Back to Panglao, Bohol and I get on the tools to create the Best Sisig in Panglao
Best Sisig on Panglao: Two very painful things for me today, as in very painful. One was queuing for a Covid health-check that turned out to be irrelevant as the Certificate would only last 24 hours and as our flights are scheduled on 23/3 it would be null and void. Please come back tomorrow. Yes = painful.
Second thing, equally painful, was being forced by the kids to go to Jollibee for lunch. God, I hate that thing. Yes = painful. But the day did start very positively with my 2nd to last day of Daddy does brekkie for the kids. And today I made my very own version of a Filipino iconic food, Sisig. And to calm my nerves, even more, we go back to Cafe Racer (sadly closed now) for that burger again some other food sustenance – I call Filipino Water (AKLA Pilsen). Here we go.
A veritable mountain of steamed rice. It’s basically food sand-castles. Scoop the rice from your rice cooker and press it into a cereal bowl. Press it down and then overturn onto a plate. The press more rice into a coffee mug, again press it down and carefully overturn that on the one you already plated. Hey, presto a rice tower. Chop up a little Spring Onion and sprinkle on the top and serve. Looks impressive does it not?
That skillet has been in the oven about 40 minutes on high. That would take your skin off if you grabbed it – so carefully does it. I was feeding 5 hungry mouths so I had to way overload the sizzling platter. Half at a time or two platters would have been ideal. But with the 5 carnivores outside waiting eagerly, I had no choice but to go in one sitting!
In this, I have:
- Ground beef,
- Native Chorizo,
- Chopped:
- onion,
- garlic,
- red capsicum,
- Pork stock,
- Maggi seasoning (could be Soy sauce),
- 3 Tbsp lime juice, and
- salt & pepper.
Just cook it down until all nicely cooked through and crisping and then get her on the sizzling platter and serve as you will see below.
Here she is. As I said, realistically half this amount would be ideal or 2 platters for this amount of Sisig. Crack a raw egg on top and stir through whilst the platter is still sizzling hot, sprinkle some sliced Spring onion on top and serve with some fresh Calamansi to get some citrus zing in there too. How good does that look? Quite proud of myself. Every single piece was GONE!!! Always a good sign.
Pain #2 = the Red Devil himself. AKA Jollibee. He’d look good on a Man Utd shirt. Horrible little thing. But some reason the kids have a fascination with it and the food. So I succumbed, 1v6. I sat in the corner with my Coke Lite and wrote some blogs whilst the kids and Wifey got covered in grease, added a few Kilos, and a few lbs of Cholesterol each. Thanks, Jollibee.
We also took an explore in the car in rain when Wifey went to see our Sister who is fit to burst with her new Baby. Sadly we were not allowed in to see her, only Wifey. Again must respect our Covid-19 position and God forbid anything got to the new babe, but we did see Chai Chai fleetingly on the steps of the Gyne offices. So off I took the kids past Bohol Tropics Hotel for the 1st time ever. There’s a whole other side of Tagbilaran over there along the seafront. We must go again another day when the virus has pissed off as there were some amazing looking restaurants over there.
Dinner time approached and so do YanYan and Mae – weee. So we all pile in the car, yes all NINE of us, for a HUGE family dinner at one of, my now Uber favourites on Panglao, Cafe Racer Diner. Bring it on guys. Let’s have a look.
This is just our burgers. We had to shift to a male server so he had enough muscle to pick up the bloody tray. I think we order SEVEN The Racer Cheeseburger. I tell you again, best ever burger!!!
They also do a really good Cafe Racer’s Sisig. Yeah, this gets VERY high marks on the Bohol Sisig League Table!!! There’s a thought… a League Table for Bohol for different menu options… Coming to a blog near you soon!!!
And they do this Cafe Racer’s version of Lumpia or Chinese Spring Rolls. I can’t remember the name but it was something Cebu at the end… Maybe the Cebu version of Lumpia. Holy moly this is beer food and a half – AKA Pulutan. Super-crispy, savoury inside and beautiful chilli-dipping sauce to boot. Legendary!
The final one for today. Chori Bombers (I think). A Chorizo sausage wrapped in bacon and bathed in a smoky BBQ sauce. Literally bathed. Maybe just a little too much sauce for my and Ollie liking. Great concept though. Like the ChillaxBBQ Bacon Lychee Poppers. I like it – could be stealing this one… AKA adapting a recipe to smash our fothcoming Food Truck and RestoBar @ The Kapre RestoBar local likes…
This was our penultimate night here in paradise with the family, subject to health cert, ferry and flight tomorrow. Yeah, no pressure there then. We had another lazy day pottering about, washing before packing, changing a few light bulbs, doing some grouting in the bathrooms and kitchen etc. Almost like we live here proper activities. It’s been so very wonderful living at the house with the FULL family. Three times a day we’re all together chatting and laughing and what causes that…? Food. Enjoy!!!