What is your favorite filipino food?
By kareendj
@kareendj (254)
Philippines
October 25, 2009 12:15am CST
Mine would be Pork and Chicken Adobo!!! I love how it is both sour and salty. I love eating mine with piping-hot rice. I especially love my yaya's version of Garlicky Adobo.
For breakfast, my favorite is Tocino. I love eating it with tomatoes and fish sauce. So, so, so yummY!
Street food is another favorite mine. Fish balls are the best. I don't know why but I seem to love the ones sold on the street than those cooked at home. Haha! I also love Barbeque dipped both in the sweet and sour sauce. Pork Intestines are quite good as well! I prefer it to Chicken Intestines.
What's your favorite Filipino food?
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31 responses
@yuna15 (2706)
• Philippines
25 Oct 09
My all-time favorite has always been Sinigang and Adobo. Tocino is also one of my favorites or much better I like tocilog! I like "Isaw", pork barbecue, liempo, wow so yummy!! 
I'm salivating now. LOL
I also like Lumpiang Shanghai and Lumpiang Ubod. Yummy!!
I'm salivating now. LOL
I also like Lumpiang Shanghai and Lumpiang Ubod. Yummy!! 1 person likes this
@AmbiePam (94360)
• United States
25 Oct 09
I don't have one. I don't believe I have ever tasted authentic Filipino food. Could you tell me how to make a very easy Filipino dish? We don't always have the same food items available in America as they do in the Philippines, so if you have a recipe with fairly common ingredients both here and where you are, I'd like to try it.
@kareendj (254)
• Philippines
26 Oct 09
Hi AmbiePam! :)) I suggest you make Adobo which is really easy to make and the ingredients can definitely be found wherever you are located. Basic Adobo is compromised of Pork, Garlic (lots of it), Soy Sauce, Vinegar, Laurel, Peppercorns. Well, this is my version:
1. Boil pork until tender in soy sauce, vinegar and some water. Add laurel and peppercorns as well. Adjust taste of liquid according to taste. Adobo is both salty and sour. Reserve liquid.
2. In another pan, saute garlic. Brown meat. Add the liquid to the pan. Simmer until liquid sort of dries up.
Haha! I hope you like it. You may research I guess for recipes in the internet if you want more accurate measurements of the ingredients. Cheers!
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@charmz1005 (679)
• Philippines
25 Oct 09
Well, you've listed a lot of good Filipino food there. I think I'm hungry. Lol. I'll add some, Sweetened adobo is also good, the famous Sisig of Pampanga, and Crispy Pata!
@charmz1005 (679)
• Philippines
25 Oct 09
This discussion makes me hungry. Yup, and Aling Lucing is now on heaven. Thanks to her we had a very known and delicious food. Many are trying to experiment things and try different styles. The Sisig here is not crispy but I've eaten some of them here, some used "tokwa" to be another ingredient but still I liked the original. :D
@kareendj (254)
• Philippines
25 Oct 09
Hi there charmz1005! :)) That's a good list you got there. Sisig of Pampanga is actually quite different from what we eat here in Manila right? :)) I've tried Aling Lucings (who apparently was the one who invented it) and it was quite hmmm... mushy? Well, I don't know how to describe it but it's not crispy like those I have eaten here in Manila. Oh no, Crispy Pata. So goood with soy sauce, vinegar and onions.
@mymelodake (1338)
• Philippines
25 Oct 09
Oooh I looove BOPIS (I think it's made out of pig's lungs... though I'm not sure.), I love the one served by Kamay Kainan! It's my ultimate fave. Also barbecued gizzard (baticolon) i love it! I also love isaw (chicken interstine), but only when there's no filling, sort of just the skin. Of course, lechon is also on the list, and chicken inasal, though it has to be the real thing, not those counterfeit Mang Inasal ones or whatever LOL!
@mymelodake (1338)
• Philippines
26 Oct 09
Hmmm, I honestly cannot describe it accurately, but it's spicy for one thing. I think much of the flavor comes from the spices though and not the meat itself...
