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Sambal Goreng Udang (Chilli Prawn)

noemi — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:38:10 +0000

Dear readers,

Here is a recipe shared by Singaporean Chef Veni Knight

Ingredients

500gm large prawns, remove heads and veins but leave shells intact
2 tbsp of chilli powder (You can easily buy these at the supermarket)
2 large onions, sliced
Salt to taste
3 tbsp cooking oil

Method
1. Mix prawns with chilli powder
2. Heat oil in the wok
3. Add the prawns and stir on high heat
4. When the prawns have all turned red, stir in the onions
5. Let the onions soften slightly before putting the fire out
6. Serve hot
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Nonya Bak Chang: Singapore-Style Dragon Boat Festival Dumplings & Babi Asam: Spicy Pork in Tamarind Sauce

lauren — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:31:17 +0000

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Watch the 35 minute video as she demonstrates two recipes: Nonya Bak Chang and Babi Asam. She interspersed her cooking tips as she demonstrated the recipe. The recipe is a bit complicated to cook but you will learn some asian cooking tips just by watching the video. Now if you want to experiment, go ahead. The sweet potato dumplings taste so good.

Cooking Tips

1. Saute with a nice gentle sizzle not too loud sizzle . Chinese stir fry cooking involves high sizzle but not Peranakan.

2. Cook by smell.

3. Most peranakan dishes boil pork, slice it for that even look, then stir fry it

4. When boiling sweet potato, keep water for soup stock

5. Metal masher is better to use for mashing sweet potatoes

6. Don’t put less in a traditional dish. If rich foods are cooked in its right richness, you tend not to eat a lot.

7. This food should not be eaten every day. In the old days, it was eaten once a year.

8, Enjoy food three times a month. Rest of the month, eat plain like steamed fish or plain rice. When you cook for guests, the point is how to impress them. Cook really yummy for guests.

9. Coriander powder is important in Peranakan cooking. Never buy powder form. Toast the coriander in the over oon14for 10 to 15 minutes but stir every 5 minutes. It has to smell cooked but not burned.

10. To prevent spillage on the floor, use a mixing bowl three times the size that that you would need.

11. the smaller the pot the better. Deep fry is about how high the oil is.

12. When eating in a restaurant, feast with your eyes, your smell and lastly, the taste

13. Drain/dry the meat before cooking so that there is no water layer that prevents spices from reaching the meat.

Here are the recipes demonstrated by Violet Oon.

Held to commemorate a hero of ancient China, the Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated in Singapore with thousands of pyramid-shaped glutinous rice dumplings and a Dragon Boat Race. The poet Ch’u Yuan drowned himself in protest against injustice and corruption. It is said that rice dumplings were cast into the water to lure fishes away from the body of the martyr. This act is remembered by the eating of “chung”, glutinous rice dumplings. Dried lotus and pandan leaves flood the markets a few days before the festival on the fifth month of the lunar calendar as the dumplings are wrapped up tightly in these leaves. The steamed glutinous rice encloses a variety of fillings from pork to mushrooms, red beans, chicken, and mung beans. The Peranakan version isa delicious variation. In the past, lotus leaves were not as a vailable so Peranakans used the gigantic fragrant pandan leaves to wrap their bak chang. In addition to the traditional ingredients of diced pork, Chinese mushrooms and preserved melon was added to the local recipe by the Baba Chinese. The new recipe also includes pounded coriander seeds and lots of sugar.

Nonya Bak Chang: Singapore-Style Dragon Boat Festival Dumplings

INGREDIENTS FOR THE RICE

1 1/2 kg glutinous rice
4 tablespoons water
1/4 teaspoon salt
A few drops of blue food coloring from the Bunga Telang

METHOD

1) Pick through the glutinous rice and discard the transparent grains. These are plain rice grains. Wash well 2 to 3 times. Soak 3/4ths of the grains overnight in water.

2) Color 5 cups of tap water in blue with about 6 to 7 drops of food coloring. Or boil about 1/4 cup of dried Bunga Telang flowers in about 2 cups of water for 2 minutes. Drain and cool. Soak the remaining rice grains in this water. You may want your dumplings to be more blue so soak about 1/2 of the rice grains in the blue water.

3) Drain the rice grains and place int he steamer. If the holes are too large, line the bottom with a piece of cloth. Mix the two types of rice grains. Steam over high heat for 1 hour.

