Why Sinigang?

by Doreen G. Fernandez

The story Why Sinigang is all about the taste shaped of people.Why do we like the lightly
boiled, the slightly soured, the dish that includes fish, a shrimp or meat even vegetables and broth.
The Filipino like the lightly boiled, slightly soured, the dish that includes fish or meat,
vegetables and broth, no other than Sinigang. Sinigang is all adaptable to all tastes if you don't want
shrimp then pork or fish and you can also save money in it's recipe.
But why we like Sinigang at all? It is because we can save money from the ingredients? or?
because the taste shaped of people? So how is a people taste shaped?
For my own answer the taste shaped of a people cannot be identified because we have
different taste. For example, I like sweet foods while my friend Princess like salty foods.
I learned that people tastes shaped cannot be identified because we have different shape in
tasting foods. I also learned that Sinigang is the dish that most representative of Filipino taste.

Rice
The story Rice is all about the uses of it. Rice can be eaten with different dishes. We can use
rice in making other food like puto, bibingka, suman and etc.
Rice to us is more than basic cereal, for as constant background, steady accompaniment, it
is also the shaper of other foods, and of tastes. We not only sour, but also salt (daing, tuyo, bagoong)
because the blandness of rice suggests the desirability of sharp contrast. Rice can be ground into flour
and thus the proliferation of puto: the midly sweet putong Polo, the banana leaf-encased Manapla
variety: puto filled with meat or flavored with ube: putoin cakes or wedges, white or brown, eaten
with dinuguan or salabat.

But still, why soured? Aside from the fact that sour broths are cooling in the hot weather,
could it be perhaps because the dish is meant to be eaten against the mild background of rice?
For me, Yes, beacause of it's sour taste. On the other hand, I realized that most of us Filipino
eat the Sinigang with rice. So it's definitely a big Yes for me.
I realized that Rice have many uses. It can be eaten with different taste. It can be made as
puto, suman, bibingka and etc.

Vocabulary

1.Broth - liquid in which food has been cooked/noun/.

2.representative - serving to represent/adjective/.
3. Bare - not having a covering/adjective/.
4.Soured - having an acid taste that is like the taste of a lemon/adjective/.
5.Accompaniment - an instrumental or vocal paet designed to support or something/noun/.
6. Blandness - smooth and soothing in manner or quality/adjective/.
7. Ubiquitous - seeming to be seen everywhere/Adjective/.
8. Proliferation - to increase in number or amount quickly/verb/.
9. Wedges - a piece of wood,metal, etc., with one pointed rbd abd obe thicker end that is used to split
something, to fit into a space to separate two things stuck together/noun/.
10. Edible - suitable or safe to eat/Adjective/.
11. Fermented - to go through a chemical change that results in the prdiction of alcohol/adjective/.
12. Toasted - to warm thoroughly/verb/.
13. fancily - to take pleasure in (something)/transitive verb/.
14. Woven - a woven fabric/noun/.
15. Scrubbing - a stunted tree or shrub/noun/.
16. Nibbled- to eat slowly or with small bites/transitive verb/.
17. Succulent - full of juice/adjective/.
18.grated - to reduce to small oarticles by rubbing on something rough/transitive verb/.
19. Yields - to produce or provide/verb/.
20. Deviant - different from what is considered to be normal or morally correct/adjective/.