Aired (January 7, 2024): Need a wake up on your La Union visits? Chef JR Royol shows us the different coffee flavors in Kadua La Union and Bettina Carlos’ Aginana Villas, perfect for all the coffee lovers out there!
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00:00 For our food adventure today, we traveled to Union for an exciting and new food experience.
00:08 I like the kick of the spicy, and the briny taste of the crab meat. I love it.
00:16 This is also two shots, ma'am.
00:18 And unsweetened? Why is it so sweet?
00:23 Are you bitter? I think this is where she found her bitterness.
00:30 We will have a food trip to one of the iconic food places in Maginhawa.
00:34 We only started like a garage, a hole in the wall.
00:38 We were just thinking of how many people in one day, maybe not even 100.
00:44 And we will prepare delicious dishes from the freshest ingredients in a farming community in the city.
00:50 We will make spinach pizza.
00:53 This is the ingredient that we usually include in savory dishes.
00:59 But for this one, we will make the sauce made from the squash flowers.
01:06 Let's go food explorers!
01:19 The first stop in our food exploration is the New Greenland Community Model Farm here in the new island, Quezon City.
01:27 Sinamuena, one of the hardworking farmers here, served as my tour guide in this 7-hectare urban farm
01:40 that was built in 2021 to serve as the vegetable capital of the city.
01:45 There are so many vegetables here.
01:48 There are cabbages, squash, pechay, spinach.
01:53 What else did I see? You have sweet potatoes there.
01:57 With the help of the farmers here,
02:03 the residents of the new island got regular supply of fresh food
02:09 and of course, livelihood for the urban farmers who work here.
02:15 As a model community farm, Sinamuena often receives visitors here in the New Greenland Farm.
02:26 And one of the things that they usually invite their guests is the recipe of Sinamuena's Lumpiang Puso ng Saging.
02:38 The lumpiang puso ng saging is cut and soaked in salt before being squeezed to remove the fat.
02:45 Then, garlic and onion are mixed.
02:57 A little bit of salt and pepper is added.
03:07 Then, it is coated with lumpia wrapper.
03:10 It is fried until it turns golden brown.
03:23 Using only these simple ingredients,
03:29 you can have a perfect lumpiang puso ng saging, a perfect dish,
03:34 filled with vinegar.
03:36 So, one of the things that we harvested earlier is their spinach.
03:45 And you will notice that wherever you go to a pizza place,
03:49 it has this flavor.
03:51 We will make spinach pizza.
03:57 We will make our own dough from scratch.
03:59 So, this is our all-purpose flour.
04:01 So, let's start with our dry ingredients.
04:04 We'll also add in some salt.
04:07 Of course, our flour already has its natural sugar.
04:13 But to make the dough rise faster,
04:17 we will add a little bit of sugar.
04:19 And then finally, our dry ingredients, our yeast.
04:23 Our yeast.
04:24 Let's add water.
04:31 If your mixture or the dough that you are making
04:42 has an oil-based or fat ingredient,
04:45 I would suggest that you add it last.
04:48 In this case, we added the water first.
04:51 Then, we will let the all-purpose flour absorb the water
04:56 before you add the oil.
04:58 Because what will happen is that it will not be absorbed
05:00 if you add both liquid ingredients at the same time.
05:05 This is what we call the process of autolyse in baking.
05:11 You'd normally want to let it stand for at least 30 minutes
05:15 so that it can totally hydrate the particles
05:18 or the pieces of the all-purpose flour.
05:22 Once you are satisfied,
05:24 you think that your dough is fully hydrated,
05:27 then we will add our fat or in this case, our olive oil.
05:31 I'm satisfied with our dough.
05:43 We will let it rest.
05:47 While the dough is resting,
05:49 let's prepare our sauce.
05:51 It includes our spinach.
05:54 We will just remove the stem from the leaves.
05:58 We will also heat up the water where we will blanch it.
06:02 We will just dunk our spinach in the boiling water.
06:11 We can turn off the heat after 30 seconds.
06:15 Turn on the heat.
06:16 To remove the excess moisture,
06:31 we will just squeeze it.
06:43 After removing the excess moisture,
06:45 we can now chop it.
06:46 After the dough doubles,
07:01 this is what we call the first rise.
07:04 We will deflate it.
07:06 We will just roll it again.
07:10 Then we will portion our dough.
07:14 [Music]
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07:47 We have now cut and shaped our dough into portions.
07:50 Another critical step is to let them rise again.
07:53 After that, we can shape it.
07:56 This is also what we call pizza.
07:58 Then we can put it in the oven.
08:00 Our spinach is now ready.
08:09 Blanched.
08:11 We have also squeezed it.
08:12 We have chopped it.
08:14 We can now add cream cheese.
08:17 Our cream cheese is now softened.
08:19 Since it will be the topping or sauce,
08:27 it will depend on your preference if you want it to be thick or thick.
08:31 But for me, I just want to make it thinner with all-purpose cream.
