Helping by Eating: Knorr's Food for Change at Mercato Centrale (Part 2: The Sisig Post)

Just recently Knorr had a food tasting event called Food for Change wherein for every ticket helps fight hunger, you also get to sample up to 50 food concessionaires at Mercato Centrale BGC.You get to vote who's the top

So here's some of the best sisig and bagnet I tried:

Chef Bab's alone has 3 versions of sisig on display
Crispy Pork Sisig - unlike other sisigs, this one is chopped roughly resulting in bigger pork cuts

Chef B's Crispy Pork Sisig

The version with mayonnaise

Pork Dinakdakan

Pork Dinakdakan - This one is slightly different. They cut the pork lengthwise, there's no crunchy stuff. Just tender pork slices made a bit spicy with sili, very good, where's the beer?

 Crunchy Belly by Carlos Kitchen

They lay those golden morsels of bagnet in front of you, like a spiderweb luring the unsuspecting fly, Oh my, these are wonderful but...

Manila Q's Bagwang still rules. I've been a loyal patron of Bagwang, this is the still that I am drawn to when I'm at Mercato. I think they were the first to offer bagnet cooked like chips then infused with garlic. Very, very delicious. I don't blame you for salivating.

Crunchon: This place has spot on crunchy sisig, probably because they use good bagnet (pork belly).The pork is not overpowering, its not swimming in oil, there's less umay and the crunchiness is just mind-blowing.

Other concessionaires:

Bagnet with rice 120 bucks

sisig with mayo, umay and grease galore

 

Helping by Eating: Knorr's Food for Change at Mercato Centrale part 1

Last October 26, we were at Knorr's Food for Change Program at the Mercato Centrale. For 300 pesos per ticket you can sample up to 50 food concessionaires at the Mercato Centrale, the Knorr booths and help fight hunger.

Knorr's Food for change grabbed from their FB page

The program was hosted by Atom Araullo featuring recipes by Chef Marvin Agustin. I'm not really a big sinigang fan. But the chance to sample over 50 food types at Mercato was indeed quite an experience. So let's check out some of our food tasting finds

Fajitas with aoili, I had 3 of these yummies, Thanks Knorr

Get to vote for the best food concessionaires

Takoyaki with crabstick in the middle, Ready Ike? Kick the baby!

Baby Back ribs and Peking chicken

Knorr sinigang stall, the sourness wasn't overpowering

Mini Tacos, good but I wish it was bigger

Orange you glad its kwek-kwek?

A feast of cholesterol-laden yummies

Ilocos Empanada. just too good to pass up

Freshly cooked Ilocos empanada

This is the Vigan version but not as good as Ilocos, plus its oily too

Roast Beef, the whole brisket

Angus Tapa Salpicao

With so many food items, where do you start?

Check out the part 2 of this post featuring sisig and other good stuff.

Hooray for Sisig!

Who doesn't love sisig?

It's so high in fat and cholesterol, yet you can't help but drool over it.
Why? Because its ingredients are so bad its gives you a good buzz afterwards.

3 weeks ago, I made a sizzling discovery. Of all places, can you believe I found delicious sisig at SM Foodcourt. The place is called Sisig Hooray and they offer fresh sisig, made in front of you.
This place is always packed and there's a long line at the counter and I don't wonder why. Their pork sisig is one of the best I've had.

The ingredients are freshly chopped. And presented like Mongolian Barbecue. Chopped liver. Onions. Chopped pork. Chicharon. Crushed Peppers. Sesame oil. and the mustard-looking "Special Sauce". All over mixed in a bowl then microwaved. The oil is so thick you could see the "sebo", how divine. Chicharon and sili is added last. You can also opt to remove the parts you don't like.

To add drama to your meal is the burly man chopping the chicharon and the "pigue" part of the pork in rhythmic cadences. Not only do you get a yummy meal, you get treated to a drumline chorus.

And the end result is a flavorful, crunchy, delicious sisig you'll ever taste. Take my word for it. It's very,very good.

What I like about their sisig - They don't cheat and scrimp on ingredients, they use pork but not the icky parts you don't see, head cheese and all. You could see the lechon chopped right before you.

What makes me uncomfortable - The plastic containers used to heat the sisig. Most are already damaged from the constant heating of the food.

What they offer - Pork sisig P51, Chicken Sisig P51, and Bangus sisig P 61 Barkada blowout (good for 4) P130 really cheap and hits the spot! The quality of the rice is not good so I recommend buying rice from nearby Jollibee.

Ratings:
FOOD 5 forks
AMBIANCE n/a (what can you expect in SM foodcourt)
VALUE FOR MONEY 5 forks
VARIETY 3 forks They just have 3 kinds of sisig but I'm not complaining

Don't miss this place. Its sisig to die for!

Sisig Hooray
SM Makati Foodcourt near escalator beside Jollibee