Dr. B's Finest Kind Medical clinic and Fish Market

Films are big everywhere.
"The Far Side" has a famous cartoon of primitive people running around hiding their tv's and VCR's when the warning call is heard "Anthropologists Anthropologists". It's not far from the truth.

In darkest Africa, the schools show action films, and sometimes the message is not the one we would think it would be (American films showing black and whites as equals was a powerful message in a country with Apartheid).

And I was startled to watch a Charles Bronson action film on a bus traveling between Ipiales and Pasto Colombia...

Filippinos have an influential film industry. Indeed, they have even had an actor as president.

Few of these films have shown in the USA, since they are usually B action films. But this one was a minor independent film hit.

http://www.americanadobo.com/

You haven't been in the Philippines until you eat Adobo.

http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/archives/000461.html

http://www.tribo.org/filipinofood/adobo.html

1 cup distilled white vinegar (or cider vinegar)
1 cup water
2 tablespoons peeled and crushed garlic
2 teaspoons salt
2 pieces of bay leaves
half teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 pound chicken, cut into serving pieces, Chinese style
2 pounds pork butt, cut into cubes
soy sauce
oil

Add vinegar, water, garlic, salt, bay leaves and pepper into a large casserole. Bring to a boil. Add the meat, cover and bring to a boil. Simmer and cook for about 30 minutes. Sprinkle liberally with soy sauce and cook for an additional 10 minutes. Remove met and reduce sauce. Remove sauce to a bowl. Put oil into the casserole and brown cooked meat. Drain oil from the casserole, and return the reduced sauce back with the meat.

Serve with rice.

Bon Apetite!

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