Katangahan at Iba pa.

STREET FOOD NG MGA TANGA

2009-09-20T03:17:00.000-07:00

When Jiajin arrived, we went straight to UP Diliman. Our other delegation members had class that day while I had some business to attend to. And since we were there, the best thing to do of course was eat since the UP campus in Diliman is a haven for street food.

We went straight to Mang Larry's isawan in front of the Kalayaan Residence Hall. Since I was a resident there for a year when I was a freshman, I saw that stand everyday. And that's how I became a fan of isaw. Aside from pork barbeque, the selections of grilled chicken and pork innards, collectively referred to as isaw, include isaw baboy (pork intestine), isaw manok (chicken intestine), tenga ng baboy (pig's ears), goto, botsi, atay (chicken liver), balun-balunan (chicken gizzard), and betamax (pig's blood) among others.

There is another isawan that used to be in front of Ilang-ilang Residence Hall but moved to vacant lot beside the UP Law Center. The main difference is in the sauce since Mang Larry has a sweet brown sauce and spicy vinegar while the other is mostly vinegar-based.

Other selections in UP include the sorbetes, taho, lumpia, banana cue, camote cue, cheese sticks, fish balls, squid balls and kikiam among others. Good thing there was a sorbetes vendor nearby and we got some avocado ice cream. For dinner, we had sisig and rice, and a serving of halo-halo at a street food center in Park 9 along Katipunan.

I've been trying to find hawker centers here in the Philippines just like those in Singapore and Malaysia. And the closest thing we've got is Market! Market! in Fort Bonifacio Global City, just along C5. So after our visit to the Manila American Cemetery, we went straight there.

First thing which caught my eye was the Ilocos empanda stand. We had one each but not too much since we were going to Ilocos anyway to savor the real thing in Batac. Then we had tokneneng (battered, deep-fried quail eggs). The stand also sold day-old chicks and quek quek (battered, deep-fried chicken eggs). I think there was also balut and penoy (hard-boiled duck eggs with and without fetus respectively).

Another stand sold street drinks such as sago't gulaman and buko juice. Shawarma may not be Filipino but it has become a popular local snack that has been Filipinized by adding cheese and sometimes, french fries in it. Then there's the puto bumbong ang bibingka, and turon among many more sweet snacks. The selections there are endless which makes it our local version of a hawker center.

Anyway, there's more food as we go up north.

Dictionary of Philippine street food
I could not find a dictionary of Philippine street food online so I'm starting one here. Please add to the list by commenting below. Help me with the descriptions too. Please take note that this list is for food commonly sold in the streets; or else, we'll have endless possibilities.

