I was looking at a pack of "Orange Swits"..and memories swirled in my head ....remembering (maybe one of these days if I find them, I can take a picture) of the food I snacked on ....be it...
...fishballs na tag Php0.25 per piece...sold by the vendor outside STC..
...fried peanuts with big garlics, again sold by vendor outside STC along Mango Ave. parang Php1 or Php2 ang isang small bag...
...though its not something I like, I did taste kiamoy...sold from the big jars at those Chinese stores...
...and hard White Rabbit candies...years later pa that I ate the soft versions..where you could also eat the "paper"
...Nips chocolates...I think its still around..but I got a kick out of the different colors and licked them then stained my fingers like a rainbow...
...Horlicks tablets - it used to come in jars...and I'd take one out and carefully bite into one side of it.. If you bite into the correct side, the "wall" of that side would come out like a flat disc..the other wouldn't.......I've found it again in Singapore, but its not in jars anymore...and the taste is a little bit different...
yay! I'm looking forward to your thoughts on this..and seeing if nag-abot pa tayo with the other food you might remember...and if there are any left or anong incarnation na sya ngayon...
...Manor House chocolates! maybe ..though its not the same taste I think that influenced my choco leanings......I kind of like Mars bars now...and Manor House I think had a red wrapper...
... yes, yes...those cheap "fish crackers" (I really don't know if they have pieces of fish in it...more like pieces of prawn shells ground) hehehehe...
..speaking of frying...kropek! while its served in restaurants accompanying some viands...my mom sometimes fried some in our kitchen....
..fried kulo....hmm...what is that in English? I really enjoyed its sweetness...and I haven't eaten it in ages!
ayan! naabutan ko yan....I actually love those turon being sold by sidewalk vendors here...eaten during my 15 minutes break....first job ko sa Manila as a programmer...we used to walk out in groups during 3 pm and buy this from outside the building's vendors outside in the sidewalk...
taho...sometimes I could hear the vendor outside our home...if I went out to the main street (hehehe..nasa loob kami kc..far from the street)...and then later on, we made arrangements that they drop by daily...
ah...this naman po is saba being boiled or grilled...and I particularly liked those which were not too "hilaw"(unripe) nor "hinog" (ripe)....the firmness of the saba in between ...was perfect for me paired with guinamos ...or even uyap....sprinkled with little kulikot (the little hot peppers)
When I was a kid, staple snack with my brothers and sisters, if we were at home on a rainy day would be, boiled sab-a saging, or purple kamote or cassava. We would roast corn, then grind the roast and make it into bay-bayi with young coconut and brown sugar. As kids, we would make peanut brittle and burn our fingers from too much fun. Then we would make tiny balls of flan in a toothpick and dip them into caramelized sugar.
If we are to go out to a sari-sari store or pastry shop, my favorite merienda was crackers washed down with Coke, or mamon (muffin) with Coke, or barquillos, pinasugbo, opya, serafina, etc. with Coke.
If we were sick with flu, it was good because we had lugaw or chicken rice, pandesal or pandeleche, and orange and grapes (and mind you, these fruits were hard to come by then), and with Royal True Orange (not Coke)!!!
For late meriendas, vendors who'd come by would sell us balut, siopao or pinasugbo, and twisted donut called bitsikoy, and it's always a treat to have these with cocoa form the farm or home-brewed coffee. (Yes, we were even allowed to drink coffee!)
hmm..now bayi-bayi I haven't heard of...so the roasted corn would be mixed with ground young coconut and sprinkled with brown sugar? I want to see a picture of this :-)
those tiny balls of leche flan, ano kaya..parang yung yema?
as for RTO or the royal tru orange...I now recall the drink wherein this was either mixed with Alpine milk..or was it some raw native egg mixed into it...pampataba!
and when we "mang-lamaw" or something which has to do with getting young coconut (buko) and mixing it with milk and sugar (the coco juice) along with its strips of meat...I discovered that a friend of mine dropped crumbs of skyflakes into it!
hmm...roasted corn, coconut and sugar and made into balls...I've not tried it..but am amused at its name..am wondering if its almost like "bayi" our short-cut for babay (woman) haha..
pinasugbo - am familiar with that...I used to bring some home from Iloilo too (my work in Sara Lee before allowed me to visit Iloilo and Bacolod every month)...though in Cebu, vendors peddle them as consilva...hayz...its been ages since i last tasted those which were peddled on the street...where may bond-paper pa ang dulo ng pinasugbo :-) and they placed it on a nigoh (that woven brown countainer used usually to "tapha" the rice)
LOL at the opya...hopia pala! but it looks a little different from what I am used to here from La Fortuna Bakery..the ones in the picture seem to be smiling widely :-)
As I kid, I like to eat street foods. There was a lady by Holy Infant Academy in Calapan that sold a small saucer of pansit bihon for ten centavos and I spent my morning baon there. I don't know, halos wala namang sahog pero up until now, I couldn't forget her pansit. And then in the afternoon, I would spend my other ten centavos on a stick of banana cue or camote cue still hot from the deep fryer.
