Lugaw
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Lugaw
In Malolos Bulacan, there are so many people who sells rice porridge or what we called “lugaw”. Lugaw is popular filipino delicacy, it is traditionally thought as a soft food that serve to sick people, it doesn’t require much chewing unless it has a toppings. Lugaw is best to eat when the rainy season comes, because of the cold weather filipino’s are cooking lugaw to feel warm in their bodies.
For now, the best or famous lugawan in Malolos Bulacan is “Lugaw ni Abel”.
Abel’s porridge started year 1989. The name of the lugawan was named after Madam Isabel or “Abel”, currently the daughter of Madam Isabel is now taking care of the lugawan. They started at small carenderia where they only serve a plain lugaw, it’s a humble beginning for them started with a nipa hut back in the 1980’s.
As time went by, they thought of mixing cow’s brain and eyes into their porridge to give other flavors and made it even more delicious. Apart of the cow’s brain and eyes, they have another ingredients such as tongue, meat, fish, fried lumpia, and tofu and pork. These ingredients made their porridge even more tastier and delicious, because of their unique recipe of lugaw. But until now the recipe of their lugaw is still a secret recipe of their family.
This simple and humble restaurant “Lugaw ni Abel” in Malolos, Bulacan has now became famous and got visited by a lot of people in malolos, and some YouTube vloggers are visiting the restaurant to taste the famous lugaw in Malolos.
ORIGIN
The rice porridge is brought in the Philippines by the Chinese migrants before Spanish colonists arrived in 1521. In Chinese they called it “rice congee”. On the other hand, the earliest mentioned lugaw as rice mixed with water or milk is that they recorded in “Vocabulario de La Lengua Tagala” by a Spanish priest which is Pedro de San Buenaventura.
Sanggunian:
Maño, OJ. (2021). LugawIsEssential: 15 Best Lugawan in Bulacan. Bulakenyo.ph. https://www.bulakenyo.ph › lugawi… (Bulakenyo.ph)
@airacanlas. Lugaw ni Abel. tumblr.com https://www.tumblr.com › airacanlas
Lim, Cruz, M,C,I https://imeldalim64.wordpress.com › (WordPress.com)
Admin. Lugaw. Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki (Lugaw – Wikipedia)