Abnoy - unhatched incubated duck egg or bugok which is mixed with flour and water and cooked like pancakes
Adidas - chicken feet, marinated and grilled or cooked adobo style
Arroz caldo - rice porridge or congee cooked with chicken and kasubha; see also Lugaw
Atay - grilled chicken liver
Baga - pig's or cow's lungs grilled or deep-fried and served with barbeque condiments
Balat ng manok - see Chicken skin and Chicharon manok
Balun-balunan - grilled chicken gizzard
Balut - hard-boiled duck egg with fetus
Banana cue - deep-fried saba (banana) covered with caramelized brown sugar
Barbeque - marinated pork or chicken pieces grilled on skewers
Batchoy - miki noodle soup garnished with pork innards (liver, kidney and heart), chicharon (pork skin cracklings), chicken breast, vegetables and topped with a raw egg; origin traced to La Paz, Iloilo
Betamax - curdled chicken or pork blood, cubed and grilled
Bibingka - glutinous rice flour pancakes grilled with charcoal above and below in a special clay pot
Biko (also Bico) - glutinous rice cake with grated coconut topping
Binatog - boiled white corn kernels, sugar, grated coconut and milk
Bopis - minced pig's heart and lungs sauteed with garlic and onion and seasoned with laurel, oregano, bell pepper and vinegar
Botsi - chicken esophagus, deep-fried or grilled
Calamares - deep-fried squid in batter
Calamay (also Kalamay) - glutinous rice cakes; varieties all over the country
Camote cue - deep-fried camote (sweet potato) covered with caramelized brown sugar
Carioca (also Karyoka, Karioka) - deep-fried glutinous rice flour cakes served on skewers
Cheese sticks - deep-fried cheese wrapped in lumpia (spring roll) wrapper
Chicharon baboy - pork skin cracklings, made from pork rind boiled and seasoned, sun-dried and deep-fried
Chicharon bituka - pork or chicken intestine boiled, seasoned and deep-fried
Chicharon bulaklak - pork omentum boiled, seasoned and deep-fried
Chicharon manok - chicken skin cracklings
Chicken balls - balls made with chicken meat, deep fried and served in skewers with a sweet, sour or spicy sauce
Chicken skin - chicken skin battered and deep fried
Cutchinta - see Kutsinta
Day-old chicks - literally day-old chicks deep-fried to a crisp, served with sauce or vinegar
Empanada (Batac) - pork longganiza, egg and grated green papaya in a rice flour shell, deep-fried and served with vinegar
Fishballs - balls made with fish meat, most often from pollock, deep fried and served in skewers with a sweet, sour or spicy sauce
Goto - rice porridge or congee cooked with beef tripe
Halo-halo - translated as "a mix of many things" or "an assortment," it is a dessert topped with shaved ice that may contain sweetened saba (banana), camote, macapuno (young coconut), kaong, nata de coco, pinipig (rice crispies), gulaman (agar), sago (tapioca balls), brown and white beans, garbanzos, ube (purple yam), and leche flan (creme brulee), with milk and sugar; Pampanga has three popular versions in Guagua, Arayat and Angeles which may include pastillas, crushed white beans and corn
Helmet - grilled chicken head
Hepalog (also Toknonong) - hard-boiled duck eggs dipped in orange batter and deep-fried
Isaw - collective term for different types of grilled chicken and pork innards; varieties include isaw manok, isaw baboy, atay, goto, botsi, balun-balunan, and tenga ng baboy
Isaw baboy - grilled or deep-fried pork intestines on a skewer, served with sweet, sour or spicy sauce
Isaw manok (aslo IUD) - grilled or deep-fried chicken intestines on a skewer, served with sweet, sour or spicy sauce; also referred to as IUD because it resembles an intra-uterine device
Iskrambol (also Scrambol) - frostees; shaved ice, diced gulaman, sago and condensed milk
IUD - see Isaw manok
Kakanin - collective term for snacks made with kanin (rice), particularly malagkit (glutinous) rice; varieties include puto, kutsinta, calamay, sapin-sapin, suman, palitaw, biko or sinukmani, and espasol among many others
Kalamay - see Kalamay
Kamote cue - see Camote cue
Kikiam - the special ones are made of ground pork and vegetables wrapped in bean curd sheets, deep-fried and served with sweet, sour or spicy sauce; those in the street are seafood-based, usually made of fish meat and cuttlefish
Kudil - deep-fried pork skin
Kutsinta - steamed bahaw (boiled rice) with lye and brown sugar; has a gelatinous consistency
Kwek kwek - see Quek quek
Lomi - noodle soup made with thick fresh egg noodles or lomi
