Why is Philippine cuisine so.... umm... primitive?

[yebo]

Ilocano Papaitan has literal sh1t? Seriously??? Isn't that an infection/sickness waiting to happen?

So what is that dish with bile? Yung green?

BTW I saw a documentary on a tribe somewhere in the north where they beat the chicken to death because it is supposed to make the meat taste better. I don't think I can eat that knowing how much the animal suffered

yes cathy, seriously. i've personally seen the "papait" extracted from the big intestine many times during my childhood. and yes, if they made a mistake like a few inches further it will smell (and thus taste) like sh!t. i once ordered goat papaitan served in one of the "kambingan" restaurants in mindanao avenue/pagasa area before where i just could not put it in my mouth. amoy ebak talaga hahaha! pero during family reunions where they butchered a cow (big family, my grandfather had 10 siblings) they prepare the cow a few days before. they only fed it a type of fresh grass and absolutely no hay, grain or bran.

the dish made with bile is the manila version because the real papait will not pass inspection for very obvious reasons.

e yung canao di lalo na. they just hack the carabao at the back of the neck, they swoop in and when the coast clears nothing is left but the horns and hooves.

[1D4LV]

favorite mo kinilaw na e.coli?

papakuluan mo muna sa tubig yan....
awa ng diyos di pa naman ako tinatamaan.

[Jun aka Pekto]

I think I'll start taking photos of the dishes the wife cooks. She has certain dishes only she (and her friends) eat. She also has a list of "safe" dishes most people would eat. Of course, the safe dishes are the derivative ones with Asian or Spanish origins..... like these:

To think she didn't know how to cook when we first got married. I had to teach her how to fry an egg.

[lowslowbenz]

I don't get it?

For lack of an operative description .... Why primitive?

[niky]

Ilocano Papaitan has literal sh1t? Seriously??? Isn't that an infection/sickness waiting to happen?

So what is that dish with bile? Yung green?

BTW I saw a documentary on a tribe somewhere in the north where they beat the chicken to death because it is supposed to make the meat taste better. I don't think I can eat that knowing how much the animal suffered

If it's cooked, it's cooked. (Usually) No worse than eating isaw.

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Talk about suffering, have you ever watched them butcher chicken? Take a live chicken, cut off its head and let it flap around while the blood drains out.

Eating any kind of vertebrate animal protein involves the gruesome death of a living, feeling animal. If it bothers you, better stick to fish. (Squid on the other hand, are a whole lot more intelligent than chickens... )

If I were to go "ethical" vegetarian, I would cut pork and beef completely out of my diet. Pigs are worryingly intelligent. I would still eat fish, though.

^ Just to add, there's a theory that pasta had it roots in China.

I've heard the theory, but apparently there is evidence of pasta or pasta-like products being eaten by the Greeks before Chinese influence reached Europe.

[CVT]

I think I'll start taking photos of the dishes the wife cooks. She has certain dishes only she (and her friends) eat. She also has a list of "safe" dishes most people would eat. Of course, the safe dishes are the derivative ones with Asian or Spanish origins..... like these:

To think she didn't know how to cook when we first got married. I had to teach her how to fry an egg.

Bro.,- pati mantel,- yonip na yonip a!...


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[badkuk]

I've heard the theory, but apparently there is evidence of pasta or pasta-like products being eaten by the Greeks before Chinese influence reached Europe.

Then there's only one explanation:

[Wh1stl3r2]

I don't get it?

For lack of an operative description .... Why primitive?

Perhaps in this context "primitive" means "simple". For me it's the same reason as others above, we were too busy being slaves to really develop more complicated dishes than the no frills, easy to prepare ones. Add to that the list of local ingredients is relatively short.

Since I am part Bicolano, most of the dishes I liked growing up had gata in it. Tastes good with almost anything. Nothing like mud crab in gata with ginulay na langka.

[papi smith]

Eating any kind of vertebrate animal protein involves the gruesome death of a living, feeling animal..

Not if its slaughtered the Pure Foods way as my Boss told me way way back. They let the pigs queue thru a narrow passageway where they get relaxed by being refreshingly sprinkled with water and at the end of the line get an instant death by electrocution. Apparently, this prevents the blood from exploding in the meat arising from a torturous death.

[Jun aka Pekto]

Bro.,- pati mantel,- yonip na yonip a!...

I was a little slow to figure out what you were saying.

But, yup. My wife is the very definition of overseas "yonip." Creative, hard-working, willing to learn, patient. Those traits run in her family.

Whether the dining table was cheap pine or expensive hardwood, she doesn't like them getting scratched.