DECO's lapaz batchoy has reopened here in iloilo city. it is (supposedly) the original lapaz batchoyan. Ted's and Nat's only followed. How come these batchoyans are named after guys? Why isn't there Inday's Lapaz batchoy, Milagrosa's Lapaz batchoy, etc?
Anyways, we sampled the "original" batchoy with puto and pre-war pandesal(those very small, almost-crumpled yet oh-so-tasty pandesal). It was the first time i finished my bowl of batchoy so i guess deco's batchoy is really good...or it might be because i was too hungry...do you know the "secret ingredient" for a great-tasting batchoy? it's a virgin's used panty soaked in the caldo hahaha that's according to my mom who got it from a relative chuva
Guess what else i discovered today? decos' was being financed by mang inasal (40-60) for its reopening. Apparently, ted's was serving rice, chicken, and barbecue aside from batchoy so mang inasal, in the spirit of competition and increasing their profit, thought of being business partners w/ deco's. So don't be surprised when the table next to you have customers eating rice, pork bbq, and batchoy. me, i find it gross. one bowl of batchoy is more than enough, i usually can't finish it. they must be really REALLY hungry.
after eating batchoy we went grocery shopping. MAYA's oven toaster fudge brownies were on sale at the grocery store so we bought two boxes. In my opinion, the MAYA brand has the best and tastiest (hotcake) mix so it follows that all their mixes should be tasty too. it is. even with the top burnt, the fudge brownie was very sweet and tasty yum yum.
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my eight year old niece has two male hamsters. father and son only survived after mama hamster died from abdominal aneurysm (or cannibalism) and brother and sister hamsters were too weak to live. a few hours ago, i had to rescue papa hamster from his son because HIS SON was eating him. ALIVE. damn, if you only saw how papa hamster tried to get away tsk tsk his eyes were bitten and also parts of his face. we had to separate the two. i'm betting papa hamster won't last 'til friday....he's too old, getting weak and all that accumulated sperm cells must've damaged his prostate too teehee
survival of the fittest.
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when i woke up, papa hamster was already dead and buried.
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Oh! Oh! I have this really funny hamster story back when Jun and I were still roomies. I'll post it in my blog.
ley, i want batchoy! i miss batchoy! i looove batchoy! hehehe. i thought bagoong was the secret ingredient? hahaha. there's a chicken bacolod (inasal resto) here in katipunan where i frequently eat. they serve batchoy, but with egg. i mean, WTF? haay, i miiiiss real batchoy. If deco's is better than Nat's (which actually could be a girl's name, hehehe), I'm eating there come december. see you soon! mwah
drei, batchoy w/ egg? ano na sya maggi noodles? lol
cool, december = batchoy + tanduay hehehe
batchoy + tanduay?! i'll have the batchoy, thank you :)
shucks, i'm craving for batchoy..anything from iloilo! yeah, the secret ingredient is bagoong. when i told my undergrad adviser that while she was eating it, she almost reached out for her antihistamine. hehehe. i'm such a mean person :D
drey, that's a weird combination (batchoy with egg) though..i haven't even heard that combination in a tagalog-style batchoy.
Let me correct your facts. Deco's is not the "ORIGINAL". In fact, DECO used to be a regular customer of Ted's when he was still a butcher. How could he claim that he invented it in 1938 when there is another manog batchoy by the name of Inggo who plasters a "Since 1920" sign in its batchoyan. Its all Mang Inasal Hype
i asked my mom and she said she remembered eating at deco's when she was a child at the lapaz market. deco's and ne(i?)tong's were the only batchoyan she remembered. although she did say there were a lot of manug batchoy during that time but deco's and ne(i?)tong's were the popular ones (or the only names she remembered).
anyhoo, thanks for the info =)
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