Longganiza - pork sausage grilled or fried on a skewer
Lugaw - rice porridge or congee; varieties include arroz caldo (with chicken and kasubha) and goto (with beef tripe)
Lumpia - spring rolls; varieties include lumpiang basa; lumpiang hubad - fresh spring rolls wothout the wrapper; lumpiang prito; lumpiang sariwa - fresh srping rolls; lumpiang shanghai; lumpiang ubod; and turon
Mais - boiled sweet corn seasoned with salt, butter or margarine
Mais con yelo - sweet corn, milk and sugar topped with shaved ice
Mami - noodle soup
Manggang hilaw - green mango served with bagoong (shrimp paste)
Mani - peanuts either boiled, roasted or deep-fried and seasoned with garlic and salt
Maruya - banana fritters
Nilupak - mashed kamoteng kahoy (cassava) or kamote (sweet potato) with brown sugar and served with butter or margarine
Palitaw - glutinous rice flour pancakes topped with grated young coconut, sugar and roasted sesame seeds
Panara - deep-fried crab and grated green papaya empanda sold in Pampanga during Christmas season
Pancit - noodles; varieties are batchoy (Iloilo) - see Batchoy; batil patung (Tuguegarao) - local noodles topped with hot dogs, chicharon, ground meat, fried egg, and vegetables; pancit bihon; pancit canton - a kind of pancit guisado flavored with ginger and soy sauce; pancit guisado, pancit habhab (Lucban) - sautéed miki noodles served on and eaten straight from banana leaf sans utensils; pancit lomi - see Lomi; pansit luglog (Pampanga and Tagalog Region) - it has a distinct orange shrimp-achuete sauce and is topped with chicharon, tinapa, wansoy and shrimp; pancit malabon (Malabon) - made with thick rice noodles tossed in shrimp-achuete oil topped with shelled oysters, squid rings, suaje or hipong puti and wansoy; pancit molo (Iloilo) - clear chicken broth with wonton, garlic and crushed chorizo; pancit palabok; pancit puti (Manila); and pancit sotanghon among many others
Pandesal (also Pan de sal) - breakfast roll; rounded bread
Pares - translated as "pair," means the pairing of rice with beef; beef pares is characterized by very tender meat, usually with a lot of litid (ligaments)
Penoy - hard-boiled duck egg without fetus
Proven - hard portion of chicken entrails that is either marinated and grilled, battered and fried or cooked adobo style
Pusit - squid grilled on skewer
Puto - steamed rice cake
Puto bumbong - purple glutinous rice snack cooked in a special steamer
Quikiam - see Kikiam
Quek quek (also Toknanay) - hard boiled chicken eggs dipped in orange batter and deep-fried; also used for quail eggs but some say the correct term for the quail egg version is tokneneng; the balut version is sometimes referred to as hepalog
Sapin-sapin - layered glutinous rice and coconut milk cake usually topped with grated coconut and latik (residue from coconut oil extraction); different flavor per layer such as ube (purple yam), macapuno (young coconut), kutsinta and langka (jackfruit)
Scrambol - see Iskrambol
Sinukmani - see Biko
Siomai - steamed pork dumplings
Siopao - steamed pork buns
Sisig - roasted pig's head, chicken liver, onions and chili, chopped and flavored with calamansi served on a hot metal plate
Sorbetes (also Dirty ice cream) - street ice cream made with local fruits and ingredients; common flavors include ube (purple yam), mango, avocado, queso (cheese), chocolate, langka (jackfruit), buko or macapuno (coconut); strawberry is common in Baguio City
Squid balls - balls made with squid or cuttlefish meat, deep fried and served in skewers with a sweet, sour or spicy sauce
Suman - glutinous rice snack steamed in banana or coconut leaves; varieties include binagol (Leyte) made with glutinous rice, gabi (taro), coconut milk and chocolate; budbod sa kabog (Tanjay, Negros Oriental) which uses millet instead of glutinous rice; Taho - bean curd snack topped with arnibal (liquefied raw sugar similar to molasses) and sago (tapioca balls)
Tenga ng baboy (also Walkman) - marinated pig's ears grilled on skewers; see also Kudil
Toknanay - see Quek quek
Tokneneng - hard boiled quail eggs dipped in orange batter and deep-fried; also called kwek kwek by others
Toknonong - see Hepalog
Tupig (also Itemtem) - glutinous rice, grated mature coconut, coconut milk and molasses rolled in banana leaves and grilled; varieties in Pangasinan, Ilocos Norte (Batac) and Isabela
Turon - saba (banana) with with sugar and sometimes langka (jackfruit) wrapped in lumpia (spring roll) wrapper and deep-fried
Walkman - see Tenga ng Baboy

