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Australian chef Chris Urbano respects Igorot tradition and cooks Cordilleran dish 'Pinikpikan'

Photo grab: Chris Urbano YouTube Channel
Cordillera - Australian chef Chris Urbano tries cooking the famous Igorot dish called 'Pinikpikan' in one of his cooking shows on Youtube.

Urbano said, his culinary students challenged him to show them his version of the Cordilleran dish Pinikpikan.

He described pinikpikan as a famous dish in the Philippines because it comes from the Cordilleran region and it derives from the word "pik pik" to hit or to beat.

"It is interesting and perhaps controversial dish dito sa Pilipinas because that hitting of the chicken takes place while the chicken is still alive in traditional Igorot cooking," Urbano said.

He later explained that he respects the Igorot tradition and he believes that this is important to the people of the Philippines about this way of cooking and what that means to them and their family.


"I'm totally respectful of the Igorot tradition,'' he said. But in his cooking episode, he asked his students that he will not be beating the chicken during the course of his show for obvious reason.

Chris Urbano is an Australian living in Manila who loves the people, culture, and food of the Philippines.

He learned to speak Tagalog so he was called the Tagalong speaking 'foreignoy. He started his cooking show on YouTube back in 2013 called Maputing Cooking which he shares his passion in cooking.

"Maputing Cooking" simply means a white guy who cooks Filipino dishes on YouTube.

Watch his Pinikpikan episode below. 

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Unknown said...

Thanks chef Chris for sharing how to cook our delicacy usually from my proud tribe igorot.More powers on your program...

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