Various fruits and vegetables are often used in cooking. Bananas (especially sitaw), four seasons (kalamansi), pomegranates (Bayabas), mangoes, papayas and pineapples have obvious tropical talents in many dishes, but the main green leafy vegetables like water spinach (kangkong), Chinese cabbage (petsay), Napa Chinese cabbage (petsay wombok) and Chinese cabbage (repolyo) all like eggplant. Coconuts are everywhere. As a dessert, coconut meat and coconut sauce and coconut oil are often used. The harvest of root crops such as potatoes, carrots, taro (Gaby), cassava (kamoteng kahoy), purple yam (Ube) and sweet potato (kamote) is inseparable from them. A combination of tomatoes (kamatis), garlic (Bawangfen) and onions (sibuyas) can be found in many dishes. The staple food includes chicken, pork, beef and fish. Seafood is the result of popular institutions in the offshore islands. Popular catches include tilapia, catfish (Ito), butterfish (bangus), grouper (Laplap), shrimp (hipon), shrimp (sugpo), mackerel (galunggong, Ha Sahasa), swordfish, oyster (Tarawa), mussel (tahong) and clam. In addition, seaweed, abalone and eel are also very popular. The most common way to eat fish is pickling, frying or frying, and then eating a simple meal of rice and vegetables. It can also be cooked in an acidic solution of tomatoes, or in pangat in sinigang, and prepared together with vegetables and spoilers such as tamarind vinegar to mix pepper, make paksiw, or roast hot charcoal or wood (inihaw). Other preparations include Escabeche (sweet and sour) or relleno (boneless fermentation). Fish that can be pickled can be smoked (tinapa) or dried (tuyo or daing). Food is usually served with various sauces. Fried food is usually extruded from kalamansi (Philippine Lime, Four Seasons or Kalamansi) or a combination of both or all. Patis (fish sauce) may be mixed with kalamansi, because most people eat seafood sauce. Fish sauce, fish sauce (Bagoon), shrimp sauce (bagoong alamang) and broken ginger root (reed bud) are seasonings often added to dishes when cooking or serving. Merienda comes from Spanish, but light meals or snacks, especially in the afternoon, are similar to the concept of afternoon tea. This meal is close to dinner. If it is called Merinda's specialty, it can be changed to dinner. Filipinos have many choices to bring their traditional kappa (coffee): bread and cakes, such as pandesal, ensaymada (covered with cheese and butter), Hopia (similar to moon cakes filled with sweet bean paste) and meat stuffing (salty cakes filled with meat). Kuchinta, Sapan Sapan, Palitao, Bibi, Suman, Bibinka, Pitz Pitz, etc. You can also choose kakanin to make cakes. During my stay in merienda, I often ate pickles including pancit Guangdong (fried with instant noodles), palabok (rice noodles based on shrimp juice), tokwa't baboy (fried tofu with meat ears cooked in garlic sauce and vinegar sauce) and dinuguan (spicy with pig blood), often accompanied by Putuo (steamed rice cake powder).
The snacks and jiaozi brought by Minnan people were moved by the Philippines, and they often ate merienda. Street snacks, especially bamboo sticks, such as squid balls and fish balls, are also common choices. During the festival, Filipino women's bands will create more complicated dishes together. Tables are often filled with expensive labor-intensive treatments, which require preparation time. Lechón (also spelled litson)[9] is the core of the dining table in the celebrations in the Philippines. Usually roast whole pigs, but suckling pigs (lechonillo, or breast milk lechon) or calves (Lecong Baka) can also be made from adult pigs popular in the local area. It is usually served with jalapeno sauce. Other dishes include hamonado (beef with honey sauce, pork or chicken), relleno (stewed chicken or milk fish), mechado, Africa, caldereta, puchero, seafood, menudo, morcon, embutido (referring to 1 meat pie, other places where sausages are unknown) and Suman (such as steamed banana leaves 65438). There can also be various breast milk blanks on the dining table, such as UBE, sapin sapin sorbetes (ice cream), totong (rice, coconut milk and mung bean cake), ginataan (cassava pearls used for candy and cakes, such as coconut milk pudding of various root vegetables) and gulaman (agar jelly-like ingredients or desserts).
Christmas Eve, known as Pinocchio Weber, is the most important feast. Tonight's menu is Christmas ham and Mexican pancakes. Besides red wine, brandy, groceries or cakes, supermarkets are popular gifts for bin Laden and Philippine companies during Christmas. Most of them were sold at the church gate and Bibinka at Christmas. Putuo Wenbang is a kind of Putuo with purple yam flavor.
Lumpiang sariwa, sometimes called fresh lumpia, is a kind of fresh spring rolls wrapped with stuffing, which can include kamote strips (sweet potatoes), singkamas (bean potatoes), soft pancakes, bean sprouts, green beans, Chinese cabbage, carrots and meat (usually pork). It can be drunk as warm water or cold water, usually with sweet peanuts and garlic sauce. Ukoy is a kind of minced papaya with shrimp (occasionally bean sprouts) and fried shrimp patties. It is usually seasoned with vinegar, garlic, salt and pepper. It is often accompanied by two parties in the Philippines, lumpiang sariwa and ukoy. Lumpiang sariwa China originated from pancakes.