One of The Rarest Salt in the World is from the Philippines (Asin Tibuok) 

Ritual is in shopee too. 🥰

BUYING! And this is better salt than the cheap salt!

Is there any way to contact them if I want to invest or help fund their business? Cheers

dont patronize that product because it would make damages of our environment, why because they used a truckload of WOOD/TREES just to obtain that said product. BUT, ok for Tourism purposes but not for mass consumption.

BOHOL'S pride ❤️ Proud boholana

We really do

@@featrmedia, thank you for sharing this story. We grew up using this kind of salt in our ''bukid'', a huge part of my childhood and to many more Boholanos out there❤

Dude they support more on politician. They even worship like God.🤣

100%

raise it price, so more people attracted to make as job

What are other pre-colonial traditional that we have?

Not many filipinos would be willing to buy a 400 to 700 peso salt.. If marketing strategy for the international market is good, then let's hope it will survive for a long time..

Thanks to Erwan

Karun lang jud ko kabalo aneh ba, naa diay in aneh na asin...

so much respect to Bol anon.and kudoz to Erwan

Alot of my ancestors inefficient methods have been forgotten. No one uses a comb made from horns anymore because it's not practical anymore. To this guy it's a job. Sometimes romanticizing traditions can come off a low intellect. After all the Philippines had a tradition of cannibalism and no ones talking about how we should preserve that

@@clampmotosua1789 cannibalism? stop making stuff up.

@@clampmotosua1789 0 to 100

I've also seen that done with Himalayan Salt Blocks. You can cook on them for a while but there's often an imperfection that'll eventually cause it to break. Once that happens, we'd often share the chunks with friends and neighbors to season food with.

Also modern salt just exists because of anticaking agents. If you ground up that rock salt, it would just "glue" itself back into a hard brick with the moisture in the air.

why do you younger filipinos always think your parents are lying

Bro their craftsmanship is comparable on how japanese people create their foods, like soy sauce

Yeah, I've only heard of this from my father's stories, of how my grandpa would bring this home whenever he came back from bohol. They used to dip the whole thing in their congee to season it.

I'd seen and used this salt when we were small

and dont forget the bahalina, pinakasolid nga ilimnon.😊

@@greenaljie bahalina sa loon...

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mag Aasin pla si Whang Od

@@lavishabass9300 pano yun? Hahahahaha

@@lavishabass9300 nudaw? Hahahaha

@@lavishabass9300 laki ng problema mo 💅 wag mo masyado dibdibin.

How about you join them

My lola's family was from bohol as well (malbacias) clan but migrated to mindanao during world warII. When she was still alive, there was not a day that she wouldn't talk about bohol. The reason why bohol has a special place in my heart. This video reminds me of my roots, my culture and my heritage😊

So it means, "Whole Salt"?

Same. I did not know it

Same

Me too

same here

Same here like. I live in Cebu all my life yet I haven't heard about this.

The Philippine government should document the traditional technologies of our forefathers for the sake of future generations of Filipinos. Other cultures document the technologies of their ancestors so that even if nobody else is left to continue the practice, it can be revived again anytime because the process has been recorded. Paghahabi, pagtatato, metal smithing, etcetera... Mga sinaunang kaalaman ng mga ninuno natin na nababaon nalang sa limot nang ganon-ganon nalang dahil walang pake ang gobyerno sa preservation ng kultura natin, tsk tsk. Kakalungkot.

@@ryan-smith guess jobs who should be taking care of these are doing nothing.

This should be taught on Home Economics as additional courses to preserve the practice and culture.

It's not really that easy, if they want to make the salt, they would have to give up all their dreams. It is like trying to convince people to become artists; It pays terribly, has little to no recognition and it is very difficult.

No they're too busy worshipping other cultures of the other countries. Sarap Oppakan

yet you have a korean name lmao

@@lenaramoon4617 so what's the point

Philippine government is interested in Luzon culture only, we Bisaya are not even allowed to learn our own language, our own history and culture. In the University of Bohol, there was a program created like that but was shutdown by CHED.

Such a Saint :"D

right. nice profile pic though

Oh wow... what a saint

its a lifestyle

Whole salt is full of minerals needed by the body. Iodized salt is a bad Salt that causes high blood pressure. While true salt is healthy. Our body needs salt. Salt is very important.

Ah yes, the Japanese.....

meron po sa BOHOL province meron

I'm from Bohol, and knowing this salt is from Bohol, it really shocked me since I had no idea our province has this kind of product aside from Calamay.

during tag ani barter trade ang uso noon walang pera sila tatay kaya palay ang pang bayad sa asin tibook.

