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Ramilo (Ram) Villaluna
Ram is a budding chef from Iloilo City (Molo). He gained his training in Culinary Arts at the Center for Asian Culinary Studies under food guru Gene Gonzalez, Institute of Culinary Education (formerly Peter Kumpps) in New York. He took up bread making, and he studied food styling under Delores Custer of the Culinary Institute of America. It all started in Antique where his father owned a restaurant many Antiquenos learned to love. He continued the culinary legacy of his father and now, Ram owns a catering business, Cindy\'s Catering. Food is Ram\'s life, seriously speaking. I am short in saying that he is married to the food industry that, he spends most of his time teaching and mentoring at the Department of Culinary Arts at the University of San Agustin in Iloilo. If one cannot find him in the classroom, Ram will be on the road crisscrossing Iloilo and Antique having first hand in the management of his thriving businesses from both provinces. He also has a once-a-week TV show in GMA 7 \"Food Trip\". I met with Ram once before and he exudes perfectionism, the character that will beam him up to the limelight of culinary arts. At present time, Ram is extremely busy in Manila. I believe he is one of the finalists in The National Food Showdown 2010 sponsored by ABS-CBN. We wish you all the luck, Ram! Maybe, after this showdown, Ram will have the opportunity share favorite recipe here at ILONGGO LIVING.
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Japanese Way on a Friday
April 30, 2010
In keeping with our acquired taste for Japanese foods, the family has to continually refresh our taste buds with authentic Japanese cuisine. As everyone might agree on, food is an excellent stimulus to our brain through our eyes, nose and taste buds. And Japanese are good in that respect: the art, science and food combined! They prepare their food so meticulously that they consider a balance of all three elements. Let us dig into some of everyone’s favorites and some newly found Japanese foods at Spring Sushi Japanese Restaurant along Upper James St. South, Hamilton.
We have heard that Spring Sushi Japanese Restaurant caters authentic Japanese foods. We went for their buffet lunch as dinner time requires advance booking.
This is an all-you-can-eat order-in buffet ($11.99/person), so food comes in a surprise fashion!
The choices for different sushi and sashimi are endless. Only your imagination limits them.
Different hand rolls are endless, as well. One can order and eat as much as one can handle.
Sushi Pizza. Don't expect for an 8 " or 12" pizza pie! This one is the size of a burger patty made of seafoods and topped with thin slices of salmon. I love this kind of a pizza as it is almost my personal size kind of.
Sirloin Steak with Spring Onion. When I ordered this item, I was not aware of how it looks like. The onion flavor blends well with the rare-done sirloin steak.
Vegetable tempura and Seafoods Udon
Everyone's favourite, Shrimps Tempura
Deep Fried Breaded Scallops
Seafoods Fried Noodles
Chicken Teriyaki
This one came totally a SURPRISE... Eel Pancake! I did not expect my pancake to be rolled!
Stir fried rice with seafoods. Of course, rice is always present in every Filipino meal!
Green tea ice cream is my favorite among the rest.
Pochero and Dried Seafoods
June 5, 2009
Yeah! Still Filipino foods for the next couple of days.. We had Pochero as it’s been a while since we had this dish. And yes, fried dried pusit (cuttlefish) and fish tocino made up the balance of the meal! By the way, you may wonder where we got the pusit & fish tocino. Well, my in-laws brought it back from Ilocos last January and it was sitting in the freezer for 5 months already before it got “discovered” upon! Praise for freezers! Anyways, my kids had their usual stuff, Buffalo-styled chicken wings or should I say, drumettes. For dessert, we had fresh mango with green tea ice cream and black cherry ice cream drizzled with passion fruit! Loaded!!!
Pochero - almost like Asado!
Fish Tocino (Isdang Hamonado) from Ilocos.
Fried dried Cuttlefish (dried pusit)
Combo Dried Seafoods!
Buffalo-styled chicken Drumettes -in lieu of chicken wings. Everyone's favourite!
Fresh Mango delight!
With green tea ice cream & black cherry ice cream drizzled with passion fruit nectar!
After Rain Thai Restaurant
It’s been snowing the whole day today and the gang where restless, knowing that snowy day equates to staying home and the “cook” prepares the meal. However, the “cook” was lazy as it’s the week-end! As Cecil would say, “the cook is always off during week-ends starting Friday night”. So, as usual, I’m outnumbered by votation as to go or not to go dining out! Off we went to After Rain Thai Resto in Mississauga, Ontario (723 Central Parkway W, west of Mavis Rd., Tel. # 9052735758). It’s a fusion Thai cuisine and it’s one of my favourite Thai restos outside Hamilton. It’s an upscale authentic Thai resto that offers good ambiance and sumptuous Asian foods. Price is affordable considering the elegant settings. We ordered mango salad and fried sea urchin for starters. The latter was exciting because it was my first time to taste it and it’s only available seasonally. Then for main course, we had the classic seafood Pad Thai, my favourite seafoods Tom Yom soup and Thai chicken. Since our order was over $50, the restaurant offered a free grilled mackerel and free fruit dessert! One can’t complain about it. For dessert, we had my favourite green tea ice cream floating on a sea of raspberry sauce and fried banana with Mandarin orange ice cream drizzled with hot chocolate sauce. The latter dessert is dubbed as FBI (fried banana & ice cream)!
My apology: The following series of pics was taken with my i-phone camera. That explain why the pics where not so vivid. What do you expect from a 2.0 MP digital camera.
Fresh Mango juice
Mango Salad
Breaded sea urchin
Seafoods Pad Thai Noodles
Thai Chicken Vegetables
Seafoods Tom Yom soup
Grilled Mackerel free from the house
Green Tea Ice Cream in Raspberry sauce
FBI (Fried Banana & Ice Cream)
Fresh Oranges free from the house
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