There was also this Chinese restaurant that cooked fresh pansit canton and wrapped it in banana leaves - kakaiba talaga.
Kropek.
On weekends I would wait for the vendor that sells rice puto - malagkit-lagkit pa yong rice and the aroma - oh my gosh. That was my favorite breakfast.
Boiled corn and saba, also maruya, ukoy for afternoon snacks.
In high school, halo-halo. Skyflakes and white rabbit.
In college, my friends and I would treat ourselves at Star Cafe in Baguio and my favorite is their toasted bihon pansit. Last year when I first brought my sister there she was wondering why I was so hooked on it but lately she's grown to love it. Kaya lang the wait when you order it is 30 mins. to an hour but it is well worth it.
When John Hay was still an American base my favorite at the 19th Tee Restaurant was their open-faced turkey sandwich. The turkey was freshly roasted and underneath it was bread dressing. It was complete with gravy and mash potato. My first taste of Americana.
am glad to find we have kropek, and boiled corn and saba in common as well as the other stuf...but...when I think of ukoy...di ba yan yung dito sa Manila na parang little shrimps put together and fried? or another kind?
halo-halo! argh, I can't forgive myself for forgetting it...and white rabbit from China these days..parang ayaw ko nang kumain ng galing China na food products..huhuhu..takot...
reading this, kind of reminds me how my dad was crazy about bihon tostado....which we used to order at Visayan Restaurant somewhere in old downtown Cebu...
when I was older and visited it again, parang it was a dingy restaurant..pero ang sarap ng bihon tostado nila..hahaha! memories...am not sure if they are still around and now am suspicious of whatever was in their bihon...but we can't find a good enough bihon tostado like that nowadays...
ah..I recall..may very nice bihon tostado pala po dito sa...Makati Medical Center (hahaha, am serious) na restaurant...I should visit it again even if walang ibang pakay sa hospital na yan....
Yes, and with plenty of vinegar. I am like you, I have a fear of anything from China na. Even household utensils kaya lang dito sa States a lot of the stuff is made from China. When we go to Chinatown, sometimes they have fishes imported from there and I would tell my family not to buy them.
there was this super delicious ngo-hiong near San Jose Recoletos ...even if pwede sya for full meals, ang sarap (and anghang) din nya for merienda...! maybe it was the sauce...demmit...they changed the sauce so in later years parang it was so bleah na!
I think may Muji po na stores sa US...please check it out...made in Japan items sya..and ang nice ng kitchen utensils nila! iba talaga quality po ng plastic and metalware...
may made in Thailand (yung glass na heat resistant) and some items din I saw in the Muji store na made in China..but very little...perhaps you could ease your mind po by getting some of these things...
its not super expensive (well at least, not from here) considering the quality and where its made (Japan...diosme usually mahal po yan) so maybe its the same strategy they use there...and if you are like me who loves paper products...I just love sniffing and touching their notebooks and other paper thingies..hehehe
I saw a Filipino feature before, they use chemicals now in vinegar. When I was young in Ilocos we used sukang Iloko from sugar cane and in Mindoro they used the juice they get from the coconut tree. Kaya be careful, hindi mo alam kung anong chemicals sa mga sukang ginagamit nila.
*sigh*...yun nga ang nakita ko sa Singapore..hayz....my Horlicks madness was to the point I was depressed after only seeing Ovalteenies dito...e di naman same level of goodness..
these days po I use the vinegar from Iligan...Pinakurat! :-)
true, mahirap na ang maling vinegar..and these cheap ones I see in plastic bottles here sa grocery? hmph..I just buy them to clean my kitchen and toilet tiles :-)
I will check out Muji but I haven't heard of it before. You know I bought some melanine plates in SM last year which I brought here kasi I packed all my things already so I didn't have anything to use in my new apartment. Naku when I used it in the microwave nasira kaagad. Mukhang ang ganda pa mandin but I tossed them in the garbage. I told my sister not to use theirs in the microwave or even throw them away too and I sent her Corningware.
but if you have friends in NYC baka you can ask them to check it out...
if nagsama pa tayo sa Japan, we could have drooled together sa mga pots nila and other kitchenware...
when I went to Tokyo...there's this street called Kappabashi-dori na lahat ng kitchen equipment you will need in your life are displayed there...(along with another friend, I love going around mga kitchen utensils store and hardware stores and just looking at whatever newfangled thingie they display)
the only souvenir I got was yung isang maliit na mga plastic na food display...hahaha!
