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Holiday Dishes with Ilocano Flavors
Holiday Dishes with Ilocano Flavors
The holidays give me happy food memories. I used to watch my late father-in-law dip crisp, chunky pieces of pork bagnet, the Ilocano lechon kawali, into fish bagoong (salty fermented fish dip) or else spicy sukang Iloko, vinegar filled with siling labuyo (bird's eye chilies). Papa liked bagnet this way. When he offered me some, I filled a plate with crisp bagnet, fish bagoong on top and paired it with white rice.
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Published at 2018-03-15 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Food and Dining, Stories
Tags: Dishes, Ilocano, flavors, holiday
Top 10 Languages Used in the Philippines
Top 10 Languages Used in the Philippines
I used to think that the only language we have here in the Philippines is Filipino. It may be our national language, but there are actually more languages here in our country than we know. Because there are more than seven thousand islands in the Philippines, it is no wonder why we have many languages which most of us consider as dialects. There is a difference between dialect and language, though. According to Dictionary.com, a language is used by people who are of the same community or nation.
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Published at 2018-01-04 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Culture, Documentary, Society
Tags: Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Tagalog
Tinguian
Tinguian
Tinguian,” “Tinggianes,” “Tingues,” and “Tingians” all mean “mountain dwellers,” and refer to the people who, to avoid the advancing Christian Ilocano, withdrew into the Abra valley and the nearby highlands. Tinguian is used synonymously with the word “Itneg,” which is derived from “iti uneg,” which literally means “the interior,” or from the combination of the prefix “i-,” which indicates a place of origin, and the name of a major river and geographical area, “Tineg”.
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Published at 2017-12-02 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Communities, Culture, People
Tags: Ilocano, Itneg