Tagged with Stir Fried

Guisadong Upo at Sardinas

Guisadong Upo at Sardinas


Guisadong upo is one of the sautéed vegetable dishes popular in Philippines more commonly on provinces where bottle gourds are abundant. We had posted something similar like this and it uses pork as its main ingredient but today this dish is even more frugal as we will be using sardines. This is a fairly common … Continue reading »

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Corned Beef Hash

Corned Beef Hash


Hash is a type of dish which consists of diced meat and diced potatoes seasoned with herbs and spices and sometimes cooked with onions. The word came from the French verb “hacher” which means to chop but now is widely used as an English word was to describe cooking method where you “mess up a … Continue reading »

Chinese Sausage and Scallion Fried Rice

Chinese Sausage and Scallion Fried Rice


I haven’t cooked fried rice for a long time and the last time was this Pineapple Fried Rice exactly 1 year ago. While the last one was something traditional and popular today we will be doing some freestyle and this was our brunch, resulting from “don’t know what to eat for breakfast” scenario. So the following … Continue reading »

Guisadong Upo

Guisadong Upo


Guisadong upo is one of the sautéed vegetable dishes popular in Philippines more commonly on provinces where bottle gourds are abundant. This cheap and simple dish usually is made out of 3 main ingredients which are pork, bottle gourd and tomatoes. A simple yet rich dish which is enjoyed as mains paired with rice but … Continue reading »

Stir Fried Shanghai in Fermented Anchovy Sauce

Stir Fried Shanghai in Fermented Anchovy Sauce


Several weeks ago I was thinking of what I can do with some Shanghai vegetables I had in my fridge, usually we just blanch it and serve it with garlic infused oyster sauce but sometimes you want something different for a change. Before we had tried serving green leafy vegetables in minced pork and shiitake … Continue reading »

Devilled Chicken and Mangoes

Devilled Chicken and Mangoes


Devilled means “to coat or stuff with a spicy paste” that’s why this dish is coated with cayenne pepper, mustard and paprika. The process of devilling originated in England during the Victorian era where they try to give life to leftover dishes. They do this by reheating the leftover meats and adding hot and spicy … Continue reading »

Stir Fried Glazed Long Beans

Stir Fried Glazed Long Beans


What I like with Chinese vegetable dishes is that whether it’s as complicated as Lo Han Chai or as simple as Kailan in Oyster Sauce  and Bok Choy in Oyster Sauce you can be rest assured that they would taste really good. Like this simple dish of stir fried long beans, it looks simple but it’s … Continue reading »

Arroz ala Cubana

Arroz ala Cubana


Arroz a la Cubana is a Philippine dish that consists of sautéed minced beef, white rice, fried egg and fried cardaba (saba) banana. A dish that originated from the Spanish arroz a la cubana which is nearly similar but instead of the sautéed beef it is served with tomato sauce. Another version of this dish … Continue reading »

Pancit Batil Patong

Pancit Batil Patong


Pancit Batil Patong or Pancit Tuguegarao is made out of pansit miki Tuguegarao, minced carabao meat (water buffalo), bean sprouts and other vegetables topped with egg and chicharon.  Batil Patong if directly translated means “beat the egg” for Batil and “placed on top” for Patong and that explains the egg on top. Several months ago … Continue reading »

Chilli Seasame Chicken Wings

Chilli Seasame Chicken Wings


When I posted my Sticky Garlic Chicken Wings  last April it was a big hit, it was favourited 1000+ times and view 2000+ times in Foodgawker in a day (at the time of this writing) and now one of the popular recipes in this blog.  Now I am posting another chicken recipe which will have … Continue reading »

Japanese Ginger Pork (Shogayaki)

Japanese Ginger Pork (Shogayaki)


Pork Shogayaki or “buta no shogayaki” is a Japanese dish made out of grilled or fried pork flavoured with ginger. The name came from the words Shoga which means ginger and yaki which means grill or fry. This dish is the second most popular Japanese pork dish after tonkatsu. It is commonly served in bento … Continue reading »

Seafood Fried Rice

Seafood Fried Rice


Seafood Fried Rice is one of those dishes that we serve when we need something quick and easy, especially when you have the right ingredients in the freezer. Of all the fried rice variants this one perhaps is my personal favourite due to the fact that it is made out of seafood. An all in … Continue reading »

Pancit Habhab

Pancit Habhab


Pancit or stir fried noodles is perhaps one of the most popular dish served in special occasions in the Philippines, it’s so popular most of the provinces have developed their own versions which features local ingredients.  Several samples of this Philippine noodle dishes are the Pancit Palabok, Pancit Sotanghon and Pancit Cabagan to name some. … Continue reading »

Beef and Bean Sprouts in Sweet and Hot Sauce

Beef and Bean Sprouts in Sweet and Hot Sauce


In where I work we usually have a shared lunch once a month and everyone brings a specialty from their home country (we are so multicultural).  The last time we had a similar event there was this one dish that was brought by our Indonesian colleague which really stood out. The dish was made out … Continue reading »