Various fruits and vegetables are often used in cooking. Banana (especially sitaw), kalamansi, pomegranate (Bayabas), mango, papaya and pineapple 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), Chinese cabbage (repolyo) and other vegetables like eggplant. Coconuts are everywhere. As a dessert, coconut meat and coconut sauce and coconut oil are often used. They can always be used for the harvest of root crops, such as potatoes, carrots, taro (Gaby), cassava (kamoteng kahoy), purple yam (Ube) and sweet potato (kamote). 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 institutions that are popular in overseas 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. The most common way to eat fish is pickled fish, fried fish or fried fish, and then eat a simple meal of rice and vegetables. It can also be cooked in acidic solution of tomatoes, or in pangat, sinigang, mixed with vegetables and spoilers such as tamarind vinegar to make paksiw, or roasted with 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 Caramansi (Philippine lime, Four Seasons or Caramansi) 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 food or snacks, especially in the afternoon, are similar to the concept of afternoon tea. If this meal is called Merinda's specialty, it is close to dinner and can be eaten for dinner instead. 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 minced meat (salted cakes filled with meat). Cushing Tower, Sapan Sapan, Palitao, Bie, Suman, Bibinka, Pisi Pisi, etc. You can also choose kakanen cake. 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 with garlic sauce and vinegar sauce), dinuguan (seasoned with pig blood), and usually accompanied by Putuo (steamed rice cake powder).
The snacks and jiaozi brought by Minnan people are deeply influenced by Filipinos, and they often eat merienda. Street snacks, especially bamboo sticks, such as squid balls and fish balls, are also common choices. During the festival, Filipino women's bands create more complicated dishes together. Tables are often filled with expensive and 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. It is usually roasted whole pig, but suckling pig (lechonillo, or breast milk lechon) or calf (Lecong Baka) can also be made from adult pigs popular in the local area. It is usually served with lycan sauce. Other dishes include hamonado (beef with honey sauce, pork or chicken), relleno (stuffed chicken or milk fish), mechado, Africa, caldereta, puchero, seafood, menudo, morcon, embutido (referring to 1 meat pie dishes, sausages are unknown elsewhere) 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 sorbet (ice cream), totong (rice, coconut milk and mung bean cake), ginataan (cassava pearls for candy and cakes, such as coconut milk pudding with various root vegetables) and gulaman (agar jelly-like ingredients or desserts).
Christmas Eve, known as Weber Festival, is the most important festival. Tonight's menu is Christmas ham and tacos. During Christmas, supermarkets are popular gifts for bin Laden and Philippine companies, except for red wine, brandy, groceries or cakes. During Christmas, they are mostly sold in front of churches and bibingka. Putuo Wenbang is a kind of Putuo with purple yam flavor.
Lumpiang sariwa is sometimes called fresh lumpia. It is not only a celebration of the family's daily diet, but also a kind of fresh spring rolls wrapped with fillings, including kamote strips (sweet potatoes), singkamas soft pancakes, bean sprouts, green beans, Chinese cabbage, carrots and meat (usually pork). It can be used as warm or cold water and is usually eaten with sweet peanuts and garlic sauce. Ukoy is a kind of chopped papaya and shrimp (occasionally bean sprouts) and fried shrimp patties. It is usually seasoned with vinegar, garlic, salt and pepper. Often accompanied by two political parties in the Philippines, lumpiang sariwa and ukoy. Lumpiang sariwa China originated from pancakes.