Kusinang Matua
Kusinang Matua, or Kusinang Matua ng Atching Lillian, is an al fresco buffet restaurant in Parian, Mexico, Pampanga, the Philippines, run by the food historian and Kapampangan cuisine chef dubbed as "The Guardian Angel of Kapampangan Cuisine", Lillian Lising-Borromeo.''''''
Description
The restaurant, set within Atching Lillian's ancestral home with its 200-year-old kitchen, is for reservation only and is known for its heirloom recipes of Kapampangan cooking using fresh ingredients, including those found in the house's garden. It is also known for its panecillos de San Nicolas, one of the oldest cookies of the Philippines introduced by the Augustinians during the Spanish colonial period.The restaurant is especially known for its chef's lessons about the origins of Kapampangan food and original methods of preparing them, including on the 17th-century recipe for the humble sisig that, unknown to consumers of modern versions of the popular dish, includes the ingredient dayap, which the restaurant grows in its backyard. Aside from the sisig, the restaurant features authentic versions of the bobotong asan, the Kapampangan morcón, the Kapampangan ''pisto, the tejada de kamatis, the brazo de mais, the tocino de cielo'', and the classic Philippine adobo.