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SABAW - NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Filipino stews and soups, born in the heat of the tropics, are also perfect cold weather food. It’s like our ancestors knew their descendants would one day span the globe, working and living in every part of the world, eating our way home with every sabaw-heavy dish.

Sabaw is the liquid soul of the Filipino stew. It is more than just a complementary sauce, gravy or soup stock. When done right, it’s often simply added to rice and, boom—a meal. It is flavorful but not overpowering. Sophisticated but without pretension. It is cooked in one pot, in volumes anticipating multiple servings and leftovers, and shared by all. It is a cuisine that reflects the communalism present in most Filipino households, itself a reflection of a country where 70% of the population come from the peasant class.

This month, Food & Sh*t honors this tradition with SABAW: a return to an a la carte dinner menu featuring five stews—four modern-but-not-“Modern” variations of familiar traditional Filipino dishes and a Cajun Gumbo with Filipino flavors and Northwest seafood. No reservations required. Walk-in and online takeout orders are welcome. The Adobong Puti na Manok will also be available for pre-order and day-of delivery in select neighborhoods in partnership with Lish Food.

SABAW pop-up is at Inay’s (2503 Beacon Ave S, Seattle WA) from 5-10pm. Music provided by Melenie & Mr. Melanin. All ages welcome. Bar open for 21+ patrons.

Want to bring your food home? Take-out orders for pick up on during the pop-up are now available in the shop!

SABAW MENU

A la carte. No reservations. Sit down & take out orders welcome.

STARTERS

Balut - 3 Salmon Fish Balls - 5 Inasal Chicken Wings - 7

ENTREES

each dish comes w/ white rice Tofu Arroz Caldo - 9 (w/ soft egg - 10) Pork Sparerib Sinigang - 11 Adobong Puti na Manok (Chicken Adobo in white sauce) - 12 Oxtail Pinapaitan - 14 Bagoong Shrimp Gumbo - 15

DESSERT

Chera’s Hood-Famous Ube Cheesecake - 6 Halo-halo Macarons - 8

For more info and goodies, hit up foodandsh-t.com

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photo by codycrazybull at 5/3 Rappers W/ Cameras party. 

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For Episode One of THE SNEAKER PROJECT: SNEAKERS IN YOUR CITY, we asked Seattle hip-hop legends Thig Nat and Prometheus Brown (aka Geo Quibuyen) to show us the best that their hometown (which happens to be Nordstrom’s hometown, too) has to offer.

Get a ground-level glimpse of the Emerald City in the short video above, and keep reading for a Q&A with Thig and Geo, behind-the-scenes photos, and a closer look at their favorite spots around town (as well as those sneakers they’re sporting).

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HOT & FRESH OUT THE KITCHEN A video recap of PULUTAN! Thanks to everyone who came out and made this event pop off.

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Video from the BARKADA Video premiere at the Food & Sh*t PULUTAN pop-up 3/17.

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NAIMAS MET AH

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PRESENTING: THE 2ND VIDEO OFF BARKADA: "BARKADA" track produced by Bean One video directed by Harry Clean / Detooz Films animated by YK Ari additional footage by Ivan Mrsić filmed at Gallery 2312, Seattle WA

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There’s layers to this Filipino food shit. Level one: the Holy Trinity of Big Filipino Party food: adobo, pancit, lumpia. Level two: Filipino restaurant food. Level three: home cooking. And level four: Pulutan. From the tagalog word meaning “to pick up,” pulutan is food eaten while drinking with your homies. Auntie and uncle kicking it hard when the kids aren’t around type food. Like Spanish tapas, but with more soul and less toothpicks and bourgieness.  The pulutan du jour, sizzling sisig, anchors this month’s menu (pork $8, bangus $7, tofu $6). Also featured: fried goodness with kamote fries $4 and bagnet $6 (crispy pork belly), two chicken items: pulled adobo chicken sliders $3 and inasal chicken wings $6, and mom’s & pop’s pinapaitan $4 (beef bile soup). For our dessert menu, we’re bringing back Chera’s hood-famous ube cheesecake $6 and pandan flan $5 from our previous menus, and adding a new dish: nutella turon & ice cream $6. Also, this month my fellow Rapping Filipino Uncle, Bambu, will be joining us in the kitchen. This month marks the release of our new album Barkada under the group name The Bar—a name we chose while eating and drinking at a bar in Hawai’i. So come celebrate with us and get some bar food from The Bar, and be the first to watch our new music video “Barkada,” screening exclusively at Pulutan before launching online the next day. The pop-up opens its doors at 6pm on Monday, and there is open seating with no reservations. First-come, first-served from our a la carte menu. Have one or two pulutan dishes or share them all with friends over some San Miguel.  - Geo

