"Peter Dy" wrote in message
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Looking at a Tagalog dictionary, doesn't seem like it means that in
Filipino. Though, I wouldn't be surprised if it was so in some other of
the
many Filipino languages...

Anyway, most bagoong (fermented fish and shrimp) use rather small
critters.
The bagoong padas uses these nice, fingure-sized things, so I'm guessing
"padas" refers to that fish.


According to http://www.wholelattelove.com/articles.cfm?articleID=29 (7th
paragraph), you'd be right.

----begin paste----
These fish, which can be consumed fresh, unsalted or processed into bagoong
are dilis (silver sprat), padas-1(fusescenes rabbitfish), padas 2 (forktail
rabbitfish), terong (fusiliers), alamang (shrimp fry) and dalagang bukid
(fusiliers).

----end paste----

My mother (who speaks Visayan) thinks it's fish, too.

rona
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