Kamatis Iloko

Banna, Ilocos Norte. March 23, 2017.

KAMATIS ILOKO

Found these flower-like tomatoes in the public market of Banna, Ilocos Norte. March 23, 2017 (Read more...)

Ficus pseudopalma - Why is it called Lubi-lubi and Niyog-niyogan

 

LUBI-LUBI  / NIYOG-NIYOGAN

(Ficus pseudopalma)

• Lubi-lubi  in Bicolano
• Niyog-niyogan in Tagalog 

ETYMOLOGY: The real and true reason why Ficus pseudopalma is called lubi-lubi or niyog-niyogan are its fruits that look like miniature coconut fruits, specially when they are mature and drying. It is also the reason why lubi-lubi is botanically called "pseudopalma," which means not a true palm or coconut. The plant does not belong to the family of palms. The prefix pseudo came from the Greek pseudḗs for false and pseûdos for falsehood. Lubi-lubi (niyog-niyogan) rather belongs to family of fig. The fact that it is called Philippine fig in English.

Explanation

As you take a closer look at the lubi-lubi (niyog-niyogan) you will notice that neither the shape of the leaf or its foliage appeared to be a look-alike of coconut (Coco nucifera). It was a false claim for some writers and bloggers who might just copied and (Read more...)

pakdol

 

Pakdol - /pak-dol/ Waray [Eastern Leyte] soupy dish [n.] A soupy dish of stewed marrow-rich shank or hocks and knee of carabao.

Similar dishes

• bulalo  of Batangueño and Tagalog
• kansi  of Ilonggo
• pochero of Cebuano

Pakdol is a Waray soupy carabao dish of eastern Leyte. Originally made with big cut of carabao's upper leg (shank) or any cut portion of upper leg down to the knee joints (hocks) and may also include a portion of the lower leg or any part of the limb in general.

It is often mistaken by diners, food writers and bloggers that pakdol is a kind of  nilagang baka when in fact it is of carabao (karabaw to the Warays).

When carabao population dwindled and became restricted or limited in slaughterhouses, it was then that (Read more...)

bu-o

Pictures not mine. Photo credit to the owner, Chef Theodore Day Salonga.

bo-u - /bu-ow/ Cordilleran fungi (Benguet province, Mountain Province, Ifugao province, and Abra province) [n.] Cordilleran false truffle.

Other common names:

• bu-o or bu-buo in Bokod, Benguet - pronounced as /bu-ow/ and /bu bu-ow/
• bu-o in Mountain Province - pronounced as /bu-ow/ 
• kankannool in Abra Province - pronounced as /kan-kan-no-'l/
• atayan in Sagada, Mountain Province - pronounced as /a-ta-yan/ 

Some claimed they found truffle in the Philippines but only to find out that what they found was not a real truffle but a local version of False Truffle (Scleroderma polyrhizum) often found in the mountains of Benguet province of Cordillera Administrative Region in central Luzon, Philippines.

Local food writers, bloggers and vloggers unofficially gave this ball-shaped fungi an English name as the (Read more...) 

Chiton (kibet chicharon)

chiton - /tsi-tón/ Tagalog [Quezon province] fried snack; dw Eng. chiton [sea mollusk with oval flattened body covered with a shell of overlapping plates] [n.] chiton crackling;  a crisp fried meat of chiton.

Other common name: 

• a.k.a. kibet chicharon  in Tagalog-Quezon
  

Chiton is pronounced as /kháy-ton/ in English, and /tsi-tón/ in Tagalog. In Quezon, kibet refers to raw or the processed meat of the mollusks, but when fried into chicharon, it is called chiton by the locals.

Chiton is a Tagalog-Quezonian [Quezon province] delicacy, also known as kibet chicharon in Tagalog-Quezon. It is a crisp fried meat of kibet, known in English as chiton (Chiton densiliratus), a kind of oval flattened sea mollusk with (Read more...)