WOULD YOU DARE TO EAT TAMILOK? (PALAWAN'S MOST BIZARRE AND EXOTIC FOOD) - Puerto Princesa Palawan, Philippines.

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For today's "eat with me" food blog series, I will be sharing one of the most bizarre food you can try if you happen to visit Puerto Princesa, Palawan. It is called "TAMILOK". Palawan is not just famous having unspoiled and magnificent tourist spots but also for having mouth-watering and outlandish exotic foods. There they say that the word "tamilok" was gotten from a Filipino folklore wherein there were foreign visitors way back then who accidentally saw these woodworms from mangrove trees and the guys said "Tommy, look!" since then it's called as it is.

Tamilok is a shipworm and best when served raw with vinegar. It is super slimy and soft. To finally have ordered this, I told my self that there's no turning back because I traveled almost an hour and a half from Cebu to Puerto Princesa to try this. To be honest, it looks really weird and disgusting so I highly suggest if you wanna try this don't look at it any longer eat it right away and soak it with vinegar. I want to commend their vinegar because it really tastes good it overrides the disgusting and slimy texture of tamilok as it goes to your throat and stomach.

I was just lucky because when I went to the restaurant the tamiloks were so fresh so it still looked very white and smells fine. If it's stocked for a few minutes or hours based on what I noticed its color, smell and texture change. As a tip, you should go to the restaurant at earliest opening hour in the morning cause they might be serving fresh tamilok.

It's not difficult to look for food shoppes where you can try it because most restaurants in Puerto Princesa Palawan serve Tamilok. In my case, since I was looking for native type of restaurant so I went to Kinabuchs Grill and Bar. It is owned by Butch Chase, a former motocross driver tuned to an entrepreneur. Kinabuchs is situated at 369, Rizal Avenue, Puerto Princesa, Palawan. Most of their famous restaurants are located at Rizal st. It's 15-30 minutes travel time from the airport. There are fancy wooden/bamboo tables and chairs outside and inside the bar. I like the nipa huts (The Nipa hut, Kamalig, or Bahay Kubo, is a type of stilt house indigenous to the vast majority of lowland Austronesian cultures of the Philippines.) outside they make the restaurant look native and cozy like you are living the province life at its finest.

HOW TO ENJOY TAMILOK?

1. Only pick a size that you can swallow for you not to feel its slimy texture which makes it disgusting.

2. Have it dipped with spicy vinegar with lots of onions. The vinegar takes the major part of its taste.

3. Soak it for few seconds.

4. Then swallow it, taste it carefully and feel the it as you get it in your mouth.

5. There you go, bon appetit!

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