Beef in sweet soy sauce

Thinly sliced tenderloin with soy sauce, brown sugar, green onion, and bean sprouts.

Coat the tenderloin in brown sugar, marinade in regular soy sauce, (I like to use Silver Swan), for about 10 minutes. Use olive oil on a pan, cook beef until brown, add the chopped green onions, make sure that you don't over cook the green onions, just right that it is still a bit crispy, add bean sprouts when serving, this is similar to the Filipino "Bistek", you may add tofu press (wait that becomes sukiyaki ?)


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LongSiLog - Breakfast at Kulinarya

Barako coffee, LongSiLog, garlic cornics... what a way to a Saturday morning.
Kulinarya had been announcing that they would be serving Filipino breakfast on Saturday mornings... today, they finally did it, I went to try, this time I dined in... instead of my usual take out. I ordered the LongSiLog.
LongSilog is the term used when Longaniza (Filipino sausage), siningag (garlic-fried rice) and itlog (egg-sunnyside up) are combined into one meal served as breakfast.

To my surprise, the serving is a full plate. I was thinking of just two pieces of Longaniza, and a small cup of rice with egg, but check out the photo, it was a filling breakfast.Tasty fried rice, not too garlicky, the rice wasn't hard and not burnt, the sunny side up egg was cooked well, but still tasting medium well, (you know that flavour and texture). The Longaniza was bought local (I asked), 4 - 5 pieces cut in half, they also added a couple slices of tomatoe and I must say it the crispiest tomatoe I have every had... just perfect for the dish. I had the Barako coffee (is a coffee varietal grown in the Philippines- Wikipedia) with this dish, (sarap). The vinegar dip was offered but doesn't come with the dish. Their vinegar is a good blend, I was told it's their own mix, but I think it could do with a little more bitter taste. I would like to have more atchara on my next order, it was only a tablespoon full.


All in all, the Barako (not barko) coffee, the LongSiLog+tomatoe with vinegar made my morning. There was a whole family (from grandparents to grandkids) of 10 having their breakfast there, even the little kids (Caucasian) were having a full plate of LongSiLog... just goes to show that this dish is for everyone.

I wanted to have another cup of their Barako coffee (free) and order the Bangus, but had to go.

I wonder how Kulinarya did with their first Saturday with their Filipino breakfast.

This menu is offered everyday of the week.

Other breakfast dishes are TapSiLog [3 stars], (cured meat), siningag and itlog; BangSiLog Bangus [5 stars - a must try] (dried milk-fish), siningag and itlog.

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Siomai anyone ?

This is a favorite dish.
Ingredients: 2 lbs pork, 1 big onion, 1 big carrot, 1 tblsp soy sauce, 1 tsp pepper, 1 tsp salt, 1 box shrimp, 1 bunch of green (spring) onions.

Baked Tahong (Mussels) - easy way

This is another easy one to make. Garlic (about four cloves), shredded cheese (mozarella or cheddar), mussels, margarine or butter. Using a small frying pan, put two tablespoon margarine or butter, add chopped garlic, fry for about 2 minutes, set aside.

Set the mussels on a baking pan, coat the mussels with about half a teaspoon of the garlic/margarine, then add your shredded cheese (covering the mussels).

Bake (400 degrees) until the cheese is melted, then put the oven in grill mode to brown the cheese a bit (not too long).

Others sprinkle bread crumbs on top, but I find that it alters the taste.

The celery was added to complement the taste of the garlic.

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