To me, having a vacation in Negros Occidental will not be complete without having to sip boiling hot sour boiled bone-in beef shank soup or “cansi” as we Ilongos simply call this local version of Bulalo. That’s why in my 15 days vacation in Negros, 10 days of our dinner there consisted of cansi as my main course. Various people cooked from my father to local restaurants who also serve cansi to the one of the famous cansi places in Bacolod called Sharyn’s Cansi.

No wonder my brother in-law’s blood pressure increased with those bone marrows and beef fat we both love to eat. We also tried the cansi Maguindanao Style which my aunt introduced us. She got the menu during her friend visit in Maguindanao.

I thought there is no need to have free insurance quotes because I heard one doctor who was featured in one of the TV shows who recommended bulalo to his patient with high cholesterol condition. According to him those doctors and researchers who made a study of avoiding the eating of eggs and bone marrows did not make it to 60 years old and he is at the age of 70 plus. He said he can still climb up to 20 floors without having an elevator. I am not sure if this is true but I wish it is true.