Filipino Breakfast

Yes. Mine too.

I had the tocilog and my wife the tapsilog. I wish I had what she had.

Incidentally, the beef had been sweetened.

Slightly off topic I know, but I have had some excellent breakfasts here in Bali.

My breakfast today was:

A large plate of fruit, simple but very good for breakfast:


Banana pancake with coconut and a dark sweet syrup (I need the recipe):


The breakfast menu has a choice, but I have ordered the same every day for the past week, certain I got it right on day one, those pancakes are a winner.

Unfortunately the coffee served with breakfast is instant. I need a decent coffee in the morning, so I headed into Ubud for a relaxing stroll, and had a couple of coffees before the high mid-day humidity got too much.

Normally I stop off for a latte or two, but today I tried something different.

I spotted this gadget a couple of days ago, a ROK manual espresso maker, review here I had to give it a try.

Yesterday was failure as the shops electric supply cut out halfway through boiling the kettle, and the backup gas stove had an empty cylinder.



But today was success, I got a single shot of manually pressed coffee, then later had a Latte elsewhere.

The coffee was good, an excellent gadget, I want one.

I like fruit Dave. I eat loads of it.

Yes, decent fresh fruit is a winner for me John.

And coffee!

Oh they are new ones on me.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapa_(Filipino_cuisine)

Fried rice,longganisa (chorizo) salted egg with onion and tomatoe with coffee.....perfect breakfast for me!

I like tocino too. But the tocino they served was very fatty.

I won't eat pork for that very reason, in fact I don't like the meat as well, it's like leather.

Talking of pandesal, there is a Filipina locally, where we love, that bakes it at home on a small scale commercial basis. On saturday she set up a stall at what you might call our local Barrio Fiesta. All sold out apparently.

I first came across tocino at a buffet breakfast in a Manila hotel. It was very good. Then I found it served in the same way in various other hotels. The tocino I had the other day was quite different, probably because it may well have been made in the UK or something like that?