Food trip: Sinantolan

The sandoricum koetjape or cotton fruit is one of my favorite fruits. This fruit is "lovingly" called santol here in the Philippines. It's perfect with salt with chopped chili or when you dip it in soy sauce. However, I was surprised to discover that the santol is actually used as the main ingredient in a Filipino dish which is obviously named after the said fruit - sinantolan . Sinantolan It was during my first day of the Experience Quezon 2016 Media Tour event that I got to see and watch the actual preparation of the dish and not to mention taste it for the first time too. Upon doing research about the dish, I discovered that sinantolan is a popular delicacy not only for the province of Quezon but also in the province of Laguna and those provinces in the Bicol Region. Here's the newly cooked sinantolan ! A must-try! The fresher the better The different ingredients of sinantolan Yummy! Looking at the main ingredients of the dish, it clea