4) In the meantime, mix the water with the salt. After the rice has been steamed for 20 minutes, lift the lid of the steamer and sprinkle 1 tablespoon of water over the rice. Mix it well with the rice.

5) Cover the lid and repeat this twice til the water is used up. The dumplings should be formed and folded in the pandan leaves while the rice is still warm. If it is cold, it will not bind well.

THE FILLING: Kueh Kledek Nonya

Sweet Potato Dough

350g glutinous rice flour (3 elephants) – 1 rice bowl
2 to 3 tsp rice flour
800g sweet potatoes, steamed and mashed with 1 tbsp sugar
2 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 to 1/2 cup water to mix to a firm dough

Sieve the 2 flours and add mashed sweet potatoes, salt, eggs, and water to mix well. Keep aside.

Filling

1 kg belly pork without the skin
200 g preserved winter melon, diced
10 dried mushrooms, soaked til soft, drained, squeezed dry and diced
5 tbsp lard or oil
60g garlic pounded til fine
200g shallots, pounded
1 tsp salt
300g to 350g sugar
1 1/2 tbsp white pepper powder
4 tbsp dark soya sauce
6 tbsp toasted pounded coriander seeds

To fry

2 lt vegetable oil

METHOD

1) Boil the pork for 30 to 40 minutes in enough water to cover. Cool and dice. Keep the water.

2) Fry garlic and shallots in the oil, add pork, sugar, salt, pepper, and soya sauce. Fry well and add mushrooms, melon, sugar, pepper, salt, and cook for 30 minutes. Add coriander, stir well, turn off heat. Cool and store in the fridge. This can be done a day ahead.

3) Fill the sweet potato dough with the filling and deep fry over medium high heat til the sweet potato dumplings are golden brown and float to the surface.

TO WRAP THE DUMPLINGS

Watch this video demonstration

15 large pandan leaves. These are only available in markets just before the festival. Otherwise, you will have to order them from your favorite vegetable stall.
1 recipe of filling
steamed glutinous rice
a roll of raffia

METHOD

1) Traditionally, the dumplings are formed into the shape of a pyramid with a three-sided base. If you follow the illustrations, you cannot go wrong. You have to pack the dumpling so that the glutinous rice is very firm. For those who just like the flavor, line the bottom of the casserole with pandan leaves, top with some fillings and cover the glutinous rice. Pack it down very tight, top with pandan leaves, an dsteam.

2) Purists will have to do it the right way. Tie 17 raffia strings measuring about 40 cm long together on a pole.

3) Trim both ends of each pandan leaf. fold it over to form a pocket. Place about half a handful of glutinous rice in the pocket and spread it out to form a hollow. Fill the hollow with the filling and fold the top over using your other hand to push both sides in.

4) Fold the two sides of the leaf over the dumpling and cut off the excess leaf. Tie with raffia to secure. Trim off the leaves to form neat parcels. When all the dumplings are formed, remove from the pole and plait the end of the strings together.

5) Boil for 2 hours, remove and hang to dry. The dumplings are usually eaten the next day and can keep for up to 4 days outside the fridge. If you like them hot, just steam them again before eating.

Babi Asam: Spicy Pork in Tamarind Sauce

INGREDIENTS

500g to 700g belly of pork
5 tbsp vegetable oil
1 1/2 tbsp pounded salted soya beans (taucheo)
2 tbsp tamarind pulp – about 50 g
3 cups water
1/2 tbsp dark soy sauce
8 nos green chillies, slit lengthwise from the stalk til the end
5 nos red chillies, slit lengthwise from the stalk to the end
A pinch of salt, to taste
1 to 2 tbsp sugar (optional and to taste)

Rempah (Spice Mix)

5 nos candlenuts (buah keras), washed and rdained
20 nos shallots, peeled
1 tbsp shrimp paste (belacan)

METHOD

1) First, prepare the spice mix. Grind all the ingredients together til you get a semi fine paste.

2) Cut the pork into bite-sized cubes. Heat a frying pan til hot, add the oil and when it is hot, add the rempah and stir-fry til fragrant and the oil exudes. This will take around 5 minutes.

3) Lower to medium heat and to prevent burning, sprinkle a little water on the spice mix, add the salted soya bean paste and the meat. Stir-fry well for 3-5 minutes.

4) In the meantime, mix the tamarind pulp with the water and knead well to extract the juice. Discard the seeds and pulp.

5) Add the tamarind water and dark soy sauce to the pork mixture.

6) Boil and simmer til the liquid is reduced by half.