LOVE = PAIN --- by exclusivelyriz

2009-07-13T08:54:00.000-07:00

"Love is cruel. The pain it brings outweighs the happiness.”

Love gives meaning to our lives, to our very existence but could kill all the happiness and hope it has given. We often wonder why it stays when some time later, it’ll leave. Why does something good has to end and only leaving us with bitter memories? As they always say, nothing in this world is permanent. What you have now cannot be possibly what you’ll have tomorrow and the other day. That’s why, treasure that love while it lasts… because sometimes it goes away without even giving any warning. And when it’s really gone, you have no other choice but to pick yourself up again.

Difficult as it may seem, that crippling fall that almost ruined your whole being, you must move on… Go on with life… There is no reason anymore to hold on when that person has long given you up. Leave behind your pain. Accept things as they are because you don’t have the power to undo what is done. Cry all you want but make sure it washes away all the hurt and bitterness in your heart and face tomorrow with bravery and confidence. There’s no use in just mourning about your loss because tears cannot bring it back. You have to make a stand. Just bear in mind that once a door closes, a window opens… Losing someone important to you doesn’t put an end to life and happiness… Rather, it makes you strive even more to live and find that person who’s in store for you and who could give you that happiness you long seek and deserve.

Look back without regrets. Be happy and contented with even just beautiful memories. Be also grateful that somehow despite the disagreements the two of you been through, that person made you become the better person you are now…

exclusivelyriz

KASABIHAN NG MGA TANGA

2009-07-04T01:44:00.000-07:00

"may kasabihan po tayo ang taong matagal sa banyo may ginagawang milagro."

by franz

The Break Up -- from a sender exclusivelyriz

2009-06-30T18:06:00.000-07:00

Nothing could ever pain me enough waking up every single day and finding you’re not there. We’re through, that’s the brutal reality. I wish I could shut my eyes out and pretend it was just a nightmare to make the pain go away. But before my eyes, the truth atrociously devours my whole humanity saying over and over again that you’re gone. Getting used to this loneliness and emptiness would somehow let me live. But how long will I ever be in this road of continuous, never ending heartaches? I long for the pain be gone and start a new life.

How excruciating it is to know that all we had and we’re to have has come to an end. The love we had was almost perfect. It endured so many trials and adversities that are naturally involved in a relationship. But it seems like before I could blink, everything was lost before my very eyes. Everything disappeared leaving me only bitter memories and an aching heart. How can I contain this agony to any further extent? You have crossed to a different path leaving me here all alone. My eyes weary, my heart broken and my distant cries unheard. Trying hard to deny the facts, hoping you’d still come back. But what choice do I have but to submit to these lonely hands of destiny- that we are not meant to be. Ours was a situation no can or ever will understand. This love made me go on but can it endure more cuts and wounds? It has enough. It was tired of being played with and taken for granted. It has to depart as it would be more painful to stay.

Regrets I don’t have from the very beginning till the end. Acceptance was the best medication for a wounded heart. The decisions were made for the best. But when I look back, I see you. I see us. Our old times together. The laughter. The tears. They’re all that’s left. Memories. Should you call me weak? For then I will be absurdly mad at myself. Merely because I sense that’s true. I still love you even after all the pain you caused me. How I wish I could be numb. So I could go on living and never be hurt by anyone. How tiring it is to constantly feel pain. True that I haven’t moved on yet. But I should. But how can I, if when you’re not around I am labeled as strong but when you are, I suddenly become soft and weak?

Sure enough, I can’t meddle with your decisions anymore. I don’t have the slightest right. I am your former love and I am not even one of your friends from now on. Still my endless concerns for you shove me to you. I apologize. I purely fail to remember. I am nothing to you now. Everything about us is over.

“And even if you mean the whole damn world to me. I can forget you wait and see. I can be strong even without you. I can’t waste my life forever hoping you’d come back to me but deep inside I know I’ll be waiting here for you.”

by exclusivelyriz

Common Katangahan

2009-06-29T16:40:00.000-07:00

Meron kabang kaibigan, kamag anak o tropa na tanga?

i mean ung parang ganito,

nung last monday ung tropa ko nag aayaya ng basketball sa tropa nya ang sabi nya.

