Shrimp, Sprite and Pig Head: The Mysteries and Delights of True Filipino Cuisine
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Chef Yana Gilbuena discusses fertilized duck eggs, traveling dinner pop-ups and the traditional Filipino method of eating with one’s hands. Plus, water fights (and eating well) in Myanmar; cheesier pasta; and Adam Gopnik on wine and philosophy. (Originally aired June 21, 2018.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Milkstreet Radio listeners, for our Thanksgiving episode this year, we want to tackle your |
| 0:04.5 | greatest Thanksgiving cooking challenges, savory and sweet. So if you need a new side dish, for example, |
| 0:11.9 | or help with your pie dough, we're here to help. Email us at questions at milkstreetradio.com. |
| 0:17.6 | One more time. Thanksgiving questions, please send them to questions at milkstreetradio.com. Thanks. |
| 0:26.7 | Hi, this is Christopher Kimball. Thanks for downloading this week's podcast. You can go to our website, |
| 0:32.4 | 177Milkstreet.com to stream our television show, get our recipes, or take our free online cooking |
| 0:39.5 | classes. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:46.3 | This is Milk Street Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. |
| 0:51.3 | Yana Giladueno was born in the Philippines, a country of over 7,000 islands and a huge number of local cuisines. |
| 0:58.7 | Yana has traveled through all 50 states here in America doing pop-up Filipino dinners served in the Kamayan style, which means the guests eat with her hands. |
| 1:07.7 | We asked Yana to Milk Street to talk about her new book, No Forks Given. |
| 1:12.3 | There would be like fish vendors, and then the restaurants at the beach would just grill it |
| 1:18.5 | in front of you. And then instead of serving you plates and utensils, they would lay out the banana |
| 1:22.9 | leaves and put the rice there and just put the fish and you just go at it. |
| 1:33.9 | Before we hear from Gilbueina, I chat with reporter Shana Shealy about thing yen, |
| 1:37.5 | a Myanmar water feast, also known as the Burmese New Year. |
| 1:44.4 | Taking place in Yangon, it is described as Myanmar's biggest annual collective water fight. |
| 1:46.8 | Shana, how are you? |
| 1:47.8 | I'm good. How are you? |
| 1:53.5 | I'm good. Tell me a little bit about this water festival. I've never heard of it before. |
| 1:57.6 | What is it all about? What's the concept? |
| 2:01.6 | Yeah, so water festival, or in Myanmar, it's called Thinjin. It happens all over East and Southeast Asia, and it varies in tradition and intensity. |
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