Tonight we had our second Trivia group dinner. Sadly one of David's team is leaving in Sydney. His name is Ian.... :) He will be missed. Well, dinner tonight, just for our little group, (Valentine's Day) was Filipino. We had a Filipino roll, much like Kings Hawaiian Bread. We had soup with shrimp and veggies. We had a fried spinach appetizer. I opted out of the sweet and sour fish. I took a piece of chicken with a garlic-soy sauce. Then we were served a deep fried pig knuckle. This I did not understand. I use the smoked hocks for my split pea soup. I was thinking 'not much meat here', but OK. I tried to pull a bit of meat out. I learned from table mates that the DELICACY is THE SKIN...deep fried pork fat skin....OK, (politely to myself) I think ewww... so I pulled a bit of skin off to try it. It crunches crisply in your mouth. I will say it is crunchy and has a nice taste, but I could only think FAT, lots of thick fat. This part I toss at home. I was not keen on the idea of this.
For desert we had some strange concoction. I think it was a mix of vegetables and fruit with crushed ice in between, black beans at the bottom.... ice cream on top. I gave the ice cream to David. Some of us took out the ice and tried to eat the food part and others ate it as served. I did not get it....nice to try, just weird for me.
I liked two things ... :) You will be surprised. One was garlic rice and the other, an appetizer, called KangKong..... I may have to go vegetarian after eating this. I had seconds. :) It was like eating a potato chip. It was dipped in a garlic mayonnaise like sauce. I liked the garlic rice. The garlic must have been roasted because you could see light brown flecks of garlic in the while rice.
http://www.pinoyrecipe.net/crispy-kangkong-recipe-river-spinach/
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