Hi I like sinigang specially if it beef sinigang... wow though it is not healthy, because of the calories and fats. I used a free nutritional calculator to check how much calories fats etc that are in the whole recipe.

Speaking of sinigang... I am cooking pork sinigang today... hehe

it's really yummy especially if you put too many vegetables on it.

Aside from tamarind or the ready-to-use mixture, you can also use Kamias since it produces the same level of sour taste. This is somewhat similar to "paksiw" but the ingredient to make it sour is vinegar. Most "paksiw" dishes use fish since vinegar removes the fishy smell that is not really nice.