Menu 1
Description: The unofficial national dish of the Philippines.
Ingredients: Chicken or pork, vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, bay leaves, peppercorn.
Style: Savory, tangy, and garlicky.
Adobo
Description: A sour tamarind-based soup.
Ingredients: Pork, shrimp, or fish, with kangkong, radish, tomatoes, and tamarind.
Style: Comforting and sour.
Sinigang
Description: Whole roasted pig with crispy skin.
Ingredients: Whole pig, lemongrass, garlic, soy sauce.
Style: Party favorite with crispy, juicy meat.
Lechon
Description: Tofu and pork in vinegar-soy sauce dip.
Ingredients: Fried tofu, pork ears or belly, onions, soy-vinegar dip.
Style: Tangy, crunchy, savory.
Tokwa’t Baboy
Description: A peanut-based stew.
Ingredients: Oxtail, tripes, eggplant, banana heart, peanut sauce.
Style: Thick and rich, often served with bagoong (shrimp paste).
Kare-Kare
Description: Stir-fried egg noodles.
Ingredients: Noodles, pork, shrimp, vegetables, soy sauce.
Style: Festive, colorful, and savory.
Pancit Canton
Description: Sizzling chopped pig's face and ears.
Ingredients: Pork face, liver, calamansi, chili, onions.
Style: Crunchy, savory, and tangy.
Sisig
Description: Ginger-based chicken soup.
Ingredients: Chicken, green papaya, malunggay, ginger.
Style: Light and nutritious.
Tinolang Manok
Description: Bone marrow soup from Batangas.
Ingredients: Beef shank, bone marrow, corn, cabbage.
Style: Comfort food, hearty and beefy.
Bulalo
Description: Spicy coconut-based dish.
Ingredients: Pork, shrimp paste, coconut milk, chili.
Style: Creamy and spicy.
Bicol Express
Description: Cured beef, also part of “Tapsilog”.
Ingredients: Beef, soy sauce, garlic.
Style: Savory and salty.
Tapa
Description: Squash and string beans in coconut milk.
Ingredients: Kalabasa, sitaw, coconut milk, shrimp or pork.
Style: Creamy, sweet-savory.
Ginataang Kalabasa at Sitaw
Description: Taro leaves in spicy coconut milk.
Ingredients: Dried gabi leaves, coconut milk, chili, bagoong.
Style: Rich and earthy.
Laing
Description: Sweet cured pork, usually for breakfast.
Ingredients: Pork, sugar, annatto.
Style: Sticky-sweet and savory.
Tocino
Description: Grilled pork belly.
Ingredients: Pork belly, soy sauce, calamansi, garlic.
Style: Smoky and tender.
Inihaw na Liempo
Description: Fried spring rolls with ground meat.
Ingredients: Ground pork, carrots, onions, garlic, lumpia wrappers.
Style: Crispy, savory party favorite.
Lumpiang Shanghai
Description: Savory pork blood stew.
Ingredients: Pork offal, blood, vinegar, chili.
Style: Bold, tangy, and rich.
Dinuguan
Description: Tomato-based pork stew.
Ingredients: Pork, liver, carrots, potatoes, bell peppers.
Style: Tangy and hearty.
Menudo
Description: Vegetable stew with shrimp paste.
Ingredients: Eggplant, bitter melon, okra, squash, bagoong.
Style: Earthy, savory, and slightly bitter.
Pinakbet
Description: Filipino rice porridge.
Ingredients: Glutinous rice, chicken, ginger, garlic, fish sauce.
Style: Comforting, often eaten when sick or during rainy days.
Arroz Caldo