GINAMOS – Also known as shrimp paste, ginamos is popular in the Visayas most especially in the islands of Panay and Negros.
Ginamos can be eaten as a side dish with your steamed okra or kangkong or with your favorite green mangoes. It can also add flavor by mixing it in your favorite dish like pinakbet, apan-apan and kare-kare.
The easiest way to prepare ginamos as a side dish is by adding ample amount of calamnsi juice to wash away its stench. If you don’t like the feeling of eating it raw, you can sauté it with onions, lots of garlic, (optional: tomatoes) and add vinegar or a squeeze of calamansi. You can buy guinamos in your local markets or public markets, or you can find it canned or bottled in grocery stores nationwide.
Salukara is a type of rice pancake of the Waray people in Eastern Samar, Philippines. It is a variant of the more common bibingka rice cake and uses the same ingredients of rice flour, coconut milk, sugar, and water. It traditionally uses tubâ (palm wine) as the leavening agent which gives it a slightly sour aftertaste, though this can be substituted with baker’s yeast. They are cooked in a pan traditionally greased with pork lard. They are commonly eaten for breakfast and for merienda.
Hit the Borongan public market in the heart of town and get the slender banana leaf– wrapped bakintol, a creamy suman flecked with chocolate. Or the breakfast favorite, salukara, a pancake made from ground brown rice, sugar and coconut milk. Other delicacies include: Podpod – in Borongan, disc-shaped smoked fish.
Dalu-dalu, (if I spelled it right). These are snail-like slugs (see Florida Cerith) found on sea and fresh waters as well as on land. Truly delectable and succulent with gata. A bit of trick here is to suck its tail-end first so as to vacuum the main opening. Soon you’ll have an orchestra of shell suckings.
A stir fried Ganga. These are the inhabitants of those shells you may have chanced upon creeping their way or hanging around banana leaves.
Lato are translucent green seaweeds best with onions and tomatoes (lato salad). Everybody’s familiar with this except that what’s offered in the restos especially in Manila, are not always as green and thick.
Sources
https://sites.google.com/site/samarislanddelicacies/borongan-appetite
https://wordpresscom29916.wordpress.com/2016/01/30/delicacies-in-borongan-city/
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