#comfort philippines

[thelcsdaily]

Beef Salpicao

The ideal dish saving you time in the kitchen and enabling you to spend more time with your family. This delectable Filipino dish is called beef salpicao. Recognized for its succulent beef cubes cooked in a flavorful sauce with a lot of garlic. It is easy to make and can be eaten as a main course or as an appetizer. One of the greatest comfort dishes ever. Delightful with a bowl of white rice.

To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.

- Heston Blumenthal

[jaeyxns]

“I want to pat myself on the back and say ‘good job’. I really 100% enjoyed it. It was great. Jake, you did well.” - Jake’s -note in Manila ♡

[tagapagharaya]

I have not read To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods, so I cannot speak about its contents.

I can, however, speak about the utterly vile way people are talking about Molly X. Chang, a Chinese woman.

Can someone explain to me why they think calling a Chinese woman a comfort woman as an insult makes them the morally upright party in this situation?

The way this person, and others who echo this line, is using the term comfort woman as if it means traitor — in particular, a woman who betrays her own people to demean herself for the pleasure of their colonizers — is abhorrent and ahistorical.

Let me set the record straight: A comfort woman is a woman (or a girl, some as young as twelve-years-old) forced or tricked into sexual enslavement by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories (e.g. China, Korea, Taiwan, Burma, Indonesia, the Philippines), and even Japan itself, before and during World War II.

These women and girls were kept in "comfort stations" where they would be raped, physically abused and tortured by as many as 40 Imperial Japanese soldiers in a single night. Every night. For what reason? As "stress relief" for the soldiers.

In the mornings, they were forced to do backbreaking domestic labor for the Imperial Japanese garrisons, and at night they would be raped, beaten and tortured. They were given little food and kept in unsanitary conditions. Venereal disease was rampant. Many comfort women became infertile because of sexual violence and venereal diseases. Many women became pregnant during their enslavement, and were still not exempted from the nightly rapes. Many women miscarried and were not given medical attention.

I would remind you that the term comfort woman includes girls, some as young as twelve-years-old.

The level of dehumanization was so extreme that they were treated as inventory.

Comfort women are victims of colonial violence.

To this day, the Japanese government denies that the comfort women were sexually enslaved. Thousands of comfort women never received justice or reparations for the physical, psychological and emotional suffering they were subjected to.

The narrative that comfort women were volunteers or professionals, that they were treated well and compensated fairly, that they got rich from it, is historical revisionism peddled by the Japanese right-wing to deny its war crimes. This exact narrative is used to deny the victims of colonial violence justice.

So to see the term comfort woman used as an insult against a Chinese woman (of Manchu and Hui descent, no less) and to pretend it means she's "in love with her ancestors' colonizers and betrays her own people because of it (through her writing)" — an "Imperial Japan dickrider," if we're being crass — is vile and disgusting.

What do these people think they're accomplishing exactly? How are they criticizing an alleged "colonizer romance" novel by parroting the misogynist and racist historical revisionism of a real life former colonial power to demean a woman of color?

[netsue101]

Lato Lato craze 😭💀

[southeastasianists]

Filipina comfort woman Hilaria Bustamante has passed away at age 97, the group Lila Pilipina has announced.

Bustamante was a member of Lila Pilipina, an organization of Filipino comfort women who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of Japanese soldiers in World War II by being captured and forced into sexual slavery.

Bustamante reportedly died of old age, a representative of Lila Pilipina confirmed.

Her passing has come within weeks after the United Nations released their finding that the Philippines failed to provide compensation for these women who were victims at the hands of the Imperial Japanese Army.

Just days earlier, comfort women group Malaya Lolas (Free Grandmothers) also urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to immediately seek reparations from Japan on their behalf, as “many among us are now dead and the few of us remaining do not have long to live. Some of us are already bedridden because we’ve become old, ill or senile,” its group leader, Maria Quilantang Lalu, said.

The UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women coincidentally released its finding on International Women’s Day (March 8), saying that the Philippines has failed to provide reparation, social support, and recognition for comfort women, which has led to “ongoing discrimination against them that continues to this day.”

Bustamante, who was 16 years old when Japanese soldiers captured, enslaved, and repeatedly raped her for over a year, was one of “several plaintiffs who sued the Japanese government in 1993 at a Tokyo District Court.” Although she received a letter of apology from then-Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and atonement from the Asian Women’s Fund, she insisted that the Japanese government should offer official compensation to comfort women and issue a formal public apology.

