A few weeks ago, Tsinoy Foodies was asked if we wanted to try out locally produced duck products.  We said yes for two primary reasons: 1.) We love supporting the local food industry and 2.) We are really interested in exploring more on duck meat.  

Primaduck Breakfast Platter: Pekin Duck Smoked Longganisa, Pekin Duck Tocino, Pekin Duck Skinless Longganisa and Pekin Duck Tapa

Last week, we received a variety of Primaduck’s frozen Pekin duck meat products.  Upon researching more about the products, we discovered that Primaduck is actually a subsidiary of EDL Agritourism Farm Inc.  What an intriguing coincidence because 8 years ago (way back in 2014), we had a fun experience during our visit in EDL Excellence Gamefarm and Estancia de Lorenzo in San Mateo, Rizal.  During that time, its farms and events places were still being conceptualized and developed.  We have already observed and noted then how EDL really cares about proper training, process and investment in technology in breeding its farm animals.

Now, back to Primaduck and its Pekin duck meat.  Duck meat as a poultry dish is not as popular as chicken.  While there are many types of duck, the Pekin (Asian) or Long Island (Western) duck is the most popular for consumption, because of its quality meat, flavor, tenderness and weight (up to 5 kg).   

Trivia: By the way, just found out that the dish is called Peking Duck but the variant of the duck is called Pekin Duck.  

Because ducks are waterfowls (as distinguished from chickens which is a land fowl), it has heavier fat deposit in its skin as protection from the cold then leaner and more protein-filled meat (23% fat content against 40% fat of a store-bought chicken).  Moreover, ducks can fly so it has more blood distribution resulting in darker meat.  The older the duck, the darker the meat.  But to be clear, duck meat is still classified as white meat just as other poultry since it does not contain as much Myoglobin protein as other four-legged mammals.

Primaduck Pekin Duck Tocino (250g) P72.00

Duck consumption is growing.  China remains the largest consumer at 76% (5.5M tonnes last 2018), followed by France and Myanmar.  When it comes to duck dishes, the Philippines is already world-renowned for “Balut” which is classified as an exotic dish by foreigners.  Yet, it's quite interesting that Primaduck has innovated ways to make frozen and marinated Pekin duck meat into easy-to-cook Filipino favorites.  Allow us to share our experience with them.

Pekin Duck Honey Cured Bacon (250g) P80.00

Among all the variants, we loved the Pekin Duck Honey Cured Bacon the most!  We just cooked this through an air-fryer and our Pekin Duck Honey Cured Bacon turned out to be deliciously lean and crispy.

BLT Sandwich with Primaduck Pekin Duck Honey Cured Bacon

BLT Sandwich with duck bacon, lettuce and tomatoes anyone?  With all honestly, we'd opt for this healthier sandwich and skip the pork bacon any time.

Primaduck Sandwich Platter: Pekin Duck White Sausage Sandwich, BLT Sandwich w/ Pekin Duck Honey Cured Bacon & Pekin Duck Ham & Cheese Sandwich

Check out our sandwich platter with Pekin Duck White Sausage Sandwich, BLT Sandwich with Pekin Duck Honey Cured Bacon & Pekin Duck Ham & Cheese Sandwich.  Aside from the BLT Sandwich, we also enjoyed the Pekin Duck White Sausage.  The Duck Ham was the sweetened kind which was a bit too sweet for our preference.

Primaduck Silog Platter: Pekin Duck Smoked Longganisa, Pekin Duck Tocino, Pekin Duck Skinless Longganisa and Pekin Duck Tapa

Filipinos love having Silog Meals for Breakfast.  Silog is a Portmanteau word combining sinangag (Filipino fried garlic rice dish) and itlog (Filipino word for "egg").   So we thought of making one using Primaduck's Pekin duck meat products.  

Primaduck Pekin Duck Smoked Longganisa

The best of this platter is the Pekin Duck Smoked Longganisa and Pekin Duck Tocino.  The taste and texture is not far off from the usual pork counterpart.  

With the Pekin Duck Skinless Longganisa, we're actually not sure if we cooked it right.  The packaging just says "fry in a single layer pan until cooked".  Unfortunately, since we are new to this type of meat, we had no idea or even an approximately on the temperature or time for cooking it.  We're also not sure how the inner meat when cooked would look like so we're guessing that we failed in cooking this so it tasted kinda funny.  

Primaduck Pekin Duck Tapa

The Pekin Duck Tapa was dominantly salty with a counterbalancing pepperish taste.  Since we had a better first try of the Duck Tapa during our visit at Estancia de Lorenzo, we just couldn't help but yearn for that.  

Overall, we're so glad to try Primaduck Premium Pekin Duck Meat.  It is an amazing, proudly pinoy product, that shows innovativeness and progression.  Primaduck delivers within Metro Manila so hope you can all check them out.

