The document discusses exotic foods from the Philippines, particularly the province of Pangasinan. It describes various exotic dishes like balut (boiled duck egg), tamilok (wood worms eaten alive), and kamaro (mole crickets). These foods originate from Philippine, Malay, Chinese, and Spanish influences. While some exotic foods have health benefits, they can also be potentially harmful if consumed regularly. The foods contribute to local tourism in Pangasinan and allow tourists to experience different cultures through food. Recipes for dishes like dinuguan (blood stew) and preparations of internal organs are also provided.

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INTRODUCTION
Food, glorious food! Where else in the world you can you
sample delectable and tempting delicacies if not in the exotic
country of Philippines. The Filipino food is a unique mixture of
eastern and western cuisine. For over 400 years of outside
influences, the Philippine cuisine is a fascinating blend of Malay,
Spanish and Chinese cultures. For the Filipinos, food is very
important fact of local art and cultures as well as communal
existence.
In Asian countries they uses hot chilies and spices in their
dishes, but in the Philippines that taste of the dishes is labeled as
bland and mild and its made the Filipino dishes more suitable for
those with sedate and sensitive buds. Just like in the other Asian
countries, rice is their staple food and will be served with most
meals. To the Filipinos, fish is the simplest dish they will prepare. In
fact, seafood is appreciated when it left uncooked – in a vinaigrette
matrix, grilled and sometimes stuffed with onions wrapped in
banana leaf.
Coconuts are also used in creating exotic Filipino dishes.
Cooking meat and vegetables using coconut milk create dishes
called guinataan. These dishes originated form the Malay side of the
Filipino cuisine.
The purpose of this research paper is to introduce the exotic
food in Pangasinan. This research paper gives us ideas how exotic

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food is cooked and how it taste. This research paper shows how
nutritious this exotic foods.
The significance of this study is to give us knowledge on the
various kinds of exotic foods in the Pangasinan.
DEFINITION OF EXOTIC FOODS
Exotic foods are foods that are not familiar. It is a kind of
weird Exotic foods may be harmful to your health because we do
not know or we are not surely that is it just alright for us to eat.
Exotic foods have different kinds, exotic fish, and exotic fruits.
Examples of exotic foods are: frog heart, alive beetles, scorpions,
mushrooms, balut’s, insects and etc. (www.wikianswers.com)
VARIETIES AND WAYS IN EATING EXOTIC FOODS
Balut (Boiled Duck’s Egg)
There is an art to eat Balut. First, make sure it’s hot. Hold up
the egg and determine the wider end lightly topping it here to break
off a piece of eggshell and then taking a sip to savor the Balut’s
tasty broth –you may want to salt it before doing so. Once all the
soup has been sipped, crack the rest of the egg, peel it open and
sprinkle it with rock salt. The yolk is firm yet tender and the chick
should go down smooth and sweet.

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Tamilok (Wood Worm)
The experience of eating it is more risqué than eating sushi.
Forget raw, those worms are eaten alive! The driftwood is chopped
so you are able to tract pink juicy worms measuring six to eight
inches long. The worms are then washed then dropped onto the
tongue. Fans love the clean taste and the tingling sensation through
the digestive tract.
Kamaro (Mole Crickets)
These mole crickets are the most delicious in Pangasinan, the
Kamaro catchers’ stamp their bare feet on the soil to make the
crickets’ surface, causing them t jump and fly awkwardly, making
them easy to catch. The crickets’ legs and wings must be removed.
After which the body is boiled in vinegar and garlic. It is then
sautéed in oil, chopped onion and tomatoes until they are chocolate
brown in color. Kamaro is a party in your mouth with every bite;
the initial crunch gives way to moist interior, making it a perfect
pairing with ice-cold beer. Without the wings and legs, there is no
scratchy texture.
Sinarapan (The World’s Smallest Fish)
This fish are said to be aphrodisiac when eaten raw with salt
and a few squeezer of lime juice. Sinarapan are usually added to an
omelet for breakfast or cooked Bicolano style with coconut milk,
vegetables and chili. Its name seems to come form the root word,

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Sarap which means “delicious” in Filipino – a word that is used to
described both food and sex (www.hubpages.com)
STYLES IN COOKING EXOTIC FOODS
Adobong pusa or Cat adobo
Cats are also in the Pangasinan. They cook it in
adobo style, sautéed with garlic, onion and laurel leaf seasoned
with soy sauce and vinegar. This is a favorite appetizer during their
drinking spree.
Adobo/Prito o Litsong daga or Adobo/ Fried and Roasted Rat
Rats from the rice paddies are also eaten. They would
skin them, cut the head, the tail, and the legs then all internal
organs are removed. Actually, these rodents are clean because they
only feed on rice. Cooking is done the adobo way deep fried. It can
also be roasted like chicken.
Kilawing Bunog (Raw young of a Mudfish)
These are eaten raw spiced up with vinegar or citrus
juice, pepper and salt.

