Filipino Food

Hany Milk Chocolate

Annie’s Hany Milk Chocolate. Photo by Angie Pastor. Ingredients: Philippine peanuts, chocolate, sugar, powdered milk. Comes in thumb-sized bars that smoothly crumble. The other Filipino candy of similar ingredients is CHOCNUT.

Pinggang Pinoy

A visual tool developed by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute to help Filipinos acquire healthy eating habits.

Galunggong

Fried Galunggong by Eva Argenos.

Ube

A root crop used mainly in sweet preparations, ube is a favorite flavor of ice cream and for cakes and pastries. It is also added to halo-halo. The plant that bears ube has the scientific name Dioscorea alata. It has heart-shaped leaves.

Purple Ice Cream?

Passionfruit? Grape? Honey Lavender? Nope! Purple Ice Cream has to be none other than the UBE flavor of the Philippines!

UBE (oo-beh) is Purple Yam… a root crop you dig from under the ground.

Candyman Kendi Mint

Kendi Mint candy is one of the classic hard candies from the Philippines, evoking nostalgic memories in Filipinos of all ages.

Melon Juice

Melon Juice by Mayette M. Garcia.

Cantaloupe is called melon in the Philippines — milón in Tagalog.

Baye-Baye

A delicacy from the Visayas region.

Batwan

These batwan fruits are used as souring agents in Ilonggo cuisine.

Turrones de Casoy

Turrones de Kasoy by Angie Pastor. This Filipino candy is associated with the province of Pampanga. The inspiration is the Spanish turrón, a nougat confection made of honey, sugar and egg white, with nuts. In the Philippines, it’s cashew in these turrones!

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