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Humble Abode

This is where the subject of our blog was born. In the specific part of the house, we prepared and cooked our masterpiece- the Pork Sinigang. In this humble lair, our bond and camaraderie as a group was strengthened and it brought us even closer to each other. All our crazy ideas were conceived at this house. We would like to thank the anonymous helper for letting us their lovely home. We really appreciated her support and words of wisdom.

In the span of a week or two, we have come up with this blog. We hope that for anyone who will be going to read it may appreciate everything in it. And we dedicate this blog for all the food lovers out there. Hope you enjoy it. Thank you and God Bless!

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WHY PORK SINIGANG?

 Our group came up with the idea of creating a blog about cooking since every Filipinos love to cook... and especially to eat. We have in our roots the love of cooking way back before the colonials influenced our authentic taste in food. And over the years of experimenting and finding the perfect taste we have come up with the varieties of mouth-watering dishes.  One of them is sinigang. Sinigang, a sour-tasting soup that originated in the Philippines is usually served with rice. It is often composed of a type of meat or fish, vegetables, tomatoes and tamarind flavoring. If there are about 7,107 islands in the Philippines, the preparation of the dish seems endless. Each regions of the Philippines has its own way of preparing the dish. But each one never fails to evoke the heavenly taste of sinigang. Its popularity among the Filpino seems to cross economic and demographic boundaries.

Generally, we chose Sinigang  as our subject in this blog due to its commonality among Filipinos. It has stood the test of time and even considered as one of the debated national food of the country, alongside with adobo. And by adapting to the technological world of Millenials, we aim to spread the multitude of wonders of Sinigang. We then chose “Baboy” as our main ingredient of the dish because of its popularity  among Filipino dishes. 

However, each of us have its different take on why pork sinigang should be the topic of our blog.

According to our chef Karlito, Sinigang especially with pork never fails to take him back to his colorful childhood as his family while Ericka loves sinigang because of its spicy-sour taste, Xia choose sinigang because when can have the benefit of eating it after cooking, Ronalyn loves eating specially filipino cuisine that’s why she agreed to cook sinigang and make some blogs about it. The rest agreed because they just love eating. 

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Sinigang na Baboy101

How to cook Sinigang na Baboy with a Twist We decided to come up with two different perspective: Human versus Food. This ideology was inspired from the movie entitled ‘Sausage Party’ which the main characters are food that have life, consciousness and awareness aiming for freedom and happiness-happiness in different perspective and context. The idea was further inspired by the main characters’ realisation that eventually they will be eaten by people whom they considered as ‘gods/’creators’ that will bring them to promise land. The first perspective was from Humans-US, discussing the procedure, sharing our thoughts and unique ideas why we choose Sinigang and how to cook Sinigang. Karlito thought that cooking was fun at all, giving him flashback mies about his family. He was so excited at the same time he was so nervous because he will be cooking Sinigang, but in front of the camera with spectators.  First he happily simmered the pork together with tomatoes and onions. While waiting for the Pork to be tenderised, he was hoping for the positive outcome together with his gals: Rizza, Ericka and Joy. When the Pork becomes tender, everyone agreed to add immediately the tamarind powder for the iconic, sour flavour of the dish. Afterwards, we added the Vegetables: Kangkong, Talong and Sitaw. Once all the ingredients were mixed together, we patiently waited for 5 more minutes under high heat. We were filled with gladness and excitement as we are about to taste the glorious masterpiece ever created by our friend. While eating the Pork Sinigang, we suddenly discussed the movie entitled ‘Sausage Party’ and we realised that, what if the food have lives of their own. Then if the premise of the movie is right, that means  Sinigang and its ingredients are also alive. We have created another dimension wherein the foods have thoughts and feelings and are self-aware of their surroundings. So we gave captions from two different perspective, indicating the picture and the scenario.

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Ericka here, this is our very own cook, Karlito. He’s very hands-on in this project. He put his heart out over this dish. While ate Joy and Cyril prepares the vegetables, he’s about to sneak out to taste his cooking. Everyone was excited that we are about to taste his masterpiece.

