We were given a copy of the recipe but Chef See requested us not to take down notes but to just watch his cooking demonstration.
Some of my classmates showed signs of yakyakyak upon hearing they had to buy LIVE chicken. One of the ladies even asked kung pwede yung sa grocery. She was obviously not listening. Sinabi na ngang dapat buhay, as in humihinga pa, kroook ya, kroook ya.
I was not scared, because when I was in high school till college, my father had a poultry with thousands of chickens in Wawa, Binangonan Rizal. I’ve seen the workers slit the necks of the chickens, let the blood out (parang twilight zone) and blanch them in boiling water just long enough to easily remove the feathers. Hindi pwedeng matagal otherwise tinola ang labas ng manok.
