SteemFoods Review || Roro Cordova's TUSLOBUWA

Hello to my SteemFoods buddies! How are you all today? I hope everything is well wherever you are today. Greetings of peace and love from the Philippines. 🇵🇭

Last Friday night, we visited one of our favorite streetfood hub with my husband @hulyootso. It is a 25-minute motorcycle ride from our home in Mactan. It is located in Roro Port Cordova. Cordova is an adjacent municipality next to Lapu-Lapu City. Cordova is known for its fresh seafoods like fish, shellfish and seaweeds. It has its own festival called the Bakasi Festival. Bakasi or eel is a favorite delicacy in Cordova. They either cook it crispy fried or made into a soup with tons of tomatoes and ginger.

But for tonight, I will be featuring a food that has slowly taking its spot in the Cebuano cuisine. It's called Tuslobuwa. The term tuslobuwa comes from two words: tuslob which means to dip and buwa which means bubbles. For this dish, customers will be provided with a portable stove, a pan and a ladle. You will be provided with the ingredients for the tuslobuwa all prepared/sliced in saucers or li'l plates or bowls.

Ingredients for tuslobuwa: oil, chopped white onions, chopped chillis, pork liver and brain, soy sauce and special pork soup

Here's how to prepare the Tuslobuwa:
*In a pan, sauté chopped white onion and chillis.

*Add pork liver and pork brain into the pan.

*Add soy sauce.

*Lastly, add the special pork soup. (I asked the food attendant about this soup and she told me that it's made from pork with spices, seasonings and Knorr pork cubes. It's kind of a thick sauce, with lighter color and milder taste than a gravy.)

Now here's why it is called Tuslobuwa. Once all ingredients are incorporated well and simmered, once you noticed that it's about to boil forming buwa or bubbles, that's when you make tuslob or dip the puso or hanging rice into the soup/sauce. Puso, by the way, is rice cooked in woven coconut leaves. The coconut leaves add aroma to the rice.

Our orders comprised of a set of Tuslobuwa (tuslobuwa ingredients with 7 pieces of puso/hanging rice) which cost Php 80 or 1.5$. We also had grilled bangus or milkfish for Php 100 or 2$, assorted barbecues (pork, chorizo, chicken liver) for Php 140 or 3$ and 2 bottles of water for Php 40 or 1$. Which means this wonderful foodtrip experience just cost us a total of Php 360 or 7.5$.

I would say that Tuslobuwa is indeed a savory experience playing in your palate. You get to taste the umami flavor of the pork liver and the special sauce. For Php 80 or 1.5$ per set, this can already be enjoyed by 2-3 persons. It's indeed an appetizing food experience! Plus if you need to have some more puso or hanging rice, you can have them at Php 5 only! But just a friendly reminder: don't make eating tuslobuwa a habit hehe, because eating too much fat, especially because this has pork brain in it, isn't good for your health. It's good to indulge sometimes but just everything in moderation.

Here are the other food items that you can choose from the Tuslobuwa food hub:

Tuslobuwa set price ranging from 80-100 pesos or 1.5-2$

Wide array of fish and meat items ready for grilling

Assorted BBQs for 10-50 pesos per stick

Grilled bangus or milkfish for 100 pesos or 2$

Tuna panga or jawbone 200 pesos or 4$

Here are the pictures of the interior and exterior of the Tuslobuwa streetfood restaurant:

And using Google Map, I have this screenshot how to get to Roro Port in Cordova from our point in Mactan:

That's it for now my friends. I hope you enjoyed our foodtrip today. And I'll see you again in our next cooking and eating adventures. Hanggang sa muli! Until next time! Ciao!

Your foodie buddy,
Rose