{"id":1642,"date":"2018-03-15T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iraia.net\/wp\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2018-04-15T22:38:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T14:38:03","slug":"turon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iraia.net\/wp\/2018\/03\/15\/turon\/","title":{"rendered":"Turon with langka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How Pinoy <em>turon<\/em>, that incomparable delicacy of fried banana fritters in <em>lumpia<\/em> wrapping, emerged from that <a href=\"https:\/\/theculturetrip.com\/europe\/spain\/articles\/a-brief-history-of-spanish-turron\/\">popular Spanish holiday delicacy, turron<\/a>, is way beyond me.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But once turon escaped the confines of the Spanish convent&#8217;s kitchen and hit the plaza and surrounding streets of a typical Philippine town, there was no turning back. It defined its own niche through radiative evolution, through ambulant food vendors with <em>kusinilya<\/em> and <em>kawali<\/em>, long before the American colonial street-food industry could offer hamburgers and hotdogs.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, Pinoy <em>turon na saging<\/em> has scaled up on the foodie taste ladder by teaming up with <em>langka<\/em> (jackfruit). A certain brand, at Php 15 apiece, is delicious, filling and nutritious, very affordable, and most compatible with my childhood tastes.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, a croissant with an equally crumbly and greasy crust, at Php 60 (about 1,20 Euro) apiece, is a poor substitute indeed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tangkilikin ang sariling atin. <\/em>(&#8220;Support our own.&#8221;) #<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/junverzola\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Follow @junverzola<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TURON WITH LANGKA, at Php 15 apiece, is delicious, filling and nutritious, very affordable, and most compatible with my childhood tastes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,7,6,8],"tags":[96,364,313,363],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cooking","category-culture","category-economy","category-personal","tag-kitchen","tag-langka","tag-street-food","tag-turon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iraia.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iraia.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iraia.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iraia.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iraia.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iraia.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iraia.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iraia.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iraia.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iraia.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iraia.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}