In the country of Philippines, Many people affected by the Governments corruption. Since then the time that Philippines borrow moneys in different countries before, Philippines life change.
If its not because of the Government, they don't know how to manage or do their jobs properly. Many people is starving to death and their places is located in you can't imagine but what we can do? If you will living here in our country, you would know how dirty the Government handle their works.
Because of the Government's corruption, many people affected by it. That's why when you travel in some places in Manila, Philippines you can see many people like this:
And they are the affected of rotten governance.
Because of this, many children affected their study they cannot study because of lack of money,their life become miserable, they did not enjoy their life having what the other people have.
If you question if why don't their Parents work? Obviously, they don't get a proper jobs because Philippines requirements in getting work sometimes in those proper jobs is you need to be a College Graduate and or have a bachelor degree. It's also hard finding works that can qualify what you can do and if you find a job, the salary is low which is why other parents who did not study or they just finish Elementary and High School cannot afford the education and what their childrens needs.
Also, Government is very selfish. They are just doing their jobs helping many people if it's Election time comes and they also need medias and cameras while doing it just so that many people will vote for them. That's why I don't like voting when the election comes.
Can I tell you a Secret?
When the Election comes last last year, i experience of voting because I'm already 18 years old that time. To my surprise, some elected for running in a position do this dirty things just so they can win. They give money in private to the people just so they can vote them. Actually, for the people here, they don't care about the money. Yes they did paid them but they still choose the people who is right into that position and some of us are the 'Kabataan' or Youth who study, and choose the right. Which is we did not regret to choose them because their are a lot of things change in our town (bayan).
Anyway, Since our Government system here is morally corrupt, citizens experience those things that you cannot imagine and you cannot even experienced it in your country and even I experience that.
1.Living in the Houses made with just a bamboo and Wood
Just like what I told you in my Story in my previous article Things that other people have and I don't but I'm contented , I experienced living in a simple house and just made with a simple things too. I experience not having a Cr or restroom and we just pooping in some places. We also just taking a bath in a small lake and that is when I was young. Our House is very messy too because we don't have a proper cabinet to place our clothes and they are just hung everywhere and just in beside.
2.Writing and Learning without a Lamp and Current
When I was in Kindergarten, I remembered that mom teaches me early. I don't even spend time playing after go home in the school. We are just half day and we just go home in lunch time after that we go home and after eating lunch we just sleep in the afternoon and when it's 4pm mom teach me in that time and we also eat early for our dinner. We also don't have current in the night, so that we don't have electricfan so that we can sleep properly. I realize that mom couldn't sleep properly because she is just using a fan and she is fanning us overnight.
And this is the most experience that i can still experience until now...
Eating dish that you don't even want to eat or you did not experience in your childhood
In our country, since we are just poor in money and very different in other country, we experience Eating dish that you just find it in your kitchen. Since we don't have a lot of money to buy a delicious dish, we just have finding something in our Kitchen to pair it with rice and yes! You read it right.
When I was young, when we don't have dish to cook, our Grandparents teach us to eat what we just have they always remind us that even if we don't have dish the most important is we still have rice and foods to eat and it doesn't matter if what food is laid out to our table. Which is i still doing it when we don't have dish to eat when we don't have money. Because i don't complain to anything and i'm not a picky in dish.
So here are the list of foods that you can find it in your kitchen that we always consider it as a dish :
Soy Sauce with Oil
This is what we always do in Soy Sauce. We are just mixing the rice, Soy sauce, and oil. Actually, It doesn't taste different from the filipino dish 'Adobo' because this dish is made with soy sauce and oil right? So when we eat dish like that we are also imagining that our food is adobo. We can also make it more yummier when it soy sauce was pair with Calamansi. Yum!
Salt
While the Salt is same with what we do in the soy sauce because we are just also mixing salt and rice. I remembered that we always pump the rice with salt with our palms and make it look like a Rice balls so that we can enjoy eating it. Because as a kid we like some small plays when eating so that we can have appetite to eat.
Coffee
Our childhood is unforgettable when you don't experience eating rice in coffee. When I was hungry in the afternoon and we don't have dish anymore, I'm eating this. Just a simple make your black coffee and add with rice. It's very delicious to taste because i'm a coffee addict!
Milk or Milo with sugar
Milo or Chocolate powder and Milk powder is very famous among to childrens. They like eating this kind of dish here because of the sweetness to pair it with rice. We grow up eating like this and until now, I'm still doing it. Even if I grow old, I don't forget to eat a dish like this in the afternoon. If we do have a stock in the kitchen.
And since we are talking about Foods that filipino eats and experiences why can't we talk about another foods that some Filipino esp. provinces eat that you can't also believe?
In Provinces, some of the Farmers finding and exploring things that they can eat. Esp. to the provinces that has a lot of forests and they are near in the mountains.
If you are living in the forests and Mountains, Would you eat bug? worms? And other exotic foods that you can find everywhere and you don't know that it will also can eat? Hmm..
Are you familiar with These kind of insect?
Mole Cricket
In our Country we call this in a Ilocano dialect as a 'Ararawan' and in tagalog they call it 'Susuhong' and in kapampangan, they call it 'Kamaro'. They always fried this and they also can cook this in different kind of dish and some farmers who always in the farm eat this and they are always making it as their pulutan or snack when they are drinking alcohol.
According to what I read, Reason why It's safe to eat is because Crickets are extraordinarily protein-rich and you can collect them pretty much anywhere. Most types of crickets are edible.
Where to find it?
According to my uncle when he is finding crickets in their place he always look for crickets in damp, dark places first. Under rocks, logs, and other large objects. Also he included to check in tall grasses, shrubs and trees. Try shaking branches above a shirt, sleeping bag or other piece of fabric, and see if any edibles fall onto it.
I still try to eat this kind of insect but according to my cousin who like to eat this fried, when her father cook this it taste like a head of a Shirmp but i don't eat head of shirmp because I just eat their body. They always wants me to taste/eat that and i like to try some too but my stomach cannot stand it so I envy them for having a strong stomach lol.
Actually, there are so many kinds of edible exotic foods that you can find in farms and other places that are also a healthy to eat but we don't eat them because our mind cannot imagine to eat those things and we get used to eat some delicious foods from restaurants and other places that are selling some foods.
But if we are talking about food. Always put on your minds that Choose the right food and be careful in eating things jut because other people eat it, it doesn't mean that you can also eat it. Your health is your priority.
Another thing that we should also consider, to thank God for the food blessings. Even if it costs small amount and just a simple food at least you could eat and alive and don't be picky in foods that what is laid in the table think and mind the people that are suffering from the streets, no house and no foods. However, I just hope that we can also help them in the future.
Thank you for reading! i hope you enjoyed reading it!
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