What's the best food to eat when you get to the philippines?

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Felicity???

Take your pick:

☻Ampalaya Con Carne Recipe
☻Crispy Pata (Deep-fried marinated pork leg)
☻ Pork Adobo/ Chicken Adobo in Coconut Milk/ Squid Adobo
☻Kaldereta
☻Kare kare
☻Lechon Kawali
☻Lechon de Leche
☻Nilagang Baka (Boiled beef)
☻Pancit Palabok
☻Puchero ( Pochero )
☻Bulalo
☻Chopsuey
☻Seafoods

Actually, these are my fave Filipino foods. lol <*-*>

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Almost the same question, eh?

wolf

taho - its made of soy bean, mixed with caramel and tapioca (sago) every filipino kids grew up with this.

adobo - every region in the phil has its own version it reflects the culture of its origin, you should try at least 3 varieties.

halohalo (look for razon's halohalo) - its a mixture of all sweet deserts with milk and ice, perfect cooler during hot afternoon

suman - snack/desert made of rice cooked with coconut milk, you can mix it with chocolate, fruit jam, caramel, sugar anything.

ripe phil. mango - you'll find the best one only in the philippines

giniling (ground pork/beff) its also widely cooked all over the country, a traditional dish

bicol express - hot hot hot

sisig, every restaurant has this - just watch your cholesterol level. its perfect with beer

philippine's seafood variety - go to DAMPA in baclaran or eastwood, you will buy fresh seafood from the market and they will cook it for you (your choice eg. buttered prawns, scallops with tausi or broccoli, baked mussels with cheese and garlic, lobsters and tilapia)

balut - other people find it weird but if you really want an ultimate filipino gastronomic adventure, you should try it.

this meals wouldn't be a true filipino experience if you eat it alone, make sure you tag along some friends and enjoy it together over a good conversation

have fun!!!

Black Hat

Lechon Baboy - roasted pig
Talaba - oysters
Grilled fish like Bangus and Hito and Tilapia
Porkchop - grilled pork chop
Halo-halo - mixed-mixed :-)
Pochero
Pancit canton
Sago't gulaman drink
Litson Manok (native chicken)
Kinilaw fresh fish
Lugaw
Single-Double
Pares - pairs
Sinigang - shrimp, pork

eezy_jex ®

kc c .... gosh hard question .... a simple but tasty food could be ADOBO (chicken or/and pork) with pineapple tidbits, and raisins to make it special. Chop-suey seafoods would be great if you love veggies. Sinigang na hipon, nilagang baboy I would not reccomend unless there's a great cook to do it (like me). ... for dessert, if you want sweets leche flan (using pure red ducks egg) would be great.... stuffs??? try some durian candy. they maybe small but when its done you'll gonna look for more. they were tasty and not so sweet.

♥wildflower♥

lechon baboy(roasted pig)!!! nothing is more delicious than our very own lechon baboy!

Coy

try balut, and dont miss the hairy chicken embryo.. or the exotic frog dish in pampanga or the dog stew in baguio. yum! yum!

kthor

god each province has own specialty, so much to try out

Mutya P

well, try kare-kare, sinigang na hipon, rellenong bangus, roast pork (Lechon Baboy). Then for dessert......leche flan, halo-halo, puto bumbong, mangoes, durian, halayang ube.
Hmmmmmm...... now I am hungry!!!!!! Ha, ha, ha,.....

Bookworm

Wow! It's great you want to explore your roots :) I will give you a rundown of the famous restaturants and what made them famous. Try halo-halo in Razon's or Chowking. Sisig and crispy pata are a must in Gerry's Grill. Both have branches in Manila. Sonya's Garden in Tagaytay serves good vegetable dishes (veggies are homegrown). Bulalo is also good in Leslie's (in Tagaytay and Alaban Town Center). Kar-kare is good in Country Spice (Tektite Towers, Ortigas Center Pasig City). Chicken bbq (inasal) in any Chicken bacolod or inasal restaurants. Try as well their native chocolate drink (tsokolate).

Yum yum! Enjoy!

