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Featured, Filipino, Pork
Thursday, August 25th, 2011

(Chicago) – This is one hell of a Filipino dish that makes me want to eat 5 cups of rice in one meal. “Binagoongan” is a shrimp paste dish with lots of meat and usually made super spicy. Some people like it with lesser meat but more …
Posted by mark
Chicago, Featured, Japanese
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

(Chicago) – Give me sushi and sake, I’m in paradise; make it unlimited, I’m in heaven. Most of the all-you-can sushi places here are just mass producing sushi crap, as in very bad. But Shiroi Hana in Wriggleyville in Chicago serves …
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Featured, Filipino, Pork
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Dinuguan is a popular stew dish in the Philippines made up of pork blood, pork meat, some offals (liver, intestines, etc) and vinegar.
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Bread/Pastry, Featured, Filipino
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

What’s for breakfast? Warm ube (purple yam) pandesal with peanut butter.
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Featured, Filipino, Pork, Vegetable
Monday, August 8th, 2011

(Chicago) – This a simple and ever popular Filipino eggplant omelet. This dish could be simplified some more and just reduce the ingredients to eggplant, egg and oil. But I like my torta with some stuffing to make it heavier …
Posted by mark
Beef, Featured, Filipino, Vegetable
Saturday, August 6th, 2011

(Chicago) – I never like ordering food or microwaving frozen stuffs for dinners. After a long day of hard and stressful work, all I want is a home-cooked meal to bring me back to sanity. But the primary enemy is time. There’s …
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Chicago, Featured, Filipino
Monday, August 1st, 2011

(Chicago) – Thank God that there are a lot of things Filipino in Chicago. Not as many as in California or New York but Pinoy stuffs are totally accessible here. There are Pinoy stores, groups, restaurants and resource …