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Adobo o Pritong Palaka (Adobo or Fried Frogs)
Frogs can be cooked in adobo style or deep fried. It’s tastier
than chicken. These are also some people that eat legs or bull frogs
cooked in the same manner.
Adobong Ahas (Snake Adobo)
This is cooked in adobo style.Snake is commonly eaten in
Asiabecause of its medicinal value. It’s also a good aphrodisiac.
Adobong Bayawak/Itlog (Monitor Lizard Meat/Eggs)
It is sautéed in garlic and onion, ginger and laurel leaf with
pepper, soy sauce and vinegar and more popularly called Adobo.
The eggs are usually cook by simply boiling it, it taste salty and
delicious, the eggs are considered exotic because it’s rare and hard
to find.
Prito o Sinangag na Salagubang (Fried Beetle)
This is common among provinces especially in Pangasinan,
where mango trees abound where beetles usually thrive. It’s
crunchy like grasshopper counter-past.
Adobong Paniki (Bat Adobo)
Cooked in adobo style or cooked in coconut milk.

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Kilawing Kambing o Aso (Raw meat of Goat or Dog)
Raw meat spiced up with chopped onions, pepper and salt.
Others would grill it medium rare first. A kilawing kambing become
more bizarre when added up with fresh liquid extracted and drained
from the stomach or intestine of the goat.
Sinangag o Adobong Susuhong/Camaro/Ararawan (Adobo
or Fried mole crickets)
This is a kind of edible insect usually found in the rice fields
before planting season. It is sautéed in garlic, onion and olive oil or
cooked by simply frying it.
Sinangag o Adobong Tipaklong o Balang (Fried or Adobo
Grasshopper or Locost)
They are cooked just like the way mole crickets are cooked.
Ginataang Kuhol (Snail cooked in coconut milk)
There are varieties of snails being cooked and eaten in
Pangasinan. Only two are being shown. Ginataang kuhol or suso is
sautéed with garlic, onion, and ginger and pepper pus coconut milk.
There are also other ways of cooking those snails. The suso is
sautéed with fresh tomato.

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Dinuguan (Dog meat or Pork blood stew)
It is a common delicacy here in the Philippines and almost
serve in carrenderia in Pangasinan. It is a combination of pork/ dog
meat and innards stewed to perfection with pork blood. It is best
with a puto, when it is cooked dried it is called Tinusamis or
Paputok, the cooked dinuguan is added up with fresh blood before
serving it.
Prito o Ginisang Tateg (Fried/ Sautéed Huge Worms)
These worms can be found on rotten stack of rice hays. They
are usually cooked by deep frying it. It can also be sautéed with
garlic, onion, tomato, and pepper (www.trifter.com).
EFFECTS OF EXOTIC FOODS
Exotic foods can introduce you to the exotic fruits Acai,
Bacuri, Cupuacu. It will delight your taste buds. Exotic fruits acai,
facial and eye cream are produced. From the cupuacu, hair
conditioner and skin restorer are produced. In India 60 different
kinds of exotic foods are produced, the spices they created were
used in ailments and toothpaste, but these exotic foods are also
harmful effects to your health
(www.philipinesfoodrecipes.blogspot.com).

