Jul 15, 2016
"Bicol Express" is a pork dish cooked in coconut milk and chili [other variations may use string beans, "bagoong" or shrimp paste and pineapple]. You may think that this dish comes from Bicol, but it is actually from Malate, Manila. What's more strange is that, it was invented by a non-Bicolana from Laguna together w/ her brother that gave the name "Bicol Express" from the trains travelling to Bicol around 1960s. Though some consider it to have been inspired from "Gulay na lada" (a dish cooked in the same manner w/out the pork) of Bicol, it is indeed a dish that become famous along the streets of Manila. #bicolexpress #pinoyfoods #philippinedelicacies #maniladelicacies #pagkaingpinoy #maanghanganghang (at Manila, Philippines)