Food Blog

Villasis Pangasinan is where we can see a wide plantation of eggplant. We celebrate the annual festival namely, “Talong Festival” in our Municipality. In this annual festival celebrated during the month of January to February, we can capture a different kinds of programs like street dancing parade featuring “talong” or eggplant and most importantly the distinct ways to cook eggplant that we can witness along the national highway. There are a lot of things we can learn to this annual festivity like the ways on how to cook eggplant also we can meet and watch the majority of people coming from distinct municipalities to also witness the festival. We can apply particular ways In cooking eggplant on what we have watched at the festival, for example, the most famous is cooking “pinakbet”. In this way of cooking Pangasinenses traditionally put eggplant on pinakbet, and cooking eggplant called “inlambong” or steamed eggplant. When steamed eggplant is served pangasinenses love to dip it into what we call “kamatis with bagoong”. Family ties are a vital part of being a Filipino, and this family ties will go stronger when we as a family will eat together. Traditionally, when we are complete in the house after a long busy day and if we arrived on time before the dinner starts, my mom always puts cooked eggplant on the dining table for us to eat because she said that we should eat healthy foods. At this particular time, we can stop the things that make us busy like scrolling on our social media accounts or doing some school works and workloads. When we as a family will eat together we can talk about the things that happened last year or decades ago. My Lola will consistently talk about some stories happened in her time, we will laugh at the epic moments we had, we will ask each other if we are doing fine, we will cheer each other and we can hear advice from our love ones. Time passes by so fast and being with our family celebrating every success and failure with our traditional and favorite dishes will always be the best thing that will happen in our lives. We can learn a lot of things from the people we meet, from the people that are important to us like our family, friends, relatives classmates and work colleagues. We can learn from their traditions and their dishes and also we can share the things that are traditionally embedded to us like for example our dishes. We live in a culturally diverse world, we have different beliefs, tradition, culture, and customs that we should share with the people close to us to understand and try the things that we have because understanding and trying to be close in the other culture will strengthen our ties as individuals. Lastly, the vital role of being a Filipino is to love and respect different dishes because this is one of the ways how to be a true Filipino because Filipinos are inclined with food, in short, we Filipinos are food lovers.

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