Here Fishy, Fishy, Fishy

Written by Kyle about Philippines. Feelin' normal
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One of the things that I love about a lot of developing countries is how close people are to their source of food.  Do you want to know where that milk came from?  That cow over there.  That rice?  It came from my friends and neighbors.  That rash?  Well, that's another story...

Anyway, the residents of Malapascua, living on a small island, obviously eat a lot of fish.  And it's not the packaged, frozen, and shipped fish that I am used to growing up in the middle of the US.  This is fresh as a newborn baby's ass fish.  This is fresh as the Prince of Bel-Air fish.  This fish is so fresh that it might stand up on my plate, slap me, then run back into the ocean.

It's hard to walk around the island without seeing the finned former residents of the sea drying in the sun, lying in repose in a fisherman's bucket, or basking in curry sauce.  What the residents don't eat themselves are sold to the restaurants on the island or taken to Cebu city to be distributed throughout the whole world.  So if you want to know where your sardines started their life as a food product, it is in a place like this.
 
Malapascua, Philippines
A woman carrying the day's catch

Dorado Fish, Malapascua, Philippines
A Dorado fish right from the sea

Malapascua, Philippines
A Dorado fish right from the grill

Malapascua, Philippines
Yummy fish curry

Malapascua, Philippines
Sardines drying with an awesome view

Malapascua, Philippines
Lots of sardines getting a tan

Malapascua, Philippines
More sardines and some other fish

Malapascua, Philippines
A fish drying outside a home

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