No Filipino food is complete without Adobo.
It originated in Mexico, but Filipinos found that cooking meat (usually chicken and pork) with vinegar, salt, garlic, pepper, soy sauce and other spices is a good way to preserve meat without refrigerator. This cooking method can be applied to different meats and seafood.
Charcoal roast suckling pig (Laixiong)
In the Philippines, roast suckling pig with charcoal fire is the most popular dish when entertaining guests. Roast the whole pig on coal; The golden crispy skin with liver sauce is the most coveted part.
In Cebu Island, pigs' stomachs are stuffed with star anise, pepper, shallots, bay leaves and lemongrass, so they don't need other sauces when eating pork.
Sisig
This dish is called chop suey, which is made by putting pig's cheek meat, head and liver on a hot plate. Its crisp and soft taste is very suitable for drinking cold beer. It can be paired with Chili sauce and Le Jia brand seasoning to make it more in line with your and your friends' taste preferences.
Roast pork leg (crispy pata)
This dish is made by slowly boiling pork elbows with slow fire, dehydrating and frying until crisp. The inside is soft and juicy, and the skin is very crisp. Serve with vinegar, soy sauce and red pepper.
Chicken salad
Soak chicken in lemon grass, green orange, salt, pepper and garlic, and brush it with oil made from mahogany seeds. Every part of the chicken will be cooked. Eat it with a big bowl of garlic-flavored rice topped with orange oil soaked in chicken.
Crab paste (Taba ng talangka)
Squeeze the crab fat and marinate it with garlic. This cholesterol-rich Filipino dish is usually cooked.
Use as a sauce when eating prawns or fried fish and rice.
Orange juice rice noodles (Pancit Palabok)
This dish is made by pouring rich orange jam on layers of rice flour. Orange jam is made of shrimp broth, pork, boiled eggs, shrimp and pigskin, and sometimes oysters and squid are added.
Bone soup
Filipinos like to sip beef bone soup made from freshly slaughtered Batangas beef. After cooking for several hours, the fragrant soup slowly flowed out of the beef. Bones are big, which means you can enjoy more bone marrow.
Chicken porridge (Arroz Caldo)
This thick chicken porridge, Arroz Caldo, is cooked with ginger and sometimes decorated with boiled eggs, fire garlic and onions. This dish is usually sold in street stalls in the Philippines.
Sour fish soup (fish diced Nora)
The fresh and rich seafood on Cebu Island can be used as the material of this dish. This simple sour soup is seasoned with onions, tomatoes and sour horns, and boiled on a coconut tree for several hours.
ox tail soup
This delicious oxtail stew is made of shredded fried rice and chopped flowers. Banana flowers, eggplant and green beans, together with other more interesting materials, can complete this unique dish. It tastes better with white rice and shrimp sauce.
Fried Cricket (camaro)
This appetizer, named camaro, is made of mole cricket, which is not only difficult to obtain raw materials, but also difficult to cook. Legs and wings must be removed, and then the trunk of the limb is boiled in vinegar and garlic; Then fry it in oil with onions and sliced tomatoes until it is chocolate brown.
Fried empanadas
Ground green papaya or bean sprouts, eggs and pork sausages are stuffed into meat burritos, and then fried with spicy vinegar until crisp.
Philippine Sour Soup (Sinegang)
This soup is made by pickling fish, shrimp, pork or beef with tamarind, bayberry and tomato until it turns sour. It is often eaten with vegetables, such as whole vegetables, beans and taro. Eat with rice.
Garlic beef rice (Tapa)
This dish called Tapa consists of sliced braised beef, fried eggs and garlic-flavored rice. Although it belongs to breakfast, it is easy to cook and the ingredients are simple, so you can enjoy it at any time.
Stewed pork and viscera with pig blood
Although this dish looks good, it is the favorite of many Filipinos. It is made of fresh pig blood, garlic, onion and oregano leaves to stew pork and pig viscera. Eat with rice cakes or rice.
Fried frog
The French made frog legs delicious, but the Filipinos took them to a higher level. They stuffed the whole frog with minced pork and fried it.
Coconut milk taro leaves
This kind of taro leaves cooked with a lot of coconut milk is the staple food of Bikol Island people every day. A little meat and pepper will add a lot of highlights to this dish. Eat with rice.
Fish sauce vegetables
This vegetarian dish is made of okra, eggplant, bitter gourd, pumpkin, tomato and fermented fish sauce. It is popular all over the Philippines because of its health, cheapness and simple cooking.
Tilapia with coconut milk
Cooking with coconut milk is very common in Quezon province, south of the Philippine capital. It cooks freshwater tilapia and then stews it with coconut milk and peppers.
Fried pork (bagged)
This kind of fried pork named Bagnet comes from North Irogo Province and is very popular all over the Philippines. Its crispy skin is mouth-watering, with Philippine sweet and sour vinegar.
