Food articles posted in Jul 2007

Vietnamese barbecued pork with garlic and egg fried rice

I bought four new cookbooks over the weekend — two Vietnamese and two Malaysian — and, so far, I’ve cooked two dishes from recipes in the cookbooks. I thought I’d start with the simpler ones since I’m not that familiar yet with Vietnamese and Malaysian cooking. We had grilled pork, Vietnamese style, last night. There’s [...]

Jipan Japanese bakery and coffee shop

My family used to be loyal Jipan customers until we moved to the suburb and trips to the mall became less and less frequent. We loved Jipan’s bread products which, although quite expensive, were worth every centavo.
Earlier today, we chaperoned our girls and their friends to the mall to see “Simpsons, the movie.” To be [...]

Candy-making

When I first saw this guy pulling the still-soft candy, I was reminded of the candy called tira-tira which was widely sold in sari-sari stores when I was a kid. I wasn’t overly fond of tira-tira (I’ve been a chocoholic since childhood) but it sure was popular among other kids my age.
Bryanboy has an entry [...]

Chinese tea eggs and roast chicken

Somewhere between the Sun Moon Lake and the town of Puli in central Taiwan, we stopped at a temple to take some photos. I was too lazy to change my camera’s lens so I couldn’t take a photo of the entire temple. But, the lens attached to the camera was just perfect for food photography.

Across [...]

Tinapang bangus (smoked milkfish) fried rice

My family loves bangus (milk fish). Not because we’re patriotic (it is our national fish) but simply because bangus is delicious. It’s rather hard to explain why or how it is delicious. If salmon and tuna are great because of their unique flavors and textures, it’s the same thing with bangus — it has qualities [...]

Wonton soup

It’s been too long since I last posted a recipe here. I was out of the country and the last two days before I left, although I cooked a lot for the kids’ packed school lunches for the days that I wouldn’t be home, I was in such a rush that I wasn’t able to [...]

Taiwanese shaved ice

Halo-halo will forever be associated with Filipino cuisine. But this dessert/snack made with fruits, milk and shaved ice are found in a lot of other Asian countries too. Malaysia has its shaved ice with red bean sauce, China has its fruit salad, Korea has its paht bing-soo and, below, there’s the Taiwanese version with feathery [...]

Chicharon, chicharon… where art thou?

It’s not like I don’t have a chicharon entry in this blog. I do. An old one with with a lousy photo taken with a lousy cam phone. Last Sunday, though, despite plans to watch Die Hard 4 that went awry because the queues were just impossible, I took time out to take photos of [...]

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