Kim’s dad has been growing and pickling these little “labuyo” peppers since he was a boy. They are incredibly hot. We sent some to Luke for Christmas.
Kim
Kim Eats an “Uncle Lakay Pepper” from Justin on Vimeo.
Luke
Lakay Pepper Tasting from LW on Vimeo.
I know that I have been with Kim for a long time now, because I can watch this video and legitimately laugh heartily at 99% of the jokes. The basis of most Filipino-American humor hinges on the clash between the two cultures, particularly the languages and the resulting accent. I’d say the majority of jokes [...]
I have been trying to get Kim to blog almost as long as I have been doing it myself. She is a wealth of knowledge about a broad range of topics and, I, being a believer in the power of the internet and of the free distribution of information, think her thoughts could be enlightening [...]
What a great title. I wish what I was about to say was as exciting.
Sometimes I need a break from the coffee served in our office and I take a quick stroll down the street to Daily Grind Unwind in Virginia Beach’s Town Center, the owner of which happens to be Filipina. I believe [...]
Decades ago a group of Filipino American immigrants came to the states by way of the US Navy and began referring to their group of friends as the kabuti (mushroom in Tagalog) as more and more members of their family kept popping up around them… like mushrooms. They remained close over the years, and [...]
For the most part, I like Filipino food. Kim’s mom’s adobo is unbelievable, I really like kare-kare (ox tail in peanut sauce) and I’ve eaten my share of lechon, nilaga, siopao, and sinagang– not to mention the 300 metric tons of pansit and lumpia I have consumed in the last two years.
Still, there are [...]
I spent the evening with the kabuti kids yesterday. We watched a few scary-ish movies and one of those dumbass shows where a group of lunk-headed high school dropouts covered with tattoos go looking for ghosts using “scientific methods.” For some reason they always show these shows in black and white during the “investigation” and [...]
As some of you know already, Kim’s sister, Rumellee, is pregnant with her first child. I would have made a post about this earlier, but there’s a lot of smoke and mirrors that goes with being Filipino. I had to keep my mouth shut because I wasn’t officially supposed to know. Rum knew that I [...]
Kim and I might be making Lumpia Shanghai (filipino egg rolls) this weekend. If anyone wants to put in an order they are $25 for 50 (a freaking bargain compared to most of the Filipino bakeries in Virginia Beach and the frozen commerical crap you buy at Farm Fresh). She seriously makes the best lumpia [...]
Last night at Rum and Erwin’s place we were watching TFC (The Filipino Channel) and witnessed a poor 12 year-old Filipino girl sing “My Humps” on the variety show, Wowowee. Anyone who doesn’t think American pop culture is a Cancer upon the world, needs to seriously reasses their value system. My only comfort is [...]
