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King Sue’s Pre-Holiday: Chef Gene Gonzalez Shares Cooking Secrets and Family Dishes

Internationally renowned Chef Gene Gonzalez today cooked up traditional favorites and sumptuous innovations with a King Sue twist during the King Sue’s Pre-Holiday Media Lunch at Café Ysabel.

Chef Gene, who opened his flagship ancestral home turned restaurant in San Juan City at 23, pays tribute to King Sue products which have been a staple fare on the dining table as well as in his kitchen. “King Sue has been there at home ever since,” shares the author of “Cocina Sulipeña” and many other cookbooks.

He’d wake up to King Sue bacon for breakfasts as a student, enjoy Chinese ham during holiday festivities with the family, and rely on Chinese sausage for his Asian cooking and for his culinary school. “I also like their dried pork feet, which goes into my Spanish cooking and to my superior stock that gives my Chinese dishes authenticity,” he reveals.

“Rather than glaze a ham, you can braise it in a mix of vegetables and wine and the broken down vegetable puree acts as the sauce,” the now president of the pioneering Center for Asian Culinary Studies confides. King Sue products are not only popularly available and dependable, they are also very versatile. “The dried pork feet are truly excellent for beans, fabada, and stews along with Spanish chorizos for Filipino-Spanish combinations.”

“The King Sue burgers can be redone with herbs to create meatball, while the luncheon meat has hundreds of applications as fillings for Vietnamese and German cooking,” enthused Chef Gene. But the best part of this, however, is that King Sue having withstood the test of time and changing markets, is also very reasonably priced for such top quality.

Chef Gene and his banh mi sandwich made of King Sue meats: cooked salami, bologna, luncheon meat and deliburger beef
Fabada Austriana: Jamon de Bola, old English pork sausage, ham feet and chorizo macao

Hobby cooks and consultant could readily resort to King Sue when their or their client’s budgets get a bit tight so as to avoid sacrificing taste and flavor. Thus, the only Ten Outstanding Young Men Awardee for Culinary Arts, advised homemakers, chefs, and restaurateurs:

“Before you think deli items, take a second look at your King Sue products because they have great applications for reasonably priced ingredients with good quality,” said Chef Gene, who is also the consultant responsible for the success of some 60 food establishments/businesses and a member of the London-based International Wine and Food Society.

The name King Sue comes from King, meaning ‘royalty,’ and Sue, meaning ‘small,’ because the founder who is small in physical stature, has big dreams for his family.

King Sue is synonymous to quality. As a fifth generation business started in 1930 by Mr Cu Un Kay who began by selling whole leg Chinese hams in Chinatown. After 89 years, King Sue has diversified from whole leg hams to sausages and cold cuts to other meat products. Today, the company boasts, boating traditional hams to smoked bacons and sausages, as well as traditional favorites tocino, longganisa, and sisig. In 2019,  King Sue launched its Kaiser Deli Brand, reaching further into the high-end and more health conscious market. Kaiser Deli offers ultra-premium sausages, bacons, and hams for the most discriminating clients. All King Sue products are both GMP and HACCCP certified. Major supermarkets—SM, Robinson’s, and Puregold—as well as hotels and restaurants from La Trinidad, Metro Manila, through Bicol carry King Sue products, which are distributed nationally through distribution partners.

Maintaining quality and supplying the market demand are easy for the King Sue because everything’s made in house using state-of-the-art German equipment. “But, even with these high-tech machinery, preparation for the Christmas season starts in August for the whole bone Chinese hams,” confessed Richie King, VP for Marketing. “It takes a month to properly cure whole bone, which still needs to be smoked then cooked. It takes patience to perfect them.”

Chef Gene Gonzalez has personally witnessed the versatility of King Sue for all occasions and cooking needs. Thus, without a doubt, King Sue products are as good for the holiday table as they are for exciting everyday meals, special dinner spreads, and catering needs not just this Christmas but through the years to come!

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