Eating Tocino

My breakfast dish was Tocino, a sweet soft pork tidbits.

But is the Tocino a food to eat for person without a gallbladder? Or a food to avoid for person with no gallbladder?

According to WikiPilipinas:

Tocino is a sweetened cured pork dish that is traditionally served for breakfast by the Filipinos. A native delicacy that is similar to the cured hams, commonly reddish in color and tastes sweet. There were some versions of tocino that used chicken meat. It’s name came from the Spanish word, tocino, which is used to describe cured meat.

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Eating Shellfish Cooked in Coconut Milk

I recalled a friend saying that eating food cooked with coconut milk is a big no-no to those persons that have undergone gallbladder removal surgery.

Dinner served!

But yesterday, the main dish in my dinner was clams cooked in fresh coconut milk. It was so delicious that it made my stomach to bulge. But I did not eat like there’s no tomorrow, I took my time eating, carefully masticating the meat and sipping the tasty soup.

The coconut milk really added the flavour.

But the question in my mind after my dinner was: how would my stomach reacts to the coconut milk?

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