It's been a long time since I've posted in steemit. I don't know, maybe a couple of days or a week already I've kind of been busy with school works and the final exam (ugh that one). Like what I've mentioned before, I grabbed the opportunity to be here in steemit because I've always wanted to share and voice out my thoughts and so here I am.

I've been thinking of a topic to share and something came to my mind. After a long days of work, Let's talk about food. Today let me share to you the best experience I had when it comes to food tasting. Let me tell you all about Batangas Lomi's Secret Ingredient

Original photo taken by Yours Truly @keevesaidore

Batangas in the Philippines is famous for it's home made Lomi. All the towns and cities of Batangas have numbers of lomi houses where local folks seemed so into.
But before anything else ....

'What is Lomi?'

Lomi or Pancit Lomi is a simple type of noodle soup dish that makes use of thick egg noodles. This dish is of chinese origin and different regional variations of how it is being cooked bacame available and out of those variations, came the popular Batangas Lomi.

The Batangas Lomi Version

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It has no vegetables but it does have onions , garlic and onion leeks and other condiments. As for the texture, the soup is very thick and somewhat slightly slimy – in a good way (haha). The bowl of the soup looks like a meat stand because it is filled with different meat ingredients like pork or chicken, kikiam, chorizo , ham, homemade meatballs, fish balls and squid balls, to name a few. One more thing it also has whole hard boiled eggs which adds more flavor to the dish. Crushed chirachon is essential in Batangas Lomi It gives that barako character that all surely would love.

Lomi is also good for hangovers. Believe me, after a night of drinking liquor, you would trade anything else for a bowl of mouth-watering Batangas Lomi (Gosh, I feel like devouring one right now).

How Batangas Lomi is made?

Easy Batangas Lomi Recipe

Ingredients we need:

1 pound miki noodles
3 cloves garlic, crushed and minced
1 medium onion, minced
1/4 pound cooked Kikiam (quekiam), sliced
1/4 pound pork, sliced into thin strips
6 to 8 pieces cooked meatballs
3 tablespoons cassava flour diluted in 3 tablespoons water
1/4 pound ham, chopped
1/4 pound pig’s liver, sliced
1 1/2 tablespoons fish sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
6 cups pork or beef broth
1 cup chicharon (pork cracklings or pork rinds), pounded
1 piece raw egg, beaten
2 tablespoons onion leeks or scallions, chopped (optional)
2 to 3 pieces hard boiled eggs (optional)
2 tablespoons cooking oil

Step by Step Cooking Procedures :

1. Heat a cooking pot then pour the cooking oil.
2. When the oil is hot enough, sauté the garlic and onions.
3. Put-in the sliced pork and cook until the color turns medium brown.
4. Add-in the ham and liver then cook for about 2 minutes.
5. Add fish sauce and soy sauce then stir.
6. Pour-in the broth and let boil. Simmer until the pork strips are tender (about 20 to 30 minutes)
7. Put-in the cooked meatballs and kikiam then simmer for 3 minutes.
8. Add-in the ground black pepper and miki noodles then cook for 5 to 6 minutes.
9. Add the cassava flour diluted in water and stir well. Cook until the sauce thickens.
10. Turn-off the heat then pour-in the beaten egg. Stir constantly until the egg is well incorporated.
11. Transfer to a serving bowl and top with crushed chicharon and sliced or whole hard-boiled egg. Garnish with onion leeks.
12. And You're Done! Serve and Enjoy.

Here's a Quick Lomi Tutorial Video :

Have a Good Day!