Came across a Reddit post that says that apps localized or translated into #Tagalog or #Filipino feel weird. And I agree. Probably because apps rely on automation to translate into TL/FIL. Words like "kanselahin" for cancel, "sundan" for follow (in social media contexts), and "kawing" for link are just not used in everyday Filipino.
During a visit to a marketplace, looking for local delicacies, I chanced upon this. The translation app said it's "crispy rice crust" , and in the #Philippines , these are never commercially sold, and are the unwanted (?) by-product of cooking rice on a stove.
Neat, new #Filipino market in #Oxnard, #SeafoodCity. Nice to see the expansion of food choices here in #VenturaCounty! Yes, lots of Seafood, but also lots and lots of both Filipino and some other Asian foods.
Don't really know much about chocolates, but I ended up researching the best #Filipino-made chocolates because we needed to find something good to give relatives for our #Christmas party. Tigre y Oliva was on that list, and their #bonbons were in the range of our budget, so we purchased some. They're really good. 👌
Also, I didn't know there's a growing number of local artisanal chocolate brands now. If we can make chocolates this good, it's an industry that needs more support. #Philippines
Filipinos have a strange custom of putting water around a bottle of peanut butter to keep the ants away. I wonder, do other Southeast Asians do this? 😊
In the 🇵🇭PH, it was more common to take long vacations during the weeks approaching Christmas, in which kids also have long breaks.
We take the Christmas season there seriously: it takes up the whole “ber” months (September onwards), with a couple of days short break for Halloween 👻 on Nov., then Christmas resumes. 😄
I bet there are Christmas trees and lanterns around already this time. 😁
More Filipinos are migrating. Nearly 49,000 Filipinos hold Canadian study permits in 2023, an increase of around 50% from 2022, when around 24,000 Filipinos had permits to study in Canada. "This makes the Philippines the 3rd largest foreign student population in Canada in 2023, second to China (102,000) and India (427,000)."
순대 (soondae/sundae/sunde) is a type of Korean food made from innards and blood. The number one trigger for people with gout.
Here in the #Philippines we have something similar called #Dinuguan. A local food made from innards and blood.
So, similarly, when you visit the Philippines, avoid dinuguan if you have gout. If you still want to enjoy your vacation. 😋
As someone with gout, you need to be aware that #blood as food, and innards, is very common in many countries and cultures. Always ask, don't eat anything just because you don't want to be rude. Your #health and #fitness should be your number one concern.
Here in the Philippines, people will understand if you refuse. No one, let me repeat, no one, will take offence. We perfectly understand.
But if we do laugh because you refused, you should not take offence either. It's a friendly laugh, nothing else. We also laugh at each other if we don't like the taste of a certain food from a different region. Filipinos are just a happy bunch of diverse people.
Since my self-hosted Mastodon instance seems to have stabilized now, it's time for an #introduction! :ad:
I am Francis Rubio, a :bisexual_flag: web developer and designer from the #Philippines. I also created @antaresphdev to talk about web dev to #Filipino devs in #Tagalog
The #OrlandoMagic benched #KaiSotto and he didn't play a single minute in their game against the Pistons in the #NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. They lost 89-78. And now #Filipino Kai fans are mad at the Magic Twitter account for hyping Kai Sotto up only for the team not to play him.
Milking Filipinos for engagement = social media marketing 101
I just discovered this series on the Philippine National Book Board YouTube channel, of Filipino creatives and professionals showing their bookshelves. Now watching historian Ambeth Ocampo talk about his books
So... I did a little side project. I missed translating stuff so I figured I'd translate my favorite #GenshinImpact song "La Vaguelette" into #Filipino. As I explain in the commentary that follows, I took a little bit of artistic liberty to make the translation fit the melody (spoiler alert: I also included a demo of me singing the song after translating it).
I'm not sure which "20 peso lunch" I know of in this university is unhealthier: a 120g pack of Lucky Me pancit canton priced at P22 or a cheeseburger priced at P25.
If I get the pancit canton I can just eat it straight from the pack without boiling, which I always love doing! And obviously it fills my stomach more. But then I lose out in the proteins...
If I get the cheeseburger I get the proteins but will get hungrier faster...
P20 meals are really dead huh? I really miss that 20-peso siomai rice meal...
Never leave the Philippines without eating these fruits, and taking a bunch with you when you fly home.
Mangosteen
While popular in Southeast Asia, the Mangosteen in the Philippines is the best variant in the world. Mangosteen is plenty and cheap in the country. You can find it anywhere, from wet markets to supermarkets to street stalls.
There are also many other products made from Mangosteen, from coffee to juice to daily supplements, even a candy and cookies!
Banana (local: saging)
Like Mangosteen, Philippine bananas are the best in the world. There was even a joke how a Philippine banana was exported in the West, and a local restaurant bought banana supplies from those countries and used it, hence, their very simple banana dish (that is ₱20 elsewhere) is worth a Big Mac (₱200). Without them realising the banana they imported originated from their neighbour.
Of course it's a joke. Or maybe not. (We did have an incident like this decades ago, for shoes. Marikina-made shoes were exported. Branded. And then that brand sold it here. 🤣)
Trivia: An endemic banana, "abaca", is also used to produce "Manila Hemp", which is expensive.
Mangoes (local: mangga)
Yes, the best in the world too! Some of our Asian neighbours visit the Philippines just to eat Philippine mangoes, because it's very expensive in their country.
Pineapple (local: pinya)
The best? Well, some of those popular foreign pineapple brands actually have farms here in the Philippines because they found that Philippine-produced pineapples are better.
Trivia: Pineapple was brought here during the colonial era. It's not endemic.
Trivia: Pineapple fibres are used to make clothes, and are usually expensive. It's the most common Philippine linen. Filipinos were the first to create clothes from Pineapple fibres. In fact, like the Coconut, Filipinos found use to everything Pineapple, generally, nothing goes to waste.
Today in Labor History March 17, 1966: 100 striking Mexican American and Filipino farmworkers marched from Delano, California to Sacramento to pressure the growers and the state government to answer their demands for better working conditions and higher wages, which were, at the time, below the federal minimum wage. By the time the marchers arrived, on Easter Sunday, April 11, the crowd had grown to 10,000 protesters and their supporters. A few months later, the two unions that represented them, the National Farm Workers Association, led by César Chávez, and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, joined to form the United Farm Workers. The strike was launched on September 8, 1965, by Filipino grape pickers. Mexicans were initially hired as scabs. So, Filipino strike leader Larry Itliong approached Cesar Chavez to get the support of the National Farm Workers Association, and on September 16, 1965, the Mexican farm workers joined the strike. During the strike, the growers and their vigilantes would physically assault the workers and drive their cars and trucks into the picket lines. They also sprayed strikers with pesticides. The strikers persevered nonviolently. They went to the Oakland docks and convinced the longshore workers to support them by refusing to load grapes. This resulted in the spoilage of 1,000 ten-ton cases of grapes. The success of this tactic led to the decision to launch a national grape boycott, which would ultimately help them win the struggle against the growers.