Rice culture of the Cordilleras (Slideshow) via ABS-CBN News
Rice cultivation in the Cordillera Administrative Region’s six provinces–Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Kalinga, Ifugao and Mountain Province–is an ancient practice that predates the building of rice terraces by their ancestors, which scientists believe started around 2,000 years ago.
The rice terraces were built with crude and pre-historic tools made of wood, stone, metal and with farmers’ bare hands. Carved out of an unforgiving mountainous terrain, their sheer determination still evokes awe in the engineering world.
The rice terraces’ system of forest, soil and water conservation has withstood the test of time, and they still dot the Cordilleras, providing work and nourishment to farmers.
Not a Burger, Sheung Wan – rice burgers by Elaine Yau via South China Morning Post
Rice burgers could be the next Korean fast food craze to sweep the city. At least that’s what the proprietors of the incongruously named Not a Burger — a small eatery on Morrison Street in Sheung Wan — are banking on.
