Filipino food tends to be overlooked and not as popular when it comes to other Asian cuisines such as Chinese, Vietnamese, or Thai. What makes Filipino food more unique from its neighboring Asian countries is that the food has a lot of influence from the Spanish (from colonization) , US, Chinese, Malay, and Japan. Here are some of the most popular foods you can eat in the Philippines:
- Adobo: The most famous dish to eat in the Philippines. Chicken or pork is cooked in soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, along with bay leaves and garlic peppers. Chicken adobo is usually eaten with rice.
- Sisig: This dish is eaten with pork. Chopped up pig ears, liver, and jowls are also used in the dish with some onions and peppers. Sisig is usually served on a hot skillet with a raw egg on top.
- Pancit: Fried noodles with vegetables and chicken. There are different variations of pancit like pancit canton (served as thick noodles) and pancit bohol (served as thin noodles).
- Sinigang: A sour soup with pork as its main ingredient, along with vegetables like carrots, onions, and string beans.
- Lechon: Pig that has been skewered and roasted whole over charcoal. It can be eaten right off the carcass after its cooked, or it can be eaten with other foods like rice or sinigang.
- Balut: The most infamous food to eat in the Philippines. Balut is just a boiled duck egg. Though, the duck has been fertilized and incubated. To eat it you have to break a hole on the top of the egg, and then just slurp the broth down. It’d probably be best to put some seasoning on it like salt, pepper, or vinegar.
- Halo-Halo: The most popular dessert in the Philippines. Halo-halo is made up of shave ice, ice cream, and condensed milk. The ingredients that are usually included in it are ube (purple yam) ice cream , sweetened red beans, jellies, coconut strips, and mango.
* Picture of Halo-Halo
* Picture of Chicken Adobo
* Picture of Sisig
