The other day, Nikki studied the vegetables from the Bahay Kubo (Nipa Hut - folk) song. Ever since I bought that Tagalog VCD for him he would always ask what some of the Tagalog words - vegetables - meant in English.
Well today, we took the song apart and checked out all the vegetables. I must admit I also don’t know all of them in English so we did it together. We made 2 columns on a sheet of paper and wrote down all the vegetables in Tagalog. In the next column, we wrote their English names. It was quite fun. We wished there were more vegetables in the song! Haha! 
Anyway, if you’re curious to know, here are the vegetables and their English names:
1. singkamas – turnip
2. talong – eggplant
3. sigarilyas – winged beans
4. mani – peanuts
5. sitaw – string beans
6. bataw – Hyacinth beans
7. patani – Lima beans
8. kundol – Winter melon
9. patola – Chinese okra
10. upo – white pumpkin
11. kalabasa – squash
12. labanos – radish
13. mustasa – mustard or mustard green
14. sibuyas – onion
15. kamatis – tomato
16. bawang – garlic
17. luya – ginger
18. linga – sesame
And now you know! Tomorrow we’ll try to research more vegetables but for now, these will have to do. At least Nikki was the one who initiated this “lesson”!
1 comment:
I'm familiar with all of those veggies except for the Chinese okra and the winged beans. Unless the Chinese okra is similar to the okra they eat a lot of down in the Southern U.S. I have heard of the winged beans, but have no idea what they look like. I came across an article recently while planning out our garden.
SOOO hoping you all get your summer extended in Japan!
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