Best Pares in Metro Manila and How to Make it at Home with Erwan

Where can you taste the best “Pares” in Metro Manila? Erwan Heussaff is out to try the legendary Cocoy Mami Pares to find inspiration for his very own pares recipe.

Pares is a Filipino beef stew that is best served with rice and is a popular choice for a quick lunch meal or a hangover treat for the night owls. Due to its popularity and accessibility across the metro, this unassuming bowl of braised beef is a memorable meal for people from all walks of life.
These hearty Piñakamasarap bowls of pares is brought to you by Marca Piña. Their products are widely available at your nearest grocery and across over 40 countries! Try making these recipes today!

Cocoy Mami Pares Steak & Chops
5A Ledesma Court, Visayas Ave, Quezon City

RECIPES:

CLASSIC
Ingredients:
3 tbsp oil
1 pc onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 pc thumb-sized ginger, minced
½ kg beef shank, bone-in cut into 2 inch chunks
½ cup cornstarch
½ cup Marca Piña soy sauce
3 cups water
1 pc cinnamon stick
2 pc star anise
2 pc bay leaves
¼ cup brown sugar
⅓ cup chopped green onions
¼ cup fried garlic (optional)
1 pc chopped birds eye chilies

Procedure:
1. In a pot with hot oil, saute onions, garlic, and ginger. Dredge the beef in cornstarch, shaking off the excess and cook until all sides have browned.
2. Add soy sauce and transfer into a pressure cooker adding in enough water to cover the beef. Toast your cinnamon stick and anise until fragrant then add into the pressure cooker with bay leaves and brown sugar. Cook for 45 minutes or until tender.
3. Add brown sugar, soy sauce, water, star anise, and bay leaves. Bring to a boil and simmer for 45 minutes or until the meat is tender. Serve topped with green onions, chopped garlic, and birds eye chilies. Makes 4 servings.

TAIWANESE-INSPIRED PARES
Ingredients:
6 pc star anise
1 pc cinnamon stick
3 tbsp oil
1 pc onion, sliced
1 inch pc ginger, sliced
3 cloves garlic, sliced
½ tsp salt
3 pc tomatoes, sliced
½ kg beef shanks cut into 2 pc chunks
¼ cup Marca Piña soy sauce
2 cups beef broth
¼ cup tapuy/rice wine
2 tbsp gochujang
¼ cup brown sugar
2 pc bay leaves
¼ tsp white pepper
½ tsp five spice
3 cups beef broth
2 pcs bone marrows, split- horizontally
¼ kg miki/egg noodles, cooked according to package directions
4 pc boiled eggs
¼ cup chopped spring onions

Procedure:
1. Toast your spices and set aside. Saute your onions, ginger, garlic, and tomatoes. Season with salt and add beef shanks.
2. Add soy sauce and tapuy. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add gochujang and transfer into a pressure cooker. Add sugar, bay leaves, white pepper, five spice, and beef broth. Cook for 45 minutes.
3. Preheat your oven to 400 F. Place bone marrow in a pan and season with salt on top. Cover with foil and bake for 15 minutes. Serve with beef and rice. Makes 4 servings.

PARES MAMI
Ingredients:
Pre-made pares
pre-broiled bone marrow split horizontally
¼ kg miki/egg noodles, cooked according to package directions
4 pc boiled eggs
¼ cup chopped green onions
¼ cup fried garlic

Procedure:
1. In a bowl, add noodles, pares, bone marrow, boiled eggs then top with green onions and garlic. Makes 4 servings.

Jump to:
(0:00) Intro
(1:23) Trying Cocoy Mami Pares
(7:35) Erwan Cooks Pares, Outro
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Social Media:

[rjdiego]

Would just like to say how I appreciate how much effort Erwan's putting in going out, promoting and trying local food, and trying to speak in Tagalog.

[SuperRockstar]

love it when erwan really trying his best to speak in tagalog just to make kuya manager comfortable .. i really appreciate your efforts man.

[althearrawr]

Cute ni erwan trying his best to speak in tagalog 😂❤

[flaeiya]

Cocoy's has been our go-to place since I was a kid. ❤❤

[ropiniano]

That is so nice that he can make a Filipino street food look sosyal and be appreciated in a high end restaurant. Mr Erwan, you’re the best!

[onceuponalonetime]

More Filipino-speaking Erwan plzzz. Kudos for the extra mile and effort!

I still remember Erwan visiting the best Pares-an in Marikina and it has boomed since he visited!

[Yianiz]

nakakatuwa na ang effort ni Erwan magtagalog.

[johnmarkrodriguez]

I appreciate Erwann trying to speak the language. Like all things, there's a struggle to it at the beginning but it gets easier so long as you regularly give it a go, and it helps to talk with those who fluently speak the language, both classic and colloquial versions of it 👍🏽👍🏽

[amoryantoine]

Erwan trying to converse in Tagalog is just a proud moment as a fan hahaha anne must be proud!!! <3

[teacherportia]

Cocoy's pares, YES! Nice Tagalog po Kuya Erwan!

[kristengrejabaldonado]

Ang galing na mag tagalog ni Erwan!! 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻

[anng]

Big respect to Erwan❤ appreciate nia pinoy food talaga and cute nia magtagalog😂😅 more of this erwan and with Dahlia

[caironjamesvelasco]

Erwan speaking tagalog is priceless ❤💯

[matetsarmiento]

Cocoys! my favorite pares since i was a kid! Never fail to visit it when I'm in the Philippines for vacation❤

[halzeenen]

Cocoy's! My childhood pares place since the 90's. Went to high school at Montessori just beside it and after class, me and my classmates always went there for food trip!

[rainebuquid]

I was hypersalivating the whole time while watching this episode. At 10:30 in the evening I craved for a pares, in vain. Hopefully, tomorrow my craving will be satisfied. Thank you so much, Erwan. You always inspire us, your subscribers. Wala kang kaPARES, hehe. ❤

[edgedjbob]

That bone marrow is the icing on the cake and the egg is the cherry on top. I love it with pandesal or mantao bread

[alvimc]

Kung kelang magdidinner na. Nakakatakam. Pampagana talaga to kumain.

[NitramK]

Cocoy's is amazing, but do try the retiro one in La Loma. The owner there was the cook for Jonas during the 80's then left to open his own restaurant which is now known as The Famous Original Pares Mami House in Amoranto Street.

[nikdorothy]

Is this the first time that I heard you speak tagalog? Thanks for the effort speaking our language, keep it up!