Filipino

The Philippines has one of the richest culinary cuisines in the world but has never been recognized internationally. The Filipino food recipes are greatly influenced by several countries that have invaded the Southeast Asian archipelago for hundreds of years. The countries who have settled for quite some time in the country have left a huge mark on the recipes like Spain (paella, caldereta, menudo), China (pancit, chopsuey, and lumpia), United States (fast food), and the other surrounding countries in Asia. So, there is a fusion from all of the different cuisines from the different parts of the world. You will get a taste of some foods from Asia, Europe, America, and the Middle East. The Philippines is also rich with natural resources like fresh produce of vegetables and fruits, and fresh seafoods.

TOP FILIPINO RECIPES:

Pork Sinigang
Kare Kare 
Beef Mechado 
Kaldereta

Some of the most popular Filipino recipes are adobo, lechon, caldereta, mechado, sinigang, kare-kare, and pochero. These recipes are usually infused with sweetness, saltiness, and sourness, all found on just one dish. That is why, if you take one bite of meal, you will experience different influx and the taste buds are subjected to an amazing world of various flavors. Each food has either vinegar, sugar, pepper, or a combination of all of them in a single serving of a food. Following the occupancy of the Spaniards, most of the rich were mostly sweetened as sugar meant a symbol of affluence. Which is why, the Filipino spaghetti is sweet rather than a bit sour compared to Italian’s as the sauce is given a dash of sugar. The other sweetened meals include longganiza, tapa, tocino, and hamonada. Most of the foods are rich and intense in flavors with different array of spices being thrown in for added flavors. The Filipnos also love to dip like soy sauce, binagoong, and patis. The food trip experience is like no other place in the world. The Philippines has already a huge array of exotic foods like balot, Soup No. 5, papaitan, with several innards and internal organs of the animals being used as main ingredients like dinuguan, sisig, and binakol. Street foods are also popular amongst Filipinos on the go like isaw, siopao, toknene, and fish and squid balls.

Filipinos also love to celebrate and during fiestas and other events, it is not complete without the world-famous lechon. Too cool off the heat Pinoys love halo halo, maiz con yelo, ice scramcle, and sorbets. Of course, any meal is not complete with delicious and sweet desserts after the rich and heavy meal. Some of the most loved desserts in the Filipino food recipes are leche flan, biko, baye baye, palitaw, puto, pastillas, and sapin sapin.

But unlike the French, Italian and Japanese cuisines which have reached international acclaim, the Filipino food recipes are having trouble breaking the world market. But it is not because the Pinoy foods don’t taste great, but some of the foods are acquired tastes. Just like the adobo, how could something so greasy and fatty could be sweet, sour, and spicy at the same time? And the meals are not exactly beautiful in the eyes like dinuguan, which is made of dark pork blood and innards. There are also no standards for the Filipino food recipes. For example, the adobo of Pampangga differs from that of Bicol. But one of the best examples is pancit: some of the variations are Pancit Batchoy, Pancit Malabon, Pancit Lucban, and Pancit Molo to name a few.

But all in all, if you want to have an amazing food trip, go to the Phillipines and try some of the best meals that the world has to offer. Or you can click on this site to see some of the Filipino food recipe and cook it in your own kitchen.