Process of Making Tuba
We cannot have tuba without getting it from its source. Tuba cannot just appear on one’s table from out of nowhere. The question that comes into my mind is how people extract tuba from the coconut tree. A manananggot—one who gathers tuba from the coconut’s bud—answers it all. The manananggot or the tuba gatherer extracts the tuba from a bungol or buluk—the unopened and young coconut bud that flowers into the fruit when it reaches its state of maturity. The whole process of collecting tuba is called dawat—a Cebuano term which means “to receive.”
But, how will the manananggot know if a certain coconut tree produces tuba? The only way to know is to test it. How does he test it? He slices the bungol and he waits a day in order to know if it can produce tuba. He’ll definitely know if it can manufacture wine
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