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KIKAN
   Kikan is a term where individual will provide a food for his/her guests.  A meal in a celebrating big occassions such as weddings, bayas, patapos and etc.  Guesta usually are people from within and nearby the barangay.

quesiton: (please help me define further this term, email me answer at [email protected]. Thanks)Are birthday party where guests are relatively few is a  form of Kikan? Why?

AG-AGOM
   a practice of neighbors eating together commonly among the youngs.  One may bring his/her own food to a neighbor's house where they could share their food and eat together.  It's called ag-agom.

AG-AGOM SCENARIO I

   Lagyupan and Liden are neighbors in Gawaan. They're high school students.  During Saturday when they're both left alone in their house, they decided to have an ag-agom during luch. Lagyupan will bring her own food at Liden's house at about 12nn, add with Liden's own food and they share and eat together. Whatever!!!!
  
The rule of an ag-agom is that both party must bring their own food.

AG-AGOM SCENARIO II
  Andy Marvin and Alat are peers from Gawaan. Enda nanilib (kanak man laengen). They cooked their tibek in gawaan ato but each of them must bring rice from their own home. Then they will have luch in the ato

question: (please help me define further this term, email me answer at [email protected])Are begnas/lumdang is a form of Kikan or Ag-agom? Justify.

IDOS
   A snack from a
tapey after workers bring home palay harvests from the field. While men drinks the wine from the tapey or say the liquid particle. Women and kids will have an IDOS (mixture of rice from the tapey, sugar and water).  The essence is that everyone uses one bowl so no wada mauy-oy-oy si moteg na et siya tapina adi.

SILOD
  Four elements must be present in a
silod (uggot di lutod, sigtim, sili and neighbors who will do the silod). One may cook some uggot di lutod, prepare sigtim with sili and invite some of her neighbors to silod with her in her backyard.

LASLAS
Laslas is snacking strong flavoured fruit such as unripe mango, santol, guava and the like accompanied by vinegar, salt and chili (optional).  Fruit snacks without the presence of vinegar or sigtim (rice vinegar) is not a form of laslas. Simply eating bababa, ripe mango, watermelon doesn't belong to this term.  Chips with vinegar/sigtim as dips are not also included
I therefore conclude that social interactions and food sharing among neighbors are very visible in our ancestor's cultures.
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