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If you love dining fresh seafood by the sea, you have to try sutukil. Just tell the cook preparing the kinilaw to mince the spices and not just chop it.

SUTUKIL is a contraction of three cooking terms, SUgba, TUwa and KILaw. Each term is in verb form so it does not refer to the cooked food (or dish) but rather to the way the food is cooked. All three terms are in the Cebuano dialect.

I am not great at kitchen or dining terminologies but let us give this a try! Sugba means grill and if your fish is sinugba it is grilled! That’s easy! Tuwa is ah.. well… Stew! Sometimes Cebuanos themselves spell this as Towa or even the Tagalog term Tola. Further, the term refers only to fish and/or chicken. And the soup is always clear. So if your fish or chicken is Tinuwa/Tinowa, that is stewed. Now Kilaw is hmm… even harder! It is raw fish(usually), cooked in just vinegar with a lot of other ingredients like ginger, onions, pepper, peppercorn, garlic, etc., and usually for people in the visayas, coconut milk! More like of a salad really. No heat or fire. In fact, it’s even more delectable if served chilled. So if your food is kinilaw… well, it has been prepared as described! Bottomline, those three methods of preparing food is so popular amongst cebuanos and now even tourists.

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Sun.Star Cebu - Shipbuilding firm mulls expansion in Balamban

IN its thrust to put the Philippines on the map as a world-class builder of sea vessels, the construction and shipbuilding arms of the Aboitiz Group of Companies are planning to expand the capacity of the company’s shipbuilding facility in Balamban, Cebu.

Roberto Aboitiz, Metaphil Inc. chairman and chief executive officer, said Metaphil and Tsuneishi Heavy Industries Cebu Inc. (THICI) will sign a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the expansion of the THICI shipyard, to enable it to build ships with 180,000 deadweight tons (DWT).