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snake wine

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The authentic "Cobra Energy Drink." Unlike the commercially bottled cobra energy drink, this snake wine will not cause you to worry of becoming diabetic being this potent drink is sugarless. Here, you will get the real cobra inside the container, not just a drawing on the bottle. snake wine - ( es-nek wayn; Cebuano and Tagalog wine) [ n .] a wine soaked with snake . A freshly killed snake, complete with its skin, scales, flesh, bones, and internal organs, is steeped in wine, usually gin, until the juice from the body of the snake partly become the flavor of the wine. Snake wine is taken as a potent drink and believed to have some medicinal benefits, adds vitality, energy, and boasts one’s sexual appetite or as an aphrodisiac. A snake wine of Philippine king cobra called banakon in Cebuano or ulupong in Tagalog, and the slender Cebuano snake called iliw . Both snakes are known to be extremely venomous The kind of snake often used in making this wine is highly poisonous l...

buti-buti

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buti-buti  ( bu-ti bu-tî; Cuyunon [Palaweño] snack ) [n.] native poprice. The ampao (poprice) of Cuyo, Palawan. It is made with dehulled but unpolished native rice, usually with red or brown colored bran.  The grains are pan-roasted till they popped and become like pop-corn. Caramelized muscovado sugar is then added and mixed in the poprice as sweetener and binder and the caramel-coated poprice is molded by hands into small balls, about the size of a golf ball I found these packs of buti-buti in the stall of Pastor Abad in the public market of Roxas, Palawan. I thought the balls were crumbled popcorn. But when I took a closer look, I noticed the popping big kernels of rice. I couldn't believe that there is such kind of rice in the country with kernels that big. Unlike the popcorn, this native poprice is quite dense and the outer layer of popped kernel are leathery that it needs a lot of chewing to fully masticate it into a pulp and only then that you can savor the true t...