adobong sawa

Adobong sawa with chicharon balat ng sawa (python skin crackling) from Lamarang Steak & Seafood Restaurant in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija during one of my travels in central Luzon in summer 2012. 

adobong sawa - /a-dó-bong sa-wá/ Tagalog, Cebuano, Boholano, Bicolano, Ilocano, and Novo Ecijano delicacy) [n.] python adobo.

The meat of the python snake is cooked adobo-style.

Adobong sawa can be prepared as masarsa (saucy) or pinatuyo (dry) kind of adobo.

A live sawa (python) on display at the entrance of the Eagle Center in Malagos District, Davao City in April 2012.

A python at the Eagle Center in Malagos District, Davao City (actually there were several of them on display) is not for sale to take home and cook into a delicacy. The snakes are for the visiting tourists to experience how it feels to be hug by this constrictor reptile.

A serving of flaked adobong sawa from the Lamarang Steak & Seafood Restaurant in Cabanatuan City in Nueva Ecija province during one of my travels in central Luzon last summer of 2012. This is cooked pinatuyo style (dry).

Adobong sawa is an exotic delicacy in the Philippines as it is not commonly found and prepared in all places. It is considered by some as an aphrodisiac and is thought to have a potent effect. Some attested to having experienced a sensational warmness in the body after having this dish as pulutan (food served along with alcoholic drinks).

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CD-CD

This was when Compact Disc (CD) was still the popular file storage media for all your digital files. I found this CD-CD cracker from a stall in the Commercial Center of Tacloban City's downtown last summer of 2010.

CD-CD - /si-di si-dì/ (Waray [eastern Leyte] biscuit) [n.] cracker biscuit shaped like a CD (compact disc) or DVD (digital video disc) disc.

After kneading the dough of mixed flour, baking powder, salt, and water, it is flattened into a thin sheet and a punch cutter is used to get those disc-shaped cutouts with donut holes. 

The cutouts are placed in a baking tray and placed in the oven to become biscuits. Towards the end of baking, each disc is sprinkled with grains of brown or coarse white sugar that melted slightly and stuck on the surface of the CD-CD biscuit.

Packs of CD-CD biscuits on display for sale in the Commercial Center, downtown of Tacloban City last summer 2010.

CD-CD  biscuits can be eaten as is or paired with a cup of hot coffee, or with a bottle of cold softdrink (soda).

Before, when CD (compact disc) was not yet invented, this biscuit was a small-sized disc and used to be called galyeta by the Warays of eastern Leyte. Yeah, it was the size of a mini-disc of those erstwhile applications or software file installers. And yeah, it already had its donut hole then. The bakers eventually enlarged the size to match and make it look like the bigger CD of the 1990s until the early decades of 2000s.

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orange egg barbecue

Orange egg barbecue on display and ready for grilling at a roadside food stall in Cauayan City, Isabela. I found this while on a food hunting  one evening in March 2013.

orange egg barbecue - (o-rens eg bar-bek-kyu; Ilocano [Cauayan City, Isabela] and Ibanag delicacy) [n.] hard-boiled orange-colored eggs in a barbecue stick

Other local name: 

• a.k.a. egg barbecue in Ilocano [Cauayan City, Isabela]

The chicken eggs or duck eggs are hard-boiled, shelled, and then soaked and boiled briefly in achuete water. If achuete water is not available, water tinted with yellow-orange food coloring is used.

When I passed by the public market of Alicia, Isabela I found these bags of bugok na itlog itik (rotten duck eggs). The eggs are already shelled, colored orange, hard-boiled, and all ready for skewering into egg barbecue and grilling.

Grilling the orange egg barbecue at a roadside food stall in Cauayan City, Isabela while on a food hunting one evening last March 2013.

The tinted eggs are skewered in bamboo barbecue sticks and grilled until eggs are heated well. Egg barbecue is served with a dipping of spiced vinegar. 

Grilling orange egg barbecue on intensely hot live charcoal embers. This was my evening snack in Cauayan City, Isabela (March 2013).

 

There are at least four kinds of egg barbecue depending on the kind of egg used:

• fresh egg barbecue - using hard-boiled fresh chicken egg
• binugok egg barbecue - using the shelled hard-boiled binugok egg or chicken egg that remained unfertilized after undergoing an incubation period
  
• penoy egg barbecue - using the shelled hard-boiled penoy egg (duck egg that remained unfertilized after undergoing the incubation period)
  
• balut egg barbecue - using the shelled hard-boiled balut eggs

Cross section of orange egg barbecue served with sukang Iloko.  Also in the dipping bowl is pork barbecue. 

