| Every Breakfast has a story or while having one is a good company for those conversations, and sometimes short chit chats. There’s no rule that you can only have breakfast food in the morning. Contradictory to that, when you run out of ideas like most people would do is grab a meal blindly and have it a go.
In this case, Filipino breakfast has a lot of dishes that were adapted and influenced from other countries like America, Japanese, and Spain. Of course this country has heavily taken the Spanish culture and made it into its own that make sense for the dishes that are similar to their country origin with a bit of Filipino flavour that has been presented today, and one of them is the Beef Tapa a staple local breakfast meal. |
Tapa is dried or cured beef, pork, mutton, venison or horse meat, although other meat or even fish may be used. Filipinos prepare tapa by using thin slices of meat and curing these with salt and spices as a preservation method.
Tapa is often cooked fried or grilled. When served with fried rice and fried egg, it is known as tapsilog, a portmanteau of the Tagalog words tapa, sinangag (fried rice) and itlog (egg). It sometimes comes with atchara, pickled papaya strips, or sliced tomatoes as side dish. Vinegar or ketchup is usually used as a condiment. ***
Brekky Lunch
There’s been quite the word of mouth lately that the breakfast meals are getting quite the attention, and one of the reasons is that they look “new” to some people. You enter 7 Eleven during the peak where people crowd the store and you listen and hear what they’re hoping to get out with.
Interesting convo when a group of people having a chat about what they’re picking up. This is not the first time, and yet it’s interesting how they give their reasons why the breakfast meals are flying out from their freezer shelves and some sticking around beyond lunch time, and the Beef Tapa was never given that quite attention.
Tapsilog-ish Noontime
The best compliment with having Beef Tapa is with vinegar that includes crushed chilies as you sprinkle them with the garlic rice, and at the same time the sunny-side egg gets a spicy ketchup to make it interesting. This makes the Tapa have a spicy kick with the egg that completes your meal.
It’s an improvement when it comes to portions of Beef Tapa as compared to the Chicken Tocino that was not quite the experience with being a few bits. The garlic rice and egg makes up the “Tapsilog” quite a favourite among the locals not only a a breakfast meal, but an alternative lunch when choices are limited.
Overall this one was a win in food portions, and the balance between the garlic rice with egg. If you’re exploring Filipino breakfast start with any type of Tapa either Beef or Pork and see goes with your taste buds.
- Food Quality: 4 out of 5
- Affordability: B+
- Overall: This is quite a win with the well-balaced portions between Garlic Rice and Beef Tapa.
Breakfast: Beef Tapa | Retailed at: ₱ 79.00 Pesos [$ 2.14 AUD | $ 1.34 USD]**
*** - Description Courtesy of Wikipedia
** - Currency Converter via Google.com
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