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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Links for this episode
Learn more about Alpas Restaurant and Guesthouse online, and follow them on Facebook and Instagram.
They’ve been featured in GRID Magazine, Mabuhay by Philippine Airlines, ABS-CBN and Business Mirror. Read some of that press here!
Find photos of my visit to La Paz Public Market, Panaderia de Molo, and the full experience at Alpas on my travel blog :)