Filipino Food

Pakumbo

Pakumbo or Pacombo is a sweet treat whose main ingredient is dried coconut.

A local delicacy in Batangas and Aurora provinces, pakumbo is distinctive for being packaged in dried banana bark.

What Muslim Filipinos Have Traditionally Eaten in the Southern Philippines

When the Spaniards came to the Philippines in the sixteenth century, Islam

Mik-mik

The cough and/or choke is the sensation that completes the MikMik Experience.

Hamonado

Meat marinated and cooked in a sweet pineapple sauce.

Stik-O

Stik-O is a popular brand of chocolate-flavored wafer sticks in the Philippines. Recently, there have been newer flavors like ube, strawberry and coconut pandan.

Tanigue

Tanigue with calamansi by Angie Pastor.

Pirurutong / Parirutong

Featured photo taken by Rica R. in Lucban, Quezon. Pirurutong is purple glutinous rice… usually prepared by first grinding into a flour (galapong), then frying as maruya or pancakes.

Kakanin

Biko, Nilupak & Kalamay na Mais by Toyang Noresa.

Kakanin is a whole genre of Filipino delicacies whose main ingredient is usually rice, sometimes corn or a root crop like cassava.

Bibingka

Bibingka is a flat but thick yellow rice cake that was once

Puto Bumbong

Featured photo courtesy of Mayette Garcia.

A popular kakanin (rice delicacy) during the Christmas holidays, puto bumbong is purple-colored rice steamed in bamboo tubes and served with grated coconut and brown sugar.

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