MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Trade and Industry only sought to distinguish the “basic traditional recipe” for adobo that can be promoted abroad, and not to mandate Filipino households to follow just one standard of cooking the beloved Filipino dish.
DTI Secretary Mon Lopez said in a public briefing that the move was meant to guard the Philippine adobo from other countries that may also lay claim to the pioneering adobo.
“Alam niyo naman pag abroad, sasabihin ng iba may Mexican Adobo. May iba-ibang [version]… baka may umangkin pa ng ating Philippine adobo. So kailangan po meron tayong i-promote. At yan ay ginagawa ng ibang bansa, meron silang traditional…
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