Sharing my recipe on IGTV since most of you haven’t seen the full YouTube video & it’s important for me to keep spreading the food I grew up on!
The irony is that while editing this, I was reckoning with the fact that I’m generally not considered “Filipino” by those in the Philippines even though I’m so proud of my heritage 😕
I was just called an entitled “pseudo-Filipino” in the comments of the last post by @barkadadc, a white-owned wine bar that got backlash for naming itself Barkada, a meaningful Tagalog word for deep friendship. They were serving wine & charcuterie instead of any Filipino items with no intention of promoting Filipino culture beyond their name. In their words to @eater_dc, they “didn’t want to call it posse or homies or clique” so they went with Barkada because “it helped that bar is in the word” 🤨
Countless Filipino-Americans (Fil-Ams) pressured them to agree to change their name (though that name change has yet to happen 🧐). I personally saw it as stealing a great name from a potential business that would actually promote Filipino culture, like @barkadahollywood has done in LA. But Filipinos largely condoned keeping the name, calling Fil-Ams overly sensitive and touting that they’re “proud” to see non-Filipinos “spreading our culture” even though this business was NOT actually doing so with their $17 glasses of Spanish wine and cheese plates. They were appropriating, not appreciating.
I got into debates (and welcome more below) because I couldn’t understand why Filipinos were so adamantly defending white men appropriating our language when they could instead support the name change, which would open the door for a Barkada DC that HONORS our culture. So consider this a call to my fellow Fil-Ams in the DC area to capitalize on this media hype and open the Barkada DC the community deserves 🙏🏽
Filipino food is not that widespread. We still have a chance to open authentic places to educate people before our cuisine gets bastardized the way others have. I know I’m going to keep doing my part to share the food I grew up on, and I hope you all try out a recipe yourself to learn to love it too ❤️
https://bit.ly/FilipinoChickenAdobo
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