Tira-tira, champoy (called crackseed in Hawaii), Ma Mon Luk mami and siopao, fresh lumpia on Raon Street in Quiapo, ampaw, bananaQ, kamoteQ, turon, Magnolia popsicles and ice cream, dirty ice cream, Serg's milk chocolate. halo-halo in Central Market, halo-halo at Little Quiapo, balut, nilagang saging na saba, Cosmos and Malayan beverages, Sarsi, Pepsi, Coke, inuyat (semi-solid molasses), patupat, pinipig, hopia from Echague in Quiapo, taho, peanuts with bawang, boiled peanuts in the shell, roasted corn on the cob, etc etc etc.
All time favorite sa aming magkakapatid ang dikyam, kiamoy, tsampoy, and all kinds of preserved fruits. Mahilig din ako dati sa maasim na mangga, santol at pinya. I aslo liked Choc-Nut an its wannabes Nestor and Nectar, chocolate powder bars with peanut paste yata yon. I still love nuts: peanuts, casuy, pistachio; and walnuts and almonds in ice cream or in chocolate bars. Hershey's used to be a favorite. But today, the preferred brand is varied. Like Barak-O, Ioved and still do Ma Mon Luk mami and siopao and that fresh lumpia in Raon. Sarsi hinahanap pa rin. I used to consume three family bottles of Coke a day, until I discovered it was the cause of my insomnia, headaches, and irritabliity (siyempre kulang sa tulog eh). I still pine for puto-bumbong. Gwiz and I used to go to Baclaran from Quezon City at past midnight to look for puto-pumbong and bibingka outside of the church. We sometimes went for LIttle Quiapo halo-halo and paired it with chicharon balat. I used to eat ice cream with fried chicken. The turon, banana-q, lumpia, and isaw in UP are still tops! The Ilonggos' batchoy, the Ilokanos' papaitan, samahan ng puto, wow pa rin! The pastillas of San Miguel. the puto Binan are still favorites.
My earliest memory would be the "Tamarindo" ( sweet tamarind jam made with muscovado) sold just outside the gate of Bogo Central Elementary School.. I'd raise my hand and ask the teacher ( who was my Lola Panyang,sis of Lolo Otik) "may I go out" for the nth time. Then I'd run very fast to the gate to buy the tempting sweet/sour ambrosia of my life then. It would be given to me all gooey inside a piece of banana leaf formed into a cone.
I'd stick my forefinger into that gloop and eat it all the way to the classroom. If there's any left, I'd place banana leaf and all inside my pocket then push it inside the space for books and paper in my desk . There for me to stick my finger into while the teacher is writing something on the board. Secret pleasure which unbeknowest to me was reported to my Lolo Otik every afternoon! ha ha ha
Another Bogo memory is the "Hilado" There used to be a cart selling this: grated ice on a glass then squirted with a yellow tinted lemon flavor which was very sweet. Until now my palate thinks that's better than Halo-halo!
On trips to the farm or anywhere in the northern part of Cebu, I'd look forward to having a Biscocho not unlike the ones from Ilioilo. But this one tasted different because of the particular bread it was made of.
Then there's the Galletas of Titay's in Liloan. Bibingka from Mandaue and the Majareal which is ground peanuts made into bars.
"Tira-tira, champoy (called crackseed in Hawaii), Ma Mon Luk mami and siopao, fresh lumpia on Raon Street in Quiapo, ampaw, bananaQ, kamoteQ, turon, Magnolia popsicles and ice cream, dirty ice cream, Serg's milk chocolate. halo-halo in Central Market, halo-halo at Little Quiapo, balut, nilagang saging na saba, Cosmos and Malayan beverages, Sarsi, Pepsi, Coke, inuyat (semi-solid molasses), patupat, pinipig, hopia from Echague in Quiapo, taho, peanuts with bawang, boiled peanuts in the shell, roasted corn on the cob, etc etc etc. "
- tira-tira, yung parang stretchy and sticky stuff? ok..naabutan ko yan...pati Sergs hehehe...
Cosmos and Malayan - di ko na yata natikman ang Malayan but am sure I've heard of Cosmos before when I was growing up ...
All time favorite sa aming magkakapatid ang dikyam, kiamoy, tsampoy, and all kinds of preserved fruits. Mahilig din ako dati sa maasim na mangga, santol at pinya. I aslo liked Choc-Nut an its wannabes Nestor and Nectar, chocolate powder bars with peanut paste yata yon. I still love nuts: peanuts, casuy, pistachio; and walnuts and almonds in ice cream or in chocolate bars. Hershey's used to be a favorite. But today, the preferred brand is varied. Like Barak-O, Ioved and still do Ma Mon Luk mami and siopao and that fresh lumpia in Raon. Sarsi hinahanap pa rin. I used to consume three family bottles of Coke a day, until I discovered it was the cause of my insomnia, headaches, and irritabliity (siyempre kulang sa tulog eh). I still pine for puto-bumbong. Gwiz and I used to go to Baclaran from Quezon City at past midnight to look for puto-pumbong and bibingka outside of the church. We sometimes went for LIttle Quiapo halo-halo and paired it with chicharon balat. I used to eat ice cream with fried chicken. The turon, banana-q, lumpia, and isaw in UP are still tops! The Ilonggos' batchoy, the Ilokanos' papaitan, samahan ng puto, wow pa rin! The pastillas of San Miguel. the puto Binan are still favorites.
