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Carabeef is everywhere.. even in “imported” cornedbeef which city dwellers buy in grocery stores…
Ha ha ha. This carabeef… Once I was with my CIC in Mahogany and we thought we got a bargain for a beef camto and then later found out that it will take 2 hours to tenderize it in pressure cooker.
Actually, we’ve been there a lot of times since 90s and our lesson learned on that last fiasco is to go marketing there in the morning and not in the afternoon. My CIC and her sister will do the marketing while I will be in the eating places opposite the beef market. It’s still strange to me that beef papaitan and Batangas goto seems to taste better in Manila’s eating places than in Mahogany’s.
But don’t get me wrong, it’s different once you’re invited for a lunch or dinner around that area – t’yak sabog ang ihe mo sa sarap ng papaitan and Batangas goto.
Even on a nearby places like Amadeo.
Ms. Connie, everytime we go to Tagaytay and see another high-rise or fastfood place, nakakalungkot. We love Tagaytay, m husband specially, and we used to dream of buying a property there for our retirement. Lately, parang ayaw na namin.
My sister introduced me to Ilog Maria and our friends now swear about how good their products are.
Re: beef-it has happened so many times to us, buying meat that we had to boil overnight. Nakakapikon di ba, all that effort and money and you end up with the same thing that supermarkets and wet markets here also offer.
had i known that you’ll be having this project, sana napakausap ko sa’yo si misis and her mom. having lived in tagaytay for a long time, perhaps they’ll have tons of information to share on batangas beef and kapeng barako.
maraming anomalya about the high-rise buildings and other commercial establishments including who the owners are and how they managed to get building approvals. kaso lang, even if things were being committed right in front of you, you can’t even allow yourself to talk about it in public in fear of seeing yourself (if you still could see) or your family members hanging on steel hooks alongside the carabeef in mahogany market.
not that i’m saying those photos are of dead people, haha.
ahhh, so many things – politics, i wish i never knew.
you could moderate this comment.
I still want to do the project but you can be sure I won’t be singing praises to mahogany market.
We had the same experience at Mahogany in the past. I also swore never to buy from a place that would sell to out-of-towners such low quality beef… buti nga sa iyo you still cooked it, ours was so bad even after cooking we had to throw the food away. Sayang talaga! Anyway I learned my lesson- everytime we go up and opt to cook we bring beef bought from S&R para sigurado. I don’t want to support local businesses that are seems dubious.
Sassy although I know how great your advocacy sounds and by all means should be practiced by more, I think the age of Julia Child is gone inasmuch as we look at genuine local-sourced ingredients as the basis for home cooking. Locally-raised meat will really be even more difficult to verify as to its source and how it is produced, so now we’re just down to seeing the essential fresh vegetables and fruits we can at least still have some method of control and acquisition over. Hell, it’s a Knorr and Purefoods world now, and everytime a grocery or supermarket opens here in the metro or in the country, more and more of these places are just every inch the marketing properties of the food-processing conglomerates.
You know I’m not one of those that will complain if wet markets — as we know them today — become extinct. What I’d like to see are real farmers markets and meat shops that can guarantee the sanitation and quality of their products and that sell under sanitary conditions too.
I also think that when the day comes that the wet markets become scarcer, then it will be a pretty ominous sign. But I hope that will never happen, not in our lifetime at least. The older I get the more I am appreciating how good local vegetables and our bounty of fresh fruits are when they are well-prepared in our own native recipes. That is something we have so long taken for granted, and what a lot of people just plain ignore. I mean, screw the italian, the french, the spaniard and the american ways and even the way some established media chefs here try to fuse or replicate what foreigners do with regard to locally-sourced ingredients, it’s time we keep building on our own food tradition and not care about what the rest of the world thinks or does. We have more than plenty if we just focus on our own proverbial plate.
Re screw the Italian… Way… Cooks oughta care only about their own way. And the best cook is one who can create a delicious meal using whatever is on hand.
Connie….that’s SAD…please try shopping at Indang or Mendez Cavite where the locals get their meat and know their “suki”,it’s not far from Mahogany but you should go there early.
Ben,I share your sentiments…last Sat. I was lucky to buy
“sibuyas na mura” sold at the swap meet here in LA for
$1.00 a bunch
hi connie,
sorry for this but i don’t know how to send you this request. i would like to get your legal opinion on the uploading of videos that are scandalous and humiliating to women ( i guess, you know who i mean). i’m really bothered by this. no, i’m so mad at the person that i can’t even mention his name. i have 3 daughters and i really feel for the victims.
what can we do as parents and citizens to ensure that this kind of thing don’t happen again and scums like him are eradicated from the face of the earth? how do we protect our daughters from sick people like him?
thank you and more power on your blog.
disgustedmom
What is it exactly that you find disgusting? And how do you know it wasn’t something both parties agreed to to generate controversy to boost their going-nowhere careers?
UPDATE: You might be interested to know that Kho was not the only one with copies of the videos.
He guilty of doing the taping, no doubt, but who exactly did the circulating is anyone’s guess at this point.
Exactly, Ms. Connie, methinks the people involved in the scandal can only benefit from all this publicity.
Public reaction can be so strange. Filipinos have developed this “people power” mentality. Look at the reaction in the Alec Baldwin issue. Every time they don’t like something, the mob goes wild. Very few seem to realize that democracy also means being able to live with things we don’t like.
Hi ms. connie,
If you are still looking for a real beef within batangas/tagaytay area, you might want to try the one near the boudary of tagaytay and nasugbu. You can also try the one sold near Alfonso arc. I am currently working here in Nasugbu and likes to eat tapsilog. According to the owner of the store, they bought their tapa in stores near the boundary as they are cheaper and much assured that it is real beef.
Okay… EmyM suggests Indang and Mendez in addition. I’ll remember all that and AVOID Mahogany meat market in the future.
Mahogany Market/Tagaytay is in Cavite. The Taal Volcano and Lake is in Batangas, but the ridge overlooking the volcano and lake is in Cavite. Cavite profits from the Batangas landscape and view. People go to Tagaytay looking for Batangas Beef and Kapeng Barako.
Explore Taal Lake from the towns of Talisay or Mataas na Kahoy, Batangas. You can buy beef from Taal, Barong Tagalogs and Balisong.
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