i can't just cook as good as the food i see in restaurants / myLot

Philippines

January 8, 2012 12:43am CST

i tried one vegetable dish in local restaurants. it is quite an expensive restaurant actually. although the vegetable dish pinakbet is just a common dish, the way it was cooked was just great and you would want to keep on eating vegetables.looking through the vegetable dish i don't see any specially recipe except for some bits of pork meat and nothing more. but the way it tastes is totally different from what i prepare at home although it is just almost the same ingredients although i don't put port at my vegetable dish. but i don't think that was the reason cause even when i tried to put or add pork it still didn't taste as good.

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7 responses

thewonderboy

@thewonderboy (7501)

• India

8 Jan 12

I also tried to make the dishes which I used to have from the restaurants. I know the ingredients of the dish I added the ingredients with absolute amount needed but I couldn't get the taste which I had from the restaurant. I think they people are adding some special ingredients to it

tamirs

@tamirs (1807)

• Philippines

8 Jan 12

You are right wonder

we have some little secret in our dishes.I will tell you if you give me the 200rs your neighbor gave you

thewonderboy

@thewonderboy (7501)

• India

9 Jan 12

Ho! Tamris having secret business here

i love that one Only secret no food items for 200rs

igatiful_badass

@igatiful_badass (1222)

• Philippines

9 Jan 12

me too i don't cook

but i enjoy being the one who will taste the food.

food

cowboyofhell

@cowboyofhell (3063)

• Philippines

8 Jan 12

I have an aunt experienced with cooking pinakbet but she's too old to give lessons now. Try to learn from the videos here: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pinakbet

tamirs

@tamirs (1807)

• Philippines

8 Jan 12

That is why as much as possible i don't want to eat at five star restaurants

I have a tendency of cooking the foods i love eating from restaurants and food chains. Though we owned a restaurant way back there are still a lot of dishes that i want to learn how to cook.But because even cooks has specialty,maybe cooking is not really for you or lets say cooking is not your line of specialization

But hey,we can always try.

tabatha7

@tabatha7 (187)

•

8 Jan 12

Don't you hate that? I've tried to make food I've tried at restaurants too & it never seems to turn out as well as theirs does. That's one reason why I avoid expensive restaurants. I don't want to get too spoiled, so I just stick with fast food & cooking at home. It doesn't taste as good, but if I ate at expensive restaurants all the time, I would gain Sooo much weight! :)

iamroms

@iamroms (78)

• Philippines

8 Jan 12

atleast you're lucky that you know how to cook. As for me, i dont really know how to cook aside from fried chicken, fried egg and boiled egg. LOL! but the good thing is that i am already planning to learn it. :D HAHA

lilaclady

@lilaclady (28206)

• Australia

8 Jan 12

I can't either, I personally think they have little secrets to get their great tastes and I think you must go to the nationality of the food you are going for, like no one can cook Chinese food like the Chinese and Thai food is best when cooked by the Thai people...it would be good to be able to cook like the restaurants.