Wyatt's Kitchen: Bull's Eye Rice Soup

Bull's Eye Rice Soup
Thursday, October 08, 2009

It's been raining almost everyday for the last 2 weeks. Since Typhoon Ondoy hit Metro Manila, we hardly experience a sunny day. I still have to dry and clean some of the documents and books that were soaked from the 2 story flood that soaked my vehicle in Marikina.

More than those books, I am still waiting word from my hardware technician about the status of my external harddisk. I am still hoping to retrieve my files I've accumulated for the last 3 years. During rainy days, most of the Filipinos are eating Lugaw (rice soup). In a way, it extends the use of rice. It warms the body and the soul.

In Malolos, Bulacan, there's a famous and elusive Lugawan. Elusive because I went there three times before I finally got what was highly recommended to me by an officemate. "Lugaw with mata ng baka".

To go to Abel, you can take the Sta. Rita exit from NLEX. Take a left turn after chowking Plaridel.

Their lugaw is served with fried garlic.

Underneath those garlic is the meat of your choice (for this visit I had lengua)

. . . and an extra bull's eye.

I eat fish eye which i usually save to punctuate my fish head experience but it's my first time to eat a bovine's eye.

This I bluntly dissect. I can identify the parts.

and mixed in my lugaw. All the litid goodness of the bovine rice soup.

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Thanks Joan for the tip.

posted by wyatt @ Thursday, October 08, 2009,

4 Comments:

At Tuesday, October 20, 2009, sonny avila said...: Sayang, I went to this area of Plaridel last week. Had I read this, I would have tried the lugaw.
At Monday, October 19, 2009, JB said...: Oh man I've got to try this!!! The place you describe is conveniently along my route to my lola's house in Baliwag :-)

Thanks for sharing, Wyatt.
At Friday, November 06, 2009, Joanie said...: Ang sarap naman nito Wyatt! Nag crave tuloy ako. Been away in my country for 6 months now...

I miss your blog...:)
At Tuesday, November 17, 2009, joan said...: Hi Doc...just visited ur site! i never thought u've been there 3x...glad u enjoyed! hope to see u again sometime!