ilocano

Tagged Discussions

Food Porn: 'Inabraw'

Shavkat @Shavkat (141905) • Philippines 19 Aug 22

It is a Filipino dish composed of different kinds of vegetables and fish. It is also known as 'dinengdeng or inabraw' (stewed vegetables). At some point, it is also like 'pinakbet' or shrunk" or "shriveled.' The day before my mom...

4 responses •

4 people

'Golgol' Ritual for Us on Saturday

Shavkat @Shavkat (141905) • Philippines 13 Apr 22

My immediate family and mom's siblings decided to set the Ilocano practice 'golgol.' It is not like doing 'Google' here, myLotters. Let me explain this cultural practice. 'Golgol' is a local Ilocano traditional way of cleansing...

8 responses •

6 people

My Special Dinengdeng Recipe

Tokz @ilocosboy (45155) • Philippines 26 Jun 16

For non-Ilocano readers, dinengdeng is an Ilocano classic recipe which mostly are native vegetables. Every region have their own dinengdeng specialty but one main ingredient which is bagggong or fish auce extract. I cook our...

9 responses •

9 people

Regional characteristics

Reine25 @Lucky15 (37391) • Philippines 31 Mar 16

Stingy--ungenerous: not generous in giving or spending money. We, Ilocanos (Filipino ethnolinguistic group) are known to be stingy or "kuripot" in tagalog. That is our regional characteristics. But not really. We are just...

7 responses •

7 people

Ilocano Trait

Graceekwenx @Graceekwenx (3160) • Philippines 3 Feb 13

I dont know if there is any truth in it... but i was told that Ilocanos are quite "kuripot"??? I dont know if this still holds true.

13 responses

Bisaya and Ilocano, beginning to learn. Which is much easier to learn???

deodavid @deodavid (4147) • Philippines 10 Dec 11

Both of my families have different dialects, on my mother side it is ilocano and on my Dad's side it is bisaya. And of course our staple language is tagalog we had never spoken in there respective dialects so me and my siblings...

5 responses

how many languages are you using

marianne @ckciasigurl (2080) • Italy 12 May 11

hi mylotter i am using a 5 different languages i am from Philippines and here in the Philippines we are using a Language called "tagalog" this is our common dialect and also i am using ENGLISH language if am in the school same...

22 responses •

1 person

to all ilocano's

ilovegigi @ilovegigi (52) • Philippines 27 Oct 07

im searching for my co ilocanos ayan yun kakabsat? please respond

1 response

I am Filipino as far as I know but....

clamarco808 @clamarco808 (312) • United States 30 Sep 07

I was born in Hawaii. My father was Ilocano (from Candon, Ilocos Sur), my mother is Visayan (Born in Hawaii also but her parents were from Cebu). There are alot of Filipino people that have moved to Hawaii that we know and they...

1 response

are you multi or bi-lingual?

jlara_gtr34 @jlara_gtr34 (3491) • Philippines 30 Apr 07

i can say that i am multi lingual. i can speak english, Tagalog and 2 other ethnic dialects from our country which are Ilocano and Visayan. is that enough for me to become multilingual? what about you? what are the languages that...

4 responses