And why should the government do anything about it? If you are so interested in it, why not join them in making it? The last thing you want is government intrusion. I am not saying this to be mean. I am saying it because people love an idea until it comes time to do all of the work to make things happen. Owning and managing companies is not the government's job.

They should, but they'd rather not. they want products that they can tax heavily. salt not so much.

What are other traditions / or long followed practices like this?

💯☑️☑️☑️

They would rather busy themselves (government officials) in politics.

If only we are get rid of the 60/40 many investors are gonna invest in it. But fuck it our government doesn't even do anything to revive this

Please Sir go to Bohol province. I watched a vlogger in Toronto Canada, eating a Filipino food at little Manila.

Let us know if it's available.

@@Annskie538 many people can't afford to take that trip. Also with the pandemic it's even more challenging.

@Melford, you should try out the balut. Ask the store if they carry it. Filipino love balut. It's delicious.

Its in the description where you can buy it. Just in case the place you go to doesn't have it.

I agree✔️

So sad because Filipinos would support foreigners na halata namang ginagawa lang ng mga video na fishing for views

@@azizadyosa4081 is this an issue about filipino bating? If that was your point I dont think that is relevant on this discussion.

@@iama86 why? Erwan's vids are good, interesting, and informative. They're well thought of unlike from other YT channels na full of buffoonery lang naman. Erwan deserves more.

@@azizadyosa4081 I misunderstood your point earlier my bad.

Sadly Our Laws Priority is Preservation of Officials to Power...

precisely, this is heritage we're talking about after all.

I think this can be classified as GI (geographical indication) in IP?

Yes, and they need to change the ASIN Law which killed the traditional salt industry.

Ahem ahem psst! (share sa mga candidates)

Where did you get that statistics of 90%

@@konstrakph to be fair about the 90% made up number. There are a LOT of diverse groups in the Philippines. And traditions that are place specific don’t tend to survive well as the country develops economically, the olde generations die out and and people move to other cities. It’s not the important, big Filipino traditions that die but the thousand small regional ones.

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That "90%" are untranslated, Spanish records kept in the National Archives

@@eduardochavacano Im filipino and I've never heard of food having personality disorders before

Boiling sea water needs to be preserved? Come on man this is marketing for someone who upsells the ever loving shit out of this stuff to foodies and idiots who lap up anything that has "artisanal" plastered on it

@@SilvaDreams nice way to ruin something that has lasted for probably centuries

Asin = sour. in Indonesia

@@lancetheking7524 I'm sorry reality hurts, but it's just salt and we've been doing this for millennia and it's nothing special.

@@SilvaDreams you got some harsh point there.

Did he mention why he admired the Pilipinos?

@@squidusn71 they are humans

@@Ottophil there are types of human traits that will lead one to admire. I'm curious for the specifics.

...and we all know what the US Army/Govt & Big Pharma have done in the Philippines over the years, don`t we.....

Probably not, considering how Bohol and Pangasinan are pretty distant from one another. I don't think this salt ever became widespread in the Luzon region.

Yeah, it will be a new economic opportunity for that LGU to make that happen, and also create new tourism as well where tourist can buy it there locally than over the market price outside Bohol. Hopefully all those profits will go back to the salt makers so they will continue making them and next generation as well. So much history and culture with this that it needs to be preserve. It may not become a common household salt since it is impossible to compete with cheaper mass produced salt anyways. They should just aim this for more unique market. If LGU can make this, Bohol will be known about making this kind of salt over the world. If money is they are after, this is one way to improve the lives of people and preserving the culture.

@@kornkernel2232 The issue is newer generations want to pursue on finishing education and having a better career as to not to end up experiencing their parent's hardships and struggles

@RDU23 True, and this is just the reality. There seems to be a trend with many Asian cultures that we tend to prefer "office" jobs more than inheriting family livelyhood even it has history of generations. Which is why many of these traditions die. Worst if we lost any documentation how to replicate those. There is even a peer pressure sometimes at play where some felt "jealous" having some sort of career. Especially us cultures like "pakikisama". The only possible way I can think of to encourage younger generations is when this tradition do actually makes more money, and the production efficiency becomes slightly less hard. Unless they are amused by its process like an art, but most people don't have "artist" mentality. So not everybody is into artisan process, while some find it cool and will do it willingly. Making this craft looks "glamorous". Also if they find doing this with a sense of pride, knowing keeping doing this have cultural impact.

