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Category Archives: Pilipinas

Bangketa Unusual

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 23, 2013

One can see all sorts of stuff being peddled in the sidewalk.

Pitcher plants from Cebu says the peddler

Bottled honey and honeycomb

Metro Manila, Negros Occidental, Sidewalk Bacolod, bangketa, honey, honeycomb, Maynila, pitcher plant, sidewalk

Balut Carrier

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 23, 2013

Different modes to carry fertilized duck eggs also known as balut.

Temporarily stationary for the day at a selected spot if balut is in a drum

Balut in a cart for easy mobility

Balut in the basket strapped to the vendor for unimpeded mobility

Food, Negros Occidental, Palawan Bacolod, balot, balut, basket, carrier, cart, drum, fertilized duck egg, Puerto Princesa, receptacle, vendor

Banana Trunk Meat Stand

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 23, 2013

Displaying the selections of skewered chicken parts including pork in upright arrangement using banana trunk

Banana trunk is commonly used in Negros as chicken inasal stand

Food, Local Stuff, Negros Occidental Bacolod, banana trunk use, chicken inasal, meat stand

Merrymaking Festival

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 22, 2013

Masskara is an annual festival of Bacolod City with no folk Catholicism connotations. Most festivals in the country are associated with religious icons like for example the Sinulog of Cebu, Ati-atihan of Kalibo and Dinagyang of Iloilo were all for the veneration of the Sto Nino, the Pahiyas harvest festival of Lucban is the feast of San Isidro Labrador and so on. Even the fiestas at the barangay level are dedicated to their patron saint.

Partying in an urbanite sense isn’t my thing but folk fiestas and city festivals are enjoyable mainly for their cultural touch.

Masskara partying includes eating inasal and you go home smelling like inasal and then looking forward to the festival highlight – street dancing. So here are some of the photographs among the many masks of Masskara 2013.

Best in mask

Reason why Bacolod is the City of Smiles

Street dancing started at 1 pm and the city was booming with Latin beat as they dance their way towards the plaza

Even walis tambo can be mask material

Not just elaborate masks but costumes too

Not just having masks and costumes but props too

Art, Negros Occidental Bacolod, festival, mask, Masskara, merrymaking

Barangay

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 21, 2013

Forthcoming is the barangay election thus campaign posters have sprouted in the villages all over the country. A government unit that operates at the people level is the barangay so this must be (should be) the most important government unit. I like the thought that this political unit exists prior to the arrival of Spaniards, hence it’s a Malay heritage with no bad memories as compared to those gobernadorcillo-headed pueblos and much bigger political units headed by alcade mayor and so on.

When it comes to campaign paraphernalia, I like those crude ones such as that repurposed rice sack poster with Pentel pen written "BILLYCARO"

Negros Occidental, Repurposing, Signs Bacolod, barangay, campaign posters, election, government, political unit

Ibos, Bot-ong, Suman

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 21, 2013

Glutinous rice being the main ingredient of these kakanin trio of Bacolod: ibos, bot-ong, suman.

Ibos in coconut leaf packaging

Bot-ong in banana leaf packaging

Bot-ong and ibos without the leaf packaging

What one should expect when we say suman in Bacolod (known as biko in Cebu and Manila)

Food, Negros Occidental, Packaging Bacolod, bot-ong, glutinous rice, ibos, kakanin, suman

Takatak

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 20, 2013

That wooden rectangular box with compartments for cigarettes and candies and is usually strapped to the vendor for ambulant peddling is known as takatak.

This takatak man sells crackers too

Punk takatak boy

Efficient way to display by hand the different brands of cigarettes available

Negros Occidental, Pinoy Way of Life ambulant vendor, Bacolod, takatak boy

Kilometerstone

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 20, 2013

Public market expansion over time which eventually overtook the road side but left this kilometer marker intact. This location is one kilometer from the capitol of Negros Occidental

Negros Occidental, Structure Bacolod, kilometer marker, milestone

Eggshells for Plants

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 19, 2013

Eggshells as an organic fertilizer and adornment

I think it's faster to release the calcium from crushed eggshells

Garden, Negros Occidental adornment, egg shells, fertilizer

Bibingka Oven

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 19, 2013

A perfect bibingka is superior to any perfect pancakes out there. Whatever fruit, sauce or filling one can add to a pancake, the same can be done to a bibingka but resulting into a far more superior hot cake in taste minus the horrendous price.

Live charcoals in that square tin pan covering the clay pan where you put the bibingka batter in banana leaf and this is placed on top of clay stove also fueled with live charcoals. Presenting the rice cake oven

The avocado leaf-pandan leaf tea inside that kettle on the left side is given for free as an accompaniment to the rice cake

Bibingka still in a pan. I'm happy that this unpretentious stall exist

Bulacan, Cookware, Food bibingka, clay oven, pancake, Paombong, rice cake

Roadside Tinapa

3 Comments Posted by Lana on October 18, 2013

Assortment of smoked fish (tinapa) such as tamban, bangus etc. The weaved bamboo is where they put the fish during smoking process

Exposed tinapa by the street. Seems smoking continues by means of vehicle exhaust

Bulacan, Food Paombong, smoked fish, tinapa

Talaba Vendor

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 18, 2013

The vendor and his oysters (talaba)

Bulacan, Seafood oyster, Paombong, talaba, vendor

Cockfighting Exercise Tool

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 17, 2013

If there’s no live partner to train, then the cock will do some fighting drills with this human-handled cock dummy.

Apparatus, Bulacan cockfighting, Sta Rita, tool

Cleaning Substances

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 17, 2013

In Bulacan towns you’ll notice several shops selling unbranded soap, detergent, fabric conditioner, and dishwashing liquid. I assumed these were all surplus from soap plants in that province but the lady from one shop said these are products by TESDA students. I also saw repacked branded ones like Ariel detergent powder. These came from damaged packaging according to the same lady.

Those unbranded ones were repacked by shops as they buy in bulk

Bulacan detergent, soap, soap making, Sta Rita

Typography: Market Stalls

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 16, 2013

Hand painted store signs with related painted drawings in these humble stalls in Bocaue public market. I like those painted ones than the added Knorr sponsored signage above it.