EP 23: A Food Trip In Iloilo And Cooking School In Antique

This episode, we visit the Western Visayas provinces of Iloilo and Antique for a culinary experience to remember. Time for a food trip and cooking lesson!

Show notes

01:40 Netong's Batchoy at La Paz Public Market

04:00 The language I'm most myself in

06:15 Pancit Molo at Panadería de Molo

09:25 From Iloilo to Antique

11:00 Visiting Alpas Restaurant and Guesthouse

11:25 Meet Ken and Kim

14:00 Sulig and tisa

15:30 "Only the goats eat it"

17:15 Tonight's dinner menu: green salad, grilled fish, spicy beef stomach, roasted sweet potatoes, grilled eggplant, suman with coconut cream and bananas

21:30 A feeling I chase

22:45 Off to the market

24:00 What "Alpas" means

24:40 Our goal for today's market haul

26:20 Cooking school with Ken

28:10 Preparing sulig

29:40 Salad, stuffing and salsa

31:20 The winged bean theory

33:20 Breaking it down

34:25 "How do you normally approach cooking?"

35:35 Rethinking my relationship with vegetables

36:30 The definition of a salad

38:20 Food deserts in the Philippines?

43:00 Applying the bean theory

48:05 Today's lunch: salad of roasted okra, peppers, eggplants, winged beans and sweet potatoes, kangkong-stuffed fish, cucumber and tomato salsa

54:35 Uncovering culinary experiences in the Philippines

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