7) Add the 2 types of chillies and continue simmering for 20-30 minutes til the pork is tender. Taste, and if you like, add salt and sugar and simmer for another 5 minutes til cooked through.

Serve with steamed rice as part of a Peranakan meal.——————

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Babi Pongteh (Braised Pork with Salted Bean Paste)

noemi — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:53:20 +0000

Dear readers,

Here is the recipe for the day from pinoyfoodblog.com. If you are looking for a particular recipe, click the link, pinoyfoodblog.com and use the search feature on the right sidebar near the top . I’m sorry if I don’t get to send you a recipe every day of the week. You might also want to join Cuisinera Club and get free recipes and a chance to join monthly cooking demos. I will be there too so it’s a chance to meet each other.I hope you will indulge me with a few recipes the next few days. These are Peranakan dishes shared to me by the Singaporean chef in the ongoing Singapore Food Festival. You can read more about my food adventures at Multi-Cultural Gastronomic Experience in Singapore and Opening Day at the Singapore Food Festival. Just to give you a background, Peranakan culture reflects Singapore’s Multi-cultural landscape. Peranakan is a cultural juxtaposition between the Chinese and Malay or Indian and Malay resulting in a colorful and multi-faceted culture from history to costumes and jewelry. Just like us, Filipinos, our food is multi-cultural as well , heavily influenced by the Spanish, Chinese, Malay, Indian, American and many more. This Babi Pongteh recipe reminds me of our local Humba . In Humba, we use salted black beans but in the Babi Pongteh, it is Salted Bean Paste. I got to taste the salted bean paste and it is not as salty as the salted black beans for Humba. Try buying the salted bean paste at your local Chinese grocery stores. Here is the recipe developed by Shirley Tay.

Serves 10

Ingredients
Pork Belly (cut into pieces approx. 5cm) 2kg
Shallots 500g
Garlic 300g
Salted Bean Paste 200g
Dark Soya Sauce for colour
Sugar 100g
Oil 150ml
Water 1½ litres
Chicken Cube 1 no.

Methods:
1. Blend the shallots, garlic and salted bean paste together.
2. Heat up the oil in a pot.
3. When oil is hot, add in the blended mixture of shallots, garlic and salted bean paste and fry until fragrant and slightly golden brown.
5. Then, add in the pork belly and dark soya sauce and continue frying until the pork is evenly coated.
6. Add in enough water just to cover the pork belly and stir in seasoning. Simmer for 1 hour or until the pork is tender.
7. The dish is ready to serve hot with steamed rice.

Note: This is the original recipe of Shirley Tay, a Nyonya chef at the Swissotel Merchant Court.
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Ayam Buah Keluak (Chicken Stewed with Black Nuts)

noemi — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:39:51 +0000

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Here is the recipe for the day from pinoyfoodblog.com. If you are looking for a particular recipe, click the link, pinoyfoodblog.com and use the search feature on the right sidebar near the top . I’m sorry if I don’t get to send you a recipe every day of the week. You might also want to join Cuisinera Club and get free recipes and a chance to join monthly cooking demos. I will be there too so it’s a chance to meet each other.
One of the most popular Peranakan dishes of Swissotel Merchant Court and even Singapore is the Ayam Buah Keluak or Chicken stewed in Black Nuts. This is the traditional and well-known Nonya dish, normally available in restaurants that feature Peranakan cuisine. Its main ingredients are chicken (ayam) and buah keluak. I know some of you might not be able to get the ingredients locally but for those based in Singapore, Malaysia or Indonesia you can try this recipe developed by Chef Shirley Tay of Swissotel Merchant Court. I also got to taste this dish and loved the combination of the black nut paste with the chicken. It’s not too salty too.

You can download Shirley Tay’s recipe here.

And if you are in Singapore, you might want to try out the 100 dishes at the Longest Peranakan buffet slated for July 26, 2009.

Here is another variation from Violet Oon

Ingredients
1 chicken, cut into 16 pieces
100g minced pork, with a little fat
30 Buah Keluak Nuts, soaked for 2 days, scrubbed well, crack open the shells, remove the flesh
½ cup vegetable oil
1 stalk lemon grass (serai), crushed and left whole
1 to 2 handfuls of tamarind, mixed with 4 cups water, knead and strain, keep the juice
Salt – about 1 tsp
Sugar – about 1 to 2 tsp

Spice Mixture
6 candlenuts (buah keras)
20g fresh galangal (lengkuas), peeled and sliced roughly
½ thumb length fresh turmeric (kunyit)
12 fresh red chillies, peeled and sliced roughly
1½ tbl shrimp paste (belacan)
200g shallots, peeled and sliced roughly

Method
1. To make spice mixture, peel turmeric just before pounding as the colour stains badly. Clean lemon grass and bruise with the back of a chopper.