- pass yata ko sa preserved fruits..fuera lang siguro if di na made in China...a pity, since nakakatuwa being inside stores which has all these big big jars of those fruits - and gusto ko pa naman sana yung dates!
yung Sarsi - ayayay! mag rootbeer na lang ako (naabutan ko pa yata when they had small glass bottles of this but I could not remember the name)...that reminds me, pag mga ganon, RC!
as for puto bumbong parang nakita ko nga po na medyo mahilig kayo non when you bought the last batch don sa binilhan ninyo ni Ms. G ng puto :-)
waaah..pahingi ng pastillas sa San Miguel - parang di ko pa yata yan natinggnan - yema and pastillas are a boon for my sweet tooth!
Mommy Loy, have you tried making tamarindo? I haven't tasted what you have described though my mom may have described it (because we have big tamarind trees in the other lot)
"Hilado" - wow, first time for me to hear that...it reminds me of shaved ice yata sa Japan with all those pretty colors (liquid poured on top - pink, yellow, red...siguro strawberry, lemon ug uban pa)
ah...now that I recall, because before I ate Iloilo's biscocho, lain man ang biscocho akong natilawan courtesy nila Daddy :-)
haha..Galletas, rosquillos - basta Titay's...
that reminds me of Hollywood Bakery's patatas!
pag masareal (or majareal as you call it) - kamo ni Daddy magkasangka...even if it makes him cough :-)
now that you mention it, I remember my mom making bukhayo when I was younger...
not my favorite though I eat it...I just prefer to just eat the "buwa" of a coconut.....not so fond of coconut meat itself processed further into another kind of sweet snack
Sarsi is actually root beer. Sarsi is short for sarsaparilla which is the Spanish name for root beer. Kung mahirap ka, Sarsi pero kung mayaman ka, A&W Root Beer, at least ganun nung anjan pa ako.
Inuyat is the very sweet sticky gooey stuff from sugar cane juice. This is made during sugar cane harvest season. The sugar cane juice is cooked until it turns to inuyat. Patupat is rice put in a pyramid-like buri container that is placed in the boiling sugar cane juice to cook. The result is a very sweet delicacy called patupat. These two items, inuyat and patupat are found in Tarlac and the Ilocos provinces. Of course I miss both, having a sweet tooth.
I will reply to this after the Alix apos' Christmas party this afternoon. Have to pick up the Lechon from Alejos!
ReplyDeleteI was looking at a pack of "Orange Swits"..and memories swirled in my head ....remembering (maybe one of these days if I find them, I can take a picture) of the food I snacked on ....be it...
ReplyDelete...fishballs na tag Php0.25 per piece...sold by the vendor outside STC..
...fried peanuts with big garlics, again sold by vendor outside STC along Mango Ave. parang Php1 or Php2 ang isang small bag...
...though its not something I like, I did taste kiamoy...sold from the big jars at those Chinese stores...
...and hard White Rabbit candies...years later pa that I ate the soft versions..where you could also eat the "paper"
...Nips chocolates...I think its still around..but I got a kick out of the different colors and licked them then stained my fingers like a rainbow...
...Horlicks tablets - it used to come in jars...and I'd take one out and carefully bite into one side of it..
If you bite into the correct side, the "wall" of that side would come out like a flat disc..the other wouldn't.......I've found it again in Singapore, but its not in jars anymore...and the taste is a little bit different...
yay! I'm looking forward to your thoughts on this..and seeing if nag-abot pa tayo with the other food you might remember...and if there are any left or anong incarnation na sya ngayon...
ReplyDeleteturon, nilagang saging na saba, taho atbp.
ReplyDeleteMy memeories would be quite different from yours kiddo. You're several generations younger than moi.
ReplyDeletehuhuhu Mommy Loy...maybe some good merienda or snacks reached my gen!
ReplyDelete...Manor House chocolates! maybe ..though its not the same taste I think that influenced my choco leanings......I kind of like Mars bars now...and Manor House I think had a red wrapper...
ReplyDelete... yes, yes...those cheap "fish crackers" (I really don't know if they have pieces of fish in it...more like pieces of prawn shells ground) hehehehe...
..speaking of frying...kropek! while its served in restaurants accompanying some viands...my mom sometimes fried some in our kitchen....
