Sunday, March 24, 2013

Food Trip 114 - Batchoy


It doesn’t really matter what time of day it is.  The moment your stomach feels the hunger, batchoy will provide the quickest remedy.

Batchoy is popular in the Visayas region.  To some, batchoy is also known as mami.  Depending on the region in Visayas, batchoy also defers.

I found a restaurant in the Visayas that offers a great tasting batchoy at a modest price.  Since the owners of the restaurant are the ones who prepare the food, they make sure that the quality and taste of their food is not compromised.  Since the owner of the place is a friend of mine, I willingly accepted his offer for a free batchoy.  A hefty bowl serving of batchoy was already enough for me to skip my dinner.

A fresh mami, cooked pork meat and liver, chicharon, egg slices, onions, garlic, and a tasty soup are the key ingredients of their batchoy.  The serving is abundant and above all, the soup tastes great. 

The bone marrow of beef is cooked and prepared until its soup runs out.  The moment it runs out of soup, they have to prepare a new set of bone marrow to cook.  They will dispose the old one and they won’t refill to reheat it because it will lost its taste.  For this reason, their batchoy is a blockbuster among the locals. 

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