This morning, I took a little trip down memory lane and made tapsilog for breakfast. Tapsilog is a popular Filipino breakfast. It is basically pan-fried marinated beef slices in soy sauce, kalamansi juice, garlic and pepper served with garlic fried rice and topped with fried egg. To cleanse the palate, we also serve a simple tomato salsa seasoned with kalamansi juice, salt and pepper then there's the usual slice of kalamansi on the side. Pinoys are unusually fond of sour food, I don't know why. Of course, it's breakfast, so you have to have a cup of coffee to go along with it. To finish the meal, there's usually a banana or sliced mango for dessert.
I didn't make my own tapa, I just picked it up from the frozen section of the local Filipino grocery. I've had better ones before but this was nice. I guess the best tapsilog I've ever had next to my maternal grandfather's water buffalo tapa (tapang kalabaw) would be in a small hole in the wall cafeteria called Rodic's located at the University of the Philippines. When I was a student there, I would have breakfast at Rodic's every time I crave tapa. Rodic's serve it all day and I guess it's what kept them going throughout their nearly sixty years of existence. I don't know if they're still around but I would be very sad if they close down.
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