Iloilo Noodle Soup · Pork Offal Broth
La Paz Batchoy
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Two of the earliest stalls are still running — Deco's, named after Federico 'Deco' Guillergan, and Ted's Oldtimer — and both still argue over who serves the original recipe.
Round egg noodles are ladled into a pork-and-shrimp broth loaded with sliced pork organs, beef, and crushed pork cracklings, then topped with fried garlic and a raw egg cracked in tableside. Iloilo City's La Paz Public Market is the dish's spiritual home, with several competing stalls each claiming the original recipe.
Why it's made this way: The dish likely traces back to Iloilo's Chinese community, with Federico Guillergan Sr. credited with concocting it in 1938 at the La Paz Public Market, and it has since become the best-known dish of the city.
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