- That's an interesting texture.
What is that?
- But I'm still gonna disown you.
(laughing)
- You said it was so oily!
(laughing)
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- Hey, my name is Bianca.
I'm gonna be trying three different kare-kares
by different moms.
And I'm gonna try and guess which one's my mom's.
- Hopefully, I don't disappoint her.
- If they don't get it right, then they'll be disowned.
(laughing)
- So kare-kare is a Filipino dish.
- It's actually a peanut stew.
Kare-kare is usually eaten on special occasions.
- Traditionally made with oxtail and beef tripe
and it's usually served with shrimp paste on the side.
You mix it a little bit
of the kare-kare with the shrimp paste
and some veggies and eat it with rice.
- I don't remember too strongly
what my mom's kare-kare dish tastes like.
- [Interviewer] Do you think Alex will be able
to recognize your one?
- I don't think so.
I will be very, very surprised if he found out
which one is mine.
- We do cook kare-kare at home.
She will guess my version, I think.
I hope (laughs).
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- I don't eat Filipino food too often.
- Is she listening to me right now?
- [Woman] Yeah.
(laughing)
Oh, no!
- I think this is tofu.
- It's a mystery meat.
- [Woman] It's a tripe!
- Never heard of tripe.
I don't think my mother uses tripe.
- Think that's eggplant, there's beans.
Maybe this is my mom's?
- Oh my God.
She said it's mine.
- I'm just very worried if I get this wrong.
The pressure is on.
- That's an interesting texture.
What is that?
Oh, tripe.
What's tripe?
- [Woman] It's the lining of the stomach.
- Oh!
Nice!
(laughing)
- That is very good.
Very peanut-buttery and very creamy.
- I can't believe you made her eat tripe (laughs).
- It kind of tastes like pure fat,
which I don't usually eat.
Bruh!
- I remember my mom uses a certain type of peanut butter
and it doesn't taste like it.
- The beef is nice, very soft.
- Because he doesn't really eat the ox tripe
so I put the beef on it.
- Oh my God, this is gonna be so much harder
than I thought it was gonna be.
It's very nutty.
The meat's really good but it's a bit harder.
- Yeah, I can probably eat this whole thing, not gonna lie.
Except maybe the tripe.
I don't think, I don't think I really liked that one.
- Maybe, I'd say maybe mom's.
- Oh, more tripe.
Okay, so maybe it's just a thing in kare-kare.
Oh, I think this is my mom's.
- No, it's not mine!
- What's giving it away is that whole chunk of meat
with the bone in it.
- That's not mine!
- Definitely smells different.
- Oh my gosh, this has a lot of bagoong in it.
- Which is shrimp paste, which I'm allergic to.
So this is definitely not my mom's.
- The meat is huge.
- Very easy to pull apart.
- Similar to the one before.
It has like tripe and bok choy and beans.
But I, this one is like oilier.
- It's definitely a lot stronger
and as I said, my mom cooks very plain,
not very plain, but like she's hearing all this.
(laughing)
Not too in depth with spices.
So this one, I feel like has a lot of spices.
- Oh, he knows.
He knows how I cook.
- Yeah, not as peanut-y as the other one.
You can taste the meat more in this one than the other one
and I really like that.
Kare-kare is really good.
- She says kare-kare is good
so I better cook it more.
- That's not how my mom cooks eggplant.
- I cooked the eggplant differently to stand out
and she didn't really catch that.
- This one is very delicious.
I think I really like the shrimp paste as well.
- I am so glad she likes bagoong!
She's a true Filo!
- Pretty sure this one isn't my mom's
'cause it has shrimp paste
and I'm pretty sure she won't kill me on purpose.
- I'm leaning towards this one being my mom's.
- Oh, it's the fact that the meat is huge
and I know for a fact,
my mom doesn't put huge chunks of meat in her kare-kare.
- Oh, no.
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- This one smells like the most different
out of all of them.
- So, same kind of ingredients.
I don't think it has the shrimp paste.
- This one also has a bone.
I don't wanna roast this.
- Do not roast mine.
- I just love option B's one
of how easy it was to pull apart.
- Eat it first!
- Beef is a little bit,
is that bone?
I don't know what I'm doing (laughs).
- The way that the beans are like in this one is
so different.
My God, it's huge!
Not mom's.
It's not nutty enough.
- This one has, I think, a lot more oil.
- This one's quite salty.
I can kind of barely taste the peanut butter in this one.
- Oh, no, she roasted mine.
That's it.
- The beef is really nice.
Very well cooked.
- I don't know if my mom would cut the peas diagonally
like this.
- Yes, I would!
Oh my God, okay, I'm sorry.
I totally failed my child.
- The way that the eggplant is cut up is not the same
as my mom's.
The way that the beans are cut up is not like my mom's.
Hmm?
- It's a lot more bonier
or maybe I just got a bony piece.
Like when it's just meat, I just like straight meat.
I don't like to have to like dig through it and stuff.
So I don't think this one is hers either.
- Yeah, I think that's how he knows it, yeah.
I wouldn't cook bones.
I think he will guess it correctly.
- So, option A was probably the most strong
with the peanut taste.
B is like the most perfectly balanced.
B had zucchinis in it, which makes that special.
I think my mom's one is B.
- Oh, no, she got it wrong (laughs).
I'm sorry but-
(laughing)
Are you?
- I'm gonna get kicked in the ass.
(laughing)
- Seriously?
I am seriously proud that you ate bogoong
and you freaking love it!
- Yeah.
- I've been avoiding it, but I'm still gonna disown you.
(laughing)
How many times have I cooked for you?
- I'm so embarrassed.
- You gonna start paying rent, that's for sure.
- Oh my God. (laughing)
- So the first one was really nutty and creamy,
which is the most similar to my mom's.
The second one has bogoong in it.
And the way that the eggplant
has been cooked is different as well.
The last two also had huge chunks of meat
and my mom didn't have that in her kare-kare.
So, I think that the first one's my mom's.
Oh my God!
(laughing)
Oh my God, I'm like afraid.
- This is mine, the second one.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Don't say that!
Bianca was right, I would cook the veggies differently,
separately, usually.
I cooked the eggplants this time, I pan-fried it.
- Oh my God, you literally duped me.
How was I supposed to know?
Oh my God!
- I wanted you to choose this but you-
- How would I have chosen that one?
- You said it was so oily!
(laughing)
No, wait, if you had done it like the proper way
that you usually do it, I so would've gotten it.
- So the first one I really enjoyed.
It wasn't too crazy in flavor.
The second one, it probably was the one with the most flavor
and the third one tasted really good
but there was like a little bit more oil than usual.
Like, as I said, my mom keeps her food really clean,
not much oil at all.
So I'm going to say
that the first one I tried was my mom's kare-kare.
- Yes, he got it right!
Watching you, actually, I was so impressed
of how you observed each ingredients in each
of the dish. - Yeah.
- I felt proud because you know, you know who am I.
through my cooking. - Yeah.
- Keep it minimal. - Clean, minimal.
- Yeah. - That's how I really cook.
I'm really very proud.
- Thanks for watching
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