08:36 If you will notice,
08:42 our mixture is now on the thick side.
08:46 You can add salt or any other seasoning that you prefer.
08:51 But if you want it to be more cheesy,
08:53 it will be like a pool when you get your slice of pizza,
08:58 we can use parmesan.
09:00 [Music]
09:02 [Music]
09:13 So our spinach mixture is now ready.
09:15 We also have the dough that has rested.
09:17 We can now shape our pizza.
09:19 We will just add oil so that our dough will not stick.
09:31 Here are our peeled tomatoes.
09:33 Finally, our spinach.
09:41 Let's just slice it.
09:52 [Music]
10:09 Have you heard about the new startup coffee shop in San Juan La Union?
10:13 If not, where have you been?
10:20 We visited it by our fellow food explorer, Hayley,
10:22 to try their best-selling drinks with delicious homemade coffee.
10:27 Every serving of coffee here has 2 shots of espresso,
10:33 so you will really wake up.
10:35 If you want to taste the bitterness of the new coffee experience,
10:39 try their black velvet with dark chocolate.
10:44 Is it bitter?
10:48 There, black velvet.
10:50 This is where she will show her bitterness in life, guys.
10:53 If you are the type to make it sweet,
10:57 this non-coffee drink is for you, their strawberry shortcake.
11:00 It looks sweet already.
11:02 It's very simple.
11:04 Everything is prohibited here, everyone.
11:07 It's a joke.
11:09 It's prohibited to be delicious.
11:10 Delicious.
11:11 The bitterness is not for everyone, right?
11:13 There are also sweet tooth people,
11:15 they also serve sweet drinks for you, guys.
11:18 This is it.
11:20 It's not bitter.
11:21 And of course, there is their signature drink,
11:24 Katwa Coffee,
11:26 which has the right balance of flavors that you will like.
11:29 All of these are made by the owner of Katwa,
11:33 Sir Domino Flor de Lisa,
11:35 a culinary arts graduate
11:38 who should be able to go abroad if the pandemic does not come.
11:42 [music]
11:51 And they did not just win the coffee here,
11:55 because we also tried their Katwa burger.
11:58 And all we can say is,
12:00 Wow, the sauce.
12:02 It's delicious.
12:08 So if you need coffee and snack break on your next Ellio trip,
12:12 try to stop over here at Katwa Home Coffee with your whole group.
12:18 Ma'am, I just noticed that you are saying something about
12:32 why this area where you plant your squash is a bit sugary.
12:37 We let the grass grow so that the squash can have a holder.
12:41 The good thing about this is that in the flowers of the squash,
12:45 you have a supply every day.
12:48 Every morning, right?
12:50 Yes, there are a lot.
12:51 This is my hermit's racket.
12:53 When I was still in college,
12:55 we harvest in the morning,
12:58 my mother will bring it to the market, she will sell it.
13:00 That will be my allowance for the day.
13:02 That's why this is my favorite.
13:05 [Music]
13:08 Wow, it's beautiful.
13:10 This is usually the ingredient that we include in savory dishes.
13:25 This is also usually cooked.
13:28 But for this one, we will make the sauce that is made from the flowers of the squash.
13:34 So we have here our olive oil.
13:36 We're just going to add in some garlic.
13:39 We will add cashew nuts.
13:47 We will also add the flowers of the squash.
13:55 [Music]
14:03 So this is now our squash blossom sauce.
14:07 So our dish is basically pasta with a side dish, bread.
14:15 Of course, our protein will not be lost.
14:17 Since our flat griddle is hot,
14:21 we have here chicken breast.
14:25 We can grill it.
14:27 [Music]
14:41 While we are searing our chicken,
14:43 we can assemble our other dishes.
14:45 Since our chicken is done,
14:49 we can now toast our bread.
14:52 [Music]
14:54 And we also have pre-cooked pasta here.
14:56 We can now toss our sauce.
14:58 [Music]
15:14 We will just use a little pasta water.
15:17 [Music]
15:29 All of the components of our dish are now ready.
15:31 We can now plate it.
15:34 [Music]
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16:05 The discussion is a happy food trip with an exciting community vibe.
16:08 The famous street of Maginhawa in Quezon City will not be forgotten.
16:13 And one of the institutions that will be considered a delicious food there is Urban Chick.
16:19 [Music]
16:23 It's about her life here in the city and how she loves to cook chicken.
16:28 This all started with my children.
16:31 I have three kids but they're all grown up now.
16:33 So at the time when they were still in school,
16:35 I would let them bring home cooked food.
16:40 Every time they would come home,
16:42 I would ask them what happened.
16:44 It turns out that they were all their classmates.
16:46 Urban Chick is 10 years old.
16:48 We started in 2013.
16:50 We only started like a garage,
16:52 a hole in the wall.
16:54 And then somehow, you know, we prevailed.
16:58 Because we only think about what we can cook.
17:02 If there are only a few people in one day,
17:04 maybe it won't reach 100.
