Kain Tayo, Part 2 Let's Eat

Google Play, Sherwin M Podcast. Here’s the latest episode of Sherwin Podcast, episode 05, Filipino time. Hi, everyone. It’s Sherwin, and this is the Sherwin M Podcast. Welcome to the Sherwin M Podcast.

A podcast about the adventures of being Filipino-American. I am your host, Sherwin. Shout out to Jeff. You could catch him on Twitter at Jeff Bannis for providing me with that recording. He was like, hey, man, did you know that I found your podcast on Google Home?

I was like, for real? So he recorded it and shared it with me. So I got a little curious, and I was like, does, does my Amazon Echo know about my podcast? So I tried it out. I’m about to play you a recording.

Hopefully, it doesn’t trigger your Amazon Echo devices. Apologies if it does, but I just want to share what I encountered. So here goes. Alexa, listen to Sherwin M Podcast. You’d like to listen to Sherwin M, right?

Yes. Sorry, I can’t find the station. Sherwin M. So that was a bit disappointing, but I looked into it, and I guess Amazon uses TuneIn, the directory, podcast directory. So I submitted the TuneIn.

I submitted to TuneIn my podcast, and it’s there now, but I guess Alexa doesn’t know how to get it. Like, it sounds like it knows about it, but it just doesn’t know how to retrieve it or how to play it back. So I’m guessing that I have to use TuneIn, the TuneIn app, and subscribe, like create an account and subscribe. Maybe Alexa will know. Sorry, I keep saying Alexa.

Amazon Echo. Sorry if it’s triggering your devices. So maybe the Amazon Echo will know. I don’t know about the podcast if I subscribe to it using that TuneIn app. I don’t know.

But I got even more curious, and I was wondering if Siri knew about my podcast. I do use the podcast app on iOS, and I am subscribed to it, so let’s check it out. Siri, play the recent episode of the Sherwin M podcast. Here’s the podcast, Sherwin Podcast, starting with the newest episode. Welcome to the Sherwin M podcast, a podcast about the adventures of being Filipino-American.

I am your host, Sherwin. So, looks like it works, but I edited this, so I tried several different times. And the funny thing is, with Siri, if you use the same command three different times, it gives you three different results. I actually tried it three different times. The first time, it says, I can’t open your music app or something.

And then the second time, it tried to play movies or music. And then the third time, it got it right. Now, it doesn’t happen like that on all commands, but I’ve heard people, say that it happens with Siri. Even though you say the exact command multiple times, you may get different results every time. But, try it out.

If you are subscribed on iOS, and you want to just listen, just tell Siri to open it up. So, I just wanted to share that with you all. So, thank you, Jeff, for that. And I guess we’re going to get started with this episode. Episode 8.

“Let’s Eat” Part 2. Let’s eat. This is part 2, I guess, because episode 6 is the first time I talked about “Let’s Eat” and eating. And so, this episode was actually meant to have a different topic, but I was struggling on it for a good week. That’s why the release of this episode is going to be, later than usual.

And, yeah, this episode’s been really difficult. I ended up changing the topic, and probably will do the original topic at a later time. But, this is actually the second time I’m recording the “Let’s Eat” Part 2, because the first time, as I was editing, I accidentally deleted it. Oops. So…

So… So, and the way I was doing it, it didn’t have a backup. So, yeah, silly me, right?

Happens to all of us. Even a person like me who’s comfortable with technology. So, all right, we’re going to do this again. This time, I have a good friend with me. It’s a stout.

So, hopefully, it’ll come out good. And I hope I don’t delete it accidentally. So, yes, “Let’s Eat” Part 2. Let’s eat. What I want to talk about, in this episode are a couple of things.

First thing I want to go over is when you have a plate, right, of food. It’s normally, it consists of two items. You have your “kanin”, which is the rice, and you have your “ulam”, which is the dish. Now, you don’t have, you’re not limited to just one “ulam” or one dish. So, if you have a lot, you know, then you can mix and match.

