By Pauline Saballo
As you can see on my past blog posts, I have always
talked about food, right? I always feature Ilocano viands that are perfect with
rice. And those dishes are always accompanied with meat. That thought made me
think. Is there an Ilocano dish that does not include meat? Is there any
Ilocano dish that is best suited for vegetarian people?
As I wonder through the beautiful places of Ilocos, I
successfully found an answer to that question. I heard that Ilocanos have this
native dish called POQUI-POQUI. It sounds really weird, most especially for
Filipino locals. (Hahahahaha) It may even look weird for some people. See the
picture on the side? Thanks to those thoughts, it made me think whether I am going
to eat this food or not.
What I did before trying this food was to research about
it, thanks to Google. After researching about this food, I realized that this
dish was pretty simple. Poqui-poqui is just an eggplant dish sautéed with
onions, tomatoes and eggs. It seems similar to omelet. I even thought that I
could even try cooking this at home.
Poqui-poqui is indeed a simple dish. That’s what most
people would think. But don’t mock this
dish! It may only have common ingredients or may not have meat, but this dish
is truly delicious. When I finally decided to try this dish when I was in
Ilocos, it was truly worth it. It was prepared and cooked the Ilocano way which
made the dish to be sooooo yummy! I swear I am going to try to cook this dish
someday and I hope that it would taste good too. J
Poqui-poqui is truly a pleasure for not only vegetarians,
but for everyone. This dish made me realize that a dish can still taste good
even when there’s no meat. If you think that this dish does not look good, I
hope you would still try it. Why? Because it tastes reaaaaally good. And I have
been saying that for a lot of times in this post. Well, that only shows you how
delightful this Ilocano dish called Poqui-poqui is (even though it is only
simple, meatless and unattractive at first sight).
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