These pieces of egg barbecue, being sold in the public market of Alicia, Isabela, are coated with breadcrumbs. They have to be deep-fried  along with the bamboo stick then grilled afterward. The grilling is actually done to reheat the fried skewered orange eggs. Most often, grilling is skipped for those who cannot wait to bite.

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Penoy

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sawa

A harvest of not-so-matured sawa pods being sold in the public market of Super in Cotabato City during one of my brief stay in the city in November 2010.

 

sawa – /sá-wà/ Maguindanaon edible water plant/fruit) 1. [n.] sacred lotus (sc.name: Nelumbo nucifera, Gaertn.) \oriental lotus 2. [n.] lotus pod and its seeds \lotus seed.

Other local common names:

• beno or baino in Tagalog-Lagueño [Laguna Lake].
• pagusi in Surigaonon  [Mainit Lake] of Surigao del Norte and in Cebuano-Agusanon (Agusan del Norte).
• sukaw in Ilocano [Paoay Lake].
• kulatot in Pangasinense.
• lingaling in Ibanag (Cagayan Province).

 

A fruit of indigenous sacred lotus that grows in the ponds, marshes, swamps, and lakes of Maguindanao and adjacent towns and provinces. The fruit has seeds with nutty kernels that are eaten raw as a snack. Lotus plants are very much abundant in the Tamontaka river, Rio Grande Mindanao river, Matampay river, and the vast swampy areas of Liguasan marsh and Libungan marsh of Maguindanao and Cotabato regions in the southwestern part of mainland Mindanao. 

This lotus plant is native of Asia, particularly of Indochina (Mainland Southeast Asia) and adjacent other countries of South East Asia. Probably of  prehistoric introduction to the Philippines.

The young pod of the fruit has a thick casing resembling that of a halved cacao fruit or a cornucopia of protruding yellow-green seeds. Simply, figure it out as a showerhead.

Two elderly Maguindanaon women in Cotabato City picking bunch of not-so-matured sawa pods for their grandkids.

The ovaloid young lotus seeds need to be pulled out, its shell cracked open like a peanut and its nutty, tender white kernel is taken out and eaten raw. It tastes like that of a boiled young peanuts.

The Maguindanaons would often give this to their kids and toddlers as nourishment

Are lotus and water lily the same?

 

Let it be known, and to set it clear, that lotus and water lily are two different kinds of aquatic plants. Yes, they are not the same. The  Maguindanaon sawa is a kind of lutos and not a water lily. 

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chopsuey

A serving of chopsuey at the Dwino's Grill in OzamisCity, Misamis Occidental during one of my travels in the southern part of mainland.

 

chopsuey – /tsàp-soy/ (Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilonggo dish; dw Chin. tsa-sui [various pieces]) [n.] stir-fried vegetable.

These stir-fried vegetables can also be added to seafood and meat at will.

An assortment of cut vegetables is stir-fried and mixed with seafood (shrimp, squid, fish fillet, etc.) and sliced meat (pork or chicken).

The kind of vegetables conventionally used in making this dish are wide cuts of repolyo (cabbage), widely sliced carrots, sayote (mirliton pear), cauliflower, sliced bell pepper, and sometimes with sliced tomatoes and green pods of beans, such as sitsaro (snow peas), sitaw (string beans), or Baguio beans.

A serving tray of chopsuey one summer day of May 2012 while at the beach resort of AcuaVerde in Laiya Aplaya, SanJuan, Batangas.

Its thick white sauce is made with water (or broth) added with some gawgaw (tapioca powder) or corn starch that is pre-dissolved in lukewarm water then added and stirred in the dish and seasoned with patis (fish sauce) or oyster sauce.

This chopsuey seafood is of Sam's Fastfood & Bakeshop during my trip in May 2011 to Pagadian City of Zamboanga del  Sur also in the southern part of mainland Mindanao.

Occasionally, when available, chopsuey has young corncob, broccoli, mushroom, and coriander added to the ingredients.

This dish is a Chinese-American-influenced dish that is now commonly found in Pinoy eateries and gatherings.

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lagat na puso

A serving of Aling Lucing's lagat na puso in Robinson Mall in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga.

 

lagat na puso – /la-gat na pú-sò/ Capampangan dish; dw Capampangan lagat [sautéed] + puso [banana heart]) [n.] sautéed banana heart.

You can cook at home with the cooking procedure I wrote here.

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