 “ I can already smell what’s cooking. I can already taste this palatable mouth-watering dish.” -Karlito

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“OH no!!!!! they are about to finish creating me and i’m doomed!”

-Porky

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“They started to seasoned my death by adding this tamarind powder. They told me that this will make me tasted sour, because I’m about to taste the bitterness of my tears because of sadness and betrayal.” -porky

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“Another unlucky, unrequited, selfless victims falls in the hands of so-called-food-lover. My friends, sitaw and talong were the first victims of this cruel hooman beings. We are about to die. . . “ -Porky

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“I just met my newest friends- sitaw, talong and kangkong. We are all aware how tragic our lives will end in the hands of those hypocrites-self-acclaimed-food-lover. They keep on telling us how much they love us, but we all know that sooner or later, after this show off love ends, we will devoured by the so-called-creators.” -Porky

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“I’m almost finish!!!!! 5 more minutes and I’m about to die in the hands of those traitors. They keep on telling me that I am beautiful, lovely and tasty but seems that I’m about to get betrayed by my so called friends. . .I’m so sad as if as I’m about to die.” -Porky

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https://www.facebook.com/pork.sinigang.96 

“Finish product! Shout out to Karlito and gals!!! Thank you for creating me, I bacame a wonderful sinigang and thanks to you guys, I’m so famous. In fact I just created my fb account and you can check it on the link above. I’m about to create my ig account due to public demand. Hope you enjoy and like it, ahaaaahm no, you have to love it. Dare you not to or else. . . . Hope that my death will not be in vain.” -Porky

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Hi! I am Xia! 

Ericka took this photo while Karlito’s preparing before we shot our video of “How to cook Pork Sinigang”. He was very nervous and excited at the same time as he starts to demonstrate the process of cooking Pork Sinigang. How ever, he was very confident because he used to cooked pork sinigang since he was in third year high school. It was one of his favorite Filipino dishes. Everytime he cooks sinigang na baboy, flashbacks of sweet and loving memories of his family begins to emerge as he remembers the bond that they shared while eating the exquisite dish.    

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Pork Sinigang, also called Sinigang na Baboy, is a traditional Filipino soup dish known for its sour flavor. By tradition, the souring ingredient of this dish comes from a tamarind fruit. Through time, this souring ingredient diversed and instead of using tamarind, guava, calamansi, bilimbi (kamias), unripe green mango, or santol can also be used. Today, a popular powdered sour-soup based ingredient called the "Sinigang Mix" is commonly used. This Sinigang Mix powder is as popular as it is commonly available in most Filipino stores and supermarkets. It comes, popularly, in tamarind and guava flavor.

Sinigang is an indigenous Filipino dish believed to have been influenced by Philippine's neighboring countries. In fact, Sinigang resembles that of the sour soup based cuisine of other Southeast Asian countries like Malaysia's "Singgang", Indonesia's "Sayur Asam", Thailand's "Tom Yum", and "Canh Chua" of Vietnam.

Pork Sinigang also resembles other Filipino soup sour dish called Sinampalokan or Sinampalokan na Manok. The difference of the two dishes, aside from their ingredients, are the ways they are cooked. While Sinampalokan uses the cooking method of "sautéing" and "boiling", the authentic and traditional method of cooking Pork Sinigang is "boiling". In Sinampalokan, the meat (traditionally chicken) is first sautéed in ginger before boiling and in Sinigang, the meat is simply boiled with the other ingredients. Sinampalokan solely uses tamarind souring based ingredient like tamarind fruit and leaves, while Sinigang has options to use various kinds of souring ingredients such as guava, santol, or mango.

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Tomatoes are good source of Retinol. 

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Onions. 

Trivia:  

Phytochemicals in onions along with their vitamin C help improve immunity. Onions contain chromium, which assists in regulating blood sugar.For centuries, onions have been used to reduce inflammation and heal infections.

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String beans are a good source of calcium, silicon, iron, manganese, potassium, and copper. AKA SItaw.