Manong Ken Ilio's Carinderia

Crispy pata seems to be in every Filipino restaurant menu in the diaspora (at least in North America) and every restaurant seems to claim that theirs is the best. Or at least, the specialty of the house. I’ve done crispy pata only once in my life … so I cannot say that I know how [...]

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Sometimes I just want my meal to be simple … sunny side up eggs and rice … that’s all. Like what I had for lunch today. a2a_config.linkname=”Nothing much …”; a2a_config.linkurl=”http://carinderia.net/blog/?p=1664″; a2a.init(“page”);

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I love curries. When I was in grad school in New Zealand twenty odd years ago, my flatmates were from Malaysia and Indonesia … and they made wonderful curries when it was their turn to cook. I learned how to cook one variety but never as good as the ones they made – their moms [...]

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