- Hi, I'm Beryl.
And today, we are doing another episode
in my "Order For Me" series,
working title still.
And the theme for this week's video?
Filipino food.
I have teamed up with Grubhub, a food delivery service,
and three of my subscribers,
Reniel, Angelamari, and Nicole.
And together, we have picked out
a Filipino restaurant in my neighborhood
and they have chosen the dishes that they want me to try.
And as a perk, Grubhub also gave me a code
to give to you guys if you use my name BERYL.
At checkout, you will get $5 off an order of $15 and more
so you can also have the Filipino feast
that I'm about to have.
Because as I have learned,
there is a lot more to Filipino food
than adobo and halo-halo.
(knocking on door)
The food's here!
(lively music)
- I'm Angelamari from Alaminos, Laguna,
a small province here in the Philippines.
- My name is Nicole
and I live in Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
- My name is Reniel.
I'm from Manila but currently based in Stockholm, Sweden.
For breakfast or what we call agahan in Tagalog,
I have chosen dasilog.
Dasilog is an amalgamation of three words,
daing, which is milk fish marinated
in vinegar, garlic, salt and pepper, and then fried.
We have the sinangag, which is our version of fried rice,
garlic fried rice,
and itlog or egg.
- This is actually my husband's favorite breakfast.
It's highlighted like a lot of our mornings.
Especially when we got married,
I will make this a lot for him for breakfast.
- I love that there was breakfast on this menu.
I think that that is such an exciting thing
to be able to try breakfast foods and main entrees.
This looks pretty good.
I did google what a milk fish looks like.
It's the stereotype of what a fish is.
But it is pretty interesting 'cause it is a very old fish
dating back to the Cretaceous period.
So that's cool.
I really appreciated also learning about silogs
because I think that you see them
on a lot of Filipino menus.
And now, we know what it means.
Fried rice, garlic fried rice with the egg.
Oh, my God. It's so garlicky good.
Ooh, they are not messing around
when they say garlic fried rice.
I love it.
I'm not sure how to get into the fish.
Come on spoon. You can do it.
No, I used my hands. (laughs)
This is the perfect dasilog bite.
Mm.
I know that like pancakes are a popular breakfast dish,
but a fried fish with egg and garlic fried rice
is actually superior.
So you heard it here, folks.
Even if you can't find this exact dish
when you are looking to try Filipino food,
look for the silogs and just look at whatever protein
they mix in because it is amazing
and I'm very happy that I've finally gotten to try
an authentic silog.
- For the main course, I picked out pinakbet.
It's made with different vegetables like okra,
bitter gourd, string beans, acorn swash, and eggplant.
The main flavoring for it is bagoong.
Bagoong is a fermented fish or shrimp paste.
It has a very salty, umami-like flavor.
When I was a kid, that was really the only way
to get me to eat vegetables.
- I will say that the first thing here
that catches my eye is this.
Bitter gourd.
I'm somebody who loves food. I love a lot of dishes.
Bitter gourd...
I devoted an entire episode
to try to change my mind because I dislike it.
Ooh.
(laughs) It's too bitter.
This dish also has the shrimp bagoong
which I have also tried before in my mango episode,
but I tried it kind of just plain with green mango
but it was...
It was a bite.
It is very
shrimpy.
I'm tasting that shrimpy flavor,
but it is way way better when it's not just
scooped up on a piece of mango.
Made into this sauce, this is actually really nice.
I feel like the bitter gourd is like,
"Eat me, Beryl. Don't avoid me.
Why are you avoiding me?"
Because I don't like you.
All right. Here we go.
Mm. (laughs)
(Beryl laughs)
(coughs) Um...
It's just bitter. I just...
Bitter gourd, you just don't do it for me. I'm sorry.
Take away the bitter gourd, this dish is a winner.
With the bitter gourd in there, it's still a winner.
I just have to pick it out as I eat it. (laughs)
- I have chosen menudo.
Menudo is pork, potatoes, carrots, and bell peppers
cut around the same size and stewed in tomato sauce.
I chose this dish because my mom
makes it particularly so well
and it always reminds me of home
whenever I have it here in Sweden.
(orchestral music)
- Menudo.
When I saw menudo being recommended,
I immediately thought
of the Puerto Rican 1980's boy band with Ricky Martin.
♪ Like a cannonball ♪
♪ Hearts beat at the speed of sound ♪
And then I thought about the Mexican soup with tripe.
And this is neither of those.
Visually, it looks like an American stew
with potatoes and carrots and peas and meat.