Cop the new The Bar album “Barkada” here Food & Sh*t “PULUTAN” pop-up Facebook event page here

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LET GEO COOK

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HELLO

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"Coming (to America)" is the first video from Barkada, shot and edited by DJ Nphared and filmed in Kalihi, Honolulu, Hawai’i. Song produced by Justo (of The Physics).  The Bar Website: http://thebarmusic.com Beatrock Website: http://beatrockmusic.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/@thebarmusic Twitter: http://twitter.com/@thebarmusic

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GEO & BAM (THE BAR) BACK. New album BARKADA dropping March 11.

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NEW ALBUM FROM THE BAR (PROMETHEUS BROWN & BAMBU) BARKADA DROPPING MARCH 2014 ON BEATROCK MUSIC

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This last weekend Food & Sh*t and Hidmo hosted a night called "Hidmo Back!" on Beacon Hill in Seattle. A bunch of us performed: DJ Daps1, Hollis, Rogue Pinay, si dåko’ta, Daniel Pak (of Kore Ionz), Prometheus Brown and Otieno Terry (who’s incredible album with Hightek Lowlives is rumored to be dropping like next week?!) If you missed it, check this video Scott Macklin made above. I did one of the lost tracks (there’s at least 7 lost tracks) from the upcoming Children Of The Dragon album titled “The World Is A Hidmo”. Shoutout to Thione Diop and everyone holding it down at Jaam Rek on 20th & Jackson now. My song is out of date since the old Hidmo building is far from empty… it’s not in the video but I said that at the event too.

If you have know idea what Hidmo is (or was) check these archives, the quickest summary I can offer is something I wrote on the day we closed it titled Honoring an era.

"Thought you knew you did know, Hidmo…" - THEEsatisfaction

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“Last November, I went back to the Philippines for the first time since 1986. I was 6, my lolo had just passed away, and the Marcos dictatorship had just ended. It had been so long since then that I could no longer distinguish which images of the Philippines floating in my head were actual memories or imprints of photographs my pops took, substituted for memory.”

Read the whole photoessay “Pilipinas: Nov/Dec 2013 by Prometheus Brown" at wearejuxt.com

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HIDMO BACK! MONDAY, FEB 17 6PM INAY’S (2503 Beacon Ave S, Seattle, WA)

Living in an rapidly-changing city like Seattle means carrying the fond memory of places that no longer exist, the stories made in them, and the stories shared through them.

For many artists, organizers, musicians, workers and families, Hidmo was such a place. In spite of the creeping curtain of gentrification edging closer with each year, from 2006-2010, a brilliant community ate, drank, sang, rapped, danced, talked and organized in a space open to anyone who didn’t believe in margins and boundaries. We were sad to see it close, but thrilled with the possibilities that such a place inspired in many of us. 

So here we are, three years later,  witnessing the same people who once called Hidmo home continuing to make music and art, mobilizing for social justice, and surviving. Though the place we called Hidmo is gone, the idea of Hidmo still lives. This pop-up restaurant project was born out of the spirit of Hidmo, and many of the same people who you’d see there are among the people who have helped support Food & Sh*t. So when our good homie Rahwa brought up the idea of bringing Eritrean dishes to the menu, we thought, “HIDMO BACK!” Even if just for one night.

Nostalgia is often an excuse to avoid facing the future. For the graduating class of 20th & Jackson, it’s always been about the future. This month’s pop-up is a homecoming and a reminder that we create and recreate our homes wherever we are, whatever we do, and with whoever shares the same vision. And knowing that the greatest endeavors often starts when you have a room filled with good food, good music and good people.

