Category Archives: Pilipinas

Araro, Gasera, Salakot

Leave a comment Posted by on August 8, 2013

Roadside stalls selling what a local Filipino farmer might need.

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Ploughs (araro)

 

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Farming hats (salakot)

 

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Kerosene lamps (gasera)

 

Apparatus, Local Stuff, Tarlac , , , , , , ,

Quezon Tamales

Leave a comment Posted by on August 7, 2013

Similar to machang dim sum except for the packaging.

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Wrapped in banana leaf and tied with straw

Food, Packaging, Quezon , ,

Patar Seascape

Leave a comment Posted by on August 7, 2013

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Not swimmable beach

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See the lighthouse

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Swimmable beach

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Rooster Shed

Leave a comment Posted by on August 7, 2013

Repurposed plastic drum as shed for fighting cock.

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Pangasinan, Repurposing, Structure , ,

Casio (Shellfish)

Leave a comment Posted by 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.

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Gathering casio using bare fingers

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Girl snacking on the “tail” (as they call it) fresh from the sea. Perfect for raw food advocates

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The casio (not my wristwatch)

Food, Pangasinan, Seafood , , , ,

Traditional Stoves

1 Comment Posted by on August 6, 2013

Fuel used for these stoves can be wood or charcoal.

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Apparatus, Cookware, Local Stuff, Tarlac , , ,

Disaster Warning Systems

Leave a comment Posted by on August 5, 2013

Warning devices as seen in Malaybalay and Bolinao.

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Risk of fire indicator in Malaybalay

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Tsunami warning device in Bolinao

Bukidnon, Pangasinan, Signs , , ,

Fishing Boats in Malino River

Leave a comment Posted by on August 5, 2013

Large outrigger boats for fishing docked in Ilog Malino (Malino River) in Bolinao.

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Notice the huge chests

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Where the river meets the sea

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Malino River

Pangasinan, Transport , , ,

Bolinao Sunset

Leave a comment Posted by on August 5, 2013

Sundown colors of Western Pangasinan.

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Setting sun

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Twilight

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Bagoong Padas

Leave a comment Posted by on August 4, 2013

Fermented fish version of Pangasinan is the bagoong padas.

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Ready to eat

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Filipinos have affinity for fermented stuff as bagoong of different kinds are eaten countrywide

Food, Pangasinan, Seafood , , , ,

Bamboo Cake

Leave a comment Posted by on August 3, 2013

Also known as binungey.
Inside this bamboo packaging with banana leaf cover is a sticky rice cake that tastes like puto maya.

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Binungey vendor

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Food, Local Stuff, Packaging, Pangasinan , , ,

Banca

Leave a comment Posted by on July 25, 2013

Some of the many photographs I have of the Philippine outrigger canoe also known as banca.

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Sometimes it is easier to go to another part of town via sea than land

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Banca in Abra de Ilog

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Banca in Calauit

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Chest containers being dried on this fishing banca in Masbate City

Masbate, Occidental Mindoro, Palawan, Public Transportation , ,

Rice Cake Cupcake

Leave a comment Posted by on July 24, 2013

Also known as bibingka.
There are quite a number of variations of bibingka all over the country and this is just one of those.

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Banana leaf as cupcake liner instead of the usual paper in normal cupcakes

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Mini bibingka in Jaro

Bukidnon, Food, Iloilo , , , , , ,

Paper Bus Tickets

Leave a comment Posted by on July 23, 2013

These are paper bus tickets used by city buses in Metro Manila and are issued manually by bus conductors by handing out the tickets to each passenger inside the bus in their seat or standing position. Imagine a bus conductor negotiating his way inside a full-packed standing bus just to hand the tickets.

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Tickets glued in a cardboard as I’m keeping it.

Local Stuff, Metro Manila, Public Transportation , ,

Rambutan Colors

2 Comments Posted by on July 21, 2013

Each color represents a variety and the best one says the vendor is the RR, the green-red combination.

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Food, Laguna, Produce , ,

Roadside Edibles

Leave a comment Posted by on July 21, 2013

Snail, escargot, mudfish, catfish and frog are the various edibles for sale says the sign. Also a dog.

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Balay Ukit

Leave a comment Posted by on July 18, 2013

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Masbate, Structure ,

Salted Dried Fish

1 Comment Posted by on July 17, 2013

I would prefer salted dried fish over salty processed canned goods to go with rice for breakfast.

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Tuyo stalls in the saudan (market place)

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Bisugo

Market, Masbate, Seafood , , ,

Batwan

Leave a comment Posted by on July 17, 2013

This fruit from a tree is used as souring ingredient by crushing it like how you crush a garlic then add it in fish paksiw, tinolang isda, kansi etc
Batwan is common in Panay and Negros and I recently found out that this is also common in Masbate.

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Masbate, Produce ,

Pawa Mangrove Ecosystem

Leave a comment Posted by on July 16, 2013

Pawa is the name of the Barangay in Masbate City where this mangrove park is located. DENR takes care of the planting and preservation of these mangroves.

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This is where one can walk around the mangrove park

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A local who help plants the mangrove tree

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This long bridge is being repaired

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This local is explaining how to plant mangrove tree

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The tambasakan is abundant in there

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