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Market Manila
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A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe.
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The “Artusi” Launch/Lunch… :)

You know you are in for a treat when Margarita Fores has invited you to lunch and the first thing that greets you is this fresh, ebullient, and colorful vegetable centerpiece.

2 days ago

L’arte Di Mangiar Bene – The Art of Eating Well…

Mrs. MM and I are invited to a lunch today to announce the launch of Casa Artusi in the Philippines.

3 days ago

Fried Pork Ribs a la Marketman

Why had I NEVER THOUGHT of doing this before? :)

4 days ago

Protected: The Numbers Don’t Seem To Add Up…

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5 days ago

Chicken Confit a la Marketman

This is what happens when you have oodles and oodles of fantastic lard to play with...

6 days ago

Crabby, Crabby, Crabby… :(

Sometimes, things sound much better in theory than they end up tasting in practice... My attempt at making a "Salted Egg & Butter Crabmeat Fried Rice" was one such letdown. :(

25 may 12

A Zubuchon Customer Review… And a Favor to Ask…

Nearly every week, if not twice or thrice in a week, Zubuchon management and I receive customer feedback from folks (mostly marketmanila readers, a biased bunch perhaps) who have recently eaten at Zu...

22 may 12

What A Joke…

Sa kaibuturan ng aking puso, this is such an utter joke... With 50+ million other Filipinos around the archipelago and across the globe, I watched the proceedings of the impeachment court this aftern...

22 may 12

Leche!! Leche!! Lechon de Leche. :)

Even I have used the term lechon de leche loosely to refer to very small roasted pigs.

21 may 12

Misua & Patola Soup

I hated this dish when I was younger.

20 may 12

Mother’s Day, A Week Late… :)

I rarely buy lots of flowers for Valentines or Mothers Day anymore.

19 may 12

Salted Egg Yolk and Butter Prawns a la Millet

When reader Millet, of Davao, mentioned a really simple sauce of butter and salted egg yolk for crabs a few posts ago, I was instantly intrigued.

19 may 12

Protected: The 10 Lechon/Chicharon Winners!!!

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18 may 12

Fried Saguyon — Spectacular!!!

These highly seasonal and increasingly rare patties made of dried "saguyon", tiny fresh water fish from Jabonga, Agusan Del Norte were a really spectacular food discovery for me...

17 may 12

Roasted Young Lamb Ribs a la Marketman

Dining out on Mothers Day is usually not a good idea if you can cook a decent meal at home.

16 may 12

What are your Top 5 Restaurants in Metro Manila?

I am helping some friends come up with a list of "good" restaurants in Metro Manila. I had some input, but did so with the caveat that I dont actually eat out that often, or at least when com...

14 may 12

Ginisang Bagoong a la Marketman

I left the bottle of "experimental" bagoong alamang in the back of the fridge in our Cebu office for 2.5 weeks before taking it back out again, with more than a bit of trepidation.

14 may 12

Bagoong Alamang a la Marketman

When was the last time you made bagoong alamang from scratch?

13 may 12

Do Your Bananas Get Hard In The Fridge? :)

Minatamis na saging (or saba/plantain bananas simmered in brown sugar syrup) is often served simply chilled or with some crushed ice and perhaps some milk or cream on the side.

09 may 12

Five Kilos of Chili Crabs for Five Folks… :)

Turns out that "rustling" up three guests for a rustic chili crab dinner isnt so hard to do with just a few hours notice... :)

09 may 12

Air-flown Alimango (Mud Crabs) From Culion…

These amazingly fresh, clean and meaty alimango traveled from Culion, Palawan by plane.

08 may 12

Tokwa’t Lechon a la Marketman

A riff on a classic tokwat baboy...

08 may 12

Just A Little Dose Of That… :)

Nope, no otherworldly intervention that I know of when it comes to cooking our lechons...

07 may 12

Duhat Shakes a la Marketman

This may strike some of you as being a bit bizarre, but you just might be surprised!

07 may 12

An Avalanche of Duhat…

A few nights ago, it started with a single little thump on the roof above our bedroom.

06 may 12

Char Siu Fried Rice a la Marketman

What better way to make use of leftover bits and pieces of char siu (chinese pork barbecue) than to make a huge bowl of char siu fried rice?

06 may 12

Maltose

Many of the recipes for char siu pork specified the ingredient MALTOSE rather than white or brown sugar.

05 may 12

Char Siu / Char Siew / Chinese Pork Barbecue

For as long as I can remember, I have LOVED pork asado or chinese barbecued pork, also known as Char Siu/Char Siew.

04 may 12

Only 9.30% of All Grade 6 Students Got 50% or More of the Questions Right. :(

I asked this question of Marketmanila.com readers: "In 2004, a National Diagnostic Test for Grade 6 Public School students was given in English, Math and Science. What percentage of those student...

02 may 12

Empanadillas de atún y pimiento a la Claudia Roden

Filipino empanadas have become increasingly sweet and cloying, almost like a meaty dessert.

01 may 12

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