Abra de Ilog Seascape

Leave a comment Posted by on October 8, 2013

Most of the pictures were taken while running on the trails in the hillside and occasionally greeting Mangyans along the way.

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The white sand beach in the port of Abra de Ilog

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Bancas of the seaside community. One can rent a banca to buy supplies in Puerto Galera

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Rocky shore

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Stillness at dusk

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Hillside trail to go to town and pier, the other way is by banca along the beach

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Bucolic view

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Emerging on a road that leads to the town

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One of the many beaches where one can divert momentarily from the trails in the hills to have a relaxing walk or dip

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Vegetable Vendor

Leave a comment Posted by on October 7, 2013
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Retailing vegetables by piece or by tied bundle of those leafy ones. Also the spices and condiments in small plastic packets hanging above the vegetables

Market, Produce , , ,

Street Peanuts

Leave a comment Posted by on October 7, 2013
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Peanuts, beans, etc and the small brown paper bags for packaging

Food, Metro Manila ,

Vacuum Coffee Brewer

Leave a comment Posted by on October 6, 2013
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Left over coffee from previous brewing in one of the three glass chambers. It won’t be served instead they’ll brew a new one for you in this Chinese restaurant along Benavidez street, Binondo

 

I’ve noticed some small Chinese restaurants or food stalls use the old school vacuum coffee maker. Unlike other coffee makers, this one is fun to watch, as water once heated, goes up to the coffee grounds, and when the heat source is removed, it goes down leaving spent beans in the upper chamber and freshly brewed coffee in the lower glass chamber.

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Stirring coffee with siphoned hot water coming from the lower glass chamber into the upper glass chamber containing ground beans to brew a new one. An artful way to make very good coffee unlike those state-of-the-art but artless espresso machines

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A stall inside a building in Juan Luna street with a vacuum brewer located in front of that customer. Fresh and good coffee lovingly stirred for you at Php25 a cup

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Cart Wheels

Leave a comment Posted by on October 5, 2013
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Selling wheels in a cart

Metro Manila , ,

Santo Vestment

Leave a comment Posted by on October 5, 2013
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Peddling wardrobe for santo image

Metro Manila , , ,

Oblong Burger

Leave a comment Posted by on October 4, 2013
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Street burger of Peninsular Malaysia. At the lower left of the sign it says 90% pure meat

Food, Malaysia , ,

Tasty Pork of Taal

Leave a comment Posted by on October 3, 2013

Pork meat with fat saturated mainly with adobo marinade can transform into two products, tapa and longganisa, presumably because the taste is similar. If there’s a difference, it’s somehow attributed to its form thus affecting its taste when cooked.

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Sliced marinated pork is the tapa and if it's chopped and stuffed inside a casing, then it's a longganisa

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Marinade inside that rectangular container is poured into this tapa from time to time so it will look fresh and not dry

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Tangkong

Leave a comment Posted by on October 3, 2013

Tangkong is the Visayan term (Ilonggo or Cebuano) for water spinach and known as kangkong countrywide.

Here’s a stanza from the Provincial Jail song (radio drama song) that I hear all the time in Bacolod in the past that the lyrics still in my head.

Ang amon na utan ginulot na langka, tinuktok nga tangkong bisan asin wala
Samtang naga kaon ga tulo ang luha, daw ano kasubo kung imo makita

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Empanada of Taal

Leave a comment Posted by on October 2, 2013

Put some filling such as meat and/or vegetables inside dough and deep fry it. When cooked, you now have an empanada. Of course there are so many variations of this deep-fried filled dough worldwide. So while I snacked on my chicken empanada Taal version, I think of the samosas I ate as starter in Indian restaurants and the curry puffs I bought for breakfast from the street vendors in Malaysia.

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Empanada stall inside the palengke in Taal

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Warning sign with drawing of ABS-CBN logo

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Splendor at Sundown

Leave a comment Posted by on October 2, 2013

I happened to hang around these structures at sunset and naturally I had to capture this momentary splendor using my phone and my mind.

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Molo Church, Iloilo

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Taal Basilica, Batangas

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Paoay Church, Ilocos Norte

Batangas, Ilocos Norte, Iloilo, Structure, Sunrise Sunset , ,

Panutsa Maker

2 Comments Posted by on October 1, 2013

Peanuts (whether whole or chopped) that are bonded by caramelized sugar is a local candy known by different names such as bandi in Western Visayas (my mother would always buy me this), piñato in Eastern Visayas (sustained me in long bus rides between Negros and Cebu provinces during college years, my favorite variant), peanut brittle in Baguio (wish there’s a local name) and panutsa in Batangas.

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Whole peanuts and brown sugar cooked in wok over woodfire is panutsa in the making

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Stirring for a well distributed peanuts when bonding with caramelized brown sugar

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Bamboo ring molds. Shown here is the smallest ring and retailed by this factory at Php5 each

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Panutsa like bandi is ring-shaped and retailed in different sizes

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Doing some quality control while counting (also snacking on dislodged peanuts in the table)

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Presenting the panutsa made in Barangay Seiran of Taal

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Typography: Bridal Shop

Leave a comment Posted by on October 1, 2013

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Sinaing na Tulingan

Leave a comment Posted by on September 30, 2013

Simmering tulingan for a long time in claypot saturate the fish with the added salt and souring ingredient such as kamias hence the resulting dish makes it a very appetizing viand. Locals who don’t want to spend time simmering and non-locals who would like to bring home this Batangas signature dish gave this old lady a market for her sinaing na tulingan.

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Comfortably seated on the counter beside her palayok of sinaing na tulingan (claypot with braised tuna inside)

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Carefully getting the fish where each one is separated by banana leaf during simmering process. The bones are very soft already that it can be eaten as proudly claimed by the vendor

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Getting another fish. It's 3 for Php100. She then wrapped the 3 cooked fish together using banana leaf and newspaper as her packaging

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Lanzones Season

Leave a comment Posted by on September 30, 2013
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Lanzones of Cuenca, Batangas sold at Php45 per kilo in roadside stalls

Batangas, Food, Produce , ,

Skewered Blood

Leave a comment Posted by on September 29, 2013
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Coagulated chicken blood on stick ready for grilling. Also known as betamax.

Food , ,

Salty Accompaniment

2 Comments Posted by on September 29, 2013

A couple of condiment samples I have at home from an unknown number of condiment variations in the country.

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Batitis (shellfish meat in brine) sold in Tanduay bottle known as lapad

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Fish fermented in large clay jars as you can see from the logo of this popular Lingayen brand

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Salty sawsawan duo for an appetizing meal. Batitis on the left, bagoong on the right

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Improvised Gut Receptacle

Leave a comment Posted by on September 28, 2013

Plastic wrapped around an iron bar and secured by a rock behind the wooden chopping board as devised by the tilapia monger for catching wastes while cleaning the fish.

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Removal of entrails and scales are free services when you buy fish

Improvisation, Metro Manila , ,

Talipapa

Leave a comment Posted by on September 28, 2013

Small temporary wet market usually by the roadside. This type of retailing is practical for locals who live on a daily wage thus buying food on a daily basis.

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Ancient Rice Landscape

Leave a comment Posted by on September 27, 2013

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