Pagkaing Pinoy (Filipino Food): Camote atbp - can't live without.
By eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27560)
Philippines
December 6, 2012 4:06am CST
Called my Mommy in California, as I do everyday. Asked her what she had for merienda, and gladly she said Kamoteng Dilaw (sweet potato, the yellow one). Told her I also ate kamoteng ube (sweet potato, the violet one). And she rattled about halayang ube, leche flan, puto at iba pa.
So, my Mommy asked brotherr to bring her to Max's, and there she ordered her favorite kare-kare, crispy pata, bulalo, lumpiang prito, with buko pandan for dessert.
It's just how Filipinos are, can't live without our food, ha ha, wherever we are in the world.
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12 responses
@anne25penn (3305)
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
My Auntie who has lived in Florida for twenty years still looks for our bananas when she comes home. She always says that our bananas and mangoes taste different and nothing beats our homegrown produce
. My brother who has lived in Texas for fifteen years always looks for beef pares when he comes home. Also, they say that our cola or softdrinks taste better. So when family comes home from the US, it's as if they haven't been fed the way that they devour Filipino food.
. My brother who has lived in Texas for fifteen years always looks for beef pares when he comes home. Also, they say that our cola or softdrinks taste better. So when family comes home from the US, it's as if they haven't been fed the way that they devour Filipino food.@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
Peculiar. My relatives also say there is something in our home cooking that makes the food tastier
. Maybe it's in the stirring, 
. Maybe it's in the stirring, 
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
15 Dec 12
My sister in law and friend also said that. Specially the mango, ours are said to be so sweet. 
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
6 Dec 12
All you guys are making me hungry!, OMG Max's! And the " misa de gallo" (rooster mass or midnight mass) is about to begin, the church near our place would be selling all sorts of Philippine delicacies outside
, OMG Max's! And the " misa de gallo" (rooster mass or midnight mass) is about to begin, the church near our place would be selling all sorts of Philippine delicacies outside 1 person likes this
@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
May bibingka at puto bumbong na! Nakabili na kami, hindi yung bibingkinitan sa mall, ha, yung tunay na bagong luto sa uling!
Sorry, friends, di kaya ng English ito. (Joke).
Sorry, friends, di kaya ng English ito. (Joke).@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
, yes and the craving is so hard to explain, there are adaptations and things that make it convenient to have one but nothing beats the the original and the way it was cooked and prepared, it's perhaps because it belongs to a time when the pace of life was slower1 person likes this
@emerillus (467)
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
I remember my friend telling me it is so hard to get her favorite tuyo and rice in Australia because you have to buy it at the Asian store and it is expensive, but she treats herself once in a while. When she visited her home here in the Philippines, she immediately ordered lechon and ate to her hearts content, and then she bought tuyo, and bagoong for lunch and ate all the rice she can eat. We Filipinos surely miss the foods we ate while growing up here.
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
That is the scenario among balikbayan. They eat as if they have not eaten the past ten years. I was also surprised when I discovered my aunt from the East Coast ate up half the casserole of the pochero I prepared. Gosh, I hope she doesn't get to read this.
@jeanneyvonne (5501)
• Philippines
6 Dec 12
If i am going away from the Phils. I will miss pochero (my favorite), sisig, beefsteak and adobo. I will also miss the dirty ice cream and the fish balls. Spaghetti (Filipino style) and pancit will never be my merienda items. I will miss leche flan and pritong lumpia even though they say it is bad for me. I ahve to agree even my mother misses the local verison here of laing.
@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
Your list is also my list, ha ha. But why is lumpiang prito bad for you?
@mrsuniega (786)
• Philippines
6 Dec 12
you are right, Filipinos love to eat and we also love and have the passion in cooking.
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
Do you watch the international cooking shows? Of course we know what is lacking, right away, the moment they show their recipes. 
@maygodblessu44 (7336)
• India
6 Dec 12
Hello my friend eileenleyva Ji,
Well, I always appriciate National Feelings, but my hubby as a soldier lived under adverse conditions and taught me to live under varrying conditions to safe guard ourselves from lot of troubles felt locally. He says ' "WHILE IN ROME, BE LIKE ROMANS'
May God bless You and have a great time
@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
Ha ha, I am sure my countrymen would do their best to adapt and blend with the Romans, but the food, even if we love pasta, would be another story. Filipino food is amalgamation of the most intricate concoctions one can possibly imagine. We have incorporated various cuisines: Arab, Chinese, Spanish, American, etcetera, but it is in how we mix, and taste, and add spice, and taste, and mix, that somehow makes Filipino cuisine one of the most exciting cooking in the world.
If rumor is right, Filipino chefs are lording it over the great kitchens of the world, the White House, for one, and the Kingdom of Brunei, for another. 
@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
Sinigang, nilaga, pesa, paksiw o prito, the Philippine dinner table showcases what good food, and even healthy food, really is.
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
15 Dec 12
That,s true Eileen. Filipinos who are abroad are always craving for Filipino foods.
As my friend in Canada says, there is a Filipino store in their place. Her husband would always buy there and cook Filipino foods, specially laing and veggies cooked in coconut milk with some chillies.
In fact, whenever they are scheduled for a vacation here in the Philippines, her husband and i would keep on talking of eating this and that Filipino foods, once they arrive in the Philippines.
Oh , my Filipinos really love eating , specially their own .
@bluespygirl (2112)
• Philippines
6 Dec 12
Yeah. I know some Filipinos who lived abroad and asked Filipino foods to pack and send to them like dried fish, dried mangoes, bagoong, and even pulvoron!
Wherever Filipinos are in the world, they still find foods that they had been accustomed.
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
My eldest cousin migrated to Vancouver a decade ago. When he came home for a visit, he related that whenever he sees tinapa, he would purchase a pack even for a price, and eat it all in a jiffy.
@neelia27 (896)
• Philippines
6 Dec 12
yeah your right.. even my auntie`s abroad find ways to eat Filipino food.. and if they are here they ate all their favorite Filipino dishes such as green mango with the ever famous bagoong with chili.. tuyo or dried fish with vinegar and fried rice.. oh we really love are Filipino foods..
@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
Bagoong is a table top condiment uniquely Filipino, as well as buro. The world has yet to know these, and when they do, am sure they would understand why we brag so much about our food.
