Sydney Cebu Lechon
Powerhouse Lane was a celebration of the culinary and musical landscape of Western Sydney presented across four flavoursome nights on George Street at Parramatta Lanes in late October 2024.
As part of the festival, Powerhouse commissioned fbi.radio’s Snack Time team, led by presenters and food enthusiasts Ann Ding and Shivika Gupta, to conduct an interview series with Marjorie Tenchavez, founder of award-winning social enterprise Welcome Merchant, alongside four renowned local food vendors. Presented here is Across the Table: Sydney Cebu Lechon.
Powerhouse Lane is proudly funded by the NSW Government in association with City of Parramatta Council and Powerhouse.
‘If you put one charcoal less or one charcoal over you could undercook it ... It’s not a gas oven where you just set the dial.’
Sydney Cebu Lechon has been a family affair for more than three decades. In the 1990s, as a high schooler, Will Mahusay would watch his father Fred brine and prepare Filipino whole suckling pigs to be roasted over charcoal. The work was intense, physical and technical; Will found himself intrigued, but not enough to entice him away from his teenage freedom just yet.
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