Filipinos usually serve at least one main course accompanied by rice for lunch and dinner. At times you would have two with a vegetable dish accompanying a meat dish. On special occasions such as fiestas, several main dishes would be served. Soups are also often the main course apart from being a starter. It is not uncommon for Filipinos to douse their rice with the soup and eat the meat that came with the soup alongside.<\/p>\n
Here is a list of popular Philippine dishes:<\/p>\n
Adobo<\/b>: pork or chicken marinated in garlic, soy sauce and vinegar<\/p>\n
Afritada<\/b>: meat stew with green peppers, onions, tomatoes, and potatoes<\/p>\n
Bagoong<\/b>: fermented paste made from small fish, sometimes shrimp<\/p>\n
Kare-kare<\/b>: ox tail stew with banana blossoms cooked in a peanut sauce<\/p>\n
Escabeche<\/b>: sweet and sour fish dish<\/p>\n
Lumpia<\/b>: spring roll<\/p>\n
Menudo<\/b>: ox tail stew with chickpeas<\/p>\n
Pansit<\/b>: noodles<\/p>\n
Pinakbet<\/b>: vegetable dish cooked with bagoong<\/i><\/p>\n
Arroz Caldo<\/b>: rice porridge with chicken<\/p>\n
Kaldereta<\/b>: goat stew<\/p>\n
Kilawin<\/b>: raw fish<\/p>\n
Daing<\/b>: dried fish<\/p>\n
Dinengdeng<\/b>: boiled vegetables with bagoong<\/i><\/p>\n
Dinuguan<\/b>: blood pudding with internal organs<\/p>\n
Embutido<\/b>: porkloaf sausage<\/p>\n
Estofado<\/b>: beef stew with beans, carrots and tomatoes<\/p>\n
Ginataan<\/b>: cooked with gata<\/i> (coconut milk)<\/p>\n
Inihaw<\/b>: barbecued<\/p>\n
Laing<\/b>: taro leaves cooked in gata<\/i><\/p>\n
Longaniza<\/b>: sweet-and-sour pork sausage<\/p>\n
Mechado<\/b>: beef and onions cooked with tomato sauce<\/p>\n
Paksiw<\/b>: stew of fish marinated in vinegar<\/p>\n
Pinakbet<\/b>: vegetable dish cooked with bagoong<\/i><\/p>\n
Pochero<\/b>: chicken and pork stew with bananas and vegetables<\/p>\n
Relyenong bangus<\/b>: stuffed milkfish<\/p>\n
Sinaing<\/b>: boiled rice<\/p>\n
Sinangag<\/b>: fried rice<\/p>\n
Sinigang<\/b>:<\/b> sour stew (the souring ingredient usually tamarind or kamias<\/i>)<\/p>\n
Tapa<\/b>: seasoned dried meat<\/p>\n
Tinola<\/b>: chicken stew with papaya<\/p>\n
Tokwa<\/b>: tofu<\/p>\n
Torta<\/b>: omelet<\/p>\n
Ukoy<\/b>: fried shrimp cakes<\/p>\n
Drinks in the Philippines are not only a necessary complement to meals, but also help beat the tropical heat. As with their food, Filipinos often incorporate local produce into beverages to create tasty and refreshing concoctions.<\/p>\n
Tropical fruits usually made into shakes are mango, dalandan, pomelo, pineapple, banana, and guyabano. This variety makes it possible to produce different tastes; from sweet, tangy, citrusy, along with many other unique flavors.<\/p>\n
Filipinos also enjoy the coconut-infused hard liquor known as lambing and gin cocktails mixed with pineapple juice or citrus fruit juice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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