REY ELBO

FOREIGNERS often think we, Filipinos, are voracious eaters – something that is, at times, interpreted as a cultural oddity. Many of us eat five times a day, excluding the midnight snack. It appears like we can’t control our appetite, even during a time of mourning (it wouldn’t be unusual to see people at a funeral wake eating heartily, sometimes even hot steamed rice with dinuguan, or pork blood stew, and bopis, or sautéed animal internal organs, unmindful of the circumstances of the gathering).

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