Sailfin flying fish. Is an english name of barongoy (to be exact) as known to all Cuipapanians and to its neighboring barrios, towns, and cities.
Culipapa is known to be a place of flying fish because one of the major sources of livelihood of Culipapanians is fishing. Thus, the shoreline of Culipapa is full of pump boats which are used in fishing flying fish. Wherefore, Culipapa is known also as one of the major source of fresh flying fish or dried fish “pinakas” delivered to nearby barrios, towns, cities, and even nearby islands like cebu city.
Flying fish in Culipapa has categorized into 3 kinds: 1. “laniw” 2. “barongoy” 3. “bangsi”. Laniw is a small kind of flying fish caught which has almost have no scales or have only few and small scales. Laniw is best for ceviche or “kinilaw”. Kinilaw is a prepared from a raw fish (or other seafood or meat) meets vinegar or other souring agent like citrus juice filled with sliced union as the main spice for the kinilaw. Others are optional depending on the availability of spices and preference of taste like having it with tomato, ginger, garlic, bell paper, salt, msg, soy sauce, peanut, onion leaves, pepper, coconut milk, milk, etc. Barongoy is the common term for the medium size of flying fish, however the general term used for laniw, barongoy, and bangsi is “barongoy”. The medium size of barongoy is used in most of all kinds of preparations like even ceviche “kinilaw”, grilled “sinugba”, vinegar stewed fish “paksiw”, soup “sinabawan”, fried “pinirito”, etc. Lastly, the “bangsi”; it is the biggest kind of flying fish which is the best for grilled “sinugba”.
