Bagoong
''Bagoóng'' (; ) is a Philippine condiment partially or completely made of either fermented fish (''bagoóng isdâ'') or krill or shrimp paste (''bagoóng alamáng'') with salt. The fermentation process also produces fish sauce known as ''patís''. The preparation of bagoóng can vary regionally in the Philippines. Types Bagoóng is usually made from a variety of fish species, including the following: *Anchovies - known as ''dilis'', ''monamon'', ''bolinaw'', or ''gurayan'' (''Stolephrus'' and ''Encrasicholina'' species) * Round scads - known as ''galunggóng'' or ''tamodios'' ('' Decapterus'' species) * Bonnetmouths ( redbait or rubyfish) - known as ''terong'' (''Emmelichthys nitidus'', ''Emmelichthys struhsakeri'', and '' Plagiogeneion rubiginosum'') * Ponyfish - known as ''sapsáp'' ('' Leiognathus'', '' Photopectoralis'', and '' Equulites'' species) *Rabbitfish - known as ''padas'' ('' Siganus'' species) * Bar-eyed gobies - known as ''ipon'' ('' Glossogobius giuris' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Filipino Cuisine
Filipino cuisine is composed of the cuisines of more than a hundred distinct Ethnic groups in the Philippines, ethnolinguistic groups found throughout the Philippines, Philippine archipelago. A majority of mainstream Filipino dishes that comprise Filipino cuisine are from the food traditions of various ethnolinguistic groups and tribes of the archipelago, including the Ilocano people, Ilocano, Pangasinan people, Pangasinan, Kapampangan people, Kapampangan, Tagalog people, Tagalog, Bicolano people, Bicolano, Visayan, Chavacano, and Maranao people, Maranao ethnolinguistic groups. The dishes associated with these groups evolved over the centuries from a largely indigenous (largely Austronesian peoples, Austronesian) base shared with maritime Southeast Asia with varied influences from Chinese cuisine, Chinese, Spanish cuisine, Spanish, and American cuisine, American cuisines, in line with the major waves of influence that had enriched the cultures of the archipelago, and adapted us ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fish Sauce
Fish sauce is a liquid condiment made from fish or krill that have been coated in salt and fermented for up to two years. It is used as a staple seasoning in East Asian cuisine and Southeast Asian cuisine, particularly Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Some garum-related fish sauces have been used in the West since the Roman times. Due to its ability to add a savory umami flavor to dishes, it has been embraced globally by chefs and home cooks. The umami flavor in fish sauce is due to its glutamate content. Fish sauce is used as a seasoning during or after cooking, and as a base in dipping sauces. Soy sauce is regarded by some in the West as a vegetarian alternative to fish sauce though they are very different in flavor. History Asia Sauces that included fermented fish parts with other ingredients such as meat and soy bean were recorded in China, 2300 years ago. During the Zhou dynasty of ancient China, fish fermented with soybeans and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shrimp Paste
Shrimp paste or prawn sauce is a Fermentation, fermented condiment commonly used in Southeast Asian cuisine, Southeast Asian and Coastal Chinese cuisines. It is primarily made from finely crushed Shrimp and prawn as food, shrimp or krill mixed with salt, and then fermented for several weeks. It is sold either in its wet form or sun-dried and either cut into blocks or sold in bulk. It is an essential ingredient in many curry, curries, sauces and sambal. Shrimp paste can be found in many meals in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. It is often an ingredient in Dip (food), dip for fish or vegetables. History Shrimp paste originated in continental Southeast Asia, probably among the Cham people, Cham and Mon people, from where it spread southwards to insular Southeast Asia. In Java, fermented shrimp paste (''trasi'' or ''terasi''), as mentioned in two ancient Sundanese language, Sundanese scriptures, ''Car ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Philippine Condiments
The generic term for condiments in the Filipino cuisine is ''sawsawan'' (Philippine Spanish: ''sarsa''). Unlike sauces in other Southeast Asian regions, most ''sawsawan'' are not prepared beforehand, but are assembled on the table according to the preferences of the diner. Description In the Philippines, the common condiments aside from salt and pepper are vinegar, soy sauce, calamansi, and '' patis''. The combination and different regional variations of these simple sauces make up the various common dipping sauces in the region. The most common type of ''sawsawan'' is the '' toyomansi'' (or ''toyo't kalamansi''), which is a mixture of soy sauce, calamansi, and native Siling labuyo. It can also be seasoned with vinegar and '' patis'' (fish sauce). This sauce is typically served with roasted meat dishes. A similar dipping sauce used for grilled meats like '' inihaw'' is ''toyo, suka, at sili'' (literally "soy sauce, vinegar, and chili"). It is made of soy sauce, vinegar, and ' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rabbitfish
Rabbitfishes or spinefoots, genus ''Siganus'', are perciform fishes in the family (biology), family Siganidae. It is the only Extant taxon, extant genus in its family and has 29 species. In some now obsolete classifications, the species having prominent face stripes—colloquially called foxfaces–are in the genus ''Lo''. Other species, such as the masked spinefoot (''S. puellus''), show a reduced form of the stripe pattern. Rabbitfishes are native to shallow waters in the Indo-Pacific, but ''Siganus luridus, S. luridus'' and ''Siganus rivulatus, S. rivulatus'' have become established in the eastern Mediterranean via Lessepsian migration. They are commercially important food fish, and can be used in the preparation of dishes such as ''bagoong''. Taxonomy The genus ''Siganus'' was described in 1775 by the Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius with ''Siganus rivulatus'', a species also Species description, described by Fabricius in 1775, designated as the type specie ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ponyfish