@@kornkernel2232 I think this can be a "special product" (pasalubong shops) for the tourists to buy and take home. And people may become more interested with this if there's info about it, like in this video; when presenting it to buyers. I, myself didn't even know salt like this existed in the Philippines. Tourism = Tradition/History/Culture It's sad how things like this aren't given appropriate attention, and that most Filipinos doesn't know about things like these. If only someone from the government sees this and start promoting traditional products like this, then there would be more jobs, there would be a market, there would be tourists (locals & foreigners), some people won't become too poor and go hungry, tradition won't end and become only history.

Yes, time to really show that filipinos have our own culture too. 💕👌

This! The LGU should promote the product. Haven't known that we actually have artisinal salts.

I know about this salt only coz I saw it on i-Witness once.

mao nay giingonnga pinobre. ang kan on gamitan ug sud an aron matulon. kung way sud an unya kaya matulon pinaagig asin, solbad na.

My grandma spent some of her childhood in Bohol, she told me they would put a chunk of salt in their bowl of lugaw till it was salt enough then they would have the chunk "jump" to another bowl. I couldn't imagine that before. Now that I've found out about asin tibuok, it makes more sense to me.

Amping dihaa Kuya 🙏❤️

I miss home also. My dialect, Ilocano, is dying. The next generation are all speaking tagalog now.

Wowww.... Here "asin" means "salty" and we also have term "pengasinan" here and it means a process to "salt" a thing. Looks so similar!!!✨

@@littleboy5992 because our we have desame ancestors Indonesian people and philipino, and malaysian people, that is why we have related dialects

ASIN TIBUOK is not a salt from Pangasinan but from BOHOL.

@@mattr7742 he is talking about the intro

@@littleboy5992 In my language Pangasinan literally means a place where you make salt or the process of making a salt

Very informative video. We love watching it.

Same, it’s the first time i’ve seen salt like that as well 😊

This comment warmed my heart 💚💚

Can you tell us what asin tibuok translates to? TIA

@@littlejackalo5326 literally "whole salt". Asin = salt Tibuok = whole Hope that helps. 😊

Agree. Music to my ears especially since it reminded me of my late father's accent. Kudos to Featr and their team! 💚

Which dialect is this? I can't tell. @ u @

😂I like one on my birthday...

Please sale it in Philippines market with the traditional process so people will be interested...

wait its says in the video 500-700 pesos, thats only 10-15 usd not 150 usd.

A while back, before the eruption of Mount Pinnitubo I was stationed there for two years. I was in Pampanga. I have seen just how hard some people work just to stay alive. At that time I was in the Air Force and my pay was about $1,0000 US dollars a month. It didn't seem like a lot to me, but it wasn't bad either, at least I didn't complain. I moved off base because I wanted to emmerce myself into their culture. One day a young lady asked if I was looking for a house keeper, and if so she offered her services. She said that she would cook, clean and do laundry for $20.⁰⁰ a month, which was the going rate at that time. I said sure, even though I didn't need one because I ate on base and I cleaned up after myself. I hired her and told her that all I wanted was for her to cook and do a little light house work. I even gave her extra money to spend any way she wanted to. She could buy, eat and drink anything she wanted. She had her own key so she could come and go anytime she wanted to. If I was going out that night I would give her the same amount of money to keep for herself and she had weekends off. Actually we were more like roommates. At my job on base we also hired a man to stock the shelves and to help keep the area clean. We all chipped in to pay his salary. Behind my house was a rice pattie. In fact they were everywhere. The only bad thing about that was all the mosquitoes. There were lots of frogs too. Even though they would croak all night, at least they ate the mosquitoes, so they really weren't that bad. Some days you'd see people catching them using a cane pole. They'd clean them, add a few vegetables and spices and cook them in certain dishes. For those who didn't have money they would use the barter system. They would trade labor or something they made for whatever they needed. In the end it all worked out. Even though some have to work very hard, they are also some of happiest people on earth. Also, there are some very well off people too. The Philippines has a mixture of income levels that range from very poor to very rich and that seems to work well for the P.I... I apologize for compressing this comment but I tried to touch on a lot areas without being too long winded.

I RATHER BUY THAT IONIZE SALT FOR $1.00

I am thinking of buses of school kids to view how this old tradition is being done, first in video and actual salt making-process; it should be cool. And maybe tourists too to augment the regular attractions in Loboc and elsewhere :)

I wanna know more about our pre colonial country's culture and this is what i found out today, How do we even preserve that rare salt? I don't want our culture to die out

@@REEEPROGRAM It’s not going to die out , don’t be dramatic.

It starts with the LGUs.

