Pounding My Way to Eat the Tinomok
Ever had food that you had to pound just to eat it?
I was fortunate to have relatives at Eastern Samar that planned to make Tinomok after I went around Guiuan.
Tinomok in Eastern Samar is a dessert whose ingredients are pinipig, coconut meat and sugar. Knowing the ingredients is just a tiny part of Tinomok, the big chunk is the experience of making it.
Gather ripe palay.
Put it in a kaldero with a fire underneath. Mix and wait until many pop.
Place the popping palay to a Lusong.
Then pound it with your friends using a bayo.
Lusong is a big mortar where palay is pounded by a big pestle, which is the bayo.
The mode of travel that I do is backpacking and that’s what I also encourage people to do. Backpacking is a form of travel that supports small businesses such as tricycles, jeepneys, bangkas, sari-sari stores, affordable lodgings and karinderyas.The more you do backpacking in the Philippines the more you help Filipinos to have a sustainable income for a living.