Especially, in parties. Maybe you have, you know, some noodles, some “pansit”. Maybe you have some, you know, meat or chicken. All sorts of stuff. So, you’re not, like, limited to just rice and a dish.

You can have rice and multiple dishes. But, in essence, it’s just two types of items, I guess. You have the rice and the dish, so “kanin” and “ulam”. Now. Aside from having your “kanin” and “ulam”, you may sometimes have soup.

You can ask for soup. If you go to a Filipino restaurant, or if you’re at a party, they may have it. But, you know, you can have soup with your food. And type of soup would be called, like, “sinigang”. “Sinigang” is, like, it has a sour, sour taste to it.

Maasim. Sour taste. It’s normally with, like, fish, or shrimp, or pork. Really good stuff. Really good stuff.

Especially when you eat with it, you know. Sometimes they’ll have “nilagat”. And that’s, like, soup also, but it’s not sour. I don’t know how to describe the taste. And what you can have with it is just the broth, like the soup part.

Not necessarily the, you know, the entire soup. That’s extra. You gotta pay extra for that. Unless you’re at a party. And they already serve it.

But yeah, so sometimes you could eat with soup, and it’s really good. Look for that. Now, the next thing I want to discuss is the life of rice. So there’s, like, three stages of rice, okay? Some of you may not know, or are aware, but I just want to share.

So the first stage that I want to talk to you about is called “palai”. Palai. So “palai” is the Tagalog word for, like, I guess, the seed, the rice seed. Now when farmers harvest rice, they get these, they’re like a grain. A grain of rice looks like it’s, like, wrapped in this yellowish-brownish skin.

I guess it’s called the husk, right? And so during this stage, after they harvest, what they do is they, like, put it in a sack, and they ship it off. The next step, what they’re going to end up having to do is they’re going to lay it on the ground. And so in the Philippines, there aren’t really that many places to lay these on the ground. And the reason that you want to lay these on the ground is to dry them.

I don’t know if you’ve seen pictures of rice paddies and stuff. They’re wet. It’s always underwater. Like, there’s just a lot of…

Water and rice paddies. So these seeds are very wet. So they need to be dried. And because there aren’t really many places to lay them out and dry them, they just lay them out on the road, on the street. So if you’re in the Philippines, it’s very common to, as you’re driving through, like, run over them and stuff.

Because they’re just in the way. But everyone knows to just move aside and not run them over. I mean, that’s food, right? But they dry them. Once they’re dried, they put them in this, like, circular…

How do I describe it? It’s like a basket, right? It’s woven, but it’s a circular or sometimes square. In Tagalog, it’s called a bilao. Bilao.

Bilao. And what they do is they put the seeds there. Once they’re dried, they put their seeds there, right? And people would, like, shake them, toss them up, shake them, toss them up. Imagine like the motion that you see at the pizzeria where they toss the dough.

Somewhat like that, but they hold on to the bilao. All they’re doing is they’re shaking it and tossing up the seeds. And catching it and shaking it all over again. So what this does is it removes any light debris during the other stages and also tries to loosen the husk so that it’s easier for them to be removed later. So that’s what that process is all about.

At least that’s how I understood it. Hopefully I’m not misinforming you all. Yeah. Next, I guess there’s machines that actually separate the husk and stuff. And so once the husk is removed, now you get to see what many of you have probably seen, the actual rice itself.

The uncooked rice. So that’s called bigas, B-I-G-A-S, bigas. That’s the uncooked rice. And there was a funny bit. There was a guy named Joe Coy, he is a Phil-Am comedian, if you haven’t heard of him.

He’s on Netflix. He has a show on Netflix, or a special on Netflix. But pretty funny guy. He did a bit, I think it’s a Facebook video, I’ll link the video on the show notes. But I believe the other guy is his brother-in-law.

And so the bit is about his brother-in-law, who is African American, and he’s like, “Yeah, I’m going to make some rice for your sister.” And he’s like, “I got my butter, I got my bowl, my measuring cups.” It’s pretty funny. So Joe Coy comes and he’s like, “No, man, that’s not how you make rice,” and so on and so forth. And so he shows him that all you need is the rice cooker, and this is the American version of cooking rice.

