Being Filipino, and a member of the UPCM ‘89, I know you are all as obsessed with food as I am. Who doesn’t have fond memories of all the chow rounds during our IM rotation when we spent most of the time allegedly rounding on our patients actually discussing the dinuguan from Aristocrat
or the pork barbecue or whatever delicacy we were having for dinner/ breakfast during and after our night on call? And who could forget the end of rotation “libre” at each department. I particularly recall one “libre” when our group finished our GS2 surgical rotation which also included mandatory karaoke singing.
Fortunately for me, this tradition sort of continued during our residency in Brooklyn where we had a huge population of Filipino nurses (mainly in the ER and ICU) who kept us well fed with pansit and lumpia
during call. And now, I’m still lucky enough to be able to stop home on my way from work to grab a savory bowl of tinolang manok or combination plate of adobo and bistek on a freezing winter night.
But others don’t have a “New Little Quiapo” or a “Chiboogan”
within decent driving distance. So, for all of us, this is a new category featuring Filipino food blogs and recipes (with gorgeous pictures) to feed us figuratively,if not literally. And if you have any recipes to share, please send them on.
For our first recipe, an “Adobong Manok” video from Travis Kraft (c/o Marleen):
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(What are you laughing at? Travis speaks a lot better Tagalog than some Fil-Ams I know who were BORN in the Philippines, and he can cook!)
If you didn’t quite get the recipe, here’s a good Chicken Adobo recipe from the Food Network
Featured Blog:
Marvin was born and raised on the gritty streets of Los Angeles to Filipino parents. Despite the graces of his mother’s home cooking, the ill-effects of Western assimilation retarded Marvin’s appreciation of Filipino food – wreaking havoc on his palate from a young age on until adulthood.
Now married to a non-Filipino, and residing in the culinary wasteland that is the Inland Empire of Southern California, Marvin continues to hone his kitchen skills by expanding his culinary repertoire and learning to cook the food of his culture that he once ignored, even if it means burning a few lumpias along the way.
Marvin does indeed have a wooden fork and spoon hanging on his dining room wall. The wooden fork and spoon is a decoration found on many a dining room wall of Filipino old-timers. Its perceived “tackiness” has lead to its status as an inside joke among many Pinoys today.
Although the wooden accessories are a tad funny, we don’t think they are tacky at all. They should be viewed as more of a welcoming sign of good food and good company.
We hope that those who recognize the wooden fork and spoon feel that same sense of welcoming when visiting this site.
Marvin can be reached at burntlumpia AT gmail DOT com.
