Comments on: Bakasi a la Victor

By: emsy

emsy — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:05:57 +0000

there are things that are best eaten seconds after it’s been killed. fish is best when super duper fresh…as most seafood. there is thing thing called the food chain and the last time i checked humans are on top of it. by natural law, we are supposed to eat everything in the food chain below us (vegetation AND animals) because that’s just the way things are. there really is NO way of preparing food (meats, veg) humanely. We just prepare them in a way that suits us.

By: micai

micai — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:20:31 +0000

i remember seeing my mom cook bakasi and remembered her coating them with ash first and then water.i think this is done repeatedly to remove the slime. then she boiled them. some were still alive while others died in the process of washing. she cooked in differently, i think as a soup. i dont remember because i was too freaked out eating what looks like snakes and live ones at that! hahaha

By: emz

emz — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:40:21 +0000

i’m gonna pass on this one haha! this would be perfect for fear factor. some boiled bakasi would be nice with all the parts intact save for the entrails of course heehee!

By: lee

lee — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:38:36 +0000

nice one Dea! now I’m singing it pero bitin…

By: lee

lee — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:38:17 +0000

nice one Dea!

By: BD

BD — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:44:30 +0000

You probably need a scalpel to filet these! I wonder if you use oishin or any sweet, peppery, gingery sauce in lieu of the black beans. This must be good with steamed, bittery leafy veggie say pechay as sides – better yet, burong mustasa with scrambled eggs – on a heaping bed of steamed white rice.

By: Dea

Dea — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:45:56 +0000

Oh, so this is what a bakasi is! I remember singing a Cebuano line when I was a kid to the tune of The Star-Spangled Banner:

Si Jose bakasi, tadtaron mu liksi

(Jose the bakasi jumps when chopped.)

By: Homebuddy

Homebuddy — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:25:11 +0000

Sorry for the late post and missed the lively discussion on eels, etc….. Ted, yes they are known to be an aphrodisiac that heighten men’s libido? At least in these parts that is what people say, I wonder what is MM’s say on this? Hehehe!

By: Richard Parker

Richard Parker — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:51:55 +0000

PS Bakasi are wonderful smoked, as are freshwater eels. I smoke them myself in a sort of wooden cupboard over coconut husks, hanging them with a hook through the gills. I’ve never tried either the very small ones or the very big ones – I would think that would have to be filleted first.

By: Richard Parker

Richard Parker — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:47:17 +0000

Down here in Siargao Island, bakasi seems to be a common name for all moray eels, but used generally for smaller ones, like yours. Bigger ones are called hagmang, and the biggest pananglitan.

Fishbase, at:
https://www.fishbase.org/ComNames/CommonNameSearchList.php
lists 18 different species of moray eel under bakasi, mostly from the Visayas.

At low tide here, people catch the small ones a-plenty from under rocks at low tide.

Get yourself a lid for your kawali!