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  • Coming home to Filipino food

    My parents live about 8 hours away in San Francisco so coming home for me is a mini vacation. You can catch me laid up on reclining couch making all sorts of weird man noises. If I am there for 4 days it’s a good chance that I didn’t take a shower for 3 days. [...]

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  • Sweet Pork Longanisa

    The only time I’ll ever eat pork is when it comes in these chubby fingered shaped sweet pork longanisa sausages. The only set back when eating longanisa is that your burps will have a stealth missle range of about 100 meters and will carry the stench of rotten sweet pork juice. You see that? Why [...]

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  • Balut Egg

    A balut is a fertilized duck (or chicken) egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell. Popularly believed to be an aphrodisiac and considered a high-protein, hearty snack, balut are mostly sold by street vendors in the regions where they are available. It is commonly sold as streetfood in [...]

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