- Geo

HIDMO BACK! will be running two pop-up dinner services: one from 6-8pm which is open to the public ($25, limited to 50 seats) and a private 8pm dinner (invite only). 

For menu and RSVP (for 6pm dinner) click the image or go here.

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Hidmo is the fam.

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THIS AINT A SEAHAWKS ANTHEM

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An excerpt from my essay “How I Started Rapping” from the newly-published Empire of Funk: Hip-hop & Representation in Filipina/o America, which you can cop here and real soon at Amazon & Barnes & Noble.

1. A Bad Rap

It’s 1987 somewhere in Waipahu. I am seven years old at a wedding and I’m dressed in slacks, a dress shirt and a pair of Adidas. The rented-out gymnasium is laid out from front to back like almost every big party I’ve been to: a food table laid out buffet style, tables and seats for eating and chilling, a dance floor that’s too big, and, at the very end of the room: a DJ behind a table standing between two large speakers flanked by his pompadour-and-rat-tailed mobile DJ crew.

I remember thinking they were the coolest Filipinos I’ve ever seen. I had been to many other Filipino parties with DJ’s but these dudes aren’t playing music from their living room speakers or using two tape decks. They have turntables and their own sound and lighting system. A banner hangs on the wall behind them repping their mobile DJ company name, probably something like “fresh” or “fusion” or something else that begins with “f.” They play all the 80s pop stuff all wedding DJ’s should play, but they’re also playing a bunch of rap. I emulate the older kids’ breakdance moves when they aren’t looking. The DJ pays Run-DMC’s “My Adidas,” and I’m like “hey, I’m wearing those!” 

This isn’t one of those “when I fell in love with hip-hop” moments. It’s simply one of hundreds of moments I remember, out of many more I’ve forgotten, where hip-hop happened to be the soundtrack of my upbringing. For many Filipino kids who grew up in 1980s America, we didn’t fall in love with hip-hop, but we fell in love while hip-hop surrounded us. Before YO! MTV Raps and The Source Magazine and weekly rap radio shows, it was at the big Filipino party—debuts, weddings, graduations, christenings, birthdays—that hip-hop music ingrained itself into my musical DNA. 

It wasn’t until later that I even knew hip-hop was called hip-hop. I got into it because all my friends and cousins were into it and we all got a rush out of listening to music with curse words. In 3rd grade I started trading cassette tapes with classmates. I discovered Too $hort, N.W.A., even local joke rap like 2 Local Boiz. In 4th grade I got suspended when my teacher caught me pulling out a copy 2 Live Crew “Me So Horny” cassette maxi-single from my backpack during class. I was sent to the principal’s office, where the vice principal lectured me on why all rap is bad, and he made me write a one-page hand-written essay regurgitating everything he just said as if I’d start believing it if I was forced to write it. Then they called my Ilocano parents to come get me. 

I remember thinking, wow, I’ve never seen old people react like this to music before. They were trippin’ like someone stole something from them or insulted their family. Because of music. And not even music they were familiar with, but music that someone else told them was bad. That’s when I really turned it up and listened to every rap record I could. I knew that whole “rap is bad” propaganda was bullshit because I was actually learning things from these songs that I wasn’t learning in a classroom. Black History, police brutality, all the stuff Ronald Reagan’s administration was doing that wasn’t on the news. While they were saying rap was violent, I was listening to rappers unite against violence on “Self Destruction” and “We’re All In the Same Gang.” While they were saying rap was misogynistic, I was listening to 2Pac’s “Keep Ya Head Up.” 

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“Last November, I went back to the Philippines for the first time since 1986. I was 6, my lolo had just passed away, and the Marcos dictatorship had just ended. It had been so long since then that I could no longer distinguish which images of the Philippines floating in my head were actual memories or imprints of photographs my pops took, substituted for memory.”

Read the whole photoessay “Pilipinas: Nov/Dec 2013 by Prometheus Brown" at wearejuxt.com

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This Friday - The Bar (Prometheus Brown x Bambu), Rocky Rivera, Otayo Dubb, Power Struggle, & Bwan all LIVE in Oakland!

Come out to support independent music and a good cause!

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New MADE IN HEIGHTS albumixtape 

"the wøøds" 

Grab it here.