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Mom Violy and Carmina’s dining experience at Dean & DeLuca

  Mom Violy told me she wanted to order the Paella Negra from Dean & Deluca. Carmina suggested we dine in since we’d never really tried their main courses, always just getting takeout with the cream puffs . Mom Violy agreed, and we arrived about thirty minutes before the lunch rush began. The service was very slow, even though we had ordered ahead of time. They mistakenly brought out the Paella Valenciana , despite Mom Violy repeating the order three times to the person who took it. It turned out the cook on duty made the error, even though it was written down clearly. We know Paella Negra takes a long time to prepare, which is why Mom Violy had requested it to be cooked beforehand. She wanted it as her main meal, but because of the mix-up and feeling hungry, she took a piece of Carmina’s Turkey Club Sandwich and asked for the bacon on the side. I didn’t expect the turkey to be just one piece, and the bread was toasted so hard that it removed one layer of the sandwich. Since ...

Exotic Filipino Food

There was one time I was visiting the Philippines for vacation. One person was offering me to eat rice porridge with chicken feet. 

I remember my parents always told me when you are visiting some one's house and they offer you food. You really need to accept and eat their food.

For some reason I couldn't accept the food because I was shock to see a chicken feet soak in a bowl filled with rice soup in it. 

I just said, I was full.

Sometimes they also cook it adobo chicken feet.

Adobo Chicken Feet


Just to warn you it is best to ask the person you attend a birthday party what the dishes are made of some times they serve goat in their food. They call it kambing in the Philippines. Once you hear that word you know what that is.

They cook it as kaldareta, adobo or sinapalukang soup.

Kambing (goat) Kalderata

My father in-law loves eating it and you see the head floating in the bowl. Oh my. I can't even seat down at the same table seeing a head of a goat in a bowl. 

Do you eat escargo (snail)? Here in the Philippines they call it kuhol. It is cooked in gata (coconut milk) or adobo.

Adobo Kahol (snail)
I may be Filipino, but I don't eat all their food. There are more food selection to choose from. Are you brave enough to try it when you come and visit?

This is another exotic food that Filipino dare for the Foreigners to try. Some people are only brave to eat this when they are drunk. 

They call it balut it is an cooked egg and there is a chick inside with a hard yellow egg inside. 


You would eat this in one eating and swallow this all up. They put salt on it just how you eat an hard boiled egg.

I remember  when my niece and nephew came to the house and their Grand father wanted them to try it. I made up a story that the chick inside is an alien and it had a white helmet.

They went to tell their Grand father about it when they we're ask to eat it.

At first the Grand father didn't understand what they we're replying too.

Later he understood and laughed at them.

In Pampanga a restaurant in Every body's Cafe my Father in-law loves eating betute (frog legs). It is cooked in variety dishes such as tinola, grilled, kare kare and adobo.

He loves all these other insects and tapang kalabaw (buffalo)

Betute (frog legs)

Beatles
Camaro (Cricket)
Tapang Kalabaw (buffalo)



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