Dried Small Fish

Dried fish can be dried according to its sizes. The photo in the left side are a small dried fish. They dried for several weeks or days. They can easy to cook because of their thickness.

Dried fish and shrimp paste names

Dried fish and shrimp paste.

Dried fish or binulad. Buwad or bulad (for Visayans), daing (for Luzonians).

Shrimp paste or dayok in Visayans. Ngapi Yay (in Burmese), terasi (in Indonesian), belacan (in Malay-Indonesian), bagoong alamang (in Filipino), hom ha (in Chinese), hae ko (in Hokkien), gkabpi (in Thai).

Binulad kag Dayok

Binulad kag dayok (dried fish and shrimp paste) are native foods of the Philippines. People from this land love this as viands. For Filipino these viands are taste good. Besides from being taste good these viands are affordable and you don't have to prepare a big budget.

Binulad is refers to a dried fish that dried under the sun. There are two process of drying a fish. ”Binulad sa Initan” is drying a fish from it's natural wet.
”Binulad sa Ulan” is drying a fish from wet of the rain.

Dayok is can be a mixture of different fermented fish intestines or small shrimps that have been pulverized by pounding. Shrimp paste is not only well-known in the Philippines but also in other nation. Shrimp paste is used as ingredient.

Drying a fish and selling dried fish is one of Filipino used to live for. This is the way of life of some Filipinos.