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Health Benefits of Exotic Foods
There are many health benefits of turmeric and scientists are
still researching them and there will be a lot more. It is very
surprising to see that the foods we eat can help our illness and that
we can cure ourselves naturally. All spices have unique health
benefits that are waiting to be untapped. They can increase our
lives and helps us lead a healthy life. Some exotic foods can be
used as a way to disinfect a cut, can be used to prevent cancers
such as prostate cancer and it can be stop from spreading, prevent
breast cancer, greatly removes the chance of getting leukemia
during childhood, detoxifies your liver, stop tumors, treatment for
depression, used as a painkiller, helps prevent pancreatic cancer,
speeds up the healing of wounds (www.epicureantable.com).
Harmful Effects of Exotic Foods
Intense instances of hemorrhoids are generally in which the
entire anal orifice is covered with hemorrhoids cause of
hemorrhoids and even more so, instances of thrombosis or bleeding
hemorrhoids which need intense hemorrhoid relief treatment. The
hemorrhoid remedy should not need to worry about the normal
risks of a surgical operation hemorrhoid cure particularly bleeding
mainly because the laser beam cauterizes the resulting injury
stopping the bleeding. You can find a variety of hemorrhoid
treatment that entails stapling the hemorrhoid with a particular
variety of circular staple. This hemorrhoids is cause of eating
unhealthy exotic foods (www.epicureantable.com)

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RECIPE
Ingredients:
1 ½ kg. internal organ (liver,intestine)
1 whole garlic
2 tbsp. oil
4 tbsp. onion
4 tbsp. ginger
½ tbsp. bell pepper
2 tbsp. green chili
½ c. soup of the internal organs
8 c. water
1 pack sinigang mix
½ c. fish sauce, salt, pepper
Procedure:
1. Wash carefully the internal organs and separate the liver.
2. Boil the internal organs including the garlic and ginger.
After boilinf remove the excess water.
3. Cut the internal organs into cubes.
4. Wash and boil again the internal organs up to 1-2 hours
until the organs are soften then put the salt.
5. Remove the pressure cooker and put the excess water in a
container.
6. Suete the garlic, onion, and ginger, then put the internal
organs and add some fish sauce.
7. Put the soup.
8. Add the bell pepper and green chili.
9. Add the bile of the stomach of goat or cow (Di, Madonna
Xandra.KMC Service…).

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PRESERVATION
Food processing evokes in most people’s minds memories of
their grandmothers or stories they have heard about other people’s
grandmothers or perhaps a neighbor. It is an old fashioned thing to
do – almost a lost of art. Something no one considers anymore nor
has time for. True for many peoples life styles. It is an opportunity
to control over the quality of food you nourish yourself with. Less
chemicals, less salt, less or no sugar and just the way you like it.
Some people preserve food to make up a few seasoning pastes,
good food, interesting and perhaps exotic, but quickly prepare
meals. You can avoid the boiling water of preserving by freezing the
food, for preserving vegetables or fresh fruits, the procedure are
much different and require a far longer processing time
(www.epicureantable.com)
CONTRIBUTION OF EXOTIC FOODS TO THE
PROVINCIAL TOURISM
There are local restaurants and carinderias who serve local
cuisine and the exotic foods of the province. All people of
Pangasinan are great cooks, there are lots of foods in Panagasinan
especially the goat meat dishes, kaldereta, ”kilawin” and igado
that’s why many people want to visit Pangasinan and also to see
the main pilgrimage centers of Pangasinan the shrine of Our Lady of
Manaoag, the shrine of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Divine Treasure
in Calasiao and Saint Dominic de Guzman Parish Church in San
Carlos City. Also the foreigners want to experience the Bangus
Festival, Pista’y Dayat (Festival of the Sea), and some others, and

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Pangasinan are also known for local dishes like Bagoong and
Bangus and others special delicacies. In Pangasinan lots of insects
were cooked in some festivals worms that were still movinf and raw
sea foods being served up and the foreigners was disgusted when
they see people eating worms. These events were very helpful in
the improvement of Provincial Tourism
(www.tumahgoogles.blogspot.com).
CONCLUSION
Tourists experience culture shock when they at last have
coverage to taste these food stuffs; they discover a new world of
food and realize that they are totally ignorant about tasty meals.
We are strongly accustomed to what we eat that when we see other
people eating unusual to us, we experience disgust in the majority
of cases. But when it goes about snakes and something else of this
kind, we lose appetite at once. Imagine a vegetarian watching our
eating meat. Try to imagine his/her feelings. It will look abominably
to this person. That is why when you make a tour to some Asian
country, be open-minded and don’t dash aside from exotic food.
Taste it and then make a conclusion how it taste. Maybe it is the
only time you can taste that the dish in your whole life.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Di,Madonna Xandra. KMC Service, “Papaitan”. Volume 2. June 2009
www.epicureantable.com
www.hubpages.com
www.trifter.com
www.tumahgoogles.blogspot.com
www.wiki.answer.com
www.Philippinesfoodrecipe.blogspot.com