..fried kulo....hmm...what is that in English? I really enjoyed its sweetness...and I haven't eaten it in ages!
ayan! naabutan ko yan....I actually love those turon being sold by sidewalk vendors here...eaten during my 15 minutes break....first job ko sa Manila as a programmer...we used to walk out in groups during 3 pm and buy this from outside the building's vendors outside in the sidewalk...
ReplyDeletetaho...sometimes I could hear the vendor outside our home...if I went out to the main street (hehehe..nasa loob kami kc..far from the street)...and then later on, we made arrangements that they drop by daily...
ah...this naman po is saba being boiled or grilled...and I particularly liked those which were not too "hilaw"(unripe) nor "hinog" (ripe)....the firmness of the saba in between ...was perfect for me paired with guinamos ...or even uyap....sprinkled with little kulikot (the little hot peppers)
ReplyDelete...chicken pospas.....but only if I got sick...
ReplyDelete...champorado ...paired again with either crispy danggit or...fried potpot (my favourite buwad/dried fish)
...shakoy....deep fried and rolled in sugar...I saw this in HK years later...but it just couldn't compare to what I had back in Cebu...hahaha!
wehehe...lechon for the little ones or the adults supervising the party? *wink*
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid, staple snack with my brothers and sisters, if we were at home on a rainy day would be, boiled sab-a saging, or purple kamote or cassava. We would roast corn, then grind the roast and make it into bay-bayi with young coconut and brown sugar. As kids, we would make peanut brittle and burn our fingers from too much fun. Then we would make tiny balls of flan in a toothpick and dip them into caramelized sugar.
ReplyDeleteIf we are to go out to a sari-sari store or pastry shop, my favorite merienda was crackers washed down with Coke, or mamon (muffin) with Coke, or barquillos, pinasugbo, opya, serafina, etc. with Coke.
If we were sick with flu, it was good because we had lugaw or chicken rice, pandesal or pandeleche, and orange and grapes (and mind you, these fruits were hard to come by then), and with Royal True Orange (not Coke)!!!
For late meriendas, vendors who'd come by would sell us balut, siopao or pinasugbo, and twisted donut called bitsikoy, and it's always a treat to have these with cocoa form the farm or home-brewed coffee. (Yes, we were even allowed to drink coffee!)
oh I remember this...although lately I haven't been eating purple kamote..it seems to be always yellow na...
ReplyDeleteand remember cassava cakes? little slices of it goes a long way for me...
hmm..now bayi-bayi I haven't heard of...so the roasted corn would be mixed with ground young coconut and sprinkled with brown sugar? I want to see a picture of this :-)
ReplyDeletethose tiny balls of leche flan, ano kaya..parang yung yema?
Mar, please tell me what is opya and serafina...
ReplyDeleteas for RTO or the royal tru orange...I now recall the drink wherein this was either mixed with Alpine milk..or was it some raw native egg mixed into it...pampataba!
and when we "mang-lamaw" or something which has to do with getting young coconut (buko) and mixing it with milk and sugar (the coco juice) along with its strips of meat...I discovered that a friend of mine dropped crumbs of skyflakes into it!
ReplyDeleteMy fave!
ReplyDeleteI like this too. It's called Chakoy back home in Bicol. The Tagalog word for it, I think, is Bitsu-bitsu. One can find this in Binondo nowadays.
ReplyDelete*considers it left and right*
ReplyDeleteit looks like the shakoy I mentioned except that the balls are clustered ...hehehe...
shakoy is more like a long rope twined around...although I think there are long plain ones too...fried - goodness!
hmm...roasted corn, coconut and sugar and made into balls...I've not tried it..but am amused at its name..am wondering if its almost like "bayi" our short-cut for babay (woman) haha..
ReplyDeletewow! so aripahol is the puto balanghoy I wax ecstatic about :-)
ReplyDeletethe ones in Cebu I see though are sometimes thicker and bigger and have a crowning glory of brown sugar on top na medyo nag melt na..
pinasugbo - am familiar with that...I used to bring some home from Iloilo too (my work in Sara Lee before allowed me to visit Iloilo and Bacolod every month)...though in Cebu, vendors peddle them as consilva...hayz...its been ages since i last tasted those which were peddled on the street...where may bond-paper pa ang dulo ng pinasugbo :-) and they placed it on a nigoh (that woven brown countainer used usually to "tapha" the rice)
ReplyDeleteLOL at the opya...hopia pala! but it looks a little different from what I am used to here from La Fortuna Bakery..the ones in the picture seem to be smiling widely :-)
apir Tochie! may nag-exist pa ba kagaya ng kapanahuhan natin na in jars?
ReplyDeletethat is interesting to know..because parang bitsu-bitsu sa amin is like chopped or ground bananas fried and rolled in sugar...
ReplyDeletesarap ng oily food...hahaha!
As I kid, I like to eat street foods. There was a lady by Holy Infant Academy in Calapan that sold a small saucer of pansit bihon for ten centavos and I spent my morning baon there. I don't know, halos wala namang sahog pero up until now, I couldn't forget her pansit.
