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Alameda County, CA

The Alameda County fair is making a quick comeback this year after 1.5 years away! For a short period from October 22 - 31, 2021! Make sure to bring the family to this Bay Area classic and enjoy all the fair foods, carnival games and entertainment!

They also have halloween theme decor and a cute pumpkin patch for photo ops!

Times:  3-10PM Mon-Fri & 10AM-10PM Sat-Sun
Tickets: <a href="https://annual.alamedacountyfair.com">https://annual.alamedacountyfair.com</a>/

Alameda County Fair Open from October 22 - 31!

Recipes

Happy Filipino Heritage Month! In this video, i'm going to show you how to make Halo Halo, a filipino shaved ice treat!

This is a sweet sweet Filipino Shaved Ice Dessert that cost less than $15 USD and can serve easily, 10 people. Traditionally an ice shaver is used to shave the ice, but my parents own a Ninja Blender which is AWESOME! it shaved (most) of the ice better than when I make this at my own house with a traditional blender.

All these ingredients can be purchased at a Filipino or Asian Market. 

Filipino Dessert - How to Make Halo Halo Using a Blender - Filipino Shaved Ice

Happy Filipino Heritage Month!

The 'Filipino Instant Pot Cookbook' has been a really popular cookbook available on Amazon and it has many popular Filipino dishes that you can cook in the Instant Pot.

In this video I try the recipe in the book for Puto, which is a steamed rice cake! Many times this is made with cheese, and actually has a lot of different ways to make it. In the video, I also use a dash of ube extract (that ube hype) to make the puto a nice deep purple!

Filipino Recipe - Making Puto from 'The Filipino Instant Pot Cookbook' - Rice Cakes!

Happy Filipino Heritage Month! This is an Instant Pot recipe that cuts the cooking time to just ~15 minutes!

Honestly, I first started filming this video over 6 weeks ago and I had a terrible time with the caramelizing of the brown sugar. I must've attempted it over 4 times and I just gave up filming entirely. This past weekend, I received news that my Grandma who gave me this recipe had passed away. In honor of my Grandma, I just had to finish this video and dedicate it to her as well. 

I had a TON of trial and error and filming gone wrong (footage got corrupt and accidentally filmed in slow-mo) but I HAD to piece it together. This video was the last thing I got to talk to my Grandma about ever, so I hope you get to enjoy and try it out!

Instant Pot Recipe: Filipino Leche Flan

Happy Filipino Heritage Month! Here is a quick and easy way to make Sopas. 

From Google: Sopas is a Filipino macaroni soup made with elbow macaroni, various vegetables, and meat, in a creamy broth with evaporated milk. It is regarded as a comfort food in the Philippines and is typically eaten during breakfast, cold weather, or served to sick people. 

For this video I opt out of using the evaporated milk. Typically this is made with chicken but for an easy fix, SPAM is the way to go!

Filipino Recipe - How to make Filipino Sopas using Spam

Happy Filipino Heritage Month! Here is a not so commonly popular Filipino dish but typical in house holds.

 Munggo is a mung bean stew, that usually takes a long time to cook over the stove but cuts the time in the instant pot. This is a simple recipe I make almost every few weeks. Very easy, super delicious and high in fiber!

Instant Pot -Mung Bean Stew

Happy Filipino Heritage Month! In today's video, my mom and I will be showing you how to make the popular dish Pancit.

Pancit is one of those dishes that is at almost every Filipino party, especially birthdays, for 'long life'. You gotta have your noodles for long life. Here is a recipe for you to have this featured at your next event!

My mom breaks it down with some tips to go from basic to expert level -- the importance of your noodle brand, soaking your noodles and using dark soy sauce instead of patis (fish sauce).

I also discover how much easier it is to shred chicken breast using two forks. Lol.

Recipe for Pancit! Popular Filipino Noodles

Happy Filipino Heritage month! In this video, I introduce how to make a ton of different popular filipino breakfast dishes.

This is the western/FilAM adaptation to a boodle fight, or 'kamayan' feast! In this video, I make some of my favorite Filipino breakfast items and present it charcuterie style. Buckle up, theres about to be a TON of food!

Menu:
Tuyo: (Usually herring) dried fish 
Danggit: local Philippine name for a fish also known the rabbitfish or spinefoot. 
Longanisa: sweet pork sausage
Tocino: sweet marinated chicken
Tortang Talong: eggplant egg cake


Filipino Breakfast Charcuterie Platter - Cooking Filipino Breakfast

Happy Filipino Heritage Month! Chicken wings, but tastes like Sinigang! Basically like Filipino Lemon Pepper Wings.

I saw this on Facebook a few times and I was like - wahhhh?! I LOVE CHICKEN, and I like sinigang, so put the two together!? EASY. But I still would never do chicken sinigang, ewwww lolol. This recipe is SO easy!

I use the Mama Sita "Sinigang na Sampalok" mix, you can add more, but it would become tooo sour.

TBH In the end video, the chicken looks overcooked, but if you follow the direction in the video it will come out perfect. Lmao, for the end video I accidentally ran it a THIRD time which dried out the chicken a little, but it was still fine. 