2. Pound candlenuts, galangal, turmeric, chillies, shrimp paste and shallots in the order. (If processing in a blender, put all ingredients in, leaving shallots to the last, and blend to a rough paste.)

3. Soak the tamarind in water and knead well. Drain the juice, keep the juice and discard the seeds.

4. Place wok over high heat till smoke exudes. Put in the oil and when hot, add the lemon grass and fry till fragrant before adding the pounded spice mixture and stir-fry over medium heat for about 6 to 8 minutes and the pounded bits turn slightly crinkly.

5. Add the chicken and stir fry briefly. Add enough tamarind water to just cover the chicken and add the stuffed Buah Keluak and salt and boil till the sauce chicken is tender and the gravy is slightly thick golden dark brown. Add sugar and extra salt to taste.

STUFFED BUAH KELUAK
Finely pound the Buah Keluak flesh and mix in the pork and about ½ tsp salt and a bit of sugar. Stuff the mixture back into the nut shells.

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Kilawin na Isda or Kinilaw

noemi — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:30:09 +0000

Dear readers,

In Philippine Food and Life (released by Anvil Publishing in 1992), Gilda Cordero-Fernando narrates of an Ilokano group who, during the Spanish period, were part of the crew English navigator Thomas Cavendish’s ship. Right after the sailors threw all the intestines of a goat into the sea, the Ilokano assistants dived into the sea for their kilawin — dipped or cooked in bile sauce or broth. The chronicler, who was ignorant of what the Pinoys were preparing, described the dish as “a disgusting mess.”

Not only goats, which is believed to be a good source of protein and calcium, however, may be made into kilawin. Beef, carabeef, fish, shelfish, including octopus are also popular options.

(Sources: Alegre, Edilberto N. and Fernandez, Doreen G. “Kinilaw: A Philippine Cuisine of Freshness.” Bookmark Inc.,1991;Cordero, Gilda Fernando. “Philippine Food and Life.” Pasig City: Anvil Publishing, 1992)

Kilawin na isda is so easy to prepare too.

Here are the ingredients:

1/2 kilo tuna or lapu-lapu fillets cut into 1 inch cubes
1/2 cup of coconut cream (check Extract coco milk)
1/2 cup kalamansi juice
1 1/2 cup vinegar
1 onion, sliced
1 onion, diced
4 slices of ginger, sliced
1 head garlic, minced
1 red bell pepper, cut into squares
1 green bell pepper, cut into squares
3 chili peppers, sliced into halves
salt and pepper

Preparation

1. Cut the fillets into 1 inch cubes. Season with salt and pepper.

2. Add the vinegar and chill for a 2 to 4 hours.

3. Drain the fish.

4. Add the onions, garlic, ginger, bell pepper, chili pepper, onions and calamansi juice. Mix well.

5. Add the coconut cream. Serve cold.

It’s simple but it just takes more preparation time cutting all those ingredients. ——————

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Tapsilog From Rodic’s Diner

noemi — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:30:47 +0000

Dear readers,

Tapsilog as we know it was coined from the word Tapa (salt-cured beef ), sinangag (fried garlic rice) , Itlog (fried egg). Filipinos are so creative when labelling their dishes. My favorite tapsilog is the one served at Rodic’s Diner at the Shopping Center inside the UP Diliman campus. Tapsilog wasn’t the trend during my seventies UP days but Rodic’s Diner brought a respite to famished UP students who were bored eating the dorm’s unplalatable University Food Service (UFS).

