indigenous cuisine

A little girl from a local ethnic tribe does her part in attending with her friend to their indigenous delicacies being sold to the crowd during the Kadayawan festivities, although her attention was attracted to a performance being done by another indigenous tribe on a stage nearby.

The indigenous delicacies were sold at pocket-friendly prices, providing the festival revelers with an array of exotic taste and textures to choose from. I tried most of these interesting sweets for a cultural taste through their food. There was one cuisine by another local tribe, the Ata-Manuvu, a generous serving of chicken-diced specialty wrapped with banana leaves, with an exotic sounding name I somehow forgot but clearly remembered the surprising price of only P10 (about US$0.22)! The taste however, was not only surprising but unforgettable. The exotic taste slowly exploded in my palate with surprisingly subtle taste of a mixture of soft, tasty chicken meat, a hint of coconut milk, and what seemed to be banana flowerbuds and/or raw jackfruit salad, whatever...but definitely it's one of the tastiest food I ever encountered!