The episode, which was aired last July, featured The Park’s Finest, which specializes in American food with a Filipino twist. Filipino-American Johneric Concordia opened The Park’s Finest in 2012, after years of operating a catering business.
A copy of the video featuring The Park’s Finest was uploaded by a Facebook user named Titus Velez. Joining Fieri in the segment are “Grownups 2” cast members Chris Rock, David Spade, Adam Sandler and Kevin James.
Fieri joined Concordia in preparing three of their specialty dishes. The first is tri-tip with a special dry rub served with horseradish and a “sawsawan” that includes vinegar, a popular condiment in the Philippines.
“It’s super flavorful,” Fieri said, adding, “Outstanding.”
The second dish that Concordia prepared for Fieri is the Corn Bread Bibingka, a modern twist on the native rice cake usually sold outside churches during Christmas season.
Fieri called it “the most tender, light, fluffy, flavorful cornbread I’ve had.”
Concordia also showed Fieri his mother’s recipe, a rice topping that includes beef cubes, coconut milk, patis (fish sauce), yellow chili and cane vinegar. Before cutting it into cubes, the beef was placed in an outdoor smoker to cook for 16 hours, making it very tender.
“Wow, a lot of flavors in this dish. The meat is super, super tender,” Fieri said in between bites. “This is addicting.”
Just recently, the Filipino delicacy balut, a fertilized duck egg, was featured in a video published by the US business and technology website Business Insider. Balut is sold at Maharlika, a Filipino-American restaurant in New York.
source: www.abs-cbnnews.com
