoon Milenyo hit the country on Thursday, September 28th. I had a deadline to meet so we went to Robinson’s Galleria, the only mall in the metropolis with free wifi internet. But before I started writing my op-ed column, we had a late [...]

Sweet and spicy talakitok in a flash

We haven’t properly replenished our food and cooking supplies after last week’s typhoons, blackout and water problems… replacing everything we had to throw out wasn’t that simple. There were no good vegetables available (not surprising after the typhoons and the floods). The onions were bad and the tomatoes were even worse…

The lack of fresh vegetables in the house is the reason why this dish of sweet and spicy talakitok (trevally) was cooked with dried herbs and spices. Well, except for the cilantro. By some miracle, my potted cilantro in the backyard survived the typhoons. And although the dill was badly damaged, it did not get uprooted and, in a few weeks, it will grow back in abundance–unless more typhoons hit the Philippines.

Pancit miki (habhab)

Made with pancit miki from Lucban, Quezon, the noodles are the kind used for making pancit habhab, a meat-seafood-vegetable noodle dish served on banana leaves and eaten without spoon nor fork. The banana leaf is rolled loosely, allowing the pancit to come out on one end where it is eaten directly. Interesting thing, really, and I would have prepared it that way except that my kids might find it too inconvenient. Not exactly something to push to them after a gruelling day in school. So, although cooked much like pancit habhab, I served this noodle dish in the usual fashion.

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