RE: Thursday's Visits
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That hal rice looks like a rice grown by our Highland brother and sister in Benguet. To maintain that texture and color, these rice manually pounded using a traditional way to extract rice out of its husk. By the way salamat kabayan.
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I don't know if the rice is grown in Benguet as I haven't seen any rice fields around. I actually thought they were from the nearby provinces😊 Salamuch din, kabayan😉
It's also available in department stores, however, the aroma of the rice from department store is far more different with the one one harvested and process manually by our farmers.
Yes, they do sell them in the local markets too. It would be awesome to see how they harvest and process them manually.
I personally experienced how this upland rice is being harvested. It's manually taking it stalk by stalk using any sharpened hand tool. Then it is store in bundles to air dry naturally.
The dried bundle of rice on the stalk will manually remove using your feet. You literally stepped into the rice bundle and mill it using your feet. At first, it is bit itchy but over time you'll feet feel numb due to milling process and the itchy feeling go away.
After the manual milling, the pounding begins, using a curved stone and a specially designed wood to pound it. It took several times of pounding to extract the rice grain from it husk.
Finally, using Bilao to separate the husk from the rice or by using the power of wind. Yeah it's a hard labor but it worth.
Oh wow, that must truly be an experience! You're fortunate to have done it 💖
I have done it twice in Ifugao.
Just as I thought :) Hope to experience it too someday :)
Truly a priceless experience and a good story to tell. Good luck 🥰