Comments on: Bourdain Rocks the “Land of Lechon”

By: Six Hours in Boston

Six Hours in Boston — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:40:06 +0000

[...] Bourdain Rocks the “Land of Lechon” [...]

By: pat

pat — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:06:23 +0000

came across your blog as I was looking for Pinoy t-shirts (guess it tagged the adobo shirt of Ivan)…am a big foodie (love Market Manila and Our Awesome Planet), pinoy and just happened to relocate to Burlington VT. Whereabouts is your cousin? e-mail me please!

By: annerepublic

annerepublic — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:28:29 +0000

I’m happy with the show and very well represented. Mabuhay!
http://annerepublic.blogspot.com/2009/02/anthony-bourdain-no-reservations.html

By: Dennis Oboza

Dennis Oboza — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:36:52 +0000

What is the name of the chef or cook that prepared the lechon? I think all the credit should be given to him. Furthermore, I’m thinking about opening a lechon restaurant here in the states and i think i found my chef if only someone can tell me his name and address.

By: sheryl

sheryl — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:02:25 +0000

So I finally FINALLY watched this episode last night. Great shout out to Pampanga (my mom would agree: Campampangan first!) I definitely am with you about Augusto. I would never have put myself in the position of introducing anyone to authentic food in the Philippines as a Fil-Am, especially someone so totally unfamiliar with Pinas food. I knew right away he was a problem when Bourdain asked him (about lechon), ‘How many times have you had this dish?’ and Augusto said, ‘Once or twice’. How is a brother going to be a GUIDE to the Philippines having only had lechon — you might argue the most famous Pinas food — ‘once or twice’? Pinoy PLEASE. That said, great episode, and props to the producers on No Reservations for keeping deadbeat Augusto in, at least to delve into questions of Filipino identity.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:27:18 +0000

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Sarah

http://grillsblog.com

By: sheryl

sheryl — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:37:42 +0000

I haven’t seen this ep yet (they don’t air No Reservations here in NL) but my friend uploaded it for me so I have it waiting to be ripped to the iPod. I saw the clip online where he eats tapsilog and it made me want to jump on a plane to Pinas. I can’t wait to see the rest!

By: Arnold

Arnold — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:07:15 +0000

@Paul: To be honest, I didn’t even try Googling it! Thanks for the link!

By: Paul Reiter

Paul Reiter — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:15:34 +0000

Hey Arn, I think your Googling skills are slipping. This was the first thing that popped up when I typed “I love adobo tshirt.” Looks the same to me. I’m not sure I’d pay $23 for it though. Here’s the link.

[url=http://www.redbubble.com/people/kalyeshirts/t-shirts/1355347-3-i-love-adobo]I love Adobo tshirt[/url]

Glad to see that MarketMan was able to highlight some good Filipino cuisine.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:50:56 +0000

I always wondered who Marketman is, always read his blog. He sounded like a superhero. Now I now he is the Superhero of Filipino Lechon.

By: Aileen

Aileen — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:40:51 +0000

Hi cous…thanks for the shoutout on being in suckish Vermont while watching NR. hahaha! Thanks for the insight about being a Fil-Am too. Though I’m no Fil-Am, my daughter pretty much is and with that thought this helps us a lot in making sure we inject as much culture to her as much as possible.

By: Arnold

Arnold — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:16:39 +0000

@Marvin: I get what your saying. My parents have always been the bridge between me and my relatives in the Philippines, so it would be weird for me to go there without them. I think those first scenes where Bourdain goes to Augusto’s family’s house in Cebu would be similar to what would happen if I went to the Philippines on my own. It’s been 17 years since I’ve been back, so I’m pretty disconnected to my relatives that live there.

By: Marvin

Marvin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:13:50 +0000

I also want to clarify that I felt uneasy/uncomfortable/awkward because I was identifying with everything AB was saying about Augusto (good and bad) and I understood how Augusto might have been feeling during that time. I’m by no means a mind reader, but I can’t honestly say that I would have reacted any differently, or any better, than Augusto did. Was he the most knowledgeable host? No. But he did a lot better than I could have.

By: Marvin

Marvin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:02:57 +0000

Great writeup Arnold. Ivan’s shirt is sick isn’t it? I especially like the cutouts in each of the letters of “ADOBO”.

I have to say that I enjoyed the Claude Tayag and Marketman segments most, just because they offered the most knowledge about what they were talking about. I thought they were both really refreshing in terms of representing the cuisine.

And while I did feel a bit uneasy/uncomfortable/awkward during Augusto’s segments, I do hope that his story will push other young Pinoys to search out their culture. And I’m not disagreeing with you at all. From the comments I’ve read on other sites, I think you hit the whole Augusto thing right on the nose.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:47:29 +0000

Hi Arnold, thanks for the great write up and kind words. I would really appreciate it if you could replace my name with just “Marketman” as I prefer to keep identities more or less anonymous. I had an understanding with the NR producers that my full name would not be used but they slipped and Tony was recorded saying it so I can’t do much about that now. Many thanks. And yes, thank goodness the skin of those pigs turned out nice and crisp!

By: Kiko

Kiko — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:23:24 +0000

I’m yet to see this episode as Downunder follows the same sched as the asian episodes… but i can’t wait!

“Back in the day, every time I picked up an Asian or world history book or cookbook, the first thing I always did was look in the index for any references to the Philippines, and if there were a couple pages, I considered myself lucky.” – and i thought i was the only one…