I missed:
- Lechon
- Grilled fresh fish like Tangigue and Bangus
- Pochero

2py

why don't you try bulalo or Cansi

sheesh_kebab

shrimp halabos - marinated then boiled shrimps with salted vinegar as dipping sauce (great to eat at the beach).

leche flan - custard dessert, very creamy and very good if made just right :)

kare-kare - oxtail in peanut sauce. very good served with shrimp paste (bagoong). a very filipino dish, best served with steamed white rice.

chicken and pork adobo - staple Filipino food. Very tasty and easy to cook.

bulalo - boiled beef meet, bones and marrow. cooked with some vegetables and served with rice. very homey. great during rainy season coz of the soup. some accompany it with fish sauce or soy sauce with chilli. although, you shouldn't eat this all the time, the marrow, though very very good, is high in cholesterol.

pandesal - Pinoy bread. best eaten hot. buy it early in the nearest panaderia (bakeshop) early morning and you can eat it with cheese, adobo, sardines, eggs or anything you want for breakfast. buy lots. best breakfast.

fried squid - good beer accompaniment or "pulutan" as it's called. served with vinegar dipping sauce. yum.

the list goes on and on... :)

adnagreve

Of course being Spanish.., filipino foods are no difference at all...but for a change, you may try our very own "SISIG" and "ube-macapuno" sweets or "Saging na Saba con Yelo" to name a few...or maybe "Papaitan", "Bicol Express", "Laing", and "Pancit Palabok"...

st. nino

ALL the varieties mentioned. in this answer section. married to a Philipplna who was tayght by her mum!! how to cook, 99% of all the dishes mentioned [ Mum runs a restaurant] proper one NOT a streetstall version!!yet when MUM cooks at HER best THE GOOD OLD gasburner and or charcoal oven/pot I have been told by my doctor, that my cholesterol count will NEVER subside, that i MUST take medicine to keep it down, I WONDER WHY???!!

Redfox06012007

You should try adobo,sinigang and crispy pata. I'm sure you will love it...

bAbY_Gurl26^

filipinos are very well known for their adobo, and in different part of the country there are different variations as well, like the tagalog adobo, its somewhat dry and alittle sour, in bicol its sweet...

I would also recommend a strange but very popular food combination, its dinuguan and puto (some americans refer to them as chocolate soup and white bread), but really it is a viand made up of pork´s blood (but it is really delicious) and the puto is made up of either flour or rice grain...

for dessert I´d go for halo halo as the first answerer said, its like tasting the different regions of the philippines because it is made up of different fruits nuts jellies etc.,..

enjoy and welcome back to the philippines!!^^

Forty Pound Head

I've always been partial to chicken adobo. Panset is also really good.

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Bicol Express!!!

Its Pork...shrimp (small ones) and SPICE and everything Nice!!!

My mom cooks a wicked one! These food makes me sweat!

also try LAING

It has coconut milk and dried gabi leaves..and some spice...I love native foods...

My love for native foods reflects my body...HAHA! ^^

DAN M

im american and had a hard time eating there lol it is the same old foods just fish, pork, and rice lol oh and dont forget the durian smells like hell tastes like heaven they say to me over and over nope it tastes like hell too lol, a question for you what is that wierd sauce they put in everything

peanutz

Philippines specialty, balut, a tonic and aphrodisiac. A must try for visitors.

Boston Mark

Try the BBQ chicken at Big Bens! MMM MMMM MM Yummy yummy yummy.

Ken Totan

Try Wendy's, KFC, Pizza Hut, McDonalds,Starbucks, Baskin Robbins, Dunkin' Donuts!!!!!

well

I would imagine that pound for pound a 3-5 course meal consisting of an uni or brie appetizer with saffron-infused soup followed by a whole lobster dish with black truffle and topped with Black Sea caviar and ended with a delicate dessert at a typical Manila french restaurant would easily top 6000 pesos.

q6656303

my home made spaghetti and irish stew

Subic

Balut is a bit of a shock to westerners. Boiled, fertilised egg, with a partly-formed 10 day old chick inside. Eaten with salt and vinegar.

Best avoid the eyeballs, but the rest is not too revolting in appearance. Tastes delicious though.

Best foods are made in Pampanga (in my opinion).

tranquil

Special halohalo: it has leche flan, ice cream and pinipig among its ingredients. Refreshing on a sunny day.

An even greater treat: special halohalo inside a fresh coconut. Fresh coconut is naturally very sweet, and you may use part of the coconut's shell as a scoop. How cool is that?

philbertpheinstein

You need to go to a sporting goods store and get lots of camping food to take with you. Be sure to boil the water..

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