“Your eating habit is not Filipino anymore!!”… Thats what my Filipina (rather Cebuana) crew mate had said after over a month of working and living together.
Marica and I met in Antibes, France last year. I was walking near the port, when she tapped my shoulder and asked if I was from the Philippines. I said yes, from Cebu. She turned out to be Cebuana too.
We barely got to know each other, her yacht left for Greece and Turkey and we went to Italy and Croatia. I saw her few more times in Antibes towards the end of the season last year as she was getting off in Spain before heading back to the Philippines.
Little did I know then I would be in Florida in the next few weeks.The very day we arrived from the Bahamas and entered the yard at West Palm Beach, there she was waving at me…. screaming at the top of her voice…”Shalimarrrrrrrrrrrr”
Pinch , pinch was I day dreaming? We just did 25 hours passage from Exumas and so exhausted after 5 weeks trip. Is that really Marica? Oh boy, it was her and she actually had seen me in Nassau.
To make the story short, I flew out to UK for a short break, when I came back, she and my Captain has just started going out. Thats how she has become of our crew and been feeding me Filipino food ever since then.
Perhaps even help me gain few kilos with our day to day kitchen escapades.
So on one dreary wet afternoon while we were in West Palm, I asked her what she was going to do with the plantain she bought. I made ” lambing” to her if she could make me SAGING PINAYPAY.
Lambing in our language literally translates to show affection and tenderness.
She laughed and gave me a hug…. saging pinaypay… is one of the easiest Filipino food to do. She laughed the way I asked to do for me and yes with lots of affection, she sweetly made me some
Saging (banana) pinaypay (to fan out.. paypay is fan). You slice the bananas thinly, spread it out to form a fan, dip in a batter and fry. Just before serving, sprinkle it with sugar.
I was almost teary eyed… when Rob our engineer came in and asked what’s that?
Dreamily, I replied:
A childhood favourite…….
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An interesting dessert!
Cheers,
Rosa
yay! love it too! but I can’t see the photo.. maybe its too big..
Cant wait to be home and get some of saging pinaypay!
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i finished college having pinaypay as my every-afternoon snack..pinalad naman at nag-graduate ako hahahaha! i still get sentimental sometimes remembering those days.
same as you, i do get sentimental sometimes for the pinaypay. i went through college having pinaypay as my every-afternoon snack, buti naman na-graduate ako ehehhehe!
Oh that sounds wonderful
Oh that ounds wonderful!
Yummo!
Sha, can I make lambing and you can make pinaypay for me when you come visit next week. Or not for me but for your lovely nephew
Oh Sha that looks sooooo good!
That pinaypay is similar to turon isn’t it?
Hey, I’m back from Santorini. Saging Pinaypay is truly a Cebuano snack. I always prefer this than the Saging Tinuhog. Brings back my childhood memories too especially at school. After class, manong outside the school gates is ready with his Saging Pinaypay, Fishballs, and Manggang Hilaw with Hipon (the uncooked pink version!). We were always told by the nuns not to eat them as they could have germs but we never cared, lol.
Now you make me crave for it, but me i prefer it without the batter and let cling instead the melted brown sugar!!
I liked the pic! It made me hungry and my Boyfriend homesick. I can’t wait to try it. We are crew on a cruise ship, maybe see you in port sometime!
Ate Sha, papa always make some pinaypay na saging in the afternoon. What about some puto?
hello te sha , well first of all id like to say your brilliant
…finally got the time to browse your website…really enjoyed reading it…. and speaking of my craving for banana q as in nakitan gyud nako ang pinaypay ;;;; gigutom hinuon ko hahaha
i wish te marica will make some sunod kita.hehe
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