Overseas Pinoy Cooking

Special Chicharon Bulaklak . The chicharon bulaklak is made up of pig mesentery , the fatty tissue that hold together the pig’s small intestines . Usually for economics reason the small intestines are separated from the mesentery to make two types of chicharons , Chicharon Bulaklak using the mesentery and Chicharon Bituka using the small intestines . For today’s Special Chicharon Bulaklak I did not bothered to separate the intestines from the mesentery this makes this Chicharon Bulaklak special. Anyway it would be also difficult to buy the mesentery separately from the intestines . To make the dish the pig innards are pre-boiled till tender with P inoy aromatic ingredients . For best results I used an electric deep fryer, this is also safer and easier compared to using a deep frying pan or wok. But again if you do not have the convenience of an electric deep fryer you can use the c onventional deep fryer just be very careful as there will be a lot of hot oil spl...

Chicharon Bituka, Pork Intestine Crackling . The other day I visited a Vietnamese butcher store near my place, besides regular meat cuts they also sell meat parts like whole pork head to pork leg and they even have pork blood for dinuguan . I just wanted to buy some pork intestine as I want to try to cook chicharon bulaklak. I bought a half a kilo of pork intestines with the mesentery, the fatty attachment of the intestine that is used for chicaron bulaklak . When I get back home I realised that with half a kilo of intestines I could only get three mesentery out of it for the chicharon bulaklak . Instead of posting  chicharon bulaklak , I now have to include the intestine and revised my post into  chicharon bituka . We have to be accurate to the names and what pig parts are made up of  chicharon bulaklak  and  chicharon bituka , in this way readers are also informed that they are not the same. Here is the recipe of my  Chicharon Bituka, Pork I...