Tahong Crackers

Tahong is a type of mussels that we either make into a soup or we bake, freshly harvested. It spoils easily, so it has to be cooked immediately. Being a coastal island (naturally), we all like our seafoods freshly caught and not frozen or packaged. But sometimes, investors never learn.

If you want to know how it tastes, all I can say is it smells of rancid oil. I never got to the taste part.


[I'll be back on September 1.)

Tira tira

I don't know what they're called in English, but this is enjoyed by kids all year round. Remember that candy which stretches as long as your arm when you try to bite a chunk off?

Poor ducks

Suman latik

We have many ways of preparing rice as we have many varieties of rice. Suman latik is sticky rice wrapped in this kind of particular leaf (I forgot the name now), then steamed, and the latik is sugar syrup prepared with palm sugar and syrupy coconut milk. Only a few people can prepare this well.. (in my opinion). The secret is in the latik.