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Filip 322 Cuisine
Filip 322 Cuisine
Moreover, the verb “to eat” is kumain, “kain” in Tagalog, “kaon” in Hiligaynon and
Cebuano. This is derived from the food partaken of: kanin (rice).
As far as the method of cooking is concerned, nanag is to grill fruits, peanuts, and
sweet potato (camote); inihaw, sinalab, sinugba, and dinarang are terms used to
food that is roasted on the furnace, usually using charcoal.
Talibuyo, on the other hand, is the term for lechon (roasted pork).
Tindag and tinuhog are words for food cooked in a stick.
If there is barbecue for the Amerikano, then there is barbacoa (which the Spaniards
brought from Guiana).
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Interestingly, humapon is also used to refer to the act whereby chickens perch on
the treebranches at twilight.
As for fish, when it is made to dry under the sun, it is called daing.
If meat is dried under the sun, it is called tapa or pindang.
If food is cooked on smoke, it is called tinapa, humba, pinausukan or tayubay.
If food is ‘cooked’ in vinegar, it is called kinilaw.
Other samples are: Palitaw (rice cake patties made to surface=lumitaw over boiling
water)
Palarusdos (rice ball in coconut sauce; the balls are made by rolling a pinchful of
rice paste in one’s palms)
Sinigang (brothed)
Iprinito (fried)
Dinaing (dried)
Inasal (barbecue)
Pinangat
Nilitson (grilled over the fire)
Binuro (fermented)
Tinusta (toasted)
Nilupak
Binulanglang (brothed in shrimp or fish paste)
Binagoongan (sautéed in shrimp paste)
Pinakbet
Pinaksiw (simmered in vinegar)
Inasnan (salted) Then there is the practice among Tagalogs of calling a dish
according to the position of the animal used as basic ingredient in a dish.
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Thus, Pinalundag na isda literally means jumping fish, pinalukso is fish (usually
mudfish or catfish) that is jumping on the frying pan after being thrown into, the
nilasing na hipon is shrimp that is simmered in beer or native wine (made drunk),
binalot na isda is fish wrapped in banana leaves, and pinaupong manok (sitting
chicken).
It is likewise noticeable that in Filipino, there are words that when repeated, would
refer to a food stuff. Examples of these are:
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