Air Fry Recipe - Sinigang Chicken Wings - Filipino "Lemon Pepper" - Savory and Sour 

Happy Filipino Heritage Month! To keep it going with easy recipes, and i'm sure we've all picked up an air-fryer in the last 16 months, give this recipe a try!

Tortang Talong or in English: Eggplant Omelet is a popular dish to make in the Philippines. With its affordable ingredients, this is a staple dish typically seen at breakfast.



Air Fry Recipe - Eggplant Omelet - Filipino Dish

Happy Filipino Heritage Month! For today's video, I will show you how to make a popular Filipino dish called Kare Kare. Kare Kare is a Filipino peanut butter stew made traditionally with Oxtrail but can be made with your favorite cuts of beef

This was one of my favorite dishes growing up and I've made it on the stove top and it just took foreverrr. I even made this in the crock pot once and -- did you know that sometimes the meat can just be too soft?! When I cooked it in the crockpot all the meat literally fell off the bone and it was all mixed in the stew, super bummed BUT IN THE INSTANT POT?! THIS IS THE WAY.

Instant Pot Recipe: Kare Kare - Filipino Oxtail Peanut Butter Stew

Happy Filipino Heritage Month! Here is another easy Filipino dish to make: Pork Sinigang!  

Sinigang is another popular dish in Filipino cuisine characterized by its sour and savoury taste. It is most often associated with tamarind, which gives it that nice sour taste.

Cooking this in the instant pot cuts down boiling the pork and makes it very tender in a third of the time. This is a super BASIC recipe using somewhat easy to find vegetables from your local grocery store.

Stay tuned for the Air Fry Chicken Wing Recipe I will release soon!

Instant Pot Recipe: Sour Pork Stew. Filipino Sinigang

Happy Filipino Heritage Month! For this video, I will be preparing Chicken Arroz Caldo!

Chicken Arroz Caldo, otherwise known as Lugaw or Chicken Porridge, is ULTIMATE COMFORT FOOD! It is a rice porridge casserole rice with chicken and ginger; garnished with your choices of toasted garlic, scallions, and black pepper, lemon, fish sauce and hard-boiled egg.



Instant Pot: Chicken Arroz Caldo/Porridge

Happy Filipino Heritage month! In this HOW TO video, I show you how to make a popular Filipino dish called Chicken Adobo, but in the Instant Pot.

Chicken Adobo is one of the easiest Filipino recipes and the first one i've ever learned. I took it to the Instant Pot and this variation isn't 100% a 'set it and forget it' recipe, but it can be and I just tackled the 'more labor intensive' version for this video. But it can be altered to be a true Instant Pot style of cooking.

100000x apologies on all the background noise in this video ): First the ceiling fan and then the TV was hella loud. You can still hear me, theres just so bleh in the background. So so sorry!

Music:
- Black Eyed Peas: Bebot
- Bebot Karaoke Version

Instant Pot Recipe: Chicken Adobo!

San Francisco, CA

We tried Gyu-Kaku 3 times in two months to give you my best review of this popular Japanese Barbecue chain.

Gyu-Kaku provides an authentic Japanese "yakiniku" (grilled barbecue) dining experience where you can cook premium meats over a flaming charcoal grill. 

They have TONS of locations all over the US, check it out on their website. Like honestly I was surprised how many locations there were and this was my first time hearing/going to a Gyu-Kaku lol. This location was filmed in San Francisco btw!

Locations:
<a href="https://www.gyu-kaku.com/locations-menus-2">https://www.gyu-kaku.com/locations-menus-2</a>/

Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ! Authentic Japanese Yakiniku Experience!

Berkeley, CA

Cheers to random brewery trip! Enjoy a quick react of me trying a couple beers and quickly getting intoxicated cause they were STRONG!

Fieldwork Brewery Company
1160 Sixth St, Berkeley, CA 94710

Beer Tasting @ Fieldwork Brewery Company in Berkeley

Redwood City, CA

I love dinner and entertainment! Teppanyaki or in "Hibachi" as it's known in the U.S. is occasionally used to refer to what is really teppanyaki cooking. 

This is another option outside of Benihana in the Bay Area that I really enjoyed. VERY flavorful.

A "Hibachi" Dinner Experience! @ Sakura Teppanyaki and Sushi in Redwood City

LIVE EVENTS, it is back (kinda), even in a much smaller scale form. Dreamforce 2021 was held on September 21- 23 in San Francisco, California. This event usually takes over all of San Francisco, but has adjusted for COVID times. 

Thank you for the opportunity to see this event Salesforce!

Got to see Foo Fighters too, an emotional support pig, and the cutest Saleforce Characters IRL!

Dreamforce Returned to San Francisco 2021!

Restaurants

I can't believe Taco Bell has their own version of the Chicken Sandwich. YOU KNOW I HAD TO DO IT! CHICKEN SANDWICH REVIEW TIME!

I've tried McDonalds, Burger King, Popeyes, KFC, Jollibee AND NOW TACO BELL. Truly amazing this was an option.

Get it while it's still around for a limited time!

Trying Both Taco Bell Crispy Chicken Sandwich Tacos!!!!!!! REVIEW! Limited Time

San Jose, CA

Have you heard about 'ghost kitchens'? In this video I found Egghead which had a shared community space where i had to pick up my food from a locker. Was an interesting experience..