Native Chicken is Beaten to Death

A famous delicacy in the Cordilleras is known as Pinikpikan. What makes the food preparation bizarre is that the native chicken is being beaten to death. To remove its feathers, the whole Beaten to Death Chicken was burned instead of dipping it into boiling water. It was then cooked in the traditional method known as “tinola” or "adobo".

"Eating Dangerously" and “The Test of Loyalty”

In Japan, you can eat a slice of blowfish and hope that the chef skillfully removed the poison.

But that is nothing compared to the delicacies being served in Baguio City, Philippines.

In Baguio, you can order dog meat in restaurant and then pray that the unfortunate dog does not have any rabies.

Eating dog meat is a culture in Baguio. However, the commercialization of dog meat destroy the old culture because dogs are now illegally coming from Southern Luzon to be butchered in Baguio.

In this bizarre culture, man should eat his own dog with his family members or with his friends. And while eating, they talk about the loyalty of his dog to him. This may sounds like a bizarre funeral service.

To my mind (inside the brain of Engr Alex Valdez), I call this “The Test of Loyalty” between the man and his dog. If the man eat his favorite dog and if the dog has the rabies, then together they will IMMEDIATELY be united in eternal life, forever.

A Typical Filipino Lifestyle

A typical lifestyle of a Filipino is this - We eat seven (7) times a day.
1. Agahan or Almusal in the morning.
2. Merienda at 9:00 AM. (Ilocanos prefer Kilabban than merienda.)
3. Tanghalian at high noon.
4. Merienda at 3:00 PM. (Ilocanos prefer Kilabban than merienda.)
5. Pulutan and Toma at 7:00 PM (for Men while singing with friends)
Junk Foods (for Women and Kids while watching telenovelas)
6. Hapunan or Panggabi at 8:30 PM
7. Midnight Snack while watching the evening news.
. . . and not yet included in the above lists are those we eat regularly such as green mango, balut, penoy, one day old, adidas (not rubber shoes), IUD (not contraceptive), and other weird sounding and health threatening street foods.
Finally, a typical Filipino will not starve to death, but change in lifestyle can kill.

Our Aggressive Filipino Food Culture

We, Filipinos, can't wait for a mango to become ripe and sweet. We eat them while they are sour and green.

We, Filipinos, eat duck while still an embryo. We call it balut. We also eat duck before it become embryo. We call it penoy.

Chicks are more luckier than ducks. We wait them to get hatch then after one day, we eat them. We call this food a one day old.

We roast pig while it is a few months old and still drinking milk. We call it lechon de leche.

If you are a foreign missionary staying in the Philippines and you claim that you are already a Filipino by heart, then you must undergo initiation by eating these Filipino foods in front of your congregation.