Comments on: Bicol Express http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71 Where Filipino food cravers meet.. Sun, 06 Jun 2010 02:15:44 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Loi http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71&cpage=1#comment-1315 Loi Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:17:34 +0000 http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71#comment-1315 Actually, it's not odd that people in Bicol don't call it Bicol Express. It's just like how French people don't call baguettes "French Bread". Anyway, the name Bicol Express comes from the train that used to run from Bicol to Muntinlupa, whose railway is now clogged with squatters. The train brings a couple of batches of the dish along with its regular trips back when the railway was still operational. Actually, it’s not odd that people in Bicol don’t call it Bicol Express. It’s just like how French people don’t call baguettes “French Bread”.

Anyway, the name Bicol Express comes from the train that used to run from Bicol to Muntinlupa, whose railway is now clogged with squatters. The train brings a couple of batches of the dish along with its regular trips back when the railway was still operational.

]]> By: Shane http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71&cpage=1#comment-1257 Shane Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:49:59 +0000 http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71#comment-1257 I tried it with unsmoked meat this time and we liked it just a little bit better with smoked. It worked with the other flavors and it helped keep the pork from getting lost and overpowered. Either way, this recipe is so good that I may have to frame it and hang it in my kitchen. I tried it with unsmoked meat this time and we liked it just a little bit better with smoked. It worked with the other flavors and it helped keep the pork from getting lost and overpowered.

Either way, this recipe is so good that I may have to frame it and hang it in my kitchen.

]]> By: Robert Colinares http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71&cpage=1#comment-1249 Robert Colinares Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:44:16 +0000 http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71#comment-1249 Shane, I guess you can try smoked meat and see if you like it better. I never tried using smoke meat for this recipe before and I'm curious if it make the dish taste better. Anyway let me know how it turn out for you and I might try it myself later. Robert Colinares Shane,

I guess you can try smoked meat and see if you like it better. I never tried using smoke meat for this recipe before and I’m curious if it make the dish taste better. Anyway let me know how it turn out for you and I might try it myself later.

Robert Colinares

]]> By: Shane http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71&cpage=1#comment-1242 Shane Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:36:06 +0000 http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71#comment-1242 Thank you so much for posting this! I'd never eaten it before, but it was amazing! I couldn't find pork belly, so I used pork butt. Should it be a smoked meat or not in the dish? The one I used was smoked but I doubt it mattered much. The 36 thai peppers gave it just the right amount of heat. Enough to feel the burn, but not so much that it overpowered the other flavors. Thank you so much for posting this! I’d never eaten it before, but it was amazing! I couldn’t find pork belly, so I used pork butt. Should it be a smoked meat or not in the dish? The one I used was smoked but I doubt it mattered much.

The 36 thai peppers gave it just the right amount of heat. Enough to feel the burn, but not so much that it overpowered the other flavors.

]]> By: ley vibel http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71&cpage=1#comment-1239 ley vibel Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:30:51 +0000 http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71#comment-1239 hindi yon bicol express kundi karne na may kalabasa gata na maanghang.. wag mo ihalo sa kanin hiwalay..........baka sobra anghang gusto mo palitanm tayo ng idea cocinero ako dito spain.... keep up the good work.....have a nice day hindi yon bicol express kundi karne na may kalabasa gata na maanghang.. wag mo ihalo sa kanin hiwalay……….baka sobra anghang gusto mo palitanm tayo ng idea cocinero ako dito spain….
keep up the good work…..have a nice day

]]> By: jenelle http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71&cpage=1#comment-1238 jenelle Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:31:35 +0000 http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71#comment-1238 love the pictures. . it makes me hungry right now. .like the way you photograph the food, you captured all the ingredients. .hahaha. .nice shot. . love the pictures. . it makes me hungry right now. .like the way you photograph the food, you captured all the ingredients. .hahaha. .nice shot. .

]]> By: Mark http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71&cpage=1#comment-1231 Mark Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:53:12 +0000 http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71#comment-1231 Thank you for this version of my favorite dish. Last year at my engagement party the dish was made and it was similiar but different. The actual pork is just "sausage" so it can be pork belly/ground fatback/etc. The main difference in the dish here and the one made form my Bicol family was the consistancy of the sauce. Mine had a lot of sauce trapped in the meat (due to it being ground) ad less flowing over the rice or whatever you served it over. Just a difference in cooking. Also the mellon used in the dish I was served was pureed so as to be one and the same as the coconut milk. I did try your dish and it is very sarap. Thank you for this version of my favorite dish. Last year at my engagement party the dish was made and it was similiar but different. The actual pork is just “sausage” so it can be pork belly/ground fatback/etc. The main difference in the dish here and the one made form my Bicol family was the consistancy of the sauce. Mine had a lot of sauce trapped in the meat (due to it being ground) ad less flowing over the rice or whatever you served it over. Just a difference in cooking. Also the mellon used in the dish I was served was pureed so as to be one and the same as the coconut milk. I did try your dish and it is very sarap.

]]> By: charity http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71&cpage=1#comment-1205 charity Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:38:45 +0000 http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71#comment-1205 i love this recipe very much. first time i cooked this dish, i got my husband sweating on a very cold winter day. haha, i must admit i used way too much jalapeno peppers. but it's still good. i will try this with the same number of peppers as mentioned in the recipe and see if my husband can handle it. nice post, Robert. Charity i love this recipe very much. first time i cooked this dish, i got my husband sweating on a very cold winter day. haha, i must admit i used way too much jalapeno peppers. but it’s still good. i will try this with the same number of peppers as mentioned in the recipe and see if my husband can handle it. nice post, Robert.

Charity

]]> By: gee http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71&cpage=1#comment-1196 gee Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:54:53 +0000 http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71#comment-1196 robert, i like your website, and love the pictures you post. i just want to comment too, that for purists like me as i am a pure bikolana, we don't call this dish a bikol express because it doesn't have a fresh alamang. but maybe, outside the bikol region, when a dish has a a combination of coconut milk and lots of chilies cooked with pork and any kind of vegetable it's understandable. yeah, why not? everybody can have their own version, as long as if you are going to serve it to me, I'm gonna say....more more sili please..( ^ ^, ) robert,
i like your website, and love the pictures you post. i just want to comment too, that for purists like me as i am a pure bikolana, we don’t call this dish a bikol express because it doesn’t have a fresh alamang. but maybe, outside the bikol region, when a dish has a a combination of coconut milk and lots of chilies cooked with pork and any kind of vegetable it’s understandable. yeah, why not? everybody can have their own version, as long as if you are going to serve it to me, I’m gonna say….more more sili please..( ^ ^, )

]]> By: thelma fujimoto http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71&cpage=1#comment-1182 thelma fujimoto Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:04:31 +0000 http://www.filipino-food-lovers.com/?p=71#comment-1182 i occasionally crave for bicol express once in a while. i love this dish so much that i cook extra to freeze for individual servings. this way, this dish is always available whenever i feel like having it for lunch or dinner. like adz, i also add alamang bagoong and dilis for great flavor. instead of kalabasa, i add also green beans. i will add kalabasa next time.... this is my first time to see your blog. thanks for sharing your recipes.... i occasionally crave for bicol express once in a while.
i love this dish so much that i cook extra to freeze
for individual servings. this way, this dish is always
available whenever i feel like having it for lunch or
dinner. like adz, i also add alamang bagoong and dilis
for great flavor. instead of kalabasa, i add also green beans.
i will add kalabasa next time….
this is my first time to see your blog. thanks for sharing
your recipes….

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