- Hey everyone, it's Mark Wiens.
I am in Quezon City,
which is right next to Manila in the Philippines
and I'm at a restaurant today for lunch
which is called Pochok Bangusan
and this is a restaurant, this is a carinderia,
which is a local, food house eatery.
It's a family-run restaurant, it's a friendly place to eat
and they serve some amazing looking Filipino food here
and especially on of their main dishes is the bangus,
which is a milkfish
and it looks absolutely stunning.
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(speaking Filipino)
- [Mark] This is adobo?
- [Server] Yeah.
- [Mark] OK.
- [Mark] OK.
Ohh, what is this on top?
- [Server] (speaking Filipino)
- [Mark] Ohh! (speaking Filipino)
- [Server] (speaking Filipino)
- Along with a huge selection of local Filipino food,
that you can pick and choose from,
one of the things that you have to order,
when you eat at Pochok Bangusan is their special bangus.
Bangus, which is a milkfish,
is grilled on an insanely hot fire
and the charcoal is even fanned to keep it flaming hot.
After the milkfish is grilled, it's flipped over
and to finish it off, it's topped in a thick layer
of green tomato relish.
It's an absolute stunner of a dish,
that you don't want to miss.
Pochok Bangusan.
Pochcok?
- [Woman] Pochok Bangusan.
- Pochok Bangusan.
- [Woman] Yes, sir.
- OK, thank you.
This local restaurant is in Quezon City,
so it's a little drive from central,
from the downtown area of Manila,
but it looks like the food is gonna be well worth it.
I think it's about 11 a.m. right now,
so most of the dishes are freshly prepared for lunch.
This is one of the best times to come eat here
and the food looks, you know, the dishes are full too,
so the, I think they're about to get a big lunch rush,
but we got here before the rush,
but when the food is already made,
I have to begin with their signature dish,
which is the bangus.
Bangus is one of my favorite Filipino foods,
it's something I love to eat,
when I come to the Philippines.
First of all, I really love fish
and then milkfish has this unique texture and taste
and so they've grilled the fish,
just topped it with a bunch of wonderful,
I think it's green, mostly green tomato.
There's onion on here and there looks like
there's some green onions as well,
but I think most of that is green tomato.
You can see those grill marks.
You can actually smell the grill on it as well.
You can smell that charcoal aroma coming off of it.
Get a really close up look at that.
That looks delicious
and I'm just going for a straight bite.
Oh, that is good, mmm.
The texture of the milkfish,
I don't know if it's in my mind or not,
but you can almost taste like a milky,
juices coming out of it, but it's a dry fish,
so it has, similar to, if I could compare it to tuna,
it has that kind of dry naturalness to it.
But it has an amazing smoky flavor, as I could smell
and then you've got that topping.
It's really good , it's like a sour, tomatoey...
but it's not sweet at all, it's mostly all sour
and gives it a really fresh,
freshness with those onions as well.
Another signature dish they have here,
which is called bulalo
and this is a bone-marrow soup.
What this soup is known for is being a combination
of the broth and then they boil it for so long,
so the marrow gets released into the soup,
so you've got kind of a marrowy liquid,
that should be rich and flavorful and beefy.
It has like a, almost like a slippery feel to it,
because it's a little bit oily,
but what I like about it is,
it's definitely not too salty at all.
They've really controlled the saltiness,
so it's not too salty.
It is very rich and then you've also got the contrast
of the real beefy flavor, yet at the same time,
it's broken down by the vegetables and cabbage.
When you boil cabbage in a soup, it usually gives the soup
kind of a little bit of a natural sweetness to it
and that sort of breaks the oiliness of that broth.
Oh the meat, the meat is so tender.
Next up, this is an eggplant dish
and it is a whole eggplant, which is roasted.
So first they have a separate pan of just the eggplant
and then as soon as I ordered it,
she put it onto a plate and then she topped it
with what I think are little diced slices of green mango
and then also what I think is some peppered shrimp paste.
I'm gonna ask them what the name of this dish is.
What is the name of this dish?
- [Woman] (speaking Filipino) Alamang.
- Alamang.
- [Woman] Yes, shrimp, salt. (laughs)
- Shrimp, is it bago--
- [Woman] Shrimp, salt.
- Bagoo, bagoong?
- [Woman] Bagoon alamang.
- Alamang, bagoon alamang, thank you.
Eggplant is just such a wonderful thing to be roasted,
so I'm gonna, I'm going right in for the center here.
Oh yeah, it's soft, it's...
Ohhh (laughs) it just slides, my spoon just slides through,
like it's butter
and you've got the shrimp paste there,
you've got the green mango there
and I'm not sure if that is a sauce
or if that's just the gooey liquid,
that comes as a result of when you,
when you grill up, when you roast eggplant.
Oh that looks wonderful, it's like a glaze.
I might have taken a little too much
of the shrimp paste in that bite,
but I did manage to get the full range of taste,
tastes in that single bite.
Again, that eggplant is just so buttery-creamy
and then it has a roasted flavor
and then you've got that salty, shrimpy taste
of that fermented shrimp paste
and then that's contrasted by the sour crispiness
of the mango.
Wow, what a wonderful contrast of flavors.
Just for my next bite, I'm gonna add
a little less of the shrimp paste,
'cause that, if you take too much in one bite,
your mouth will just be coated in saltiness.
