Manong Ken Ilio's Carinderia

Well, I didn’t make the noche buena that I had a countdown for in this blog because noche buena is just not celebrated here. (Noche buena or the good night is the midnight repast that Filipino families have on Christmas eve … I don’t know the origin of it, my guess is, people just come [...]

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Before I share this recipe with you, a caveat: I didn’t like making this dish at all. We used to have a helper at home (at our house in UP Campus) who used to do this every so often when she learned how to do this. She would get very creative too … stuffing the [...]

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I seldom make pancit bihon. Bihon noodles are made from rice flour and looks like vermicelli. I always do pancit sotanghon which is another kind of noddle but made from soybean. Sotanghon is also called sometimes as cellophane or glass noodle because they look transparent when cooked. I looked at the main carinderia site and [...]

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