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Even with the COVID pandemic and some quarrantine measures in place, we noticed that there are two Korean craze that are still at an all time high in terms of popularity: (1) Samgyupsal and (2) Mukbang.  Just to join the bandwagon, we decided to try out All4U Unlimited Grill & Shabu Shabu and see if we could do it too.

So what exactly is Mukbang about?  Mukbang is a portmanteau word that comes from combining two (2) partial Korean words: (1) muk-ja which means eating and (2) bang-song which mean broadcast.

Thus, Mukbang is a Korean trend that started in 2010 where the Broadcast Jockey (BJ) (Korea's term for vlogger) consumes a lot of food in front of an online audiovisual broadcast.

As the popularity of Mukbang is still growing, some BJs are even incorporating ASMR which stands for autonomous sensory meridian response into their style of broadcast.

Food

So we were all very excited to see if we have a potential in riding this Mukbang craze.

In every social community, there's a compass that leads us to where we are.  In our family, we're all agree that it is our mom.  We all admire her for being an action person.  Once she sets her mind on something, she quickly acts on it.  So last year around March, when everyone was preparing for the possibility of a lock down, she craved for Japanese Souffle Pancakes and we ended up going up just for Motto Motto.

As we look back at our photos and recall the memories of that night, we can't help but feel grateful that we did go out that night.  Little did we realize back then that it would take a very long time to dine out as comfortably as that time...without masks, face shields and acrylic dividers.

Also upon writing this, we've come to recognize that time is indeed relative.  Even after a year, our recollection of this moment is immensely sharp as if not a year has passed because there weren't any other dining out experiences that filled the rest of the year after this.

 

Food

All Day Breakfast

Classic Souffle Pancake (250 php)

Strawberry Souffle Pancake (250 php)

Salads

Silky Tofu and Kaisou Salad (220 php/Sharing)

Hamburg-O-Rama

Demi Glace (350 php)

Motto Motto Donburi

Special Gyudon US Beef (395 php)

Oyakodon (295 php)

Seafood Tendon (375 php)

Shake Yukhoe Don (350 php)

Curry Rice

Karaage Curry Rice (275 php)

3

Beverages

Coffee Hot or Cold

 

Iced Latte (110 php)

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We've been hearing about GrabKitchen for quite some time now.  It now has multiple locations all over the Metro. 

Dishes from GrabKitchen Malate: Omakase, Pepi Cubano, King Chef and So Mot

You can simply type "GrabKitchen" in Grab Food and GrabKitchen Mix and Match and you will see the GrabKitchen locations that are available for your area.  

So we chose the nearest in our area - GrabKitchen Mix and Match (Malate) which carries:

(1) Omakase, (2) Frankie's, (3) Recovery Food, (4) Paper Moon, (5) Yogorino, (6) Pepi Cubano, (7) Dapo at Tisa, (8) King Chef, (9) La Tita, (10) Selecta, (11) So Mot, (12) Blu Kouzina, (13) Coco Fresh Tea and Juice (14)  Merienda by Pan De Manila and (15) Go! Salads

 If you're from the South, you can check out GrabKitchen Mix and Match (Parañaque):

(1) 24 Chicken, (2) Alishan at the Alley, (3) Army Navy, (4) Cara Mia, (5) La Titas MNL, (6) Kyoto Sushi Bake, (6) El Nacho Libre, (7) Sheikh’s Kebab, (8) Breakfast for 2, (9) Black Kimchi!, (10) Pizza Telefono, (11) Selecta, (12) Omakase, and (13) Dapo at Tisa.

Upon selecting from multiple merchants: Omakase, Pepi Cubano, King Chef and So Mot, a single delivery fee of 69 php was charged.  We were curious as to the location but it does not appear.  It's okay though cause we can still see the status of the orders and estimated time of arrival. 

Omakase

Spicy Tuna Salad (355 php)

Spareribs with 8 Spices (480 php) and Salt & Pepper Squid (470 php)

King Chef is not new to us.  In fact, it's an old favorite that we've shared about before already.

So Mot

Mi Xao - Stir Fried Noodles w/ Chicken (195 php), Goi Cuon - Fresh Spring Rolls (188 php) and Banh Mi Ga - Chicken (155 php)

Pepi Cubano

Tito Choripan (187 php)

With GrabKitchen Mix and Match, we were able to have Japanese Spicy Tuna Saladfrom Omakase and Vietnamese Goi Cuon - Fresh Spring Rolls from So Mot as appetizers, Chinese Spareribs with 8 Spices and Salt & Pepper Squid from King Chef and Vietnamese Mi Xao - Stir Fried Noodles w/ Chicken from So Mot as main course.  We even had Vietnamese Banh Mi Ga - Chicken from So Mot and Tito Choripan from Pepi Cubano as afternoon snack.  Not bad for one delivery fee right?

The convenience of GrabKitchen Mix and Match is even greater when it comes to an office or party set up with numerous people with different food mood and preferences.