Kung gusto mo tumagal ang ganitong industry starts with buying their products. May nagbebenta sa online, ikaw na maghanap.

pls wag bumuto kay leni.. lmao

It's not just the government. It's all of us. Kahit pa ipreserve ng government yan, if the people do not conform or support, wala din.

It's the process of man for millennia We've been boiling or sun drying sea water or natural brine springs forever to get salt.

right well start doing it, you can't blame the ppl for finding it too hard to do when there's easier methods.

@MrHolyKindness But it's not unique, it's been done this way for ages. The only thing they do that you might consider "unique" is run the sea water through coconut husk ash first which just acts as a filter.

"We" should preserve this tradition. Take the initiative and do it. I'll definitely buy your product.

Exactly! History, culture is everything

Thank the annunaki

Its a filapenois peraud momen, mamser

Because 99% of the languages spoken in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines belong to one language family which is Austronesian.

In Pampanga a province in the Philippines rice is also called Nasi

It's just salt made very inefficiently. Romanticizing the past without self reflection comes off as pompous as a Karen

@@clampmotosua1789 Yeah I also don't understand it. Sure it's very important to document and remember those traditions, but the product is certainly not better than our modern salt. It was just a way of extracting salt from dirty water...

Or well, the pride of an artisan, yet the acknowledgement and humbleness of a master recognizing there is still so much to learn, and refine. Still, it's very amazing.

Hits too close to home

Not sure how boiling off sea water (or water from a brine spring as in Europe) is an art. We've been doing this for millennia and shit we still do it this way on an industrial scale though we tend to just make big drying pools.

@@SilvaDreams i don’t know why painting is considered an art. We’ve been doing it since caveman times and we still do it this way on an industrial scale as well.

Nah, i don't ko like precolonial Philippines cuz you guys spreading hoaxes

I dont think theres a point. Its salt. He will just sprinkle it.

@@MelCraft10 You got a point, but I don't think it can be used on a regular basis since its a little bit pricey than the regular ones and as Erwan said its really salty. Besides it can be a great content if he can use it on one of signature dish here on the Philippines.

Ganyan po yun ginamit namin dati na asin nong maliit pa ako sa Candijay Bohol.Sobrang alat po pero masarap sya.Tibagin ng maliit bago gamitin matigas po tlaga sya kac buo.

A RU-vidr from Nueva Viscaya used this on a local dish. His channel is called Gayyem Ben. You should check his channel out.

@@louaneroe aling episode po sa channel nya

I missed Corella Bohol. I experienced also the asin tibuok,very salty.

This looks like doe-doe salt which my grandma from Boracay, Malay, Aklan made and brought it to us in the mainland to exchange rice. We used it to salt rice foridge for breakfast. She made it in a form of a brick shape. No young Boracaynon made this anymore even my relatives as they are more on tourist source of income. I missed my grand parents and the old Boracay and I can't wait to go home.

My grandpa loves tabo he always drinks it when he has the chance

The way you describe your experience with your lola brings back so many memories with my lola. I also saw how she made porridge with Asin Tibuok and the taste is really different compared to commercial sea salt. It really has a rich flavor. The way you describe it brings back the memories of how it exactly tastes. I miss it so much, I think the last time I tried the porridge was 10-15 years ago, back when she’s still alive. I am also from Bohol and my lola and lolo lived in the bukid of Dimiao, Bohol. ❤️

hoy shut up

@@LuvMyLilBabe,why so rude?

@@LuvMyLilBabe ???

Nah you should forget it, there's no such a thing a precolonial Philippines

Absolutely. I didn't know such a thing existed. I'm from Iowa, USA. But now I have a greater understanding and appreciation for this culture of salt makers from that part of the world. I think of how hard that father and grandfathers worked to be paid just in rice, to keep their family's fed. The huts they made with their hands to live in. I think about how many people over the centuries worked so hard for so little, their reward being only to stave off death and raise the next generation. Most of the world is so much better off now. And yet in so many ways, maybe we are not. The love and these family ties, these circumstances, definitely kept priorities where they should be. I don't think people had the luxury of wallowing in their woes. That made them something very organic, strong, remarkable people. I'm very proud of our human ancestors. It also reminds me there are people still living in these circumstances today in the world. While we want to bring their circumstances up, I can't say life is any richer when we are made richer in money. All the organic truly amazing crafts come from a different time and place.

The problem with the government if they offer to help preserve this unique tradition is it may end up to foreign investors again. We should have local investors only.

Oh no. We make money from election and Shitty health care system. The money goes to corrupt officials

Saw it too in Gayyem's video

Watched it too and I wondered how it was made