When my daughter studied in UP, I rediscovered Rodic’s Diner’s and their new dishes especially Tapsilog . I enjoyed the lean and tasty beef tapa meal at such an affordable price. Now my two daughters are hooked. Their tapa is not the usual beef slices. It looks similar to the texture of corned beef but drier. Some even call it “blinender na tapa” (tapa pulverized in a blender). There is a sweet distinct flavor that is not common to other beef tapa recipe. Maybe star anise? (If you’re looking for a beef tapa recipe, here is my very own beef tapa recipe)

I have another reason for featuring Rodic’s Diner. The nostalgia and memories of UP graduates give their menu an extra flavor. Today, January 8, 2008 is the launch of the year long The UP Centennial celebration. On the wall of Rodic’s Diner of the UP Shopping Center hangs the Spice of Life caricature drawn by Larry Alcala of the UP diliman campus in the 70s or was it 60s? I am not sure if the “Spice of Life” still hangs there. Yesterday, when I passed by Salcedo Street in Makati, I saw Rodic’s Diner. The Salcedo Street branch is owned by Ma. Socorro Tecson Mangahas, the daughter of the original owner of the Rodic’s in the UP Shopping Center.

Memories of my UP student days soon overcame me. Even if I wasn’t hungry, I ordered tapsilog and took photos of the wall mural.

(click the thumbnail for enlarged view)

If you look at the mural, it shows the UP campus in the old and current times. I will talk of my UP student days in the mid-seventies in honor of today’s UP Centennial celebration. (My student number is 74-____. You get the picture)

Rodic’s Diner existed since 1949 about the time my mom entered UP Diliman. My two daughters, third generation UP students often eat at Rodic’s Diner when they crave for tapsilog.

Liberal Arts building or Palma Hall was just simply College of Arts and Sciences or AS to me in the 70s. Oh, and the UP oblation run then was just one fraternity person (Alpha Phi Omega) streaking. And mind you, streaking was quite common in those days and was confined within the privacy of the dormitory.

These tambayans were not there before. School organizations chose their spot in various places of the buildings. My UP-Panaghiusa (an organization of Cebuanos) was at the stairs across the old Business Administration Building (now PHAN). I think this system is quite democratic. The Upsilon Sigma Phi used to “own” the Palma Hall basement and I thought these guys were qite spoiled brats lording all the chairs and tables of the canteen.

I experienced the Christmas Lantern parade in 1977. The last Parade before Martial Law was in 1969. Students gave the parade an activist motif, with Nelia Sancho, now a prominent personality of the cause-oriented women’s group Gabriela, as Lantern Queen. The Parade went on hiatus until 1977, its comeback made memorable with the participants carrying torches while parading around the Academic Oval.

The Bahay Alumini and Film Center were built after my graduation in 1978. See those ladies in white holding a chain? That’s the Cadena de Amor, an event where the senior coeds bequeathed to the juniors the beautiful traditions of UP life they would soon be leaving through the symbolic passing of cadena de amor garlands, started in 1934. The cadena de amor ladies are carrying the “symbolic” cadena which is connected to the UP Carillion. I remember a photo of my mom all dressed in white holding the chain.

Also called “the festival of girls and flowers,” the last Cadena de Amor Festival, which rites took inspiration from the Daisy Chain of Vassar College, was held in 1968 as students started questioning university traditions and the evolution of the ceremony into a beauty contest.

I heard UP will revive the Cadena de Amor tradition. I wonder if my daughter Marielle will be able to participate this once she’s a senior student. I can now imagine the activists ranting that it is so elitist.

But the word “Ibagsak” exists to this day depending on the current issues.

Ibagsak Marcos! Ibagsak Erap! Ibagsak GMA.

Some traditions never change in the University of the Philippines.

The menu and price list at Rodic’s Diner

Contact

1. Salcedo St, Legapsi Village, Makati City
Telephone Number : 75-928-75

2. Adelantado Street near Makati Medical Plaza.

3. UP Shopping Center, Diliman Campus, Quezon City

Rodic’s Diner is the penultimate rite of passage for every UP student. Do you like Rodic’s Diner food? Care to share any memories?
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Order Traditional Noche Buena Filipino Dishes

noemi — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:43:18 +0000

Dear readers,

Embutido at 975 pesos
Chicken Relleno at 1,100 pesos
Chicken Galantina at 1,275 pesos
Pastel de Lengua at 1,800 pesos
Cochinillo at 1,250 pesos a kilo
Paella Valenciana at 1,500 pesos

To order , visit Mario’s Quezon City, located at Tomas Morato corner Scout Gandia in Quezon City, or call 415-3887 or 372-0360 or e-mail mariosquezoncity@yahoo.com to book or reserve.

