In Spain, on our way out of the restaurant after dinner, he spotted chicharon bulaklak in the tapas counter. The bulaklak is made of pork innards—that part that supports the intestines.

There’s chicharon made from pig’s intestines which Filipinos fondly call chicharon bulaklak (translated, it means pork rind flowers). The joke goes that one time when Erap was asked what’s ...