Comments on: Batuan / Batwan

By: Candy

Candy — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:35:41 +0000

@kurvz the English name of bangkiling is Indian gooseberry

By: kurvz

kurvz — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:51:51 +0000

what is rhe englidh nme of bangkiling

By: tristan

tristan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:33:34 +0000

hi marghi! is the bangkiling tree at your house in cubao still alive? di pa ako nakakita niyan. gusto ko sana makita lalo na yung fruit pag meron. please inform me naman at tristanasuncion@yahoo.com……….thanks!

By: Tixqs

Tixqs — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:25:16 +0000

I came from de Leon St. in Iloilo city. There used to be a “PAKHA chinese woman, with small feet” her store was below the chiang kai shek high school, who sells pickled batwan 3 pieces for 5 cents, and I buy a glass of “SANSAW – gulaman drink in tagalog for another 5 cents to compliment the sweet and sour taste. That was 40 years ago.
Ga tubod ang laway ko just thinking about this, let alone those tasty dishes you mentioned above, and while eating you sweat as large as the bangkiling as they say from the sarap.
Yes there is bat wan tree in the forest!

By: Janet

Janet — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:39:31 +0000

Yup, there’s plenty of this fruit in Panay. I haven’t heard of sampaloc being used by anyone in the island as their souring agent. Its always the good old batwan. In fact, I wonder what sinigang sa sampaloc tastes like.

By: edgar

edgar — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:58:47 +0000

cindy…i was born in negros island and since i was transferred to manila for work, i would bring tons and tons of batuan to manila. i would impress co=workers with my cooking using these stuffs. just like you, im here in california too, but i brought with me bottles and bottles of batwan…wonder how i did it? email me when u can. i can give suggestion how. he! he! he! some trade secret if i may say it.
they said, if there;s a will, there’s a way, right?
cathgard@hotmail.com

By: sansin dio

sansin dio — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:06:58 +0000

Hello there

I travelled Western Visayas(Bacolod, Iloilo, Panay,Semirara Islands)due to the nature of my work. (it was my area of coverage as a Technical and field application Engineer).

I came across with Ilonggo dishes flavored with batwan and it taste great and exceptional.

Now that my area of assignment is Negros Oriental and Northern Mindanao, there is no chance that I can procure planting seeds for my farm here in Cebu.

Any body who has available batwaan seeds please e-mail me coz I want to purchase a few dozen for my garden. I really missed eating batwan flavored dishes.

Please e-mail me.

By: B.Atas

B.Atas — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:30:38 +0000

elo…
I once aksed a batuan owner on why our batwan tree doesnt bear fruits…

and the aswer goes like this:
THERE IS A MALE AND A FEMALE BATUAN

shocking!!! well, as bs biology student
i now know that batuan is DIOECIOUS,
but what i do not know is that…
HOW CAN YOU TELL WHETHER THE TREE BEARS ONLY MALEORFEMALE FLOWERS?

anybody,everybody, anyone with a body, smart buddy, please help me…. hehe

I’m from Iloilo btw and does anyone know where SM malls get their batuan?

peace on earth…

By: edwin returan

edwin returan — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:19:12 +0000

i am glad to discover that many indeed appreciate the exotic taste of batuhan (Garcinia binucao. I am a Masbatenyo who lived all my life with batuhan-flavored fish, pork and chicken sinigang. The fish tinola soured by batuhan is simply exceptional! I am currently doing a paper in my botany class at the de la salle university – manila. hopefully, all pertinent batuhan information may be included in this paper. this blog is eaqually informative and surely will help in completing my paper.For about 3 years now, I guess,batuhan candies are already being made by Leo Salubre Candies and Processed Foods in Masbate, aside from the sought-after batuhan achara (pickled batuhan) which many housewives produce on order basis.

The city government of Masbate City has also started to plant batuhan seedlings (around 500 trees are expected to produce fruits in 5 years) and, if I am not mistaken, this was initiated last 2005. Interested buyers are requested to contact Mayor Ates (Socrates) Tuason.

My cousin in Milagros, Masbate used to be a batuhan supplier to Iloilo way back in the 80’s. This was the time that my interest in the batuhan plant begun.

By: Marghi

Marghi — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:07:51 +0000

…yike sorry for the typos….too late in the night…