Vegetarian noodles (Pancit habhab)
This kind of cheap noodles is decorated with carrots, bergamot and some meat slices, and served with banana leaves, which is very popular among Filipino students and jeep drivers.
Pork barbecue
In this country where the streets are full of pot-stewed, pot-stewed and barbecue, everyone has their own favorite barbecue, and pork is their first choice.
Cebu Island is famous for its barbecue stalls on Larsian Street, not far from Osmana Circle in the city center.
Spanish sausage
All provinces in the Philippines have their own pork sausages, collectively known as Longaniza. There are all kinds of sausages, from sweet and garlic to spicy. Breakfast is usually served with garlic-flavored rice, fried eggs and vinegar.
Philippine spring rolls
Delicate spring rolls are wrapped in delicious coconut hearts, shrimp, pork, onions and a garlic-flavored sweet sauce. This is the Philippine spring rolls. Coconut hearts make fresh spring rolls both sweet and soft.
Bicol express (Bicol Express)
Bicol snacks are very popular in the Philippines. In particular, this dish is made of pepper, pork and fresh coconut milk.
Fried crab paste (Relyenong alimango)
In order to make this dish well, Filipino chefs should be fully prepared. Crabs are carefully peeled, then onions, tomatoes and herbs are stuffed into crab shells and finally fried.
Balut boiled duck eggs (Balut)
If you don't taste the boiled duck eggs in Ballout, then this trip to the Philippines is incomplete. This kind of duck egg is cooked and dipped in rock salt or balsamic vinegar, and is often eaten with beer. It's delicious.
tuna
Grilled tuna dipped in soy sauce, vinegar, pepper and lemon juice is very distinctive and unforgettable.
Sashimi salad (fish fillet salad)
Made of fresh fish, coconut juice, vinegar, ginger and pepper. Every province in the Philippines has its own unique cooking style.
Coconut snail
Cook fresh snails with coconut milk and vegetables. As an appetizer, it will be more delicious if it is eaten with hot rice.
Stewed tilapia with coconut milk
Fresh tilapia is brewed with tomatoes and onions, stewed in coconut milk, and then wrapped in green leaves to prevent the fish from scattering. It also adds a spicy taste.
Roasted pork belly (inhaw nalimpo)
This is a Philippine-style barbecue-roasted pork belly. The meat is stuffed with herbs and spices, and then baked, which tastes delicious and juicy.
Chicken pie (empanadas)
This is a traditional pie in the Philippine city of Mallory, which is similar to croissant. It is fried with chicken stuffing.
Fresh frog soup (Tinolang tugac)
It can be stewed or boiled with green papaya pieces and pepper leaves like chicken soup.
Crispy fried shrimp (Camaro Posado)
Beat the eggs into the batter, wrap the shrimps and fry until cooked. Dip in some ketchup, it's crispy and delicious.
Coconut rice cake
Soak rice overnight, add coconut milk and sugar, and grind. Then pour the paste into pottery and bake it. With butter, sugar and shredded coconut, with salted eggs and cheese, it is definitely a delicious food that you will never forget.
Suman dessert
This kind of food can be seen everywhere in roadside stalls. Steamed glutinous rice with banana coconut leaves. Usually eaten with mango, it is cheap and delicious.
Chocolate porridge (champagne)
When it rains heavily or classes are closed, children will like this meal-chocolate porridge, which is warm and sweet. Sometimes it is eaten with dried fish to offset the sweetness.
Hello, hello, shaved ice (halo-halo)
The Galaxy Cafe in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, provides hello, fine shaved ice and Lai Shi Pie to cool off the heat and prevent people from fainting due to overheating.
Buko school (Buko school)
Orient D‘Original restaurant has been selling well for 45 years, and the stuffing of this hot pie is tender coconut meat.
Handmade cheese bread (Ensaymada at
tsokolate)
This kind of cheese bread is made by hand. A layer of cheese and sugar plus a cup of Philippine hot chocolate is the best match for breakfast or afternoon tea.
Che Le dessert
Stir the fresh buffalo milk and sugar until they are thick. Take a bite and put it in your mouth, full of milk fragrance.
Putuobangbang
This kind of food looks a bit like a small chimney and can be bought by the roadside. Steam rice in a bamboo tube, then add cream, soft candy (thick brown sugar) and shredded coconut.
Tulong
Fry banana and jackfruit and seal. It's a bit like our spring rolls in China.
Pande sal
This oval bread is a common breakfast for Filipinos. It's brown and very soft.
Syrup tofu pudding
Stir the brown sugar syrup into the custard and add some sago pearls.
Hot chocolate
This is a hot chocolate drink from the Spanish colonial era, which is bittersweet.
Purple yam sauce
Purple yam is very popular in making desserts. In the Philippines, it is also used to make jam.
Caramel pudding (Cheerios pie)
Filipinos like this dessert very much. Add eggs to milk to make custard, and then cover it with crystal caramel, which is smooth and delicious.