Gone were the days where “tuyo” is just a dried fish waiting to be fried or the days that you still have to make your own gourmet pasta using raw ingredients. There’s now a lot of gourmet food products waiting to be sold and eaten at your convenience but it is hard to find the one that will really suit your taste. Finding the right gourmet food has always been a trial and error that’s why I am glad that I have come across with L’Shef Food.
L’Shef Food is a new manufacturer and national distributor of gourmet food products. Currently, they have the Gourmet Tuyo and Korean Kimchi available in the online market and resellers. The good thing about their products is that they only use fresh raw ingredients and does not use any preservatives.
Gourmet Tuyo – they sent me the spicy variant and it was made with herring fillet, corn oil, capsicum, carrots, capers, olives, vinegar, and spices. It was not spicy at all but I think they wanted their consumers to have the freedom in crushing the chili and have it as spicy as they want it which for me, was totally fine since I don’t want it to be super spicy.
It has a lot of capsicum, carrots, capers, and olives which made it perfect to be cooked into gourmet pasta. You just have to add the pasta, and parmesan cheese or if you wanted it to look more “sosyal” just add cherry tomatoes! Promise, they won’t notice that you cooked it last minute.
On another note, it is also a perfect companion to our rice. Masarap! Just add salted egg and tomatoes to fully enjoy your meal!
Price: Php 190
Table for: 1 bottle
Food Rating: 4/5
Korean Kimchi – made with napa cabbage, carrots, radish, fish sauce, sugar, and spices. For me, it has a lot of carrots (I don’t like carrots that much). I would have preferred if it has more cabbage and less of the other ingredients. Their kimchi was also not spicy and I tried making Kimchi Rice with it and it turned out well.
Price: Php 125
Table for: 1 bottle
Food Rating: 3.5/5
Did you know? For every bottle of gourmet products that you buy, they will be donating Php 10 to the Filipino fisherman and Php 5 to the Filipino farmers they are supporting, #DeliciousWithAPurpose
You can reach them on their social media accounts:
Facebook: L’Shef
Instagram: @lsheffood
Disclaimer: This review was written with the author’s honest opinion.