The folk song has been a part of my childhood, I remember singing it while going through the vegetables when I was a little child with my mom in the local wet and dry market. But then I would only know SOME of the vegetables in the song. I know that deep down inside me I wanted to learn what the other one's that I didn't know were. I really wanted to know, I tried to ask people but they can't seem to find the English equivalent of BATAW, KUNDOL, SIGARILYAS and then the others. I realized the sad reality that most Filipino's are not familiar with the native names of not only our vegetables, but most of the things here in the country. Maybe it was the education system, maybe it was the lack of learning materials, maybe It just sounded better calling it "Green Beans" instead of "Sitaw". So for the sake of my own curiosity and education of the general population, I google-wiki'd all of them and created this post.
The song starts:
Bahay kubo, kahit munti,
ang halaman duon ay sari-sari....
Singkamas
Singkamas is the Mexican Turnip, No it's not a Turnip
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at talong,
Talong is the eggplant... nuff said
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Sigarilyas at mani.
Sigarillas, Sigadillas or Sigarilyas is the Winged Bean
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Mani is the peanut... And yeah... ok it's the peanut
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Sitaw, bataw, patani.
Sitaw is the string bean, most of the time we purchase the Chinese long bean type in the market
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Bataw is the Hyacinth Bean... Yeah, I know, wtf is that? It's from a flower!
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Patani is the Lima Bean
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Kundol, patola, upo't kalabasa.
Kundol is the winter melon, but I think we are more familiar with the candy version
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Patola is the Ridged Gourd or may be called "Luffa"
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Upo is the Bottle Gourd
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Kalabasa is the Squash
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At saka meron pa,
Labanos, mustasa.
Labanos is the White Radish
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Mustasa is the Mustard, and yes, that's where they get the sauce
Sibuyas, kamatis,
Sibuyas is the Onion, we normally use the Indian Type
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Kamatis is the Tomato
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Bawang at luya.
Bawang is the Garlic
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Luya is the Ginger
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Sa paligid-ligid ay puno ng linga.
Linga is the Sesame, but we normally only use the seeds
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