Toci or No Toci?

I'm a big fan of anything with sinangag and itlog (fried rice and egg) and if you're going to ask me if I could only eat one same set of food for a year, I'd choose the typical Tocilog (Tocino with sinangag and itlog) or Tapsilog (Tapa with sinangag and itlog).


Fun fact: Salted egg is also known as "itlog na maalat" here in the Philippines. It tastes very salty and the shell is tinted purple or maroon (to distinguish it from that of a chicken's egg, since salted eggs are duck eggs).


For more information about salted duck eggs, check out this article on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salted_duck_egg

The last time I tasted Tocilog was in October 2011 when we had our Food Fair in my former school, O.B.M.C.I. Sta. Ana. It's the same event where I bought my fave potato salad. The Tocino meal sold in the food fair is composed of pieces of Tocino, white rice, slices of tomatoes and salted egg. Then, the sellers wrap these in fragrant bamboo leaves and a brown paper bag. As far as I remember, it costs 60 pesos.