Dasol, Pangasinan, bakit kinikilalang ‘Home of the Quality Salt'? | Biyahe ni Drew - video Dailymotion

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Aired (March 16, 2025): Bukod sa ekta-ektaryang asinan na ang ipinagmamalaki ng Dasol, Pangasinan, itinuturing din itong ‘Home of the Quality Salt’ dahil sa pagiging pollution-free nito. Panoorin ang video.

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00:00The people of Dasol in Pangasinan are known for their wealth.

00:04But instead of color, it's black.

00:06It's white and it's grown on the ground.

00:09They earn from this.

00:13Up to a million.

00:14What kind of wealth is that?

00:16200 per kaban.

00:17That's why they earn up to 80 million pesos a season.

00:21They produce three kinds of salt.

00:24Barara, the salt that's grown on the ground.

00:27Dirty salt.

00:29Dirty salt is what's grown on the ground.

00:32And the salt that's taken from the fields and cooked to make pino.

00:37The salt that we normally use every day.

00:40When I wake up.

00:41When I wake up, I actually eat.

00:43I don't eat.

00:44I drink electrolytes.

00:45That's salt.

00:46I cook eggs.

00:48That's still salt.

00:51I work out.

00:52Salt comes out of my body.

00:54Sometimes, or most of the time, we take salt for granted.

00:59That's why when we saw the process of making salt here in Pangasinan.

01:05Saludo.

01:06When I look at the salt now, I don't look at the pepper.

01:09I only look at the salt.

01:11Then I'll say, salt, you're crazy.

01:16The salt in Dasol is not just hectares.

01:19It's also considered as home of the quality salt.

01:22Because their salt is pollution-free.

01:24Here in Dasol, we're not the biggest producer of salt.

01:28But we have the highest chloride content.

01:31And we're also the content that the Danubasas consider.

01:34And the quality of this is also far-reaching.

01:37The salt of Dasol is not just here in Pangasinan that the salt reaches.

01:41It reaches the whole Philippines.

01:43From Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

01:45And not only that.

01:46The salt of Dasol is also being imported to Japan now.

01:51To strengthen, all of that is because of the salt.

01:54Salt.

01:56Our lunch is not yet here.

01:59Lunch.

02:00That's good.

02:01Hey, Tay.

02:02You know, I'm so hungry.

02:03I've been starving for a while.

02:04The calabao is really tiring to cook.

02:06Yes.

02:07Really?

02:08Yes.

02:09It's been a week already.

02:10It's boiling.

02:11It's okay.

02:12As long as it has meat in it.

02:13Thank you, Tay.

02:14I'm really grateful.

02:16This is what I mean.

02:17Cream of lobster.

02:21With garlic.

02:24And some onion mix.

02:28That's what you put in.

02:30And there's mushroom.

02:31There's mushroom.

02:42Tay.

02:43It doesn't taste good.

02:45It's okay.

02:46That's why it doesn't taste good.

02:47I'm fooling myself.

02:48It really doesn't taste good.

02:49It doesn't taste good.

02:50Wait.

02:51Wait a minute.

02:52I'll get something first.

02:54Where are you going?

03:07Where did you go?

03:10This is the only salt.

03:12I'll get sugar.

03:14But before the salt reaches our kitchens,

03:16and while eating,

03:17sweat and fatigue is what we go through.

03:19And their livelihood still depends on the sun.

03:22Literally,

03:23we remember when it rains.

03:25The sun is our companion in harvesting salt.

03:28Because if there's no sun,

03:30we won't be able to harvest.

03:32Half of the 18 barangays of Dasol have salt.

03:36This is the main livelihood of their town.

03:38And in this livelihood,

03:40each member of the family has their own job.

03:43It's a family job.

03:44It's not just one person.

03:46From the father,

03:47the mother,

03:48to the children.

03:49Even when they're still young,

03:50if they're able to do the laundry,

03:52they put the salt in the food.

03:54They help each other to make the work easier.

03:56We all help each other.

03:58Some help with the food,

03:59some help with the water,

04:00some help with the chisels.

04:02That's what we do every day.

04:04That's the tradition that we do here.

04:06So that the children can also benefit from the work.

04:10So that the salt won't be lost.

04:12As the family of Mrs. Marcela,

04:14of the more than 400 families in Dasol

04:16that live off of salt,

04:17she's also the oldest salt worker in Dasol.

04:20I'm 12 years old.

04:22I've been doing this for 50 years.

04:24The reason why she still continues

04:26to work despite her age,

04:28is so that they don't have to

04:29add more salt to make food.

04:32My son and I,

04:33we also have a job

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