So you get the rice cooker, you put the rice in there. You pour water in there. You clean it. You clean it. You do maybe three rounds or so.

When you clean it, it’s going to look really, I don’t know, whitish. The water will become powdery white, because there’s still remaining powder or whatever. So what you’re trying to do is just to try to clean that up. And usually three or four rounds of that. So you pour water in, you move the rice around.

And then you pour the water out. Pour another water in, and you just repeat it until it’s like the water becomes clear again or close to being clear. And then he shows them how to measure the amount of water with the lines of your finger. And so I know how to do this. I’m proud to say that I know how to do this.

I mean, it took some practice. Sometimes I’ll put too much water and the rice will come out soggy. Sometimes I don’t put enough water. The rice is really dry and crunchy. But yeah, so you measure the amount of water needed to cook the rice with the lines in your finger.

His video is pretty funny and somewhat informative. It’s not the full detail, but how much detail can you have in like a minute or two minutes of video? But anyway, it’s a really funny bit. And that’s like my quick explanation on how to cook rice. So in the Philippines, not many people have rice cookers because they’re pretty expensive and they’re not practical and they don’t really need it because they’re good at cooking rice.

So some of them just have the pot and they put it on open fire like with wood and light that up and you cook rice that way. And I’ve seen that done and it’s like, I mean, to them, it’s easy. Like my aunts, they’re like pros at it. They know exactly how long they’ll peak. They’ll pop it out.

Like they’re really good at that stuff. But you know, here in America we have rice cookers, so we’re kind of spoiled, but you know, I know how to measure the water and all that. So I’m pretty good at that. So once the rice is cooked, then you get KANIN, K-A-N-I-N, KANIN. So that is the cooked rice.

So that is the, well, I guess the life cycle of rice or something, three different stages. We normally don’t have appetizers. And when I say we like Filipinos generally don’t eat appetizers. I mean, when we do, it’s usually like salad and stuff. And whenever I’m in the Philippines, you could order appetizers.

Appetizers are available. But what I’ve noticed is generally they will serve the appetizer at the same time they serve the main course. The main dish, unless you specifically tell your server like, Hey, could I have my appetizer before the main dish? Now I don’t know if I’m accurate with my guessing or anything, but I believe the reason why they serve the appetizer with the main dish is, um, I think there’s two reasons. And number one is we don’t, we don’t do appetizers, I guess, I don’t know.

Number two, it’s, it’s that whole salo salo thing that I explained in episode six, like, um, everyone should eat together at the same time. And many, many of your friends or family may not order appetizers. So it wouldn’t be right, I guess, quote unquote, right. Um, for you to be the only one eating, um, while everyone else is waiting for their main dish. So, uh, for the most part, they’ll, they’ll give you the appetizer with the main dish.

Now. Um, let’s talk about desserts. So, um, the common desserts that, uh, we normally would order if available, um, these are just off the top of my head, like, uh, halo halo. So halo halo is, it’s a dessert. Um, it’s like has crushed ice.

It has like fruit in there. Um, it has sago or boba. It has ice cream. It has like, uh, red beans. Um, so it’s, it’s pretty popular and common.

So if, if, if, you know, you’ve been around, uh, Filipino restaurants, you’ve probably seen it if you don’t know what it is. Um, so it’s, it’s really good. Um, there’s many different ways to like make it, uh, oh, and there’s also milk, forgot the milk, milk, or like cream. And then the next thing is leche flan or leche plan. Uh, this is also found in halo halo, but you could, you could eat it on its own by itself.

Now. So this is really just caramel flan, car caramel, caramel flan. And so leche plan, which is flan because of the P and D F, you know, and then, uh, another thing is ube ube is a yam. So ube is like, uh, a flavor, right? Um, kind of like chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, whatever.

So ube, you could have ube this or ube that. I can’t think of any like ube ice cream, I guess. Um, I can’t think of any other examples, but ube is a flavor, uh, which is yam. So it’s pretty good, pretty good too. And then finally, um, you could look into like, uh, turon, T-U-R-O-N, turon.

