LAMON KRONICLES: Puregold Brand Fishballs + Daboy Pork Backfat Chicharon + Sundry Dried Mango + Virgo Sampaloc Balls

 

Puregold Brand Fishballs

2021.05.19 - First published

2021.06.26 - Updated with new photos

Kapag medyo nababaliw with suicidal and erratic thoughts again -- FOOD IS MY ANTI-KRAZY!

In the absence of the brand of fishball na binibili ko palagi, sinubukan ko ang Puregold brand na fishballs, same market price naman. I noticed immediately na mas mabilis ito maluto (medium-high to high heat) and it is always crunchy hanggang sa loob. Unlike yung usual brand na binibili ko ay mahirap gawin crunchy and takes long to cook, usually ends up soggy. To make it more interesting, I fried all the chili in the picture below, hindi na sila maanghang once you cut them in half and fry them, and it doesn't have any painful effect, just warming effect all over my body in a good way and it will make you sweat to detox. The chili, I eat them whole dipped with condensed milk syrup... yummy!

Somewhere near Puregold Kanlaon, may nagbebenta ng fried porkchop/backfat along Mayon near Del Monte Avenue (in front of Mercury Drugstore and palengke). Suki ako doon and they sell it for 25 Pesos each (now 30 Pesos as of June 2021). I used to travel to Blumentritt to my suki as pilgrimage pero nawala na sila since 2020. =(

What I used to buy from my suki around LRT Blumentritt...

If you like the chicharon pork skin with backfat, try niyo the Daboy Pork Backfat Chicharon. This was 198 Pesos from Ever Grocery as of May 2021. Yung soft chewy part under the skin ang hinahanap ko, tamang lasa lang hindi maalat. Best ever, sulit naman siya tumatagal ng 3 days, mas sulit nga compared to eating out...

It's been forever since nabili ako ng dried mangos, like 2005 maybe. It used to be 75 Pesos for this pack. Nowadays the good brand is around P250! There is the cheaper version available in Ever Supermarket in our neighborhood. The Sundry Dried Mango is P170 for 200 grams. The quality is great... soft chewy texture, feels fresh, smells like sweet mango, delicious taste. There are also plenty of snacks exclusive to Ever, my favorites are the gummy worms and chichacorn, masarap din yung dried pusit. All at affdable and reasonable prices despite the insane inflations everywhere.

Of course, maganda din bumili ng Virgo Sampaloc Balls (15 Pesos each) to eat afterward. I used to buy the spicy sampaloc version that comes in the plastic tupperware container. It used to be 20 Pesos back from 2010 to 2016, around 2019 nasa 25 Pesos na, then this year 2021 nasa 33 Pesos na siya. This is krazy! Anyway, yung non-spicy version binibili ko nowadays.

Ako yung tao who rarely drank softdrinks, usually about twice a year. This 2021 I am officially addicted to soda. Two weeks ago, nagkaroon ako ng craze for soda, it was two weeks straight everyday nabili ako ng 2 Liters soda tapos laklakin ko, hindi naman ako alcoholic or drug addict at least. So ayun, sober na ako ngayon but had a relapse today...

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