Pawikan stew ‘loses flavor’ in Pasil amid crackdown
Eatery owner Crisly Tulod inherited her grandmother’s business of serving “pawikan (turtle)” stew for sometime, the first eatery to do so in barangay Pasil, Cebu City.
Eatery owner Crisly Tulod inherited her grandmother’s business of serving “pawikan (turtle)” stew for sometime, the first eatery to do so in barangay Pasil, Cebu City.
A FEW days after he admitted indulging in pawikan stew in barangay Pasil, Senior Supt. Mariano Natu-el, Jr., acting chief of the Cebu City Police Office ordered his mean not to patronize the exotic dish.
The illegal trade of pawikan (sea turtle) meat in barangay Pasil in Cebu City will only be stopped if people would cease from patronizing the food stalls offering the exotic dish, Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said yesterday.
The coastal village of Pasil in Cebu City has a secret that make foodies who dig “sinfully exotic” delights come back .
Environmentalists, students and local officials set free 197 Olive Ridley sea turtle (pawikan) hatchlings to their natural habitat in Tayabas Bay in Sariaya town, now known as a haven of baby sea turtles.
At least 100 Olive Ridley sea turtle hatchlings were released into the waters of Barangay Nagbalayong here as part of the celebration of the town’s Pawikan Festival on Dec. 2.
LUCENA CITY—Fishermen in the coastal village of Lipata in Padre Burgos, Quezon, on Wednesday feasted on the meat of a sea turtle they earlier rescued but which died while in captivity, a Quezon official said. Janet Geneblazo-Buelo, Quezon public information officer, said her office received a report early Wednesday about a rescued sea turtle, [...]
