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Chocolate / Tsokolate – have you ever wondered why, in Asia, only Filipinos has developed the taste and culture of drinking this rich indulgence?

Try asking your Chinese friend, your Japanese sushi chef, your Vietnamese classmate, or even try your South Asian colleague. Even a Thai or Indonesian would tell you that it’s either tea or coffee that their grandmothers used to prepare, but not a hot chocolate drink over fire that your Lola (grandmother) would made from cacao tablets (tablea) whisked with a batidor or molinillo  between the palms of the hands. Or on a rainy morning, we get served with champorado, glutinous rice cooked with chocolate and sugar, paired with tuyo, the staple dried salty herring.

Who knows? One probable reason is that among Southeast Asians, except for the small Chinese-Filipino population, tea drinking is not mainstream in Filipino food culture. Tea plantations did not thrive as an industry, but cacao and coffee did.

Let’s go way, way back - the Maya were drinking chocolate 1,000 years before the Aztecs, and 2,600 years before the Spanish arrived (Civitello, 2011). Chocolate made the long journey from Mesoamerica to Spain, and then to Europe. It never made any real inroads in the coffee-loving Near East, possibly the cult of coffee and the way of life that revolves around the coffee house prevented the establishment of a popular taste for drinking chocolate. Nor did it ever “conquer” India, Southeast Asia, or the Far East, with the exception of the Catholic Philippines(Coe and Coe, 1996).

Spaniards brought from New Spain to the Philippines the cacao plant, the source of the chocolate that Jesuit missionaries and Portuguese businessmen found a necessity of life for their survival. And the hot, thick chocolate drink is still part of the Spanish heritage, even a century of Americanization has not been able to change this (Coe and Coe, 1996).

Who else can concretely mention “chocolate” as profoundly as it permeated into our food other than the Philippines’ national hero…

In Noli Me Tangere, Gat José Rizal (1902), mentioned chocolate several times as exemplified in the section,

“—¿Va usted al convento á visitar al curita Moscamuerta? ¡Ojo! Si le ofrece chocolate, ¡lo cual dudo!... pero en fin si le ofrece, ponga atención. ¿Llama al criado y dice: Fulanito, haz una jícara de chocolate, ¿eh? entonces quédese, sin temor, pero si dice: Fulanito, haz una jícara de chocolate ¿ah? entonces coja usted el sombrero y márchese corriendo.

—¿Qué? preguntaba el otro espantado ¿da jicarazo? ¡Caramba!

—¡Hombre tanto, no!

—¿Entonces?

—Chocolate ¿eh? significa espeso, y chocolate ¿ah? aguado.”

Rough translation appears to be a secret code for servants from the friar P. Salví: “chocolate ¿eh? significa espeso”, “stay, without fear” as it is a rich thick chocolate; “chocolate ¿ah? aguado” means you “take the hat and run away” as the chocolate is watery.

Sources:

Coe, S.D. and Coe, M.D. 1996. The True History of Chocolate. Thames & Hudson Ltd., London. 280 pp.

Civitello, L. 2011. Cuisine & Culture. A History of Food and People. John Wiley & Son, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. 436 pp.

Rizal, José. 1902. Noli Me Tángere. Novela Tagala, Edición completa con notas de R. Sempau. BARCELONA. Casa Editorial Maucci.—Mallorca, 226 y 228 Buenos Ayres. Maucci HermanosCuyo, 1070México. Maucci Hermanos 1.a del Relox, 1. The Project Gutenberg EBook #47584.

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Cooking w/ Mom: Champorado

My family love love lovessss champorado. What’s not to love about chocolate rice porridge? When we made this recipe for the blog we also introduced it to Aurelia for the first time and she couldn’t get enough. There’s a slight bitterness to the tsokolate tablea that takes the edge off the sweetness, which I love. 

This is a delicious breakfast comfort food that you can enjoy on cold, rainy days, or even in the middle of summer!

Aside from the rice (mom uses half regular, half sweet), the starring ingredient of this recipe is tsokolate tablea (Pilipino/Spanish translation: chocolate tablet).

Tsokolate tablea, also referred to as “tablea” for short, is exactly what you’d imagine chocolate tablets to be, and when it disintegrates under high heat it has a gritty and raw texture. Cacao was introduced to the Philippines by its Spanish colonizers, who would’ve acquired the plant from its other colonies in Central and South America (yes, the connections!). 

I’m lucky in that a number of family members and friends have brought tsokolate tablea back from their travels to the Philippines, but tablea can be found at Pilipino markets or online. 

CHAMPORADO

Prep time: None

Cooking time: 25 mins.

Ingredients:

1 cup uncooked sweet glutinous rice (we used Pamana brand)

1 cup uncooked jasmine rice

6 cups water (or, according to Mom’s measurements, half the pot, ha!)

6 pieces tsokolate tablea* (may be more or less, depending on the size)

1/2 cup brown sugar + more to taste

evaporated milk

Process:

Add all the rice (both kinds) to a pot of water. Cover, and bring the pot to a boil.