Turon is imagine egg rolls, right? But inside is banana, like a slice of banana. And a strip of what we call langka, L-A-N-G-K-A, langka. And what langka is, it’s jackfruit. And so we deep fry this.

So it’s, it looks like egg rolls, but, um, inside is banana and jackfruit. Really good. And I remember when I was younger, I would, um, eat it, like dip it in like just sugar, a bowl of sugar. I guess it wasn’t, uh, sweet enough. But it’s really good.

It’s really good, really good. So that’s, uh, that’s what we do for dessert. Uh, we love, we love sweet stuff and, uh, maybe it’s no surprise that, um, you know, we struggle with diabetes, but, um, but yeah, so next thing I want to share is in fast food restaurants as well as regular restaurants, um, normally like in, in restaurants, uh, they, they clean up afterwards. You know, they, they, they clean up after you, the servers and the bus boys and stuff. They clean up after you, um, pay them and you leave.

Now in fast food restaurant, this is also the case. Unlike here in America, when you eat in a fast food restaurant, you have to clean up after yourself and, you know, gather your stuff and throw it away. But over there, they, um, they’ll bus for you. They’ll clean up after you. So once you’re finished eating at a fast food restaurant, just, just get up and go.

So back in 2005, I went on a trip back there and, um, I brought two friends along. They’ve never been there. So one of them is Jeff, who I mentioned in the beginning of this podcast that, um, sent me that recording and, uh, my other friend Irwin. And so they’ve never been there. And I remember, um, a few days in, we ate at, I think it was Burger King or Wendy’s.

I can’t remember where exactly, but it was a fast food restaurant. And so we’re about done and we’re about to get up. So we get up and, um, I, uh, so Irwin started walking and I, um, like stopped Jeff and told him like, whispered like, Hey, hold on, hold on, hold on. Just, just stay put. And so Irwin, Irwin just started walking, uh, with his, with his trash and his tray and for a good, like 30 seconds, this guy.

We just watched him. He, he went pretty much all over the restaurant. Um, just, just walking around and we knew what he was doing. He was looking for a trash can. He was looking for the trash can to throw away his stuff.

And so as, as he was walking further and further away, I was telling Jeff like, yeah, you don’t have to do this here. We could just leave it here, but let’s just watch him and see what he does. And so like a good 30 seconds pass. And then, um, he turns around and finally realizes we were just standing there. We were just standing there.

We were just standing there. We were just standing at our table, looking at him and laughing. Um, and then he came back. He’s like, dude, where’s the trash can? And so we just started cracking up.

Um, you don’t have to, you don’t have to, uh, clean up after yourselves in the, um, in the restaurant, in the fast food restaurants. Um, usually, usually someone will, will, um, clean up, uh, clean up after you. So pretty cool. You don’t have to tip unless you want to, but, um, it’s a fast food restaurant. That’s just how it is.

And so, um, but yeah, like we just played a lot of jokes on each other on that trip. It was really fun. Um, when your, your buddies go with you and they had a good time, they had a good time. And, um, yeah. So I want to take a deeper look at Salo Salo.

So as I explained before in episode six, like Salo Salo is that whole togetherness, uh, of when you’re eating, just eating with your good friends. And, um, your family. So an example would be like, let’s say you’re out with your family or out with friends or whatever, and you’re eating and you all order your own food like we normally do. But the difference is you, you plan to share with your, with your friends and family. Um, so let’s say, let’s say you’re at a restaurant and.

And you wanted to order the fish and another, another one, you know, someone else wants to order the meat and the other one wants to order noodles and so on and so forth. So go ahead and order that stuff with, uh, knowing that when the food comes out, everybody starts sharing that. That is just like a common thing. We always do that. That’s like part of Salo Salo.

Um, and the other advantage of that is like, let’s say you’re out with friends and everyone just pays for themselves. Like you don’t. You don’t have to like pay more than what you’ve, it was in front of you, but you get to try the other things. So it’s really, really cool. So, but yeah, you just, um, you know, as soon, right before everyone starts eating, you know, we start sharing.

