Comments on: Ham & Chicken Soup a la Marketman

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 03:25:56 +0000

That thought is just too funny!!! I couldn’t stop sniggering for nearly a minute. I do love animals but I agree this dish comes close to the soon to be initiated strange dish of the year award. It is not my intention to offend any Igorots as I do love the original soup but the preparation is not for me. Just like I couldn’t reach into a writhing sturgeon to pull out the eggs and pop them them into my mouth as caviar with a blini. Eew, is right. :)

By: lee

lee — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 02:34:47 +0000

whack the sorry bird to the tune of michael jackson’s beat it.

By: schatzli

schatzli — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:18:39 +0000

I couldnt bear the thought of beating the poor creature!!
Your wicked sense of humour adds flavour to this story! I have never heard about this soup. Though I have learned a lot about Ilocano, Ifugao food when we moved here in Greece.
There are many of them here from the region and they are called ethnics!
So I will ask them about this and I wonder if one of them here ever tried this flame whacking thing here in Athens.
Great pic by the way!

By: stef

stef — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 11:12:20 +0000

LOL. i’m glad you posted this. i’m working on my soups and stews chapter right now and was wondering “how the heck am i going to make this?” when i was researching the recipe. my neighbors would probably file a report with PETA and APSCA if i even attempted such a thing — we don’t have fences in my neighborhood and i’d feel really funny about beating up a chicken in my backyard over a fire — oh, and fire’s a no-no as well. i think i’ll write a note on the recipe saying “see marketman’s post, etc., etc.”

By: IvanM

IvanM — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 05:51:57 +0000

Since we’re in the subject of Pinikpikan, its funny how
this most famous of Ifugao (or Igorot) dishes is so hard
to come by even in the Ifugao province! On two trips to
the Rice Terraces, I never saw a single restaurant that
served authentic Igorot food (even in Sagada)
Sad considering we were in the Igorot heartland. Worse
still was the food they served at restaurants- a typical,
(and instant)serving of rice with canned meat -take your
pick: corned beef or sardines) so very typical of lowland
fare.
I did once smell Pinipikan being cooked once…imagine
the smell of burnt flesh.