Was grocery shopping the other day when i stumbled upon these weird tonic like drink stuff called siok tong... nobody was even looking at the stuff.. well then i was curious so i took a nifty snapshot of the 2 bottle of siok tong i found at puregold XD.
Well my curiosity did not stop there i took some research... sabi ng iba pampamacho.... sabi ng iba pamparegla... sabi naman ng iba pampajerbs, pampapogi, pampabango?, pampalambing, pang gayuma, pampastroke etc. because the data i have gathered was all just hearsay from local old school hippie tambays and several senior citizens... I made an ultimate decision to end the inquiries i have about siok tong that is to GOOGLE it!
WikiPilipinas
Sioktong was the brand name of the medicinal wine that was the flagship product for many generations of Destileria Limtuaco, a distillery that was founded by a Chinese immgrant named Lim Tua Co. Within two years after his arrival in 1850 Lim Tua Co concocted a secret recipe that he carried with him from AMoy. It was a concoction of bittersweet herbs that was in the family for five generations. It was first named Vino de Chino, then later Sioktong. It was distilled in 135 Gandara Street, Binondo for many years. It became a bestseller for its legendary qualities of imparting stamina in the same way that energy drinks are consumed now.
Sioktong has many popular qualities among the rural folk that consume it in prodigious amounts. A Pinoy komiks character by Rico Bello Omagap for example was named Susanang Siyoktong who was a toughie girl transformed into a beautiful girl by the alcoholic elixir she ingests.
... there ya go case closed XD I even get to know Susanang Siyoktong!
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