ReplyDeleteAnd then in the afternoon, I would spend my other ten centavos on a stick of banana cue or camote cue still hot from the deep fryer.
There was also this Chinese restaurant that cooked fresh pansit canton and wrapped it in banana leaves - kakaiba talaga.
Kropek.
On weekends I would wait for the vendor that sells rice puto - malagkit-lagkit pa yong rice and the aroma - oh my gosh. That was my favorite breakfast.
Boiled corn and saba, also maruya, ukoy for afternoon snacks.
In high school, halo-halo. Skyflakes and white rabbit.
In college, my friends and I would treat ourselves at Star Cafe in Baguio and my favorite is their toasted bihon pansit. Last year when I first brought my sister there she was wondering why I was so hooked on it but lately she's grown to love it. Kaya lang the wait when you order it is 30 mins. to an hour but it is well worth it.
When John Hay was still an American base my favorite at the 19th Tee Restaurant was their open-faced turkey sandwich. The turkey was freshly roasted and underneath it was bread dressing. It was complete with gravy and mash potato. My first taste of Americana.
Cinnamon rolls and pancit molo.
Tita Lou, napuna ko yata...mahilig ka ng pansit ano? *wink*
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha! Sabi nga ng mother ko, kahit isang plangannang pansit and iharap mo sa akin, uubusin ko.
ReplyDeleteam glad to find we have kropek, and boiled corn and saba in common as well as the other stuf...but...when I think of ukoy...di ba yan yung dito sa Manila na parang little shrimps put together and fried? or another kind?
ReplyDeletehalo-halo! argh, I can't forgive myself for forgetting it...and white rabbit from China these days..parang ayaw ko nang kumain ng galing China na food products..huhuhu..takot...
then you will have long life always! always pa..long life pa...LOL
ReplyDeletereading this, kind of reminds me how my dad was crazy about bihon tostado....which we used to order at Visayan Restaurant somewhere in old downtown Cebu...
ReplyDeletewhen I was older and visited it again, parang it was a dingy restaurant..pero ang sarap ng bihon tostado nila..hahaha! memories...am not sure if they are still around and now am suspicious of whatever was in their bihon...but we can't find a good enough bihon tostado like that nowadays...
ah..I recall..may very nice bihon tostado pala po dito sa...Makati Medical Center (hahaha, am serious) na restaurant...I should visit it again even if walang ibang pakay sa hospital na yan....
Yes, and with plenty of vinegar. I am like you, I have a fear of anything from China na. Even household utensils kaya lang dito sa States a lot of the stuff is made from China. When we go to Chinatown, sometimes they have fishes imported from there and I would tell my family not to buy them.
ReplyDeletethere was this super delicious ngo-hiong near San Jose Recoletos ...even if pwede sya for full meals, ang sarap (and anghang) din nya for merienda...! maybe it was the sauce...demmit...they changed the sauce so in later years parang it was so bleah na!
ReplyDeleteAng alam ko, naka plastic pack na sya (parang sachet ng shampoo) ngayon.
ReplyDeletehonga..parang feeling ko mas safe pa...
ReplyDeleteI think may Muji po na stores sa US...please check it out...made in Japan items sya..and ang nice ng kitchen utensils nila! iba talaga quality po ng plastic and metalware...
may made in Thailand (yung glass na heat resistant) and some items din I saw in the Muji store na made in China..but very little...perhaps you could ease your mind po by getting some of these things...
its not super expensive (well at least, not from here) considering the quality and where its made (Japan...diosme usually mahal po yan) so maybe its the same strategy they use there...and if you are like me who loves paper products...I just love sniffing and touching their notebooks and other paper thingies..hehehe
I saw a Filipino feature before, they use chemicals now in vinegar. When I was young in Ilocos we used sukang Iloko from sugar cane and in Mindoro they used the juice they get from the coconut tree. Kaya be careful, hindi mo alam kung anong chemicals sa mga sukang ginagamit nila.
ReplyDelete*sigh*...yun nga ang nakita ko sa Singapore..hayz....my Horlicks madness was to the point I was depressed after only seeing Ovalteenies dito...e di naman same level of goodness..
ReplyDeletethese days po I use the vinegar from Iligan...Pinakurat! :-)
ReplyDeletetrue, mahirap na ang maling vinegar..and these cheap ones I see in plastic bottles here sa grocery? hmph..I just buy them to clean my kitchen and toilet tiles :-)
Sinabi mo. There's nothing like the original.
ReplyDeletewhen Loo and Che and I were touring Beijing, lucky that Loo bought several packs of this...
ReplyDeleteI stashed them in our bags and when we were touring around it saved our lives and tummy because we couldn't always eat on time :-)
Tootsie Roll! Curly Tops!
