What shall we have for lunch? Tinola!
M-mmmm! Tinola is certainly one of my favorites. And Babes (a good friend) definitely makes one of the best-tasting tinola around. She made one unforgettable meal last year in Baguio, and we wanted her to do it again in Boracay. And so we were treated with Tinola for lunch!
Tinola is a local recipe with chicken as its main ingredient, swimming in a chicken soup base along with dahon ng sili (leaves of the pepper plant) and either papaya or sayote. Tinola is so loved that it is even mentioned in one of our National Hero, Dr. Jose Rizal's writings.
Coming from Baguio, I have acquired the taste of sayote in tinola, with its sweet taste wonderfully enhancing the overall aroma and taste of the dish. And to complete the experience, we have some patis (fish sauce) to dip the chicken and sayote on.
Others, however, prefer the papaya over sayote. If you have a preference, you will immediately notice which was used on first bite, even if the two look very similar. Hmmm... what's the english term for sayote, anyway?
By the way, don't be offended if we Filipinos suddenly spoon-up the soup and pour it all over the hot, steaming rice. Or, horror of horrors, pour seasoning onto the chicken and veggies on our plates! The dish may taste prfectly fine, but we do love putting seasoning on anything! It's completely normal.
So here's to tinola no matter which vegetable you prefer it with!
i like papaya in tinola, but my fave talaga is sinigang! ugh! my stomach is growling! lunch time!
ReplyDeleteMas gusto ko ang sayote sa tinola...sarap nyan sir! The other night, nilagang baka ulam namin, sayang, di ko napiktyuran, hahaha.
ReplyDeleteUy, sige, para dadami ang food bloggers..haha
ReplyDeletethe score: papaya: 1, sayote: 2. hehehe.
ReplyDeletenapapa-blog na ako sa pagkain kasi ang sarap i-share. literally. hehehe. Kaya nga kahit ordinary na pagkain, maya't maya kinukuha ko ang camera. napapangiti na lang misis ko at alam nyang iba-blog ko. mwehehehe.
papaya! papaya! papayaaaaaaaa! (three points yan ha) sa papaya kase madami akong naaalala, ang sarap ng papaya wwhhheeewwwww
ReplyDeleteThat made me salivate!
ReplyDeleteBong K! Isang count lang vote mo, hwag mag-pasaway hehehe!
ReplyDeleteAte fionski, yun nga lang ang side-effect ng mga food blogs. Napaparami ka ng kain.
Neutral sina Ate Fionski at Ting-aling sa choice, so 2-2-2 ang count. Yehey!
love papaya in tinola. now what's the count?
ReplyDeleteuh? do you have a tracker in your blog? will you find out who this is from? (me wonders)
tracker? ano yun? [hehehe obviously wala]. So ang count na ay 2-2-2-1, yung 1 sa anonymous.
ReplyDeletePapaya rin ako. yan na ang nakaugalian kong kainin e. Like i commented in one of the food blogs, ang nami-miss ko is the traditional way my mom cooked tinola. Yun bang bibili ng buhay na manok sa palengke, tapos, papatayin yung manok at patutuluin yung dugo sa isang plate na nilagyan ng asin at bigas. Yung mga halos kasing edad ko o mas matanda pa, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. Hope I didn't gross out some of your readers, hehe
ReplyDeleteMy parents also do that actually. They take care of native chicken in Baguio and some occasionally end up on the dinner table. They say native chicken tastes better than the white ones.
ReplyDeleteso what is the english term for sayote? i prefer sayote but living in England i don't know what to ask for!!:o(
ReplyDeletesayote is still "chayote" in english.. or commonly known as vegetable pear.. :) found this link.. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chayote
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