Chef Creations | Bistek with Pancit

Bistek is a loan word also spelled “Bistec” in Spanish, which is an English word for “Beef Steak,” while the word Pancit also spelled “Pansit” general term referring to various traditional noodle dishes in Filipino cuisine. But as two dishes put together is not the usual kind that you’ll find sold as an instant meal. But with Manam Express, they certainly made something rare and new combining two dishes in one appears like out of nowhere. With 7 Eleven’s Chef Creations you put together something that is surprisingly uncommon as with this pairing that surely not the usual you will find in every 7 Eleven store out there but is it really good?

Chef Creations | Kare-Kare by Manam Express

Kare-Kare is a very challenging dish to prepare because it is a stew with thick and savory peanut sauce, which it’s based stewed oxtail, beef tripe, pork hocks, calves feet, pig's feet or trotters, various cuts of pork, beef stew meat, and occasionally offal. The process alone takes a lot of patience and steady hand in getting it right. But you never heard of it being a frozen meal sold at 7 Eleven, and yet they did collaborating with Manam Express bringing this dish as one of their two Filipino food that you can take it home and just heat it with a microwave. The other dish is Sisig, though a Kare- Kare seemed to be that kind food you do not want to mess with.

Chef Creations | Sisig by Manam Express

Sisig is a Filipino dish most commonly seen paired up with beer in local pubs or bars. It is also a favourite to have during lunch and it is basically made from parts of a pig's face and belly, and chicken liver which is usually seasoned with calamansi, onions, and chili peppers. It is one of the delicacy that everyone starts with a conversation. Because they mix everything in it, and wait while you have a convo. But the one being sold at 7 Eleven doesn’t need no mixing of the egg on tops of the Sisig, and it is one of the Chef Creations in collaboration with Manam Express, a local fast food resto that brings you to the spotlight of how it is different to have an instant version.