We either get another, another plate, an empty plate or the plate that we have, we make space, right? As, as you’re sharing food, I mean, you, you automatically have space. So then. It’s, it’s like, um, I don’t know if it’s like a ritual, but yeah, it’s like, Hey, have you tried this? Have you tried that?

Oh, I tried this. Try that. So before anyone starts eating, like we, we start sharing the food. That’s Salo Salo. It’s really cool.

Um, I mean, maybe to some people it’s not, um, you know, they’re not comfortable with it, but to at least many Filipinos, if not all, like, that’s just, that’s how we are. And it’s not exclusive to just Filipinos. Like, you know, uh, whenever I’m with other people, I always. The same thing, if they’re cool with it, if they’re okay with it, but, um, but yeah, that’s a, that’s a common exercise whenever we eat, we, we tend to share, you know, before we eat, we make sure everyone’s like, you know, have you tried it? You’re good.

All right, cool, man. Let’s go start, start grubbing. Right. So yeah, that’s Salo Salo. Part of Salo Salo is, um, picking off like each other’s food, sharing and stuff.

Now, when you’re in a restaurant and once you’re done eating, it’s time to pay. Right. So this, this last thing I want. To share in this episode, um, is paying the check. So in Tagalog, I think I’m only guessing.

Cause I, I tried to, I tried to find out more about this word, but really couldn’t, I don’t know if it’s like a slang word or just a mispronounced word, but, uh, check in Tagalog is cheat, like C H I T cheat, cheat, cheat. Um, and when, on our. Our 2005 trip, uh, with my friend Erwin and Jeff, like, as soon as they found out about this and figured it out afterwards, they just wanted to pay every time, every chance they get, like, you know, it was great for me cause I, I didn’t have to pay cause they, they always fought over it cause they wanted that opportunity. They wanted that chance to do the, the cheat, the cheat, uh, hand gesture. So what is this cheat hand gesture?

Well, let me, let me first explain. So, um, so in America, right, we have, we have something here in America that, um, when you get your server’s attention and you tell them, you know, her or her that we’re ready for the bill. Um, normally what I would do is I would just run my, my hand across my neck, like cut me off. Like, you know, I, is this something that I I’ve learned and found out throughout my, uh, many years of, uh, uh, bar drinking and stuff and with friends hanging out. And then, you know, you go to the bartender, like, cut me off, you know, cut me off, give me my bill.

So you would do that hand gesture and, you know, every time I eat now, it’s like, that’s how I do it. And everyone seems to understand what that is. So like, cut me off, you know, give me my check. So that’s like the American version. Now in the Philippines, we call it cheat, right?

And so what you do is you, you close both hands first closure, both of your hands, make a fist, put it in your mouth. And so what you do is you, you close both hands first closure, both of your hands, make a fist, put it in your mouth. And so what you do is you, you close both hands first closure, both of your hands, make a fist, put it in your mouth. And so what you do is you, you close both hands first closure, both of your hands, make a fist, put it in front of you, right? I’m going to try to describe this because it’s really, really hard.

But and you take your both your pointing finger and your thumb and you like while while the other fingers are still closed on your left hand, what you’re going to try to do is you’re going to try to do the letter C with your pointy finger. And you like while while the other fingers are still closed on your left hand, what you’re going to try to do is you’re going to try to do the letter C with your pointy finger. Pointing finger and your thumb. Now your right hand, you’re going to also try to do that C, but it’s like backwards, right? And so when you have that, you’re going to connect your two pointing fingers with each other and your thumb, connect them with each other.

When you connect them, you’re going to notice you have created a like a rectangular shape. So this is the first part. So the reason for that rectangular shape that kind of represents the, the. Check itself, the bill, like the receipt, it’s a rectangular shape. So what you’re going to do is you’re going to get your server’s attention.

