KAMAY KAMAY: A Sensory Summer Feast by Friki Cocina

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This is a communal dining experience featuring an 8 course prix fixe menu served as a single spread of food for the whole evening -

• TITA DAISY'S VEGGIE LUMPIA - fried eggrolls with wok fired veg + tofu stuffing
• ATCHARANG TALONG - young eggplant cured in spiced coconut vinegar
• KINILAW NA HIPON - prawns cured in calamansi and spiked coconut vinegar with chili & spices; served with fried taro chips

• TITA DEE'S CHICKEN KELAGUEN - grilled chicken tossed with citrus, onion, chili and spices
• SISIG NA BANGUS - cured milkfish crisped with onion, chili and calamansi
• PINAPUTOK NA PAMPANO - golden pompano steamed in banana leaf over fire with ginger, onion, and chili
• OXTAIL KARE KARE - oxtail braised in peanut-achiote sauce with toasted rice and bagoong XO
• BUKO PANDAN - pandan jelly in mildly sweetened coconut cream

KAMAY KAMAY: A Sensory Summer Feast by Friki Cocina

KAMAY KAMAY is a new, seasonal series of FIlipino-focused dinner experiences serving touch-driven meal spreads in the intimate and communal style of a traditional Kamayan feast.

A Kamayan feast is a traditional Filipino gathering in which a meal is prepared specifically to be eaten with hands and shared among loved ones, neighbors, and community. This tradition originates from the ancient practice of pooling together individual food offerings in order to build a meal that is large enough for feeding an entire family or tribe. Bred as a collaborative response to scarcity and starcation, the Kamayan feast became a powerful tool for transmuting struggle into abundance and collective solidarity. Today, we adopt the Filipino tradition of the Kamayan feast as an enduring means of fostering community care - and we celebrate the universal custom of eating with our hands as a core aspect of the human experience.

In our modern society, eating with our hands is a sacred act in which we allow ourselves the complete & total experience of our nourishment.

To eat with our hands is to reject indoctrination of the belief that it is unusual and dirty to engage our sense of touch in our experience of food.

To eat with our hands is to reject indoctrination of the belief that it is shameful and wrong to engage our sense of touch in our experience of self-pleaasure.

To eat with our hands is to extend radical acceptance towards ourselves, our neighbors and our community.

ABOUT FRIKI COCINA -

Friki Cocina is a culinary project that examines the origin, migration, mutation and loss of food traditions as a result of Spanish colonization across the Pacific and Latin America through the lens of the Filipino diaspora.

Host or Publisher FRIKI COCINA