Why Retire in the Philippines/Marinduque Vacations: Pork Sinigang-Best Tasting Soup in the World

Planning to Retire Soon!

If you are planning to retire in the Philippines soon, I suggest you visit several excellent websites on pro's and cons of retiring in the Philippines. However if you want to retire in the provinces, where life is simple, standard of living cheaper, less traffic congestion and pollution, availability of fresh seafood and vegetables compared to the big cities, my island province is the place for you! If this is your first time in my site, welcome. Some of the photos and videos on this site, I do not own. However, I have no intention on the infringement of your copyrights. The photo above is the front yard of Chateau Du Mer- Our Retirement Home in Boac, Marinduque, Philippines

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Pork Sinigang-Best Tasting Soup in the World

Pork Sinigang -a soup from the Philippines was recently rated by TasteAtlas💥as the best soup in the world. But it is not even listed in the CNN top 20 list of popular soups in the world nor in the Eatingwell.com top 10 popular soups.

The Philippine Tinola, on the other hand also one of my most favorite soup is in the list of Eatingwell.com. Tinola is Filipino Ginger-Garlic Chicken Soup with Vegetables. I grew up savoring Chicken or Fish Tinola in the Philippines.

https://www.eatingwell.com/our-most-popular-soup-recipes-8403581.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-best-wellness-soups/index.html

If you remember I posted an article last October featuring Pork Sinigang during the Filipino-American History Month Dinner Celebration here at THD. Here's a photo of the menu.

Pork Sinigang is a delicious Filipino sour soup dish. The soup is made from any cut of pork along tomato, string beans, spinach, and tamarind and other vegetables ( bok choy and cabbage). For details read:

https://chateaudumer.blogspot.com/2023/10/filipino-dinner-will-be-in-menu.html

For additional details, why Sinigang was chosen as the best soup in the world read:

https://freshoptions.ph/blogs/freshcipes/sinigang-is-the-worlds-best-soup#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Taste%20Atlas,best%20soup%20in%20the%20world.

💥TasteAtlas is an experiential travel online guide for traditional food that collates authentic recipes, food critic reviews, and research articles about popular ingredients and dishes. Describing itself as "a world atlas of traditional dishes, local ingredients, and authentic restaurants", it features an interactive global food map with dish icons shown in their respective regions and purportedly contains nearly 10,000 dishes, drinks, and ingredients, as well as 9,000 restaurants. Lastly, my quote of the day:

Meanwhile, besides pork sinigang and chicken tinola, three other soups that are popular in the Philippines are Batangas Bulalo, Lapaz Batchoy and Pancit Molo.

Bulalô (Tagalog) is a beef dish from the Philippines. It is a light colored soup that is made by cooking beef shanks and bone marrow until the collagen and fat has been melted into the clear broth. It is mixed with corn and vegetable greens.

Batchoy, alternatively spelled batsoy, is a Filipino noodle soup of pork offal, crushed pork cracklings, chicken stock, beef loin, and round noodles. The original and most popular variant, the La Paz batchoy, traces its roots to the Iloilo City district of La Paz, in the Philippines.

Pancit Molo or Filipino pork dumpling soup, is a type of soup using wonton wrappers which originated from Molo district in Iloilo City, Philippines. It consists of a mixture of ground pork wrapped in molo or wonton wrapper, shredded chicken meat, and also shrimp.

Lastly, For Chinese Dim Sum, I recommend CreekHouse In Walnut Creek, 1291 Parkside Dr.

https://www.creekhousedimsum.com/_files/ugd/055480_e3ddc7c53974467ea6a740ac8e937638.pdf

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Fruit Trees in the Gardens of Chateau Du Mer

The Mango Tree-I have three varieties in my Garden-The Indian, Guimaras and Carabao Mangoes My caretaker/gardener informed me last month that due to the El Nino drought in Marinduque, two of my Durian trees died in spite of his vigilant watering. One of the tree was attacked by insects that looks like a big fly but yellowish in color that sucks the sap of the seedling. The roots of the other tree was attacked by ants residing in the soil. However, my other fruit trees, the rambutans( 2), the lanzones(2) and the jack fruits ( 2) trees are doing well. The above eight fruit trees were given to me by Retired General Recaredo Sarmiento of Boac and Lucena., about three years ago. General Sarmiento is the “atid” of my wife. “Atid” is the colloquial term for brother. Evidently, Macrine's father, the late Bernardo Jambalos was the Godfather of General Sarmiento during his baptism and comfirmation. Gen Sarmiento's hobby is orchard planting, reforestation and farming. The other fruit trees in my garden are guayabanos, cashew, avocados, starapples, duhats, ates, guavas, mangoes( 3 varieties) and papayas as well as several varieties of bananas . Of the above fruit trees, my favorite is the guayabanos, also known as soursop tree known for its anti-tumor and anti-cancer properties . The following are photos of the fruit trees. The Durian photo is from the web. Note that it almost look like a jack fruit tree, except that the leaves are bigger and shiny. My desire is to have a passion fruit tree in the near future. You are welcome to visit my orchard and flower gardens any time, if perchance you are in the vicinity of The Chateau Du Mer Beach Resort and Conference Center.

The Rambutan Tree and Fruits

The Lanzone Tree and Fruits

The Jack Fruit Tree

The Durian Fruit Tree