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Monthly Archives: October 2013

Vacuum Coffee Brewer

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 6, 2013

Left over coffee from previous brewing in one of the three glass chambers. It won’t be served instead they’ll brew a new one for you in this Chinese restaurant along Benavidez street, Binondo

I’ve noticed some small Chinese restaurants or food stalls use the old school vacuum coffee maker. Unlike other coffee makers, this one is fun to watch, as water once heated, goes up to the coffee grounds, and when the heat source is removed, it goes down leaving spent beans in the upper chamber and freshly brewed coffee in the lower glass chamber.

Stirring coffee with siphoned hot water coming from the lower glass chamber into the upper glass chamber containing ground beans to brew a new one. An artful way to make very good coffee unlike those state-of-the-art but artless espresso machines

A stall inside a building in Juan Luna street with a vacuum brewer located in front of that customer. Fresh and good coffee lovingly stirred for you at Php25 a cup

Apparatus, Metro Manila Binondo, brewed coffee, chinese food stall, Divisoria, Juan Luna, vacuum brewer, vacuum coffee maker

Cart Wheels

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 5, 2013

Selling wheels in a cart

Metro Manila cart, street vendor, wheels

Santo Vestment

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 5, 2013

Peddling wardrobe for santo image

Metro Manila folk catholicism, rebulto, santo, Spanish colony

Oblong Burger

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 4, 2013

Street burger of Peninsular Malaysia. At the lower left of the sign it says 90% pure meat

Food, Malaysia Langkawi, oblong burger, street food

Tasty Pork of Taal

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 3, 2013

Pork meat with fat saturated mainly with adobo marinade can transform into two products, tapa and longganisa, presumably because the taste is similar. If there’s a difference, it’s somehow attributed to its form thus affecting its taste when cooked.

Sliced marinated pork is the tapa and if it's chopped and stuffed inside a casing, then it's a longganisa

Marinade inside that rectangular container is poured into this tapa from time to time so it will look fresh and not dry

Batangas, Food adobo marinade, chorizo, longganisa, pork, sausage, Taal, tapa

Tangkong

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 3, 2013

Tangkong is the Visayan term (Ilonggo or Cebuano) for water spinach and known as kangkong countrywide.

Here’s a stanza from the Provincial Jail song (radio drama song) that I hear all the time in Bacolod in the past that the lyrics still in my head.

Ang amon na utan ginulot na langka, tinuktok nga tangkong bisan asin wala
Samtang naga kaon ga tulo ang luha, daw ano kasubo kung imo makita

Produce bisaya, kangkong, Provincial Jail song, tangkong, utan, Visayas, water spinach

Empanada of Taal

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 2, 2013

Put some filling such as meat and/or vegetables inside dough and deep fry it. When cooked, you now have an empanada. Of course there are so many variations of this deep-fried filled dough worldwide. So while I snacked on my chicken empanada Taal version, I think of the samosas I ate as starter in Indian restaurants and the curry puffs I bought for breakfast from the street vendors in Malaysia.

Empanada stall inside the palengke in Taal

Warning sign with drawing of ABS-CBN logo

Batangas, Food, Market curry puffs, deep fried dough, empanada, samosa, Taal

Splendor at Sundown

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 2, 2013

I happened to hang around these structures at sunset and naturally I had to capture this momentary splendor using my phone and my mind.

Molo Church, Iloilo

Taal Basilica, Batangas

Paoay Church, Ilocos Norte

Batangas, Ilocos Norte, Iloilo, Structure, Sunrise Sunset church, masonry structure, sunset

Panutsa Maker

2 Comments Posted by Lana on October 1, 2013

Peanuts (whether whole or chopped) that are bonded by caramelized sugar is a local candy known by different names such as bandi in Western Visayas (my mother would always buy me this), piñato in Eastern Visayas (sustained me in long bus rides between Negros and Cebu provinces during college years, my favorite variant), peanut brittle in Baguio (wish there’s a local name) and panutsa in Batangas.