"Peter Dy" > wrote in message
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>
> "Alan Sandoval" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Opps! Wrong group, sorry!
>
>
> Not necessarily! In the Philippines we have them -- almondigas,
> meatball soup. Here's a nice-looking picture, though I thought it was
made
> with thin wheat noodles, not rice noodles.
>
> http://cooking.houseonahill.net/recipes/000210.html

Looks yummy! When I was in the Navy I spent quite a bit of time in the PI.
There was an excellent Mexican restaurant in the infamous (at the time) city
of Olongapo. It was called Papagayos. I couldn't name another restaurant I
ate at any time during my four years in the Navy (it was over 30 years ago)
not even the floating restaurant in Aberdeen in Hong Kong. But Papagayos
has stuck with me. We went there often at the start of a night on the town.
Of course after quaffing a signifigant number of San Miguel's if we were
hungry we'd buy whatever the hell the street vendors were BBQ'ing on the
sidewalk outside the bars. There were various rumours about the origin of
the meat, I'd rather not explore that now!

Thanks for the reply.

Alan




>
>
> > "Alan Sandoval" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > My mother seemed to make this quite well though I know nothing of it's
> > > origin. It was simply described to me as Mexican meatball soup. I've
> > only
> > > found it at a few places here in S Calif.
> > >
> > > Is this a widely available traditional Mexican food? Is it regional?
> If
> > it
> > > is cross-regional does it differ from place to place?
>
>
> If you do a search on the web, there are Mexican, Honduran, Spanish, etc,
> albóndigas. It certainly originates from Spain, maybe even from the
Arabs,
> since the word comes from Arabic.
>
> Peter
>
>
> > >
> > > I do remember my mother always kept a mint plant growing in the yard,
> > > seemingly only for a key ingredient in albondigas. And yes, my mother
> > > contributed the Danish half of my heritage, guess paternal grandmother
> > > taught her well in the kitchen.
> > >
> > > Alan Sandoval
> > >
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