Comments on: Pok-Pok-Lo ?! :)

By: angelo

angelo — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:22:26 +0000

Well my Mom is Ilocano/Pangasinan and she said they call this Ararosep.

By: marisa

marisa — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:04:05 +0000

i think gamet is the violet paper like thin seaweed… it was my favorite. Have not had it in years…

By: deber

deber — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:04:38 +0000

We call this as POKPOKLO in Ilocos Norte. This is famous and common to us Ilocanos. Just mix with tomatoes and salt and its ready to eat. but if you keep this never put in the fridge coz it will melt down or shrink. Gamet is different from this.

By: Marketfan

Marketfan — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:52:20 +0000

yup, that’s it..black saturday on a beach in currimao and here comes a little girl with a basket selling this..a plastic bag full of this seaweed plus 2 red, round tomatoes for P10 per bag..ready to eat, according to her..we brought them back all the way home to manila inside a chiller and when we finally got to taste them, they reminded us of seawater..kids wouldn’t touch them though because they really looked like green worms…will shrink a bit after some time..serendipitous post

By: perlas ng silanganan

perlas ng silanganan — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:15:39 +0000

im also an ilocana from tarlac and a fond eater of pokpoklo…are u also aware of “ar-arusip”(grape-like sea weed)?…if u have tried both, which among these two tastes better?=)

By: millet

millet — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:00:24 +0000

footloose, yep, am sorta missing sillylolo….he’s been qujiet lately.

By: Ley

Ley — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:53:45 +0000

We call that ambang in Leyte. We used to gather ambang during low tide since our mother had been advised to eat seafoods to cure her goiter.:)

By: prettynyx

prettynyx — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:00:06 +0000

MM, sometimes we add this as a topping to pancit. Ilocanos have strange (or yet suggestive names to food) imagine growing up in a household where it’s normal to say and hear “pukpuklo”, “kabatiti” and “puki-puki”.

You shuld also try the gamet from Bubon in Ilocos Norte, just add tomatoes, a little salt and warm/hot water to soften the dried seaweed.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:49:02 +0000

MM, you should service this as a salad, similar to your KBL post (Kamatis, Bagoong, Lasona) and then top it with Bagnet croutons!!!!

Naimas unay!!!

By: terrey

terrey — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:48:15 +0000

it is my first time to see this one!