(TXT ni CG kay MARK)

CG : mark! basketball tayo bukas sa laspiñas mga 5pm kasama mga classamates ko txtbk asap.

(nag hintay si CG ng reply ni mark, maka raan ng 1hour nag reply din)

MARK : CG. kelan?
(tanga talaga e noh? sinabi na nga na bukas e)

CG : bukas nga sa laspiñas. sama ka ha?

MARK : anong oras?

CG : 5pm nga ano ba? sasama kaba?

(CG naasar na)

MARK : sino ba mga kasama?

( relax pa din)

CG : amp! mga classmate ko.

MARK : ahh. cge try ko humabol. may dadaan pa kasi ako bukas.

(sa wakas na gets din ang sinasabi ni CG)

CG : cge. intayin ko txt mo.

kinabukasan...

hindi natuloy si mark. haha~!

ang tanga diba?:D

SINO BA TALAGA SI PED XING?

2009-06-27T19:32:00.000-07:00

Sino ba talaga si PED XING?

Dati kasi napadaan ako sa may Roxas Blvd. at nakita ko ung "PED XING" na sign un. Ano kaya un?

Kadalasan kasi ang makikita mo sa kalye ay mga pangalan ng mga kilalang bayani na may naitulong sa bayan. Tulad nalang ni Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, at marami pang bayani na hindi na kasya sa blog na ito.

mabalik tayo sa PED XING SINO BA TALAGA SIYA?

Tao Ba Siya?

may naitulong ba siya sa PILIPINAS at naka bandera sa kalye ng maynila ang pangalan niya?

isa ba siyang banyaga(foreigner) INTSIK? kasi "XING" ang apelido niya? at pilipino name na "PED"? ahh.. CROSSBREED siguro siya ng PILINO+INTSIK?

kasali kaya siya sa pilino chinese community naninirahan sa BINONDO? at nag titinda ng tiangge sa divisoria? sa 168?

kamusta kaya siya? ilan taon na kaya siya? kasi napakatagal na niyang naka bandera sa kalsada ng kamaynilaan.

Napakatanyag talaga ni PED XING biruin mo halos sa buong bansa maari mong makita ang pangalan niya dinaig pa niya ang ating pam-bansang bayani na si Jose Rizal.

sana makilala ko si PED XING, mabait kaya siya? mapagbigay? o chickboy din katulad ni Jose Rizal?

by Angel Rose Cadiz - arcadiz22@yahoo.com

Bayan "Lola Techie" TVC30s

2009-06-26T23:07:00.001-07:00

sana ganito din ang lola ko. ang cool.

watch the video here

Ang Online GAMES ng mga TANGANG MATON

2009-06-26T22:59:00.000-07:00

MATON KABA? eto na ang hinihintay mong laro.

At last the amazing world of Hello Kitty and Friends is coming to interactive life as a massively multiplayer online game! SanrioDigital and Typhoon Games have combined Sanrio's much-loved characters with new eye-catching graphics and the engaging gameplay of MMORPGs. Gamers and fans finally have the opportunity to become a part of the Sanrio universe! Here is a quick preview of the game.

check the game here

Michael Jackson is dead

2009-06-26T22:29:00.000-07:00

the king of pop, died today from cardiac arrest at LA.

He was 50. You can read the report here.

PINAKA TANGANG CR

2009-06-26T21:29:00.000-07:00

nung nag stop over kami sa ilocos sur nkita ko to, aba! grabe na loka ako sa nakalagay sa CR na ito. hehe! :)

Pacquiao For Fresident?

2009-06-26T20:56:00.000-07:00

pogi ang boboto kay manny pacquio. :D

picture credits here

1 LITER OF TEARS

2009-06-26T20:52:00.000-07:00

Kitou Aya was a 15-year-old girl. She was Japanese. She lived with her parents, her brother, and her sisters. She was the oldest among them. Her father opened a tofu shop at their house. Her mother worked as a health consultant.

