In times of busyness...it's good to recall some of the best tasting food I've encountered for the past weeks. I went to Iloilo last weekend and I so much enjoyed the local cuisine me and my friends feasted on. The hi-lights of the trip was the food served by Ninang Hilda A

Pork Inasal - native pork quickly marinated with vinegar and smothered with salt, then grilled to perfection
Chicken Binakol - grilled native chicken then poured with young coconut's milk
Native Kakanin like ibus,

Grilled diwal (angel-wing shellfish) and a flavorful grilled managat (mangrove jack or Visayan snapper)
kinilaw na tanuige (vinegar-marinated mackerel)
chicken binakol (chicken broth with sweet coconut) was served in a coconut bowl
fat shrimps and salty imbao (mangrove clam) soup

high-end dining experience, nearby is Breakthrough, serving the meatiest lobsters and crabs. There’s also the dangerously delicious aligue (crab fat) rice, which should always be mixed with plain rice, else “you’d be dizzy with instant high blood by the end of the meal,” Lea Lara of ILED warned.

The breezy seaside is also an ideal venue for having another Visayan staple, pork—in all manners of preparation, whether as lechon, kadios-baboy-langka/KBL or liempo.