Once the pot is boiling, uncover slightly, and lower the heat to a simmer. Within about 5-7 minutes, the rice should be slightly translucent. 

At this point, add the tsokolate tablea to the pot. It will take several minutes for the chocolate to fully melt--you can help a bit by smashing the pieces against the inside of the pot using your ladle.

Add the brown sugar, reducing or adding the quantity to your sweetness level.

Ladle into bowls and serve hot with evaporated milk, which can be poured over the champorado.

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more shippy class doodles because i love my sillies the parents ever

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crazed science class doodles from i think wednesday of my realest mother and father sportasophie. she burned down the kitchen send her home /j

yes i also had to draw miss queen as aurora and cinderella from memory the og disney princesses SLAY FR FIGHT ME

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*last updated april 2025

I’m Milo, and I’m 14 as of writing, and currently I love LazyTown and Genshin Impact! Predominantly, my posts will be about oc/si x fo stuff (mostly set in LazyTown and Teyvat), as well as a few others from other franchises every now and then; plus agere (little age 4-8). I’m not suuuper well-versed in kin terminology, but I do kin elves as a species as well as guard dogs (NOT PETRE OR A THERIAN, THOUGH). My posts will be in English, but sometimes there will be other languages mixed in as I am also fluent in Tagalog/Filipino as it was my first language as a kid (don’t worry, I will provide translation!! /gen). I reblog whatever I want, so sorry if this blog gets a lil crowdedddd 🥹🙏 if what I reblog is not of any interest to you, though—

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All my posts I made myself, regardless of content, can be found under #milo everyday. This includes ALL the interests, ALL the stuff, everything. If it’s under here, I most likely made it myself. (NOTE: I NOTICED OTHERS USE THE TAG, AND WILL BE “MOVING” [or rather, also using] #💫 milo everyday!! from this update on. )

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And conversely, #le choco powder, for goofy unformed ideas. The powder = the base for the chocolate milk.

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Very VERY SERIOUS

Queerphobes (ESPECIALLY transphobes)

Racists/white supremacists/blackwashers (ALL racebending of existing characters with set races is racist, sorry.) < BUT THIS DOESN’T APPLY TO NATLAN OR SUMERU CHARACTERS, THOUGH!! Go bonkers, Hoyo stole their melanin anyway /lh

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F/O Doubles for: Albedo Kreideprinz (Genshin Impact, romantic as a boyfriend)

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Those who know me IRL and are not close

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Anti: multishipping, hates my/my friends’ interests

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Beeefore you interact, there’s some other stuff I gotta tell you—

- I infodump like CRAZY as well as speak in long and somewhat “fancy” language sometimes, and if you don’t like that, this isn’t the page for you. (When I am regressed or not feeling the best, I will refrain from posting wordy things here)

- I am a multishipper, meaning I do not ship only one OTP. I may ship SportaRobbie, but also a friend’s selfship with Sportacus, for example. I mostly do this for fun, and I do not agree with those who ship sptrb as they are in canon with no modification at all. IMO it is a pretty dangerous dynamic, however cute they may be in the moments where they ARE nice to each other.

- I very selectively/even nonsharingly yume Sportacus as my father, and if you see him as a father figure and actively create/have others create content regarding him as your dad, I may block and it’s not personal!! It depends on my mood. I will usually ask if you want to be my “sibling” with him as our father, but if you say no, again! I hold the right to block.

- As a little, I also do not share Sportacus as a fictional caregiver unless I think you’re chill. Yeah, pretty conditional lol. But he is very dear to me, and regression as well as selfshipping are my coping mechanisms to deal with trauma I have that I would rather not disclose.

- I do use AI generated content sometimes, but never images. I mostly keep those to myself, but when posting, I will include a tagged CW just in case someone doesn’t want to see or be exposed to that. I am NOT super pro-AI, nor am I anti-AI— I am pro heavily regulate AI, but let it exist and be a tool and fun thing for us to use and nothing more than that. I am anti AI replacing artists and actors’ jobs, though, let me make that clear.

- Pro/neutral on religion, I believe in (a???? not strictly Christian but I was raised that way) god and I have no issue with God (the father/son/spirit yk trinity and stuff) creating and governing existence. What I do NOT support or believe in is the usage of a holy concept and being to justify hate crimes. We don’t like that here, take it elsewhere. If you’re 100% anti-theism (not even religion, because organized religion CAN be triggering and they tend to do all sorts of bad things I get it /gen), either don’t voice it in front of me or block, I’m good with that.

- Also, there are some motifs that I do not share either. (But Milo, sharing is caring! No. No, telling others what you are and aren’t willing to share is caring so you don’t get into a fight.) They will be listed below:

* Stars, as in the shape (five AND four-pointed), as well as astronomy/outer space (including being “alien”)

* Wallflowers who open up and become golden retrievers

* Male ballet dancers

* Eggs. /lhj /ij

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ps #2: yes this post makes me seem prickly but I SWEAR USUALLY I AM ABLE TO COMPROMISE, and none of this is here to make anyone angry!! /gen it is simply precaution because i’m fairly new to social media and would rather cover all bases.