Puto and Dinuguan by Jologs

May 19, 2008 at 4:15 pm · Filed under Filipino food, Food, Side dishes ·Tagged dinuguan, exotic, Jologs, Lucky Plaza, Orchard Road, pig blood, puto, rice cake

One Friday evening my friends and I decided to have dinner at Jologs at the Lucky Plaza. I find it to be a clean, cozy restaurant that serves food for value. I’ve tried their -silogs and I always recommend it to my Filipino friends who are looking for Filipino foods. That evening though, I was in the mood to try something other than silog on their menu. And since I was not keen on eating rice either, I settled on puto and diguan. I was not the least disappointed. )

Dinuguan is traditionally made up of pork intestines cooked with pig blood (yah, to other cultures this sounds a bit ewwyy). As long as the cook knows how to clean the intestines, and the secret to remove the odor, dinuguan can be a truly delicious experience. The dinuguan I had at Jologs was not made up of intestines though, I think the meat came from the ear or face portion of the pork since it was a bit crunchy.

Puto is steamed rice cake and has a spongy and lightly fluffy texture. Some recipes put cheese on top, which is equally delicious as the plain version. For puto paired with dinuguan, I like it plain and not so sticky. This was just what I had that night.

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