17:06 Here, there's a meeting,
17:08 here's a conversation,
17:10 here's a video,
17:12 what the kids are doing.
17:14 And then, they just grew up.
17:17 Of course, we should experience the signature dishes
17:21 that are brought back here by students and varsity players of nearby universities in the area.
17:28 Alphan Meal derives its name from an org of my son, Jules.
17:33 Because they want to have an anniversary name meal here in Urban Chick,
17:40 their org.
17:42 So I called it Alphan Meal.
17:44 Why? Because our bestseller is Chicken Barbecue, Leg and Thigh.
17:47 And this is the famous croquette, cheese croquette.
17:52 So I want you to taste this because this is the recipe of my grandmother.
17:56 Oh, heirloom recipe.
17:58 So the potato itself is flavored already.
18:03 It's that perfect combination of the soft texture inside,
18:08 very flavorful,
18:10 and then what balances it is the crispness that's outside.
18:15 So this is a winner.
18:17 So whatever it is that you see here,
18:19 we have that single order with rice, or bread.
18:24 Different combinations only.
18:26 Or with pasta.
18:28 You must try here in Urban Chick their biggest naturific snack,
18:33 Fat Tortilla,
18:35 Overstuffed Bun,
18:38 and Brandy's favorite, named after their dog.
18:45 For those who love desserts, try this Banana Choco Pancakes.
18:51 And for a unique and refreshing snack, this is a highly recommended cucumber shake by Urban Chick.
18:56 I just remember when was the last time I tasted cucumber with milk.
19:01 I don't think so.
19:03 It's okay.
19:05 In fact, for their amazing food,
19:08 they were part of the food businesses that flourished when the Maginhawa Arts and Food Festival of Maginhawa Food Community last December.
19:18 So Maginhawa Food Community is a collective of business owners based here in Maginhawa area.
19:24 More than 8,000 people came, and it's actually a comeback.
19:28 The first one happened in 2014, and we're very happy that even after 9 years,
19:33 people still support us.
19:35 So next time you pass by Maginhawa,
19:38 try this good vibes food in Maginhawa.
19:42 Especially this Urban Chick.
19:46 Let's go! Let's go on a food trip!
19:48 Boys, girls, attack!
19:54 La Union is known as one of the famous surfing and party spots of the North.
20:02 But did you know that you can also enjoy a quiet time with the whole family here?
20:08 Welcome to Aginana Villas.
20:11 The family vacation spot owned by the former actress and host,
20:15 Bettina Carlos and her husband, Mickey Eduardo.
20:18 Actually, chef, before we got married, this already has a drawing.
20:22 My husband, before he found a wife, he already had plans of putting this up.
20:28 My contribution here is, let's put food because it's natural if you want to stay,
20:34 if you want to go on a vacation, you want food, right?
20:40 So just to be accessible, we put up Mana Kitchen.
20:41 Aside from the relaxing surroundings and amenities,
20:44 one of the things you can enjoy here is the fresh food experience offered by Mana Kitchen.
20:49 And their bestseller, their GGSS Crab Roll.
20:54 So the main business of my husband is that.
20:57 Because their family business, they export crab meat.
21:00 Based in Cebu, because in that area, there are a lot of blue crabs that are caught.
21:06 And then they really handle it one by one.
21:09 All the crab meat we see here is handpicked.
21:12 So there is no machine used there, as in literally, they get it from the crabs.
21:20 It's briny, and the taste of the crabs is awesome.
21:30 Crab roll first.
21:37 Crab roll first.
21:38 Thank you.
21:40 Thanks.
21:46 Crab roll.
21:48 I like the kick of the spicy.
21:58 And then the briny taste of the crab meat.
22:04 I love it.
22:06 We are thankful to say that this is what people visit Mana Kitchen for.
22:10 Aside from the delicious crab roll,
22:12 the delicious coffee drinks I enjoyed visiting here are also included.
22:17 Exactly how I want my coffee.
22:30 Shaken, not stirred.
22:34 [Laughs]
22:36 Oh my!
22:43 I like this.
22:45 This is awesome.
22:47 Can I copy this?
22:50 It's all gone.
22:53 I even shook it.
22:55 Yum.
23:01 [Laughs]
23:02 This is also two shots, ma'am.
23:21 Two shots but...
23:24 Mmm!
23:29 And unsweetened.
23:30 Yes, sir.
23:31 Why is it sweet?
23:32 It's sweetened.
23:33 Our vegan cream.
23:35 Wow!
23:36 Aginana actually means rest in Ilocano.
23:42 So that's what we pray for to give to them, that experience.
23:46 Because when you enter, you really feel like you can rest.
23:50 You can rest.
23:52 That's the vibe that will welcome you.
23:55 When I said yes to my husband in marriage,
23:58 I knew that part of it was, can I move to the province?
24:03 Or am I really a city girl?
24:05 I love living in the province.
24:07 I call myself Shana.
24:09 Shana.
24:11 Provinciana.
24:12 [Music]