A few weeks ago, my younger brother drop by my place when he was in KL for some convention/seminar/boring events some weeks ago to give me a 3 packets of happiness tightly sealed in plastic bags, and a big cylindrical can of this strange looking snack that looks like very tiny potato chips.
say hello to my younger brother!
The generic pack of pork rind tasted just as good as any that I’ve had, super crunchy, slightly salty, and absolutely addictive. Since I had 3 packs, I gave one away to Kim my fellow #porkgang member. It is also her birthday today so I guess that packet of pork is now considered her be-earliered birthday present. 😛
For the uninformed, pork rind (or pork cracklings, scratchings, check wiki entry) is basically deep fried cured pork skin. It’s the best snack any Atkin diet followers could get, and contrary to popular misconception, pork rind actually contains more protein and less fat (since it’s deep fried to crunchy) than your usual chips!
Suanie, Gareth, Kim, and Ringo noming away
While pork rind was already one of my favorite snacks of all time, I didn’t know a thing about this little chips – Romulo’s garlic chips with chili!
It’s basically very thinly sliced garlic that’s marinated with a good dosage of chili, deep fried, and sprinkled with more spices and chili powder when done (based on pure speculation).
The end product is spicy, extremely fragrant, and absolutely vampire proof. If you find this anywhere around here, let me know, or if you’re going to pinoyland anytime soon…. get some for me! (and suan too, read her post!)
Mine is running out, I’m gonna miss the garlic chips. Might even need to make some myself once the kitchen is done. Warghhhhh!
Garlic chips. What NOT to eat before or during a first date. *lol*
Sounds really yummy tho! 🙂
Hahaha very true! Haze doesn’t like it either :/
z0mg i need some romulo chips now!!!
ME TOO, I wanna stink up the whole office! 😛
Wow you don’t look alike at all. Except for the skinny gene, which I wish I have. :S
well he’s the improved & face lifted model, 9 yrs after. hahahaha what to do!
I <3 PORK SKIN!!
it’s the TASTY!
Awesome! My hubby recently brought back some microwaveable pork rind from the Philippines which bloats up to twice its size like pop corn. So cool!
wahh that’s cool!
you can find pork rind in indon. usually sell together with sate padang.
i think u can find in malay too, at kampung baru. ^^
wahhh with sate padang + pork rind it’ll be awesome!
Sounds interesting! I didnt know we can find pork rind here in Indo… I gotta explore it later…
But the garlic chips sound much more interesting to me!! Can we get it in KL??
I wanna find out where to get that in KL too
Let me see if I can find the chips in Indo’s hypermarket… Then I can import them into KL… HAhhahah! 😈
before you import, send some to me for quality control! 😛
Wahahahah!!! If there is, I dun mind sharing… 😛
Haha, I won’t mind having garlic breath with this one. 🙂
hahah yah it’s really nais!
ur younger brother more leng zai wor. 😆
dun really like garlic, but after reading ur post, i hope i got chance to taste it lar.. love chips!!
hahaha updated and improved version 2.0 mah
looks eaasy to prepare but searchand u will find weird thing with milk. . . .believe it will remove some nasty after taste of garlic kot. . .try and let me knw if u do that. will be kewlif u can sprnkle some paprika toit before u fry. . .
yah i think paprika will make it better too.
omg nao im fehmes…. 😎
Hahaha chill!
orange-gee, u tumpang glamour! 😛
ky – b fun if u can do some and then blog abt it. . . .recommend some curry flavour as well as other spices and herbs. . . .
well we’ll see! I need to have a kitchen first. hehehe
I want to ask my friends to get one for me from Philippines!
make it happen! 😀
Pingback:I wanna go to Philippines! | KYspeaks
Hi! Pork rind in the Philippines is called “chicharon”. It is best eaten with vinegar with chilli.Yum! I’ll send you some when i go home this Christmas. 🙂
jenifer: warghhh that would be lovely.