ReplyDeleteJ&J na Cheez curls (ngayon e Mr. Chips na lang ako)!
Chippy (but I don't like the taste now)!
Pringles (binaon ko pa papunta Baguio when I was in elementary)! Later, nag graduate ako to Piknik!
I will check out Muji but I haven't heard of it before. You know I bought some melanine plates in SM last year which I brought here kasi I packed all my things already so I didn't have anything to use in my new apartment. Naku when I used it in the microwave nasira kaagad. Mukhang ang ganda pa mandin but I tossed them in the garbage. I told my sister not to use theirs in the microwave or even throw them away too and I sent her Corningware.
ReplyDeleteTita Lou..I just checked their website for store locations in the US...naku...puro NYC :-)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.muji.com/storelocator/#/NorthAmerica/U.S.A.
but if you have friends in NYC baka you can ask them to check it out...
if nagsama pa tayo sa Japan, we could have drooled together sa mga pots nila and other kitchenware...
when I went to Tokyo...there's this street called Kappabashi-dori na lahat ng kitchen equipment you will need in your life are displayed there...(along with another friend, I love going around mga kitchen utensils store and hardware stores and just looking at whatever newfangled thingie they display)
the only souvenir I got was yung isang maliit na mga plastic na food display...hahaha!
As in the name, they are always in pairs, so maybe...
ReplyDeleteHayaan mo darating din tayo don.
ReplyDeleteTira-tira, champoy (called crackseed in Hawaii), Ma Mon Luk mami and siopao, fresh lumpia on Raon Street in Quiapo, ampaw, bananaQ, kamoteQ, turon, Magnolia popsicles and ice cream, dirty ice cream, Serg's milk chocolate. halo-halo in Central Market, halo-halo at Little Quiapo, balut, nilagang saging na saba, Cosmos and Malayan beverages, Sarsi, Pepsi, Coke, inuyat (semi-solid molasses), patupat, pinipig, hopia from Echague in Quiapo, taho, peanuts with bawang, boiled peanuts in the shell, roasted corn on the cob, etc etc etc.
ReplyDeleteAll time favorite sa aming magkakapatid ang dikyam, kiamoy, tsampoy, and all kinds of preserved fruits. Mahilig din ako dati sa maasim na mangga, santol at pinya. I aslo liked Choc-Nut an its wannabes Nestor and Nectar, chocolate powder bars with peanut paste yata yon. I still love nuts: peanuts, casuy, pistachio; and walnuts and almonds in ice cream or in chocolate bars. Hershey's used to be a favorite. But today, the preferred brand is varied.
ReplyDeleteLike Barak-O, Ioved and still do Ma Mon Luk mami and siopao and that fresh lumpia in Raon. Sarsi hinahanap pa rin. I used to consume three family bottles of Coke a day, until I discovered it was the cause of my insomnia, headaches, and irritabliity (siyempre kulang sa tulog eh). I still pine for puto-bumbong. Gwiz and I used to go to Baclaran from Quezon City at past midnight to look for puto-pumbong and bibingka outside of the church. We sometimes went for LIttle Quiapo halo-halo and paired it with chicharon balat. I used to eat ice cream with fried chicken.
The turon, banana-q, lumpia, and isaw in UP are still tops! The Ilonggos' batchoy, the Ilokanos' papaitan, samahan ng puto, wow pa rin! The pastillas of San Miguel. the puto Binan are still favorites.
My earliest memory would be the "Tamarindo" ( sweet tamarind jam made with muscovado) sold just outside the gate of Bogo Central Elementary School.. I'd raise my hand and ask the teacher ( who was my Lola Panyang,sis of Lolo Otik) "may I go out" for the nth time. Then I'd run very fast to the gate to buy the tempting sweet/sour ambrosia of my life then. It would be given to me all gooey inside a piece of banana leaf formed into a cone.
ReplyDeleteI'd stick my forefinger into that gloop and eat it all the way to the classroom. If there's any left, I'd place banana leaf and all inside my pocket then push it inside the space for books and paper in my desk . There for me to stick my finger into while the teacher is writing something on the board. Secret pleasure which unbeknowest to me was reported to my Lolo Otik every afternoon! ha ha ha
Another Bogo memory is the "Hilado" There used to be a cart selling this: grated ice on a glass then squirted with a yellow tinted lemon flavor which was very sweet. Until now my palate thinks that's better than Halo-halo!
ReplyDeleteOn trips to the farm or anywhere in the northern part of Cebu, I'd look forward to having a Biscocho not unlike the ones from Ilioilo. But this one tasted different because of the particular bread it was made of.
ReplyDeleteThen there's the Galletas of Titay's in Liloan. Bibingka from Mandaue and the Majareal which is ground peanuts made into bars.
Then there's Chocnuts forever!
Bukhayo!
Hawaii has its version called "shave ice."
