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Asocena is a Filipino dish primarily consisting of dog meat. The term asocena was first used in the 1980s and became popular when a film entitled Azucena written by Enrique Ramos and directed by Carlos Siguion-Reyes was screened in 2000. The dish’s name is a compound word from aso the Filipino word for dog and Spanish word cena which means dinner or an evening meal the literal translation being dog-meal or a meal of dog meat.