[stuff-to-gush-about]

the parallels between an honest adventurer and a conquistador

maturing to realize that the adventurers that I, as a kid, wanted to be so bad; who saw "new worlds" and explored through forests as pirates and treasure seekers. people who wanted to see the wonders of the world -- were like, actual colonizers

matching the behaviors of the Spaniards when they colonized the philippines. like damn.

[misclogarts]

not to sound like an edgy 13 yr old but when you know about history their ghosts follow you everywhere 😭

[thedemises]

all these characters born from different countries and continents… and i only have two ocs that have the same nationality as me.

[wakarranai]

weekend getaway

instagram: @wakarranai

[helloluna143]

best pair: fried chicken and lugaw

also perfect for cold weather

[imreallyloveleee]

bit of an update on me in the tags if you're interested

[radanriel15]

home.

No place like home ikaw nga nila. Iba pa rin yung pakiramdam na may nag-aantay sayo sa pag uwi.

Magagawa mo ang lahat ng gusto mong gawin na walang makakapigil at walang huhusga sayo.

Makakatulog ka sa paborito mong kama. Makakagalaw ka ng maayos.

Wag kalimutang magpahinga, umuwi kana hinihintay kana nila.

Makati City, Philippines | 2023

[thespothacker]

All you need is a good food 🍪🍹

[broh3m3]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!🎄🎆🎉🎊

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! 🥳🥳🎆🎉

(I wanted to draw a festive tonio for u sbfksj maybe later- hope ur doing well kello!!)

[the-loiterers]

[hellionamaruq]

In honor of Filipino heritage month, I aim to learn more about the culture where my mom's (and dad's dad) family grew up in. My mom is from the Philippines and grew up there, and my dad's dad grew up there. My dad has visited twice, and I have never been. I have family that live there and family FROM there, yet I never engaged with the culture all too much because this is sadly America, lol. Day 7: Foods These are some really amazing foods I grew up loving. My abuelita always made Filipino foods, and these were my top 5. I hold these foods close, as they were the only real way of connecting with any sort of Filipino culture growing up. From left to right we have a bowl of puspas, a glass of kalamansi juice, pancit, lumpia, and ensaymada balls. There are lots more I could also include, but just wouldn't have time to draw, haha! Puspas - in simple terms, it's like chicken and rice porridge. Typically there are ginger chunks mixed in, making it really good for clearing up any sickness. You can also add in green onion and lemon/lime juice for extra flavor and zest. This is a basic household staple and really easy to make; typically eaten as a quick lunch. Kalamansi Juice - kalamansi is essentially a small, really sour, citrus fruit (it's like an orange, just tiny and hella sour). This can be squeezed and added to food for flavor, but personally, I love it as a juice. Fresh-squeezed kalamansi juice with a little bit of sugar (but not enough to remove the sour) really hit different during summer as a kid. Again, another household staple that can be easily made, but may not be sold in regular stores in the U.S. Pancit - there are various types of pancit, but my favorite is made with angel hair noodles and chicken cooked in oil (NOT FRIED) sprinkled with green onion, bok choy, and/or leaks. This dish is ALWAYS at a large gathering and ALWAYS at any Philippine-based restaurant and is also extremely common. Hearing the sizzle of this in any place truly let you know you were with family and were gonna have a good-ass time. This has become a somewhat more known food in the U.S, so I'm happy more people know about it! Lumpia - this is a food many know the Philippines for. It's essentially a small meatroll, the meat usually being pork or beef being fried in a pan with some sort of sauce as a side to dip in. This is to not be confused with SPRING ROLLS which have vegetables, lumpia has NO vegetables at all. You'll usually eat these alongside a meal, like a passable plate of sorts, because many are usually made at a time. Ensaymadas - These babies originate from Spain, but the way the Philippines has adapted them has made them 100x better. This slightly sweet bread is honestly such a perfect treat after a meal, especially when fresh. These were never made for me personally, but whenever they were bought (obviously from a Philippine bakery) they were SO GOOD! You could typically also pop it in your mouth, so these were gone pretty quick, haha! Follow me here: www.instagram.com/helliondraws…  , TikTok (HellionAmaruq), hellionamaruq.tumblr.com/ , twitter.com/HellionAmaruq www.reddit.com/user/HellionAma… Commissions: hellionamaruq.carrd.co/