About Filipino Cuisine
Traditional Filipino cuisine is the result of various cultural influences –from the Indonesians and the Malays who were the first foreign settlers on Philippine shores; from the Spaniards who colonized the Philippines for almost five hundred years; from the Americans and the Japanese who took over from the Spaniards; from the Chinese, the Arabs and the Indians with whom the Filipinos had been trading long before Magellan landed on these islands.
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20 Responses to “About Filipino Cuisine”
can you submit us some of the ilocano dishes or food
Found your site by chance last summer and I have been following it eversince. I had to spend hours reading all your recipes looking for recipes that I have not tried yet. I tried a couple. Bought a couple of cookbooks when I visited the Phil. this month last year after 32 years. Big change for me.
I like your site. Good work! I’ll keep in touch.
justy, what you see here is what you get.
Thank you, Rin. Glad you’re enjoying the blog.
Am looking for wintermelon hopia,the one with flaky pastry outside and the wintermelon looks white and sticky but flavored with banan flavoring.Have found some here in Atlanta but inside is mushy like mung bean and nobanana flavoring and now has seeds on outside.REALLY want the oldkind,can youhelp? Thanks
kindly include Davao cuisines. and how these cuisines differ from the other same cuisines in other places in the Philippines.
How culture shapes our food and taste preferences?
Wow, davao girl, you’re just a spammer and you have the gall to tell me what I should include in my blog. Despite the use of the word “kindly”, and kapal mo. This is a blog, not a public service program. And your URL has been deleted. SPAMMER.
i recently moved to the US and i’ve been reading your blog because i don’t know how to cook and my husband wants to eat filipino food. i want to thank you for the recipes that you have been posting. Malaking tulong talaga sya sa akin.God Bless and Keep up the great work.
Thank you, too, Leira. Am very happy that I am able to reach so many fellow Filipinos is various parts of the world. I guess the blog is my contribution to the effort to keep Pinoys abroad attuned to their roots.
What can I substitute for sili leaves?
thanks
Spinach leaves, Charlie.
Pinoy food is probably the most disgusting food on the planet.
It sometimes hides under the Spanish names of completely different dishes. Full of sugar, vinegar, tinned Kraft cheese (gawd are you mad?) condensed milk and coconut oil (coconut oil is probably the most repulsive of oils- smelly usually rancid and can induce vomiting on the first experience ) This is how very many people describe it. Pinoys know this and still insist the rest of the people on the planet are wrong. Food experts in Phils still don’t know the difference between US style breakfast corned beef and sloppy tinned stuff- very different animal. By the way bacon is cured stop calling thinly sliced belly pork bacon. Beans with ice cream and frozen gelatine- come on! Oh and stop calling battered chicken “buttered chicken”it’s a hell of a shock for people who know what butter is. Chicken feet on sticks! Gawd help us!
Hi Bingo. You’re stupid. Bye.
I agree with you Connie. Bingo’s stupid.
And from the way he writes, he ain’t even American.
Probably one of them Filipinos who think they’re not Filipinos anymore just because they live in America. Geez.
Hi Mark. Whatever Bingo’s nationality, he’s stupid.
I think Bingo doesn’t know how delicious Filino cuisine is. Bingo , expand your horizon please. You’re pathetic.
…Bingo, there are a lot of disgusting food around the world…
buffalo testicles?, cow brain? i\ve even seen 2 mature english guys chew some animal dung and spit it somewhere and hell, they call it a SPORT!?!?
I’ve seen a shop somewhere in US selling grasshoppers and worms like confectioneries..
come on!
“Full of sugar, vinegar, tinned Kraft cheese (gawd are you mad?) condensed milk and coconut oil (coconut oil is probably the most repulsive of oils- smelly usually rancid and can induce vomiting on the first experience )” there is something called culture in which creates a diversity between groups of people…
if i would speak like the way u are i would say: ” The western has potato or corn as staple food?? What the hell??”
any davao’s cuisines???? or recipes plzzzz……
Bingo… if you can’t say anything nice, it would be better to say nothing at all. Didn’t your parents teach you any manners? Your comments were uncalled for and just a nuisance. Let the people who enjoy Connie’s site (like me) enjoy it. And let people like you disappear from the face of this earth! If you don’t like Filipino food, then scram! Off you go! We don’t need you here.
Connie, you are doing a great job! I have tried some of your recipes and I enjoy reading your blogs. Keep up the good work!
I worked at a military base for 2 1/2 years as a Federal Civilian Admin, and geeh, once a new “marine” cross my path (they have too or else they won’t get in the base), and found out I’m a Filipino, they asked if I cook “lumpia” and if I say yes, they when I will bring some. And then later, at the office, our battalion Commander and other officers wait patiently till I bring to work some “Pinoy” food for me to share to them. They ALL love Filipino dishes, they say its different from any other Oriental food they had. Also when they find out I am a native Filipino, they just give a warm smile and thank me for being one, and not try to look like western’ized.
who is bingo by the way???