Oh, my God.
Oh, it tastes so much better than an American stew. Whoa.
The flavor is so good.
I love this.
I was able to get calamansi juice.
I've never had it plain.
I've always had it mixed in with seltzers.
- Calamansi is a citrus fruit
that's very local to us in the Philippines.
It's less tangy than limes and lemons
and it has a little sweet undertone into it.
- My... (laughs)
My cheeks are like puckering. Oh.
Mm. Ooh.
Together, that was really nice.
That was a really well-balanced bite and sip.
- The second one is pork binagoongan.
It's chunks of pork sauteed in Filipino shrimp paste.
It is savory, it's salty,
a little pungent.
It's a definite must-try.
- We're continuing our pork journey.
There is some eggplant in this dish as well.
So, you know, not just straight meat.
(lively music)
Okay, this is really good too.
Ooh, it's got like a little bit of sourness.
This is very interesting.
The dish kind of starts out like pork and onion forward.
And then that fermented fish shrimp paste
kind of comes in from the back
and gives it this very strong umami taste.
That is very good.
And with the rice,
it's really good.
So good now.
Now I'm like really into this juice.
This dish in particular is a really great one
that was recommended to me because I don't think
that I would've ever thought to order something like this.
Just the fact that it had an ingredient that I tried
that I was a little like, "Ooh, it's okay."
And the fact that it's just pork,
I probably would've chosen something else.
But I'm really glad that I tried this. It's so different.
Mm. Super yummy.
Super flavorful.
Like, this is coming out your mouth full force, bum bum bum,
flavoring all the quadrants
which is just an exciting thing to eat, you know.
It's good.
- I ordered you ginisang monggo.
Monggo is a type of lentil or mung bean that you could,
usually with pork, tinapa, daing,
or any other meats or seafood.
I chose these dishes for you to eat
because it reminds me of the summertime
when we'd always go swimming in the beach.
After swimming, we'd always get together
and grill the chicken and tilapia
while cooking the ginisang monggo.
- So we have a stew and once again,
I spy with my little eye,
bitter gourd.
And this one is harder to see
because it's covered in the mung beans
so sneaky sneaky bitter gourd, hm.
Ooh.
I'm tasting that shrimp paste again.
But the mung beans are kind of balancing it out.
It's got a lightness with the heaviness
at the same time.
I need some rice with this, stat.
Ooh, there are a lot of vegetables lurking beneath... Oh.
Nope.
(laughs) Bitter gourd tried to get on my spoon
but I said no.
Very good with rice.
It definitely reminds me of kind of
more traditional lentil stews.
But it's got this saltiness to it.
It makes it more dynamic.
That's the word I was looking for. Dynamic.
- Turon is a spring roll.
It's like very similar to, let's say, a Chinese spring roll.
But the main difference is this is a dessert.
They would be filled with slices of plantain bananas.
And you would also add jackfruit.
And it's a deep fried dish.
So before frying, you would dip the turon
in a little bit of brown sugar
and then you would deep fry it until it was crunchy.
When I was a kid, this was one of my
favorite childhood snacks.
- We got a dessert this time.
I know in the episodes past, I didn't get a dessert
and people were like, "Hey, where is dessert?"
We got the deep fried turon.
And I've made this, or at least attempted to make this
in my jackfruit episode.
These look way better. Also, way bigger.
Like, hello.
Whoa.
Mm.
The plantain is so soft inside. It's like a custard.
Okay, hello.
Oh, my goodness.
I have some ice cream to go with it.
Ooh, God, that is the tiniest bit of ice cream but whatever.
Mm. Ooh, with ice cream, yum.
That is, uh... (laughs)
That's naughty.
I mean, there's not much to say.
This is absolutely delicious.
If you like bananas, if you like deep fried things,
if you like dessert, you will like this.
I think anybody would like...
You don't even have to like any of those things
and you'd probably like this. (laughs)
I am stuffed. That was super fun.
I love trying so many new foods
and exploring the Filipino menu like that.
I am leaving everything that I ordered in the description
as well as all of the other dishes that were recommended
so that when you decide to try Filipino food yourself,
you can use this as a guide.
And don't forget that I have a coupon code
which is BERYL that would give you $5 off
in order of $15 and more if your order through Grubhub.
I'm going to be doing more episodes in this series
so if there's a cuisine that you wanna see featured,
leave it in the comments.
I will add it to the list.
In the meantime, here are two other episodes
in this series to tie you over.
And I will see you next week.