Leiognathidae, the ponyfishes, slipmouths or slimys / slimies, are a small family of fishes in the order Perciformes. They inhabit marine and brackish waters in the Indian and West Pacific Oceans. They can be used in the preparation of ''bagoong''. Characteristics Ponyfishes are small and laterally compressed in shape, with a bland, silvery colouration. They are distinguished by highly extensible mouths, and the presence of a mechanism for locking the spines in the dorsal and anal fins. They also possess a highly integrated light organ in their throats that houses symbiotic bioluminescent bacteria that project light through the animal's underside. Typically, the harbored bacterium is only ''Photobacterium leiognathi'', but in the two ponyfish species ''Photopectoralis panayensis'' and ''Photopectoralis bindus'', ''Photobacterium mandapamensis'' is also present. Two of the most widely studied uses for luminescence in ponyfish are camouflage by ventral counterillumination and spe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ilocos Norte
Ilocos Norte (), officially the Province of Ilocos Norte (; ), is a Provinces of the Philippines, province of the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region. It is located in the northwest corner of Luzon island, bordering Cagayan and Apayao to the east, and Abra (province), Abra to the southeast, and Ilocos Sur to the southwest. Ilocos Norte faces the South China Sea to the west and the Luzon Strait to the north. Its capital is Laoag, which is the most populous settlement in the province. Ilocos Norte is noted for its distinctive geography and culture. This includes numerous examples of well-preserved Spanish colonial era architecture, particularly Laoag Cathedral, Saint William's Cathedral in Laoag with its sinking bell tower constructed in the Earthquake Baroque style, the Paoay Church, St. Augustine Church in Paoay which is one of UNESCO's List of World Heritage Sites in the Philippines, World Heritage Sites in the Philippines, and the Cape Bojeador Lighthouse. Famous geograp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tapayan
''Tapáyan'' or ''tempayan'' (also known as ''balanga'', ''belanga'', or ''bangâ'') are large wide-mouthed earthenware or stoneware jars found in various Austronesian cultures in island Southeast Asia. Their various functions include fermenting rice (''tapai''), fermenting vinegar or alcoholic beverages, storing food and water, cooking, and burial of the deceased. The term ''tapayan'' also includes the imported ''martaban'' stoneware ( Dutch: ), originally from kilns in Southern China and Indochina. These were used primarily as storage jars for foodstuffs and valuable trade goods during ship voyages, but were highly valued as trade goods themselves. They became heirlooms and symbols of wealth and status among various indigenous cultures in the islands of Southeast Asia. Etymology ''Tapayan'' is derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tapay-an which refers to large earthen jars originally used to ferment rice wine (''tapai''). In modern Austronesian languages, derivatives incl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in Island groups of the Philippines, three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. With a population of over 110 million, it is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, twelfth-most-populous country. The Philippines is bounded by the South China Sea to the west, the Philippine Sea to the east, and the Celebes Sea to the south. It shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Japan to the northeast, Palau to the east and southeast, Indonesia to the south, Malaysia to the southwest, Vietnam to the west, and China to the northwest. It has Ethnic groups in the Philippines, diverse ethnicities and Culture o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Krill
Krill ''(Euphausiids)'' (: krill) are small and exclusively marine crustaceans of the order (biology), order Euphausiacea, found in all of the world's oceans. The name "krill" comes from the Norwegian language, Norwegian word ', meaning "small Fry (biology), fry of fish", which is also often attributed to species of fish. Krill are considered an important trophic level connection near the bottom of the food chain. They feed on phytoplankton and, to a lesser extent, zooplankton, and are also the main source of food for many larger animals. In the Southern Ocean, one species, the Antarctic krill, makes up an estimated biomass (ecology), biomass of around 379 million tonnes, making it among the species with the largest total biomass. Over half of this biomass is eaten by whales, Pinniped, seals, penguins, seabirds, squid, and fish each year. Most krill species display large diel vertical migration, daily vertical migrations, providing food for predators near the surface at night an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rubyfish
The rubyfish (''Plagiogeneion rubiginosum''), also known as the cosmopolitan rubyfish, red ruby or ruby rover, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, belonging to the Family (biology), family Emmelichthyidae, the rovers, bonnetmouths and rubyfishes. This species is found from the southeastern Atlantic Ocean off South Africa through the Indian Ocean to the southwestern Pacific Ocean around Australia and New Zealand. This species is commercial fisheries, commercially important. Taxonomy The rubyfish was first formally Species description, described in 1875 as ''Therapon rubiginosus'' by the English-born New Zealand geologist and biologist Frederick Hutton (scientist), Frederick Hutton with its type locality given as the coast of Otago in New Zealand. In 1890 Henry Ogg Forbes reclassified ''T. rubiginosus'' in a new monospecific genus ''Plagiogeneion'' making this species the type species of that genus. ''Plagiogeneion'' is classified withion the family Emmelichthyidae in the Order ( ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |