Starting Wednesday, June 16, Purple Yam will start serving lunch from 11 am – 3 pm.
Lunch schedule – every Wednesday, Thursday & Friday only
Our theme is Lutong Bahay (Filipino home cooking). We will cook the dishes that we cook for ourselves when we are at home or when we visit the Philippines.
We found out that there are many Filipino health care workers in the area surrounding Ditmas Park and hope that our lunch will serve their needs. And of course, we hope that regular patrons will appreciate the culinary nuances of the Philippines. We cannot fully replicate all the dishes that people do at home because there are fruits and vegetables that do not grow here. But Filipinos are proud of their home cooking and so we pay tribute to all those home cooks, grannies, mommies, daddies and nannies everywhere who cook these dishes.
We will start with a small menu to perfect these dishes (dishes range $ 6 – 12):
Munggo (mung beans) with a choice of veggies, lechon kawali or grilled mackerel
Adobong kangkong (water spinach)
Pinakbet (vegetable stew with bittermelon, eggplant, okra & squash)
Chicken adobo (braised in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, black peppercorns, bay leaf, chiles)
Pancit bihon (thin rice noodles with chicken, pork, Chinese sausage & veggies)
Pancit Molo (pork & shrimp dumplings in a chicken broth)
Fried or grilled fish of the day with green mango & tomato salsa
Plus other dishes that we will rotate to accommodate requests
On occasion, we will have Guest Chef Kian Lam Kho if he can do his red pork belly buns and other Chinese specialties. He sells his buns at the Greenpoint Market regularly and he says he always sells out. I am tempted to ask him if he can do a good sio pao (Chinese-Filipino combination pao that Filipinos crave for).
Here we go!
