I had to Google "barrel man" to find out what you were getting at. LOL! I do love the little basket man, though. I'll pass on the pig's blood stew.
When my Filipino neighbor make Tuyo ( dried fish ) it's time to run inside and close up all the windows.
Thanks for featuring, and with such enthusiasm, Filipino food. It's wonderful!
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@ BFG Boston, MA
But you might have noticed in slide No. 1 that the white around the yolk of the sunny-side up eggs is still liquid, transparent, and not done as it should be.
However, the fried milkfish without bones, slide No. 7, is waiting to be devoured.
As much as I appreciate Ligaya Mishan's enthusiasm for the unsung heroes of NYC, I find the writing of these reviews generally difficult to stomach. There's a flowery quality and an excess of metaphors that distracts from the food about which I'd like to learn. It's a shame. Any chance of toning down the literary flair, just a little bit, so the writing is more palatable?
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I generally disdain adjectives, but when it comes to writing about food, I think that they are necessary. Folks who cook food and care, and folks who consume food whom are knowledgeable, are, at least, equally passionate. I cannot imagine a restaurant review that doesn't convey, for better or worse, the reviewer's opinion.
Long way of saying, great job. I enjoy these reviews of budget priced places, even though I live far from New York. It makes my tongue water.
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@ Linn UK
I wholly agree with you. There is also a lack of discernment of foods that are made of unappetizing organs of unappetizing animals.
Linn:
1. No one is forcing anyone to read any restaurant reviews from across the pond.
2. For this vegetarian, Ligaya's reviews allow me to curiously dive through, and vicariously enjoy, cuisines and restaurants that I will never experience, including Lahi.
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Just a question that someone might answer. Is Filipino cuisine always so meat centered? I’m vegetarian and if I went to a Filipino restaurant, what might I find to eat?
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It is a pretty meat-centered cuisine. I’d look for pinakbet or dinengdeng, if I wanted something meatless. Even those dishes are usually not 100% vegetarian, due to the use of shrimp paste.
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There is a growing movement to create veg versions of traditional Filipino food. In the San Francisco Bay Area, we have several all-vegan Filipino restaurants and food trucks.
@ Beverly RN Boston
I doubt that any cuisine could be so meat-centered. Perhaps the article gives unintentionally such an impression. But, what strikes me most, are the most unappetizing organs of unappetizing animals that are used in the dishes described here. Well, each one to his tastes ...