Mango Pandan

26 Saturday Jan 2013

Posted by lovenotesrestylestudio in Our kitchen

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Asia, Australia, Australia Day, buko pandan, coconut, Condensed milk, cream, dessert, Filipino people, Mango, mango pandan

Mango Pandan

Today is Australia Day here in the land of the green and gold Oz.

English: Australian rules football jumper, green and gold with mudlarks logo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

To celebrate we decided to do an Aussie twist to the Filipino dessert Buko Pandan. Buko Pandan is a creamy dessert with fresh coconut, condensed milk and flavoured with Pandan. What is pandan? I guess you could say it’s Asia’s version of vanilla.

Our Aussified version of this Filipino dessert classic is the Mango Pandan – basically we substitute the fresh coconut with juicy sweet Australian mangoes! Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi!!!

Ingredients:
– 1 x can Asian green jelly grated (see picture below)
– 1 x tub Philadelphia dessert cream (alternatively some thickened cream will do the same thing)
– 1 x tablespoon condensed milk
– 1 x teaspoon Pandan (see picture below)
– 2 x large mangoes diced

Green Jelly and Pandan

Method:
– Gently mix jelly, cream and mangoes together
– Add condensed milk
– Add pandan
– Gently combine to distribute the green colour of the pandan
– Adjust amount of condensed milk and pandan to your taste

Be warned this is a very sweet dessert to be had in small doses. But geez it’s a delicious ‘sometimes’ food 🙂

Enjoy! Happy Australia Day!

Buko pandan (countybakermom.wordpress.com)
A Very Filipino Christmas (littlegirlbigmeals.wordpress.com)

Gaisano Ukay-ukay – Davao City, Philippines

26 Monday Nov 2012

Posted by lovenotesrestylestudio in Trash or treasure

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Davao City, Filipino people, Gaisano, Love Notes Restyle Studio, Philippines, Provinces, restyle, singlets, t shirts, tank tops, ukay ukay, Urban Dictionary

Hi everyone!

It’s Amour here today for this post. I’m now in Davao City, Philippines for work. So while I’m here my husband and I went to check out the local Gaisano Ukay-ukay.

Gaisano Ukay-ukay

So what is Ukay-ukay – you might be asking? It is a Filipino provincial term meaning ‘to mix up’. Here is the definition straight from Urban Dictionary – “a term used for places that sell secondhand goods (such as clothing, shoes, bags, furniture, etc.) at dirt cheap prices usually shipped from the US Salvation Army to third world countries like the Philippines.”

When we got there it was still daylight but within 10 minutes the dark had crept in. This made it harder to dig around cause there wasn’t much lighting. Plus I had to be careful where I stepped as there were random holes and cement blocks in my path!