The Famous Batangas Bulalo

Batangas is definitely one of the places to visit this coming holy week. Not only because they have their beautiful beaches that not that far from Manila and mostly because of their famous cuisine the “BULALO”. Bulalo is native to the province of Batangas. Batangas roads are lined with restaurants and carinderia’s with bulalo as their specialty. Maybe because Batangas has many beef cattle ranching industry or the cattle raising region and the main ingredients of bulalo are beef bone marrow and beef shank with meat. The beef shank is cook for several hours until the meat is fork-tender. Bulalo are made onions, garlics, cobs of corn, potatoes, Baguio beans, saging na saba and cabbage. Bulalo is best serve hot with plain rice and fish sauce and siling labuyo for dip. It is best complemented by the marrow that is tapped out of the bone. This restaurant in Sto.Tomas, Batangas became a traveller’s favorite stopover because of the their famous Batangas bulalo.