One of the thing you’ve missed when you are abroad are food and viands. So when I went home I requested food that I am not able to eat in Korea, chicken tinola is top of my list. Chicken tinola is a soup-based dish served as main entrée in the Philippines. Traditionally, this dish is cooked with chicken, wedges of green papaya, and leaves of the siling labuyo chili pepper in broth flavored with ginger, onions and fish sauce.

It was cooked by sauteing ginger, onion and chicken and then add water to make a broth.

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One of the canned goods I have missed to eat is corned beef so when I got chance I went to the Asian store in downtown  and buy few canned goods including sardines.

At home I sauteed half can of the corned beef in onion and garlic with potatoes, half only because I already ate the half  of it with plenty of raw onions.

Ingredients:

1 or 1/2 can corned beef, potatoes, dice or strip, onions, garlic and cooking oil

Cooking Procedure:

Saute garlic and onion in a cooking pan, add the corned beef and stir fry for few minutes and add the potatoes, mixed them all together and you can also add water if desire. Let it cooked until done.