Shrimps and sotanghon

Here’s another way to enjoy shrimps. Make an all-shrimp sotanghon! This is another one of those recipes where there is really no set proportions of the ingredients. Just survey the ref to see what’s inside, grab what vegetables I like, and cook them with the noodles.

When cooking noodles, Pinoy-style that is, these are the usual ingredients I put – lots of garlic, bell pepper, carrots, and cabbage. I slice them thicker since I like my noodles with chunky vegetables.

For my seasonings – a combination of salt and light soy sauce; sometimes fish sauce.

For the meat – whatever’s on hand. Typically it’s chicken or pork. Sometimes clam meat, shrimps or squid. Sometimes, none at all.

Here are my different versions of sotanghon and other noodles:

Quick and easy noodles and vegetables stirfry

Bam-i

Birthday Pancit Canton



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Turon ala Polomolok (South Cotabato)

Sundays I usually go to the wet market to get week’s supply of seafoods. I usually go to the main wet market in GenSan (GenSan has three wet markets!) although there are times I go to the market in Polomolok, the town next to GenSan. It is actually nearer my place but sometimes public transpo is incovenient.
Whenever I am in Polomolok, I never fail to drop by the magtuturon just opposite the main entrance. I love eating freshly cooked turon. Often, I would sit beside the seller and her assistants and spend some time chatting. What’s unusual about the turon is that they use yellow-colored lumpia wrapper unlike the white ones I am familiar. These are usually made fresh and when in luck, you can buy them still warm.
Here is a video of how turon is made by the turon vendor in Polomolok. Her assistant wraps the bananas, jackfruit and sugar and she does the cooking. Turon is already available by 9am, perfect timing after I’m done with my marketing. I do remember one time they were late, apparently her assistant did not report as he went to GenSan at dawn so he could audition for the Pinoy Big Brother!
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Lechon

Cooking lechon probably ranks among the must-cook dishes in my lifetime. All I need is an excuse, and I will probably give it a try. Maybe when I get home to Laguna, I could do it. But here in GenSan, there is no need to cook your own lechon. Lechoneros abound all over the city. As early as 7am, on our way to the office, we usually pass by  a lechonan and there’d be 3-4 lechons cooking.
Lechon here costs 320 pesos a kilo but could go as high as 400 in the mall. During lunch time, there are also several turo-turo restos that serve lechon. There’s one my friends and I go to, when the lechon mood strikes us for lunch – Inasal de Cebu. We had lunch there last week, and I finally got to take a picture of the lechon and its crunchy skin before we attacked :)

Tinolang Manok

Native chicken is quite popular here in this side of Mindanao. Restaurants serve tinalong native na manok and groceries sell them as well. Most often, when we have field work, we usually ask one of the workers to purchase live native chicken the day before and have it slaughtered so we can have our tinola fix.
Tinolang native chicken!
Today was no different. After working in the fields, we had lunch of tinolang native na manok cooked by one of the workers.
Chicken and herbs simmering
I call it Ilonggo-style and consisted of sauteing ginger, garlic, shallots and tomatoes then adding the chicken and lemongrass. You let the whole saute until it dries up (according to our cook) and chicken is coated with the flavorful herbs. Only then is water added. In contrast, the Tagalog style (or the one I grew up with) just saute garlic and ginger and flavored with patis (fish sauce). Green papaya is added once chicken is almost tender.
Papaya is added when chicken is almost tender. Notice the feet peeking?
Lastly, we added a big bunch of dahon sili (chili leaves)!
Dahon sili
Served piping hot, it was a perfect lunch after a long hot morning in the fields.

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