For Tagalogs, tinola
refers to a chicken dish with soup and green papaya slices and chili
leaves. But for other parts of the
country, tinola could be something else.
In the Visayas region
where I grew up, tinola refers to any dish with soup. Regardless if it is meat, fish, or just
vegetables, as long as there is a soup in it, we call that one tinola. The distinction is then defined when the dish
is referred to as tinolang baka, tinolang manok, tinolang isda, or tinolang
gulay.
So when you’re moving
around the country, make sure to ask properly what you are ordering because you
might get surprised.
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