You’re going to do this. You’re going to connect your, your finger, your tooth, your two pointing fingers and thumb in midair when you get their attention. And as soon as you get your, their attention, you slowly take them apart. So you move your, your left hand to the left and your right hand to the right and about two to three inches. And when you stop, what you’re going to now do, see, you’ve drawn the, the top and bottom line of a rectangle.

Now you’re going to have to draw the, the left and right sides. So what you’re going to do is you’re going to take your, your, on the same hand, your pointing finger and thumb and go down vertically and until they meet, right? Your, your thumb and pointing finger on the same hand. You do that on both sides. Pretty much you’re, you’re, you’re drawing a rectangle.

So, so that when, when the servers see that in the Philippines or in Filipino restaurants, it’s automatic. They, they know that, you know, you want your, your check or your cheat. So, so that’s, yeah. And as soon as Erwin and Jeff like found that, found that out and they, they saw me do it and they’re like, oh my goodness, that is so awesome. And so ever since then, like they wanted to pay the bill while we were in the Philippines because they, they just wanted to do that.

So awesome. I’m like, hey man, go ahead and pay the bill. It’s cool. But if, if you’re like used to it, like, let’s say you got a black belt in it, like you’re a professional at it. You can actually do this with just one hand.

Just, just make the motion like the half rectangle, you know, you don’t need both hands. So if you have a lot of practice, you know, get, get your server’s attention, just raise one, one or one or the other hand and just make the, the, the hand. Drawing of the half rectangle and, and they know it, they know it already. They know it already. So, so that, that is cheat.

Really cool stuff. I remember when we came back from that vacation, we had a couple of lunches together and they, they kept doing it. They kept doing it even here in America. Cause they’re like, I wonder what would happen if, if we did it here. And of course they’re not going to know what that is.

And we weren’t in a Philippines. We weren’t in a Filipino restaurant either. Um, if you, if you do it in a Filipino restaurant in America, it’ll work, but we were, I think we were like at Fridays or, you know, um, like yard house or something. And we’re just hanging out and they tried it and they, they did the whole motion, the gesture. And, uh, one time the, the waiter saw it and he came back with a to-go box cause they drew a box.

So they, the waiter, the, the server. Um, they wanted a to-go box. So we just started cracking up. So it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work, um, in America unless you’re in a Filipino restaurant.

So, so yeah, that’s, that’s about it. Um, so this is episode eight, Kain Tayo, part two. Let’s eat. I’m enjoying this beer. Uh, and hopefully I get to release this soon.

Apologies for the late release. Um, I’ve been struggling with this episode. I had to make some changes, so hopefully you enjoyed this episode. Uh, one last thing. Um, I talked to my aunt, Tita Peck, shout out Tita Peck, shout out to you.

And, um, was talking to her and like, have you been listening and stuff? And she’s like, oh yeah, yeah, I’ve been enjoying it. And you know, this, this, and this. And I’m like, um, so what do you think? And she, she mentioned something about like feedback or whatever.

And I’m like, yeah, well, I mean, I always say, say how to do it. At the end of the show, every show I say, I think there was only one episode. I forgot to do it, but, um, and she’s like, really, is it okay? Cause I don’t understand that last part you’re talking about. So I don’t know if I’m saying it too fast or, or my, my English is too slang.

I don’t know. So maybe what I’m going to try right now in this episode is I’m going to say it in both English and in Tagalog. So I’m a little rusty. I know, I know Tagalog, but, uh, I might get a nosebleed when I speak Tagalog too much. So I’m going to, I’m going to try.

All right. So here we go. All right. So I hope you all enjoyed the show. If you want to check out the show notes, you could see them at podcast.sherwinm.com slash eight.

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I hope, I hope that makes sense. I hope you all enjoyed the show. I’ll catch you on the internet. Um, it’s almost Holy Week, almost Easter. Um, maybe I’ll get back to drinking soda.

Maybe not. I don’t know. We’ll see. That’s what I gave up for Lent. So, I’m doing pretty good.

Doing pretty good. Um, so that wraps it up. I will see you all on the next episode. Thank you for listening. Mbabu!

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