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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

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

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.

Whole peanuts and brown sugar cooked in wok over woodfire is panutsa in the making

Stirring for a well distributed peanuts when bonding with caramelized brown sugar

Bamboo ring molds. Shown here is the smallest ring and retailed by this factory at Php5 each

Panutsa like bandi is ring-shaped and retailed in different sizes

Doing some quality control while counting (also snacking on dislodged peanuts in the table)

Presenting the panutsa made in Barangay Seiran of Taal

Batangas, Food bandi, panutsa, peanut brittle, piñato, Seiran, Taal

Typography: Bridal Shop

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 1, 2013

Batangas, Typography bridal shop, signage, Taal

Sinaing na Tulingan

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on September 30, 2013

Simmering tulingan for a long time in claypot saturate the fish with the added salt and souring ingredient such as kamias hence the resulting dish makes it a very appetizing viand. Locals who don’t want to spend time simmering and non-locals who would like to bring home this Batangas signature dish gave this old lady a market for her sinaing na tulingan.

Comfortably seated on the counter beside her palayok of sinaing na tulingan (claypot with braised tuna inside)

Carefully getting the fish where each one is separated by banana leaf during simmering process. The bones are very soft already that it can be eaten as proudly claimed by the vendor

Getting another fish. It's 3 for Php100. She then wrapped the 3 cooked fish together using banana leaf and newspaper as her packaging

Batangas, Food, Market banana leaf, claypot, kamias, palayok, sinaing na tulingan, Taal, tuna

Lanzones Season

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on September 30, 2013

Lanzones of Cuenca, Batangas sold at Php45 per kilo in roadside stalls

Batangas, Food, Produce Cuenca, lanzones, roadside stall

Improvised Gut Receptacle

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on September 28, 2013

Plastic wrapped around an iron bar and secured by a rock behind the wooden chopping board as devised by the tilapia monger for catching wastes while cleaning the fish.

Removal of entrails and scales are free services when you buy fish

Improvisation, Metro Manila fish entrails, fish monger, vendor

Talipapa

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on September 28, 2013

Small temporary wet market usually by the roadside. This type of retailing is practical for locals who live on a daily wage thus buying food on a daily basis.

Market, Metro Manila retailing, roadside, talipapa

Ancient Rice Landscape

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on September 27, 2013

Ifugao ancient landscape, Kiangan, land use, Nagacadan, rice terraces, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Sorbetes in a Motorcycle

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on September 26, 2013

In the hilly roads of Mt Makiling where pushing a cart is too laborious for an ambulant vendor, it is but apt for this Arsenio Jr. sorbetes to be peddled around in a motorcycle.

I like Arsenio Jr sorbetes than those mass produced ice cream brands. It is simply better.

Food, Laguna, Transport Arsenio Jr, ice cream, Los Baños, Mt Makiling, sorbetes

Hole in the Wall Art

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on September 26, 2013

An art derived from repurposed tyre

Art, Repurposing, Rizal Angono, Nemiranda, tyre

Ancient Rock Art

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on September 25, 2013

Found in the hills of Angono-Binangonan border are archaic drawings of the stone age era. The petroglyphs on a rock shelter are protected and managed by the National Museum. It was interesting to hear stories from Mr Security Guard in there who can pass as a curator of this primitive art.

Filipinos tend ignore written signs or symbols like "Do not touch" etcetera that there has to be a physical form of message like an MMDA railing/barrier in our roads as painted lines are being ignored or a fence such as this to protect our ancient art

Wisely reported by the artist, Botong Francisco to the National Museum office upon discovery

Primitive drawings carved using stone tools

Tiny museum of related artifacts such as tablets with ancient writings in the petroglyph vicinity. The symbol above the National Museum name means "pa" as they abbreviated the word "pamana" using ancient Tagalog writing. Remember alibata in school?