This summer, some relatives from the US came for a vacation. Their request is kare-kare. We bought a huge ox tail for that and added some small intestines. For the garnishing, the banana blossom is the best together with string beans and some pechay. Our relatives seemed to be in heaven upon tasting our kare-kare particularly with the special bagoong (shrimp paste) that we cooked ourselves. Now the problem is they want another round of kare-kare when the come back in January of 2016 for an informal reunion.