Ingredients (approx. for 4 servings) 10pcs. medsz. fresh taro leaves 16oz of coconut milk shreaded tinapa (salted smoked/dried fish) shrirmp pork/beef bagoong (anchovy souce or patis, or asin) chili (get siling-labuyo if you can) garlic onion ginger 1) Dry (green-dry) taro leaves for approx. 10-12hrs (Actually, mas madali pag may dehydrator machine ka. But since I don't, what I do, is tie the taro leaves in a bundle, place a hook, and hang them on my 'sampayan' (clothes line) for about 10hrs, depending how hot the day is. Keep them dried-green tho). After dyring the leaves, shred them in small pieces (the taro leaves have distinctive lines/folds that they can be easily shred by your fingers, if they're properly fresh-dried). 2) Prepare your ingredients: Cut the garlic, onions, ginger in small pieces. Also cut the pork or beef (whichever meat of your choice) and shrimp in small peices or saute size. Shred the 'tinapa' or smoked-dried fish (one piece of tinapa is just about right). Wash the chilis or 'siling-labuyo' and remove the stalks (though if they're fresh and comes with leaves, you can also mix the green chili leaves, othewise mang-nakaw ka na lang ng siling-labuyo sa sukang-labuyo ni Mang Tomas ;-) 3) Pour coconut milk in a pan. Boil in the medium heat. Saute pork (or beef), garlic, onion, ginger on the frying pan till tender, then add chili (note: don't overcook the chili or mawawalan ng espiritu...err i mean ng anghang). Then mix the sauteed ingredients on the boiling coconut milk. Mix. Add shreded fish and taro leaves; keep mixing. Add drops of bagoong (anchovy sauce, if your not pihikan) _or_ regina patis (fish sauce, if want to remember me) _or_ plain asin (salt, if you got boring taste buds ;-). [Just remember to add what suits your buds, and don't make it too salty, since you already have 'tinapa' mixed in]. Mix until 'laing' turns somewhat thick, tender and ready to serve. You can serve 'laing' over plain steam rice. But I like my 'laing' served with piniritong-isda (bangus or galung-gong) and rice. Or serve with chi-charon and rice. Hmmm sarap!