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Post by Denis-NFA on Sept 27, 2015 21:24:31 GMT 7
I wish I had the choice. But I will go to the market and ask the largest rice trader if he can supply brown rice.
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Post by itsmylife08 on Sept 28, 2015 14:15:44 GMT 7
What we seem to have is a more enthusiastic group of expats... usually northern Europeans... determined to produce or import the tastes of home. Excellent bread, sausage, bacon and now even local cheese are all available at realistic prices. BanjoUnfortunately I don't have enough 'northern Europeans' to warrant the local sale of those products. I no longer buy cheese, nor butter or margarine.
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Post by Denis-NFA on Sept 29, 2015 0:23:26 GMT 7
[/quote] BanjoI wonder what it would cost to import that rice. And the coffee beans!
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Post by Banjo on Sept 29, 2015 7:32:33 GMT 7
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Post by Denis-NFA on Sept 29, 2015 7:52:22 GMT 7
BanjoI think I would have more chance to 'sell' that stuff in Australia, or California.
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Post by Banjo on Sept 29, 2015 8:02:54 GMT 7
Brown, red and black rice are readily available in Thailand, the supermarkets carry a wide range and also the specialist rice shops in the markets sell it in bulk. The Thais I know generally don't like it so I buy about 5kg at a time and usually have rice about twice a week. I've never tried to cook it in a rice cooker but I don't particularly like rice prepared that way anyway.
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Post by warren1969 on Sept 29, 2015 14:33:52 GMT 7
Don't get your expectations up too high on the beef. Not sure what quality Denis, Greenman gets. It's pretty ordinary around here. I had a whole plate in front of me yesteday, caribao, thinly sliced. Totally unable to chew it. I avoid it, like the one they cook down to a soup Sinagalaw, mostly grisle and skin. Chris, Any wonder you cant chew it as Caribao is not beef it's water buffalo and I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole
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Post by Denis-NFA on Sept 29, 2015 15:35:22 GMT 7
Brown, red and black rice are readily available in Thailand, the supermarkets carry a wide range and also the specialist rice shops in the markets sell it in bulk. The Thais I know generally don't like it so I buy about 5kg at a time and usually have rice about twice a week. I've never tried to cook it in a rice cooker but I don't particularly like rice prepared that way anyway. BanjoRepackaged in 250 or 500 gram packs and labelled something like "Banjo's Fair Trade Rice" it would be the go in certain inner city suburbs. You could even do the coffee beans as well. Rice they sell here is all white and sold on the basis of the cooked consistency. I have seen supposed Thai rice but it was white.
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Post by Denis-NFA on Sept 29, 2015 15:46:46 GMT 7
Don't get your expectations up too high on the beef. Not sure what quality Denis, Greenman gets. It's pretty ordinary around here. I had a whole plate in front of me yesteday, caribao, thinly sliced. Totally unable to chew it. I avoid it, like the one they cook down to a soup Sinagalaw, mostly grisle and skin. Chris, Any wonder you cant chew it as Caribao is not beef it's water buffalo and I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole warren1969LOL... It's a long time since I heard about a barge pole..
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Post by warren1969 on Sept 29, 2015 17:59:11 GMT 7
Greenman, Perhaps my age is showing there quoting the barge pole
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Post by chris on Sept 30, 2015 2:20:17 GMT 7
Any wonder you cant chew it as Caribao is not beef it's water buffalo and I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. Alam ko. Sure I know that. But that's about what we get around here. We have a few cows roaming on our land, profit sharing arrangement, we get the calves while they get the free grazing. And don't get too exited, we might get something every 3 years. Still no decent beef even if grass fed. I stopped it here. Banned Gina from buying it. I had had some mixed success with pounding it out and cooking it Teppanyaki style, high heat about 2 minutes each side. Usually not worth the effort.
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Post by warren1969 on Sept 30, 2015 6:01:57 GMT 7
Chris,
Are there no decent super markets within driving distance from where you live? even if it was 100km's for a trip would make sense to go and bring back a few kilo's of steak or beef and freeze it. Would also be a lot cheaper in the long run. Perhaps I'm a little spoiled because I stay in Angeles which has a lot of modern malls and places to buy good foods and even but specialty items like deli salami's and cheeses.
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Post by Banjo on Sept 30, 2015 7:55:05 GMT 7
I once smuggled 20kg of King Island fillet steak into the Philippines for a guy who lived there. I had a "fridgy" bag about the size of a small carry-on bag and I still remember the look on the face of the check in guy at Adelaide airport when I put it on the scales.
When we got to Manila it was the last off the luggage belt by a good ten minutes, we sat there musing about its eventual condition after a few weeks sitting in a lost luggage room somewhere in the world.
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Post by mulloway on Sept 30, 2015 8:27:53 GMT 7
I was recently in Cebu City, and I purchased some goat leg meat at the local market for about 220 peso. It was good. Plus there is a good supply of reef fish at this market. Barramundi cod, coral trout - all the Barrier Reef species for around 300 peso a kilo. I agree the beef is very poor in the Philippines but it doesn't worry me because I have never been a fan of beef anyway. I much prefer lamb, goat and fish .....
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Post by chris on Sept 30, 2015 9:37:52 GMT 7
Chris, Are there no decent super markets within driving distance from where you live? even if it was 100km's for a trip would make sense to go and bring back a few kilo's of steak or beef and freeze it. Would also be a lot cheaper in the long run. Perhaps I'm a little spoiled because I stay in Angeles which has a lot of modern malls and places to buy good foods and even but specialty items like deli salami's and cheeses. In a sense no. Not within 100km. SF La Union would be over 300 km round trip. But sure we have a Pure Gold recently opened here.
Warren, we don't yet know each other. I live fairly remote in Nth Luzon, but 11 km from Vigan City. There is no deli or specialty cheese there, so I usually wait until our trips to Manila. Robinson's supermarket has everything I would like to have. Tastes better that way.
We eat well, but more on fresh fish and pork. Local foods common to the area. Abundant fruits and vegetables. And we grow some of our own. Currently running 40 chickens and raising 4 large hogs. Baptism upcoming.
Going home sometime next year. Will catch up then.
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