SU's Marianas Festival

last night i went to seattle university's 16th annual marianas festival. it was a dinner show, and i was delightfully surprised at how good the food tasted.

menu

red rice

bbq ribs
moist and meat fell right off the bone

bbq chicken

pancit

potato salad

chicken kelaguen
finely chopped chicken, coconut, green onions, chili pepper, lemon

empanada
very different from the filipino version. shell is made of corn flour and achote. inside is chicken and achote

golai hagon suni
spinach and green beans with coconut milk

cucumber salad

finadene
soy sauce with green onions, lemon and chili pepper

latiya
bottom layer- yellow cake/top layer-custard with cinammon

Guam Food Part 4: more home cooking

christmas eve dinner

paella thanks to my mom

my tropical sangria- with calamansi, grapefruit, lemon

food adventures in portland

my roommates and i decided to take a spur of the moment trip to portland with no plans. it turned into a great day filled with food and beer. when we got there we found out there was a beer festival going on, which i will blog about some other day.


at night we did go to andina, a fantastic peruvian restaurant in the pearl district of portland.

corderito de los andes- rack of grass-fed lamb grilled to order with a Peruvian yellow potato and two cheese timbale with roasted pepper demi-glace

then we made our way to voodoo donuts. after seeing it on anthony bourdain's no reservations, this was a must and was completely worth us getting lost.

clockwise from top left- chocolate icing w/ peanut butter and rice krispies, voodoo doll w/ berry and cream filling, vanilla icing w/ fruit loops

other donut choices

guam food part 3: mermaids tavern

mermaids tavern- one of the few greek restaurants on guam and this one is actually good. they also microbrew their own beer.

gyro and seasoned fries

guam food part 2: home cooking

my dad is an awesome cook.

fresh pico de gallo

beef brisket

lamb chops

grilled asparagus and eggplant

guam food part 1: jamaican grill

this is the first edition of my food adventures while i was at home (guam) during christmas break.

jamaican grill- one of my favorite restaurants back home. i ate here three times while i was home for three weeks. its a restaurant that combines local food with jamaican flavors.

jamaican grill burger w/ curry mayo - one of the best burgers i've ever had

chicken and ribs combo w/ jamaican rice

chicken and ribs combo w/ red rice....sauce on the side: finadene (soy, lemon, onions, red pepper)

matt's in the market

Last month, my good friend angela came up to seattle for a visit. whats a visit to seattle w/out a trip to pike place market. i must say it is one of the greatest farmer's markets i have ever seen.

after checking out the sights and sounds of the market, we were starving and decided to look for a restaurant angela heard about, matt's in the market. we had the hardest time finding it. after probably circling the market another 4 times and finally using cell phone gps, we found it. as angela put it, it was like we had entered platform 9 and 3/4. This small restaurant was definitely worth the hour we spent looking for it.

fentiman's ginger beer

gourmet mac and cheese w/ ham hocks