Comments on: Sanga & Pagi / Manta & Sting Ray Meat

By: lagil

lagil — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:15:46 +0000

that’s manta ray as a boholano living in Toronto I miss those kind of food called SANGA I tell you something about it Pamilakan Island in Baclayon is used to be a lot of SANGA Pilak means Arrow, use to hunt for manta ray, But now sense the manta ray is endangered species thy don’t hunt manta ray any more the Island converted into tourist destination for whale watching, My sister she send me 2 kilos of SANGA coming from neighbouring province.

By: free floater

free floater — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:46:59 +0000

i’ve seen a lot of this in cebu, well everybody seems to enjoy exotic food, even the people who are responsible of stopping this kind of cuisine, are taking pleasure of it.
nobody is going to stop till our world looks like a desert.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:18:27 +0000

Now, now, Dee. I understand your view but you have to take into account the fact that nearly everything is strange or unacceptable to someone on the planet. As much as I agree with some of your sentiments, there is a whole subcontinent that thinks the same of our eating beef, several religions that don’t eat pork, folks who eat innards, etc. etc. so let’s not go the religous route, shall we?

By: Dee

Dee — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:03:36 +0000

What sick @!%$! would eat a stingray? MORONS! I hope they burn in hell!

By: oscar

oscar — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 09:11:48 +0000

This is great. Now I know another illegal Philippine food like the mayubyob (samaral fingerlings) and rabong (local bamboo shoots–municipality ordinance, fyi).

By: Mila

Mila — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:58:01 +0000

What’s that line for stopping the sale of endangered animal products? When the buying stops, the killing ends or something. Well I for one can’t imagine eating a manta, especially after watching them frolic in the open ocean.
The first picture depressed me!

By: acidboy

acidboy — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:19:15 +0000

mm,
manta ray is quite a popular dish in singapore and malaysia. its usually just grilled and poured with sambal.

By: Skunkeye

Skunkeye — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:06:50 +0000

I’m cracking up…

“Durian of the Sea”!!!
Like our “Chicken of the Sea” (TM) canned tuna.
But endangered, no, thats not to cool of a meal!
We have skate as well in the Outer Banks area where our beach house is but I’ve never tried it. caught many but throw them back out in the ocean.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:05:12 +0000

Wilson, skate is a relative, also a ray, of manta and sting rays but it is not the same thing. Skate is an egg-laying fish (the other two lay live young), closely related to rays and sharks and it has a cartilaginous skeleton as opposed to having bones. It has a pointed snout and glides through the water with its mouth open to capture food. A picture of skate alive can be seen at http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-16990.html I have seen skate on menus in the West as well, I like the taste but don’t go out of my way to find it.

By: Wilson Cariaga

Wilson Cariaga — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:40:03 +0000

mr. marketman is the manta ray or the sting ray what they call skate?? cause i see pan fried skate wing in fine dining menus. . .