Do you have the tastebud for Filipino Food?
By viking888
@viking888 (390)
Philippines
December 16, 2006 7:34am CST
Do you have the tastebud for Filipino Food? Have you ever tried Pinoy Food? Do you like coconut based food which is very common to Filipino Food?
Filipino food is a concoction of many culinary cultures from countries that had relations with the Philippines in the early 1600's when the Malays, Chinese, then the Spaniards who colonized the nation before the Americans came to the island nation. Thus Filipino cuisine has learned and absorbed these culinary specialties into the local cuisine now loved by many westerners.
Of varied influences, Filipino food is of ;
Malay - aromatic, colorful, tasty, spicy, strong in soy sauce and coconut.
Chinese- light noodles and prepared dim-sum style food designed for large servings and is popular during festivals.
Spanish - splendoured arrangement of seafood, rice and vegetables, heavy soups, rice paper wrapped food etc.
American - breads, cookies, baked items that has it's flavours from the early American cooking.
5 responses
@noyida (795)
• Singapore
6 Feb 07
Ah! Filipino food. Malay food is like filipino food. I know of one dish that use unripe papaya, black pepper and other ingriedient. Infact, a Filipino frens said that a lot of similirities of malay n filipin food. From your posting,I gather it because of the origin of the descendent. Don't know if it is spicy too.
@viking888 (390)
• Philippines
6 Feb 07
Hi Noyida,
Filipino food has a lot of similar food in the region specially the Malay and the Thai food, and even Burmese and Vietnamese food. But you will be surprised that there are a lot of delicacies in the Filipino food that is probably descended or assimilated from the Malay food recipes like those in the central Philippines region. In fact even some of the words are similar in word construction and diction like "kawale", "mangan" and many other Malay sounding words. The use of "coconut" and coconut juice extract is also very much the same for both Malay, Thai, Burmese and Philippine food.
The islands around the Pacific Region used to be linked by land bridges so that is why probably the food is almost similar in these region.
@xtedaxcvg (3189)
• Philippines
2 Feb 07
It's so cool to have a large variety of cooking style associated to our local cuisines. I am proud to say that our food is condsidered world class and it always catches the hearts of many.
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@viking888 (390)
• Philippines
2 Feb 07
You should have mentioned some Filipino food that are quite popular with tourists to the Philippines like pork and chicken adobo, mango desserts, halo-halo, and for the brave, the balut- a duck egg embryo boiled to perfection. What do you say?
@emarie (5442)
• United States
17 Dec 06
i like a big portion of filipino food. my grandma used to cook some, but some things she cooked i just didn't want to eat. i mostly like the filipino desserts...my aunts and my grandmas' friends would always make a nice varity every time there was a party and i pretty much grew up with it.
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@viking888 (390)
• Philippines
2 Feb 07
Well emarie, you must be finicky eater of Filipino food. The variety somehow should fill your desires when the desserts are laid out on the table. Judging from your story, you must be a Filipino but has limited taste bud for Filipino food.
@bestfriends (876)
• Australia
11 Feb 07
I like all kinds of food. I do eat almost everything as long as they are not moving. Some vegetables I don't when not cook right. I like dinuguan and pansit my favorite. I like banana cue as well. I like bread but should have peanut butter on it. They are my favorites.
@chanter (372)
• United States
2 Apr 07
I eat Filipino foods, I'm a Filipino(",) Good thing now is there are lots of Filipino stores, or any other Asian stores here in CA. So it's like still living in the country. My parents can even have tuyo (dried fish) everytimethey want too. What I missed eating is tamarind and fresh green mangoes.
