Ika-Dobo. A recipe blending 2 cultures: Pinoy & Japanese.

A blend of 2 cultures: well rounded harmony of Filipino recipe (Adobong Pusit)
infused with Japanese ingredients.

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IKA-DOBO
Ingredients:
1 kilo cleaned squid
15 ml. cooking oil
3 cloves garlic, pounded, crushed
1 small sliced onion
3 grams black pepper powder
2-3 pcs. green banana pepper
2-3 pcs. red chili pepper
15 ml. Kikkoman soy sauce
5 grams wasabi paste
2 grams salt
60 ml. water
Procedures:
In heated oil sauté onion until translucent then garlic until brown.
Add in squid carefully tossing to prevent head separating from body
Pour in wasabi paste, soy sauce and scatter on top salt and black pepper.
Tumble enough to let flavors be absorbed by squid.
Add water. Bring to boil until desired squid done-ness is reached.
Turn off heat.
Add in banana and red chili peppers.
Cover for 5 minutes.
Serve.

(Food Photography) An array of “bokeh” in this Christmas lunch with Pangs & Cha @ Akira.

Real fancy way of offerings at this Teppanyaki resto.
Though not much flavour output as “Tep” recipes are just plain salted, peppered and buttered,
Pangs, Cha & I enjoyed the main issue of offer: “freshness” in a “fancy”, just “fancy” way.
…and that completes our Christmas lunch.

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HongKong Master Cook @ Macapagal Avenue, Pasay City

Marilyn’s & my favorite:

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The long All Saints’ Day vacation is a bore should wifey and I will just stay home. Kids and grandkids were out on their own.
Was ready for a long road trip with food tests of different eateries & restos on the side. So, took off headed north of Manila.
For apparent in-efficiency, the gas station gave me headache when loading gasoline.
This prompted me to conclude that God of Travel wouldn’t want me to proceed north. Drove towards south.
Feeling hungry as it was 11:45am the nearest food heaven we can think of was our family’s favorite when it comes to “paluto”
(you do the marketing of food you like to eat, mostly sea foods, and they do the cooking plus serving)
is Hongkong Master Cook along Macapagal Avenue, Pasay City.
They do great “sinigang” (tamarind soup) job. Their “inihaw na liempo” (char-grilled pork belly) is a masterpiece
by just plain dry rubbing strips with salt-pepper combi…and that’s it. The best I’ve tasted. Simple.
Kitchen works for crabs, shrimps, fish, mussels & oysters will also make you come back tagging along the whole family
and lots of friends.
Service is A-1. Cooking fees quite high but worth the bucks.
Reasons why it’s 1 of our head-ons always.
Learned from a staff that the firm, including Yakimix chain, belong to Barrio Fiesta Group. (CMIIW)
…and so…our favorite line up were served:

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Whew, we both consumed 1.5 cups of rice each.
Can’t drive any longer due to fullness. Felt sleepy.
Had to go back home to take a nap at 3pm…which heaven’s blessing…we both woke up 12:30am the following day.

Shiitake Shu-mai (Japanese pork-based-mushroom-infused dimsum)

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Even your 3-year old kid can make this type of recipe…dimsum & dumpling.
It’s the easiest in the world as long as you don’t concoct thus “blind-foldedly” add anything
…repeat anything, that goes into your mind. If you do-it’s tragedy.
Go ahead with your usual ground pork. Just add the simplest ingredients: salt, sugar, MSG (optional),
ground black pepper, ground carrots, ground turnips (optional) and sesame oil.
Instead of plain tap water, add “pre-cut shiitake mushroom” into it. Soak for 30 minutes.
Add in ALL ingredients plus the mushroom water with cut mushrooms.
Exercise your arm and grip. Give it a big tumbling and tossing.
Using “molo”  or “siomai” or “wanton” (though this type is a bit thick) wrapper form as you would like them to look.
Over boiling water, steam for 5 minutes. Done.
For the best of heaven, enjoy with soy sauce-fried garlic-fried chili pepper-“calamansi” dip.

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FISH HAM: less sinful way of enjoying Christmas year-round.

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From the normal pork leg or brisket or porkloin to process whole ham, I used Cream Dory from Vietnam and employed all the needed ingredients, marination/curing processes and procedures usual in pork ham making but using a less sinful subject…
FISH.
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