[1] The modern recipe became popular around the 1970s and consists of pork brain (otok) sauteed in oil with onion, garlic, and soy sauce.

[3] One Cebu City restaurant, Azul, garnered controversy in 2020 for having the name "tuslob buwa" registered before the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines as a trademark.

The dish is served with pusô (hanging rice) which the diners would dip in the prepared tuslob buwa.

[1][4] On 2024, Barangay Pasil also in Cebu City launched its first ever Tuslob Buwa Festival Official Theme Song.

Tuslob buwa was featured on the Netflix TV series, Street Food in the Cebu, Philippines episode.