Binagoongan
Photo by Angie Pastor… Binagoongan refers to a dish that heavily uses bagoóng for flavor. It is frequently a stew that uses pork as a main ingredient.
Exotic? Monkey-eating eagles, pupa of honeybees, birds’ nests, freshwater beetles, sea urchins, lizards, iguanas, pythons, octopus, field rats… tastes like chicken!
The tabon bird of Palawan lays only two eggs, and one of them is sure to get egg-napped.
Freswater maliputo and tawilis — fish caught only in the Pansipit River and Taal Lake of Batangas.
Eel cooked in yellow ginger.
Photo by Angie Pastor… Binagoongan refers to a dish that heavily uses bagoóng for flavor. It is frequently a stew that uses pork as a main ingredient.
Balao-Balao by Angie Pastor. For orders in the Metro Manila area, 09369815475.
Arroz a la Cubana by Mayette Garcia.
In Laguna, tumbong ng niyog (the soft white growths found inside some
Photo by Leslie Bernarte of Bahay Pastulan Ube Jam & Snow Balls.
Bahay Pastulan is a store run by the Good Shepherd Sisters, a congregation of Roman Catholic nuns in the Philippines.