ReplyDeleteYes, miss the Pangasinan bukayo.
ReplyDelete"Tira-tira, champoy (called crackseed in Hawaii), Ma Mon Luk mami and siopao, fresh lumpia on Raon Street in Quiapo, ampaw, bananaQ, kamoteQ, turon, Magnolia popsicles and ice cream, dirty ice cream, Serg's milk chocolate. halo-halo in Central Market, halo-halo at Little Quiapo, balut, nilagang saging na saba, Cosmos and Malayan beverages, Sarsi, Pepsi, Coke, inuyat (semi-solid molasses), patupat, pinipig, hopia from Echague in Quiapo, taho, peanuts with bawang, boiled peanuts in the shell, roasted corn on the cob, etc etc etc. "
ReplyDelete- tira-tira, yung parang stretchy and sticky stuff? ok..naabutan ko yan...pati Sergs hehehe...
Cosmos and Malayan - di ko na yata natikman ang Malayan but am sure I've heard of Cosmos before when I was growing up ...
- inuyat and patupag - what are these?
All time favorite sa aming magkakapatid ang dikyam, kiamoy, tsampoy, and all kinds of preserved fruits. Mahilig din ako dati sa maasim na mangga, santol at pinya. I aslo liked Choc-Nut an its wannabes Nestor and Nectar, chocolate powder bars with peanut paste yata yon. I still love nuts: peanuts, casuy, pistachio; and walnuts and almonds in ice cream or in chocolate bars. Hershey's used to be a favorite. But today, the preferred brand is varied.
ReplyDeleteLike Barak-O, Ioved and still do Ma Mon Luk mami and siopao and that fresh lumpia in Raon. Sarsi hinahanap pa rin. I used to consume three family bottles of Coke a day, until I discovered it was the cause of my insomnia, headaches, and irritabliity (siyempre kulang sa tulog eh). I still pine for puto-bumbong. Gwiz and I used to go to Baclaran from Quezon City at past midnight to look for puto-pumbong and bibingka outside of the church. We sometimes went for LIttle Quiapo halo-halo and paired it with chicharon balat. I used to eat ice cream with fried chicken.
The turon, banana-q, lumpia, and isaw in UP are still tops! The Ilonggos' batchoy, the Ilokanos' papaitan, samahan ng puto, wow pa rin! The pastillas of San Miguel. the puto Binan are still favorites.
- pass yata ko sa preserved fruits..fuera lang siguro if di na made in China...a pity, since nakakatuwa being inside stores which has all these big big jars of those fruits - and gusto ko pa naman sana yung dates!
yung Sarsi - ayayay! mag rootbeer na lang ako (naabutan ko pa yata when they had small glass bottles of this but I could not remember the name)...that reminds me, pag mga ganon, RC!
as for puto bumbong parang nakita ko nga po na medyo mahilig kayo non when you bought the last batch don sa binilhan ninyo ni Ms. G ng puto :-)
waaah..pahingi ng pastillas sa San Miguel - parang di ko pa yata yan natinggnan - yema and pastillas are a boon for my sweet tooth!
Mommy Loy, have you tried making tamarindo? I haven't tasted what you have described though my mom may have described it (because we have big tamarind trees in the other lot)
ReplyDelete"Hilado" - wow, first time for me to hear that...it reminds me of shaved ice yata sa Japan with all those pretty colors (liquid poured on top - pink, yellow, red...siguro strawberry, lemon ug uban pa)
ReplyDeleteah...now that I recall, because before I ate Iloilo's biscocho, lain man ang biscocho akong natilawan courtesy nila Daddy :-)
ReplyDeletehaha..Galletas, rosquillos - basta Titay's...
that reminds me of Hollywood Bakery's patatas!
pag masareal (or majareal as you call it) - kamo ni Daddy magkasangka...even if it makes him cough :-)
now that you mention it, I remember my mom making bukhayo when I was younger...
not my favorite though I eat it...I just prefer to just eat the "buwa" of a coconut.....not so fond of coconut meat itself processed further into another kind of sweet snack
Sarsi is actually root beer. Sarsi is short for sarsaparilla which is the Spanish name for root beer. Kung mahirap ka, Sarsi pero kung mayaman ka, A&W Root Beer, at least ganun nung anjan pa ako.
ReplyDeleteYes. Di pwede kumain nyan pag may pustiso kang teeth kasi tanggal ang pustiso mo. hahaha
ReplyDeleteInuyat is the very sweet sticky gooey stuff from sugar cane juice. This is made during sugar cane harvest season. The sugar cane juice is cooked until it turns to inuyat. Patupat is rice put in a pyramid-like buri container that is placed in the boiling sugar cane juice to cook. The result is a very sweet delicacy called patupat. These two items, inuyat and patupat are found in Tarlac and the Ilocos provinces. Of course I miss both, having a sweet tooth.
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