Cashew + Fire = Explosion
Here’s the fourth episode of the cashew story. The first one, It’s cashew time, is here. The second one, Profession: cashew opener, is here. And the third one, Let’s eat cashew apples, is here. Today, for…
Category: Philippines
Let’s eat cashew apples
I took my first cashew pictures 3 weeks ago. At that time, the apples were still tiny and green. Now they’re ripe, so I’ll introduce them to you. In only 3 weeks, an impressive change has…
Profession: cashew opener
Now that you know exactly what cashew nuts look like and where they come from, let’s see what we can do with them. I went to a small, old-style processing factory in Coron Town, and there…
It’s cashew time
We don’t know much about cashew nuts. Have you ever wondered why they’re so expensive, or why, unlike almonds, walnuts or peanuts, you cannot buy them whole, in their shells? In the Philippines, small producer of…
Betel and the red smiles
For once, we will not really eat in this article. We’ll just chew. The subject of the day is betel, a vine originating from South East Asia. The leaves of this evergreen creeper plant have medicinal…
Lato, the strange sea salad
This weird seaweed that looks like small grapes is called lato or caulerpa lentillifera. It’s very popular in the Philippines and in Japan, where people call it umi-budo. I went to Coron, in the Philippines, to…
A crab anthology: the black crab
I love crab. From the Norman brown crab to the huge Japanese king crab, I’ve tasted many of them. So I invite you to come with me on a crab world tour. In each article, I’ll…
The coconut paradox
Coconuts are everywhere in the Philippines. The are used in many ways that can sometimes be quite surprising for European people. Filipinos know how to make the best of the whole coconut tree, from its leaves…
Even the mussels look better here
A lot of things look better in the Philippines: the pigeons, the fruits, even the mussels. It’s not only because they look new to me, it’s objectively because they have a brighter color, which makes them…
Birth of the balut, in Pateros
Carlito Capco has been surrounded by balut his whole life. He’s the head of the biggest traditional balut factory in Manila, in the lively district of Pateros. Before him, his father was doing the same thing,…
