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Category Archives: Seafood

Señor Pagi Vendor

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 27, 2014

This señor is selling dried pagi (stingray) at Zamboanga City public market

Upon seeing me taking snapshots of his rays, he funnily posed. This señor and the rest of them palengke folks love to have their photographs taken. This is what I’ve observed with palengke vendors anyplace, and so I oblige each time, and they were giggly happy afterwards. I never tried to ask a vendor to pose for me, they just do it, and they’ve consistently amused me.

Señor's stock of dried pagi in the bamboo basket

More often than not, this sort of welcoming atmosphere gives me a chance for some cordial exchange in bisaya dialect. That’s how I usually acquire firsthand local knowledge of their trade.

Market, Seafood, Zamboanga Peninsula bulad, dried salted stingray, pagi, photograph, picture taking, ray, stingrays, tuyo, Zamboanga City

Buriring Season

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 18, 2014

The defense mechanism of buriring is to inflate but the container is too small for everyone to puff up

When I was in Malapascua Island at the end of July until early days of August, I came upon residents gathering buriring (pufferfish) just near the shore of the beach. This small edible species is being fished for local consumption.

Her dinner probably

A tub for the catch

A closer look of buriring in its normal size

Keeping it alive, keeping it fresh

Buriring fishing instead of playing or schooling

Packing-up time for mission was accomplished - dinner procurement

A shopping bag-full of catch

Bloated yet truly cute

Cebu, Seafood, Seasonal buriring, fishing, Malapascua Island, pufferfish

Burara Food Fish

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on June 23, 2014

Burara is the local name of this food fish

Burara tastes good as paksiw or fried, says the fish lady. I had it fried and it was indeed a tasty accompaniment to white rice

Metro Manila, Seafood big-eye snapper, burara, food fish, talipapa

Salty Stall

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on May 17, 2014

Uga (dried salted fish) and guinamos (salted shrimp fry paste) stalI at Iloilo Central Market

Iloilo, Market, Seafood bulad, Central Market, dried salted fish, Iloilo City, tuyo

Tokyo Snapshots: Ameyoko Market

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on May 4, 2014

Fish vendor in towel-wrapped head

Another fish vendor

Fruit and vegetable vendor

Tako (octopus)

Takoyaki (octopus balls)

A temple (Tokudai-ji) within the market street

Food, Japan, Market, Produce, Seafood Ameyoko, fish, fruit, Tokyo, vegetable

Bisugo

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on March 29, 2014

Market, Metro Manila, Seafood bisugo, food fish, pinamalhan, talipapa

Adorned With Tomatoes

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on March 6, 2014

Fish for sale are decorated with tomatoes (and green chili peppers) which gives me the impression that they are fresh. I suppose that’s the purpose of tomato adornment. Next time I’ll ask the vendor.

Metro Manila, Seafood fish, fresh, talipapa, tomato adornment

DIY: Danggit Lamayo

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on February 10, 2014

Occasionally there’s fresh danggit in the talipapa near the village where I live so in one of those times I decided to get some (80 pesos/kilo) and asked the fish lady to open it up.

Fresh danggit

I marinated the danggit in vinegar, garlic and salt and let the fish absorb the marinade overnight inside the refrigerator before freezing it.
Danggit lamayo is usually eaten as breakfast in Palawan. It was in Coron where I had this for the first time as my daily breakfast. After that first time, I’ve observed that in Puerto Princesa and El Nido, fried danggit lamayo is ever present in the breakfast menu of hotels, guesthouses and resorts.
One thing normal to danggit lamayo (no matter if it’s boneless or not) is the price. It’s expensive even if the concept is the same as those packed marinated bangus. Must be because rabbit fish isn’t farmed.

Deep fried danggit lamayo if paired with fried egg and eaten with fried pink rice makes a very satisfying "fried" almusal

Metro Manila, Seafood almusal, breakfast, Coron, danggit, DIY, El Nido, lamayo, Palawan, Puerto Princesa, rabbit fish

Fish Organizer

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on January 15, 2014

Weaved bamboo canister to organize fish in twos.

Indonesia, Receptacle, Seafood canister, fish, holder, Jogja, organizer, weaved bamboo, Yogyakarta

Christmas Lunch

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on December 25, 2013

At past 9 in the morning today, Christmas day, this lad was gathering small crabs for their Christmas lunch.

Aklan, Seafood Boracay, Christmas, crabs, lunch

Abo Dried Fish

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on November 4, 2013

I grew up eating fried fresh abo in Bacolod but in Camarines Sur salted dried abo is quite common.

Abo tuyo at 140 pesos a kilo

One of the many tuyo tables in Sipocot palengke

Camarines Sur, Market, Seafood abo, Bicol, dried fish, palengke, Sipocot, tuyo

Talaba Vendor

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 18, 2013

The vendor and his oysters (talaba)

Bulacan, Seafood oyster, Paombong, talaba, vendor

Kasag, Lokos, Pasayan

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 10, 2013

Most common seafood trio in Ilonggo dialect.

Kasag

Lokos

Pasayan

Seafood crab, kasag, lokos, Market, pasayan, shrimp, squid

Sea Cucumber

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on September 23, 2013

Dried white tiger sea cucumber used for food. Kota Kinabalu market.

Sea cucumber used as folk medicine. Processed into this oil substance in one of the many gamat factories in Langkawi

Malaysia, Seafood folk medicine, gamat, Kota Kinabalu, Langkawi, minyak, sea cucumber

Seafood by Plate/Tub

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on September 19, 2013

One can buy certain types of seafood at the palengke by plate or tub and not by weight.

Bivalves and snails

Aninikad

Spider conch

Palawan, Seafood bivalve, pakenge, Puerto Princesa, ranga ranga, saang, shellfish, spider conch, unit of measure, wet market

Food Fish in Palawan

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on September 13, 2013

Selections of different types of food fish noted in the wet market of Puerto Princesa City.

Yellow fin tuna

Eel

Isda sa bato

Assorted food fish in different sizes and colors

Alibangbang. Cook it by grilling said the fishmonger.

Palawan, Seafood alibangbang, butterfly fish, eel, food fish, isda sa bato, parrot fish, Puerto Princesa, tuna

Evening Fish Vendors

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 23, 2013

Vendors selling fish in the sidewalk until the evening hoping for more sales from the remaining fish

Seafood fish vendor, sidewalk

Casio (Shellfish)

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 6, 2013

The girl eats the foot of this shellfish as soon as her grandmother pulls it from the sand in the shallow waters of Tondol beach in Anda Island.
The granny calls this edible mollusk as “casio”. So it’s casio for their dinner (sans the tails) by cooking it in the pot in low fire to make a soup of it from its own water.