Adobo is one of the national dishes of the Philippines,
one of the most famous foods.
This is adobo with, is it mostly liver,
but also gizzards in here too, right?
Is it all liver?
It's like innards, chicken innards adobo.
There's liver here, there's gizzard, this is a gizzard,
I'm going for a liver.
Oh, and a heart, ohh!
Oh, the heart is still connected to the liver.
Is that a heart, right?
That's a heart, right Ying?
Oh, this is the bonus piece, heart and liver.
I'd better put this onto my rice.
I haven't even started on my rice yet.
OK, I'm gonna cut half this liver
and then add a little more of that oily adobo sauce
and I'm going for a liver and heart bite all in one.
Oh, double the organs.
Oh that is so tender and so creamy
and you know how liver has that really, really creamy,
really soft, almost like dry
and sometimes a little chalky consistency,
but then the heart has more of a,
a bouncy texture, like a hotdog,
but in the utmost, utmost natural kind of way.
So that's like having a creamy liver with a bouncy heart,
all in one bite.
Moving to the front here, this is menudo
and this is, this is a dish, menudo is a dish,
that is also very popular in Mexico.
Normally, when I've had menudo though,
it's normally the stomach, so I guess this is the,
maybe it's the, this is mostly pork meat in here,
but it's, it's like a stew.
That tastes exactly like a tomatoey,
kind of a little bit tart like a tomatoey stew
and then the final dish that Ying and I ordered right now
is grilled pork and actually we just got this,
because it looked good and it was fresh
and it smelled so good that we couldn't resist.
So grilled pork right off the grill.
You can see those char marks on it.
Something that I love about Filipino food
is when they grill, you can just see those char marks,
so you know it has an incredibly charcoal,
roasted, fire flavor to it
and that, yeah, the grilled dishes here are so good.
Mix this with a little rice and some adobo sauce.
That chargrilled flavor is undeniable
and the pork has a little bit of, some texture to it.
It's not too, not too soft, but it tastes like real pork,
real pig here.
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Oh different bowl?
OK, but put it together.
(speaks Filipino)
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I didn't realize this at first,
but I knew they had to have some chilies
and some condiments, so after trying all the food,
I went over there and I was talking to them
and they showed me where the condiments,
all the condiments are self-serve.
I'm always happy to have more chilies in any meal.
For the sauce, do you normally,
do you normally mix the-- - This is anchovy paste.
- The shrimp paste, or anchovy?
- [Woman] Anchovies.
- Oh, anchovy. - Yeah.
- Ohh, OK, so it's fish.
- Fish, fishoes, fishoes.
- OK, and do you mix--
- (speaking Filipino) Chilie.
- [Mark] OK, then eat with the bangus?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- OK, thank you.
OK, squeeze in the calamansi.
- [Woman] (speaking in Filipino) calamansi.
- Oh, OK, you can dip in it also?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- OK, and what about this sauce?
- Fish (speaking in Filipino) and soya sauce, lovely.
- Oh, soya sauce, just soya sauce?
- [Woman] Yes.
- And then chilies.
I'll just break these up in here.
Moving over to this fish here.
That addition of that green tomato on top is just brilliant.
Goes onto my rice and move over here,
add some of this sauce and that chili.
Oh yeah, OK, that is anchovy sauce.
Ohh, oh, I know that flavor very well.
Very sharply salty, fermented fish flavor,
oh and with that chili, and then contrasting
with the fish and then sour tomato,
oh, there's celery on here too.
Oh, that's awesomely good.
Oh, you have to eat this, when you come to Manila
and this time, I'm gonna go
for a little bit of the soya sauce.
A little soya sauce on there
and then I'll chase it with a chili.
I chased it with the chili.
That's a brilliant combination as well.
I think that's just straight soya sauce,
so you got just that.
It doesn't have that fermented flavor to it
and the chilies are a little bit spicy,
but they feel wonderful.
Oh, I love it.
Ohhh (laughs) wow!
OK thank you, thank you very.
Thank you very much, what is it, what is it called?
- Lechon kawali.
- Lechon kawali?
- [Woman] Yes.
Wow, and this is another one of their famous dishes here.
That is just ridiculously creamy
and fatty and crunchy, all the textures.
Those chilies went down so well,
that I had to get more chilies.
And then I've already eaten some of the beef,
but there's still a whole chunk of beef
attached to the bone.
Ohh (laughs) look at this.
I'm gonna, maybe I should just bite from here.
Oh yeah!
That is some real beef.
It's tender, it's a little bit fatty.
- 740.
- Just finished with that meal
and you can actually come out here and buy ice cream
right on the sidewalk, right outside of the restaurant.
The restaurant is packed right now,
lots and lots of people
and they are just smoking out this entire area,
it's just smoky because all of the bungus grilling,
the milkfish grilling on the grill,
just that smoke is filling this entire neighborhood.
The, everything was delicious, but that grilled milkfish,
that was just next level, unbelievably good.
That's something you have to order,
that's a Filipino food you have to order,
when you come to this restaurant,
but the, I love everything about his place.
It's friendly, the owners are very nice,
the food is delicious, the atmosphere.
They have both a few tables out in the front patio area
and then they have some tables on the inside as well,
but a fantastic, local restaurant in Quezon City.
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