Ramadan 2022: This Filipino family in UAE stays close to tradition at iftar

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00:00Our Iftar series continues and we are here in the household of Imam Sugitan.

00:05She is going to tell us and show us actually how Filipino Muslims celebrate Ramadan.

00:11And she is preparing some amazing authentic Filipino dishes for us to taste during Iftar.

00:20So let's go in and see what's happening there.

00:22Ramadan is the most special time for us Muslims and even for us Filipinos and especially for

00:31our family. We are looking forward to that whole year for Ramadan. I know it's fasting and it's

00:38hard but you know there is something very very special about Ramadan where our worship and just

00:44about anything we do we try to make it extra special because we dedicate it to our God.

00:51So and for us as Filipino Muslims we're no different than any other Muslim in the world

00:56may they be Japanese or Pakistani or Indian or Arab we all celebrate and partake of the Iftar

01:04in a very special way. We break the fast with dates and you will see that later on and we

01:13share our special meal with our family. In a Filipino household there's nothing really

01:20specific for Filipinos but we observe just like like I said like everyone else we have to have

01:26dates. For us we have soup and not always but we try to have soup so that it warms the stomach

01:34and today we've made that special dish. It's a very known Filipino dish called Sinigang.

01:40It's soured soup with salmon and particularly salmon head. So the next thing Luchi is going

01:47to cook for us is the beef Filipino version which is called Bistek Tagalog. It's like beef

01:55steak Filipino and well the main difference is it's a little bit thinner. It has lemon.

02:02Normally we put the Philippine lemons but since we don't have it here so we're going to use

02:06regular lemon and we put some onions on it.

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