{"id":3838,"date":"2012-01-23T09:46:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T14:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2012-01-23T09:46:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T14:46:25","slug":"that_awkward_moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/that_awkward_moment\/","title":{"rendered":"that awkward moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This tweet made me laugh out loud for real the other day:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p>That awkward moment when your non-Filipino friends realize they&#8217;re not eating vegan longganisa, rather it&#8217;s Vigan longanissa. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%2523award\">#award<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Benito Vergara (@bvergara) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bvergara\/status\/160571759328894977\" data-datetime=\"2012-01-21T03:57:45+00:00\">January 21, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Note that there are very few vegan-friendly Filipino dishes\u2014the Philippines is, after all, a country where vegetarians barely exist, and the few that do routinely get asked things like &#8220;but you still eat pork, right?&#8221;, because pork is really fucking delicious and why would you ever stop eating it if you can afford it?<\/li>\n<li>Man, homonyms are <em>the best<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>If you want to know more about longganisa, the always amazing Market Manila has you covered: from recipes for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketmanila.com\/archives\/longganisa-a-la-marketman\">longganisa<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketmanila.com\/archives\/longganisang-hubad-naked-sausages-a-la-marketman\">longganisang hubad<\/a> a la Market Man, to a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketmanila.com\/archives\/vigan-longganisa\">Vigan longganisa<\/a>, to the strange beauty of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketmanila.com\/archives\/longganisa-burps\">longganisa burps<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re in New York and want to get your hands on longganisa: I&#8217;ve seen some for sale at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/asia-market-corp-manhattan\">Asia Market<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/han-may-co-inc-new-york\">Han May<\/a> in Manhattan Chinatown, a bunch of the Filipino groceries in Woodside like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/phil-am-foods-woodside\">Phil-Am Foods<\/a> carry longganisa as well, and apparently (I haven&#8217;t been yet, but I&#8217;m very curious) the new-ish <a href=\"http:\/\/maharlikanyc.com\/\">Maharlika<\/a> in the East Village has it on their menu.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tweet made me laugh out loud for real the other day: That awkward moment when your non-Filipino friends realize they&#8217;re not eating vegan longganisa,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lliiaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}