The Original Pino Brings You Chef Tatung’s From Heart to Platter

The best value-for-money restaurant in Cebu does it again, bringing the best from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao as prepared by renowned culinarian Chef Tatung! Viewers of ABS- CBN’s Umagang Kay Ganda know him as the resident chef and presentor of the cooking segment “Kwentong Kawali”, where he imparts his love and knowledge of Filipino cuisine. “From Heart to Platter with Chef Tatung” begins August 24, where alongside The Original Pino’s popular dishes & delicacies, diners get to enjoy the cooking of one of the Philippines’ most sought after chefs.

A Manila-based Cebuano, Chef Tatung is, well-known for his passion for Philippine cuisine and the restaurants which he founded, namely “Tatung’s” in Quezon City, “Chef Tatung” in Taguig, and “Agos”, opening soon at the SM Mall of Asia. He was one of only two Filipinos who joined some of the best chefs in the world featured in Madrid Fusion 2016.

Today, his love for Filipino cooking finds fruition in his first book, “Philippine Cookery: From Heart to Platter”, which is currently on the National Bookstore Bestseller List. Here, he delves into the heart of his native cuisine by showing how to cook Filipino through basic cooking methods—steaming, grilling, sautéing, frying, curing, among many techniques.

Featured are recipes perfected from Chef Tatung’s many years of research around the country. These include basics like tinolang manok, kare-kare, adobong pusit, as well as more unusual fare like bulanglang, piyanggang, pinaupong manok sa asin. Throughout, he explores important ingredients like vinegar, coconut, rice, as well as traditional kitchen tools like the palayok or claypot, and bamboo tubes used for boiling.

The Original Pino is open daily and serving buffet lunch for only P299 net and dinner buffet for only P399, both inclusive of orange juice, kangen water and bottomless iced tea. No hidden charges. For reservations and inquiries, please call (032) 5054840 or mobile (+63) 926 672 2007. They are located along Wilson Street, Lahug, Cebu City.