Tiny shrimps may also be salted and dried(kalkag, among the ilonggos) and used ro flavor rice; larger one may be peeled, salted and dried (hibe); or the smallest ones may be salted then fermented into the flavoring paste/relish called bagoong. Both patis and bagoong, the research of Japanese food anthropologist Naomichi ishige has shoewn, have analogues throughout Southeast Asia, and even in China and Japan. This is an Asian way with surplus fish and shrimps, that has brought about an Asian flavor principle