In the Philippines lunchboxes mostly contained only protein and carbohydrates. A high number of those lunchboxes are under this “baon” group: hotdog+rice, tapa (cured meat)+rice, eggs+rice, adobo+rice. Back when my brother was still in high school we always expect at least a 3 day tapa (cured meat) breakfast as it is also his…
Tag: chicken
Ceramics and Oyakodon
According to all of the Japanese food blogs (the ones written in English) Oyakdon literally means “parent-child bowl”. My first thought was that it referred to a mother’s dish shared with her child. Really, that’s what I thought, it made sense. According to Nami-san of Just One Cookbook however, it referred to parent=chicken…
Yakitori and Karaage
Yakitori (grilled chicken on a stick) 4-6 chicken breast small red onion, quartered tare (sauce): 100 ml mirin 100 ml soy sauce 2 TBSP sugar Cut the chicken pieces into bite size pieces. You may opt to use boneless chiicken breast or the darker boneless chicken thigh. Also, you may opt to remove…
Last Saturday Night
(Written December 31st 2011) It’s noisy outside. Philippines just welcomed 2012 and here I am blogging. Technically writing for the blog. I’m not much of a fireworks person. They’re pretty and all but they’re noisy as well so I don’t like ’em that much. Just a little bit, in occasion. Earlier something went…