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Puto Bumbong at Via Mare

noemi — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:46:34 +0000

Dear readers,

This is the almost perfect puto bumbong you can ever eat in an urban center. And you can order two pieces at 67 pesos at any Via Mare Restaurant. After a stressful shopping spree at Landmark Makati, I chose to rest at the Via Mare on the second floor right beside the ladies bag section. I was thrilled that they offered Puto Bumbong. I forgot how puto bumbong tasted like after my horrifying experience with the Puto bumbong vendor at the church grounds. Before I talk about Puto bumbong of Via Mare, allow me to share how some commercial puto bumbong vendors “cheat” us out of the real puto bumbong experience. Here is the puto bumbong which I bought for 20 pesos from the vendor after the misa de gallo.

Puto Bumbong from the commercial vendor

Not only does it show artificial purple color, the appearance looks like it wasn’t baked in bamboo. Instead cooked in an oven then sliced to make it appear that it was rolled. The texture was rubbery with no muscovado as topping with the grated coconut. What a cheat. You get what you pay for. It’s only 20 pesos.

Now if I were in the province, perhaps I would not be cheated out of my puto bumbong. The ones I will eat is actually made of pirurutong (the purple rice) which gives off the natural purple color. It will be light and chewy, not rubbery and dense. This is exactly what I experienced upon eating puto bumbong in Via Mare. The price is not cheap but it’s at least closest to the real puto bumbong.

Via Mare Branches

ALABANG (CLOSED FOR RENOVATION)
2nd Floor, Alabang Town Center
Tel. No. 842-9042
Telefax 842-9038

ROCKWELL – OYSTER BAR
Ground Floor, Rockwell Center, Makati
Tel. No. 898-0961
Telefax 898-0962

ROCKWELL – COFFEESHOP
Ground Floor, Rockwell Center, Makati
Tel. No. 898-1305
Telefax 898-1306

TOTAL GAS STATION
South Luzon Expressway
(Northbound) near ABI Brewery exit

PROMENADE THEATRE MALL
Greenhills Promenade, Phase 2
Tel. No. 726-8931

EDSA SHANGRILA
Ground Floor, Edsa Shangrila, Pasig City
Tel. No. 631-1506; 632-0350

GREENBELT 3
Shop 138 Greenbelt 3 Ayala Center, Makati City
Tel. No. 757-4020; 757-4023
Telefax 757-4021

SM – MALL OF ASIA
MOA – 2nd Floor Entertainment Bldg. Bay Blvd, Pasay City
Tel. No. 556-0770; 556-0812

SM NORTH – THE BLOCK
The Block – SM Annex -3 North EDSA, Quezon City
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Prime Rib at Mario’s Quezon City

noemi — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:22:14 +0000

Dear readers,

Together with Mario’s Wi-Fi connection, homey ambience, and friendly service, Thursday Prime Rib Nights make for a memorable dining experience.

To fully enjoy Thursday Prime Rib Nights, visit Mario’s Quezon City, located at Tomas Morato corner Scout Gandia in Quezon City, or call 415-3887 or 372-0360 or e-mail mariosquezoncity@yahoo.com to book or reserve.

Mario’s Baguio, located along Session Road, also accepts inquiries and reservations through (074) 442-4241 or e-mail marios_baguio@yahoo.com. Mario’s Baguio boasts of facilities ideal for special events in the highlands, with perfect but affordable packages for weddings, debuts, reunions, baptisms or birthday celebrations.
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Filipino Breakfast at Mario’s

noemi — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:21:22 +0000

Dear readers,

Visitors can look forward to signature breakfasts like Mario’s Grand Slam, a popular breakfast composed of two eggs, lean bacon, fresh country sausage and light, fluffy pancakes served with butter and maple syrup. Also, a Millennium Platter, which is a combination of any two of the following: Danggit, Daing na Bangus and Chicken-Pork Adobo or Vigan Longganisa, served with garlic rice and grilled tomato.

Batangas Beef

Of course, we have the popular Filipino selections like Vigan Longganisa and Beef Tapa served with garlic rice and two eggs.

Vigan Longganisa

Mario’s Quezon City now offers a varied selection of delectable dishes, as well as blazing-fast internet capabilities, courtesy of eYellowpages. Mario’s is located at Tomas Morato corner Scout Gandia in Quezon City. For inquiries and reservations, call or book at 415-3887, 372-0360 or e-mail mariosquezoncity@yahoo.com.

And when in Baguio, Mario’s is in Upper Session Road and accepts inquiries and reservations. For pre-arranged special events in the highlands with perfect but affordable packages for weddings, debuts, reunions, baptisms or birthday celebrations, they can be reached at (074) 442-4241 or marios_baguio@yahoo.com.

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