@ckyera (17331)
• Philippines
25 Oct 09
wow! you are a true blue Filipino! haha... well i also like adobo, chicken-pork adobo! hmmm
specially with lots of garlic & with very little sauce...hmmm makes me hungry! the aroma is just appetizing!
but my real favorite is sinigang! specially shrimp sinigang... i just like its sour taste and a little chili...hehe & lechon manok! (roated/grilled chicken) haha i don't know but i really like chicken!
my husband loves kare -kare more than anything else!
i like dried fish & sinangag (fried rice) in the morning with coffee! haha
and also those street foods you mention i also like them... isaw (pork intestine) is one of my favorites but i don't usually buy on streets coz im afraid of the disease that i can get...i just bought those if i know the vendor & saw how it was prepared...and don't forget the kwek kwek! (quail eggs)
specially with lots of garlic & with very little sauce...hmmm makes me hungry! the aroma is just appetizing!
but my real favorite is sinigang! specially shrimp sinigang... i just like its sour taste and a little chili...hehe & lechon manok! (roated/grilled chicken) haha i don't know but i really like chicken!
my husband loves kare -kare more than anything else!
i like dried fish & sinangag (fried rice) in the morning with coffee! haha
and also those street foods you mention i also like them... isaw (pork intestine) is one of my favorites but i don't usually buy on streets coz im afraid of the disease that i can get...i just bought those if i know the vendor & saw how it was prepared...and don't forget the kwek kwek! (quail eggs)@kareendj (254)
• Philippines
25 Oct 09
Kare-Kare with Bagoong, OMG. I forgot about that, one of my favorites as well. Dried fish paired with Champorado's yummy as well. I also don't buy Isaw just about anywhere else. I buy it from my trusted vendors. Haha! :)) Kwek-kwek though I am not fond of ever since I knew that each quail egg is equivalent to one regular chicken egg.
@aerous (13434)
• Philippines
27 Oct 09
Yup! My friend, I am proud to say that Filipino foods is the best among the food in the world...Even if I will travel in other country I will carry Filipino foods because I feel at home and have those in our belongings whatever country we go...Have a nice day!
@neelianoscet (9615)
• Philippines
25 Oct 09
My favorite food and my specialty that I know to cook is adobo wahtever meats I like it. I like the balance of taste the combination of sweetness and sour, then just add quil eggs, pineapple, or coconut milk then a lot of onions, the adobo could be serves with different styles and aromas.
@EARLZHAN (934)
• Philippines
26 Oct 09
Wooh I like the foods the you've mentioned.. They are yummy.. But my favorite Filipino food is Bicol express. It's our especialty in bicol. It's spicy and hot. It helps to boost up your apetite in eating. So when you visit our province. Don't forget to try our famous Bicol express.
@Fulltank (2882)
• Philippines
25 Oct 09
Love to eat tapsilog in the morning. If I missed one, its always available around the corner wrap in banana leaves. Sinigang na buto-buto is also a favorite dish in the whole house. And the combination of fried galunggong and ginisang mongo is one of my favorite too.
@mrfdg1972 (3237)
• Philippines
25 Oct 09
Its Vegetable salad, I don't know if it is a Filipino Food, But if it is not a Filipino food, then my next favorite would be the skin of a litson baboy,,,, huhuhu poor pig.
@jaja22 (88)
• South Korea
25 Oct 09
That's my favorite too. I really love chicken adobo. I love tinapa too. I missed all Filipino foods. I just cook chicken ado, sinigang, or monggo when I missed Filipino foods. Luckily, there is a store where I can buy the recipe near in my house here in Korea. I missed the grilled tahong with butter. Hmmm. yummy. I can say that I love all Filipino foods.
@kareendj (254)
• Philippines
27 Oct 09
Hi jaja22! Thanks for the response :)) So you are based in Korea? That's such a good thing that there's a store nearby that sells Filipino recipes. I'm sure you get homesick sometimes and eating Filipino food would definitely make you feel closer to the Philippines! Have a great day! :))
@mandy0422 (12)
• United States
25 Oct 09
Filipino food? count me in! To name some of my favorites are adobo, paksiw, lechon, sisig, arroz caldo, ginataan, pritong isda, banana cue, camote cue, sinigang & all the street foods! Amen
@maui_gomez_lim (1017)
• Philippines
26 Oct 09
I love kare-kare, sinigang na baboy, halabos na sugpo, ensaladang talong, kalderetang baka, and ensaladang itlog na maalat. =P Normally, when we dine-out, these are what we order.
@cfmedrano (240)
• Philippines
26 Oct 09
nO Doubt!!! my mom's kare-kare: hmmm....ox tail,peanut butter,string beans,eggplant(but i don't eat this),and the star of the show, bagoong (salted little shrimps).yum,yum,yum...makes me hungry and can eat more cups of rice than normal. happy mylotting!
@Ritchelle (3790)
• Philippines
27 Oct 09
i think any food cooked well with the best of ingredients is gooooooood. but even without the best of ingredients i'd drop everything for a kare-kare. that's the most genuis of all recipes .
. @onlinetreasures (106)
• Philippines
26 Oct 09
anything grilled-grilled tuna belly,grilled squid,pork or chicken barbecue. if i'm in a mood for something with sauce kare-kare, caldereta and anything with gata are my top picks.for veggies laing is definitely my favorite. i love to eat but i always do it in moderation to maintain my figure. : )
