Recipe: Crab in Coconut Milk

Prep Time: 5-10 minutes
Cooking Time: 25 minutes
Serving: 6

Ingredients:
4lbs crabs
8cups coconut milk
1/8 cup cooking oil
4 large cloves garlic, crushed
3 tbs. ginger, julienned
3 tbs white onions, minced
3 pcs jalapeno pepper
2 tbs rock salt - spinach leaves (optional)

Procedure:
1. Wash and clean crabs, discard carapace and claws then set aside
2. Saute garlic in oil until light brown
3. Add onions then crabs. Stir well until crabs change color.
4. Add coconut milk and jalapeno pepper.
5. Bring to a boil for 2 minutes.
6. Simmer for 15 minutes.
7. Season with salt.
8. Add malunggay/spinach and continue simmering for 1 minute.

To serve: Place crab on a platter then glaze over with gata and garnish with spinach. Serve with hot steamed rice.

related post: Easy to Cook Ginataang Tilapia with Malunggay powder

Palawan: Skylight Hotel's D'Veranda

Skylight Hotel's Restaurant - D'Veranda

Now unlike KaLui, Balinsasayaw and Badjao Seafront Restaurant, I didn't plan on dining here at Skylight Hotel's D'Veranda. The restaurant's just wasn't on the usual tourist-foodie track based on my web research. But our tricycle driver dropped us here and said it's a good restaurant. We went inside and the first thing I noticed was the open kitchen where the cook whips up the ordered fresh fish - interesting.

Lunch Out: Palawan's Badjao Seafront Restaurant

Palawan: Badjao Seafront Restaurant

Just like KaLui, Badjao Seafront Restaurant is included in my must-see places in Palawan. I have been reading good reviews about how interesting the place is and I wanted to check it out myself. So for our last day in Palawan, I recommended that we eat here. After hearing that the setting provides great view and great food, they agreed and after hours of shopping for pearls, we drive our way to a more off beaten track in Abueg Road.

Inside Palawan's Famous KaLui Restaurant: Dining in Barefoot

KaLui Restaurant in Palawan may probably be the most famous food choice of any local and tourist alike. Those who've tasted and dined in this humble "home-feel" abode with interesting "Filipino inspired" interior which requires every customer to leave off their shoes and dine barefoot would surely attest to the restaurant's  unique dining experience, a must try for for any Palawan adventurers.

Paotsin Sharks Fin with Hainanese Rice

About 3 years ago, I discovered this really yummy chinese food at the SM Megamall Foodcourt that serves delicious dumplings - Paotsin. Their highly regarded fried sharks fin is the best seller among other dumplings available, it's also my favorite. Pair it with a great serving of green hainanese rice and chilli garlic sauce, geez that's heaven on the plate. Plus, you can have this meal at an affordable price of P45!

Paotsin's sharks fin with hainanese rice

Everything is Fresh at the Seaside Wet Market

Standing at the back of SM Mall of Asia in the Seaside Boulevard is a vast array of Seafood Paluto Restaurants. Here, customers would buy fish and seafood from the vendors and ask the food stalls to cook these. Below photos are just some of the scrumptious recipes to try prepared by Aling Mahsya!

Recipe: Adobong Pusit

Ingredients:
1 k pusit (squids)
1 tbsp.oil
1 tbsp. garlic, macerated
3/4 c vinegar
1 tbsp salt
1/4 tsp. black pepper

Procedure:
1. Clean the pusit and remove the ink sac.
2. Heat the oil and saute the garlic until brown.
3. Add the pusit, vinegar, salt and pepper.
4. Overcooking the pusit will result in having a rubbery pusit.
5. Add ink sac just before removing from fire.
6. Serves 8.