Until she reached the age of 15, she was very healthy and lively. She joined the basketball team in her junior high school as well as in her senior high school. She was really good at basketball and became a regular member as soon as she joined the team.

But at 15, she realized something weird was going on with her body. She fell really often when she walked and also couldn’t pick her bag up from the floor, when she wanted to put it into her school locker. Of course, for a normal person, this wouldn't happen.

Not only Aya, but her mother noticed it as well. So one day, when Aya fell again right on her face, her mother brought her to the hospital to cure her injury and also to have a general check-up. The doctor was a neurologist. He found that Aya’s cerebrum suffered from a degenerative condition. He soon told Aya’s parents. And for Aya, she found out by herself that she had an incurable disease named Spinocerebellar Degeneration.

From then on, Aya’s condition got worse and worse. She became just like the doctor said she would be. She became unable to walk and was forced to use a wheelchair at school, so she had to leave the basketball team. Then, it became very difficult for her to write. It made her lessons in class difficult to do. The teachers decided she must move to a school for the disabled. Sadly, she moved there.

Years later, she had to stay in the hospital because her condition made it impossible to live outside. From then on, she could no longer speak. It became difficult to write, and difficult to swallow food. In her 25th year, she left this world.

Now, her youngest sister, Rika, works as a private tutor teaching kids how to study; her younger brother, Hiroki, is working as a policeman, protecting the area and keeping it safe. Her younger sister, Ako-san, ever since graduating from Higashikou High School where Aya attended, like Shioka, has been working as a health consultant. Her father, Mizuno, and her mother, Shioka, up until now are still continuing to pass on Aya’s beliefs.

During her suffering, she wrote in her diary every day until she couldn’t write anymore. She said it was the only way to prove that she was still alive… Here are some words from her diary:

“If I were a flower, then now I would be a bud.
I shall treasure the beginning of my youth without any regrets.
This disease, why did it choose me?
Fate. It can't be put into words.
I want to make a time machine and go back in time.
If it wasn't for this disease,
not only I could enjoy falling in love but I also
wouldn’t have to rely on anyone and live by myself.
I really don't want to say things such as 'I want to go back to how things were before.'
I recognize how I am right now, and I will continue to live on.
Therefore I definitely won't run away.
That's what I’ll do. Definitely, always.
Even if it's like that, I still want to stay here.
because this is the place where I am.
If you look up at the sky after falling down the blue sky is also today
stretching limitlessly and smiles at me...I'm alive.
People shouldn’t dwell on the past. It's enough
to try your best in all that you're doing now.
Reality is too cruel, too brutal.
I don’t even have the right to dream.
As i think about the future, the tears will come out again."

“Mom, can I get married?”

The diary, 1 Litre of Tears, that Aya had been writing in since she was 15 has sold 18 million copies. Even after 29 years it still continues to give a lot of people courage.

credits here

10 katangahan at iba pa

2009-06-26T20:19:00.001-07:00

1. Ang tanga ay hindi na nonood ng drama, jdrama (japanese drama), koreanovela.

2. Tanga ang taong nag do DOTA ( Defence Of The Ancients ).

3. Ang Tanga ay hindi na natutulog sa TANGHALI (SIESTA TIME)

4. Tanga ang Taong mahilig mag text.

5. Ang Tanga ay hindi nag mi MIDNIGHT SNACK.

6. Tanga ang taong mahilig sa MOTOR.

7. Tanga ang taong mahilig sa ONLINE GAMES at nagkwekwento ng kung ano anong bagay tungkol sa nilalaro niyang ONLINE GAMES.

8. Ang Tanga ay "HINDI NALILIGO" , mas mabaho mas astig.

9. Tanga ang taong nahihilig sa tinagalog na kanta tulad nang " Umbrella - Payong "

10. Tanga ang taong nag yoyosi