ABOUT FILIPINO FOOD

It’s been estimated that between 50 and 90 percent of the Philippine population are lactose intolerant.

Featured photo by Angie Pastor.

Media Noche in the Philippines is New Year’s Eve, during which everyone looks forward to the large spread of food to feast on. 🙂

Milkee Polvoron is a product of Rebisco (Republic Biscuit Corporation). More information about pulburon and the Milkee brand to be posted on this page soon. Please do check back!

House of Polvoron (HOP) is one of the most prominent brands of pulburon in the Philippines. The company describes pulburon on the product packaging as “powdered-milk candies” and has the tagline: “What POLVORON should BE.”

Bibingka is a flat but thick yellow rice cake that was once a mainstay only during the “cold” months of the Christmas season in the Philippines. It is traditionally cooked (“baked”) in a mold lined with banana leaves and then served with a topping of grated coconut.

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.

Binanging Saging is “Inihaw na Saging” (grilled banana). The banana used is often the fat saba variety.

Tapa + Sinangag + Itlog (dried meat + fried rice + egg)

The Tagalog word halabos means to cook in salt and water by boiling until all the liquid has evaporated.

Galantina is boned poultry, sometimes meat, stuffed and shaped into a roll and cooked in a gelatin stock.

Featured photo is of Morcon made in Bataan in February 2016.

Morcon (Murkon in Tagalog orthography) is a popular holiday dish during the Christmas season in the Philippines. It is a meat roll stuffed with sausage or hotdogs, carrots, pickles, cheese, and egg.

Photo by Angie Pastor.

Ampalaya is the Tagalog word for this vegetable called “bitter gourd” in English.

Photo by Angie Pastor of Dahon ng Ampalaya (Bitter-Gourd Leaves).

Can be used in chicken tinola or sauteed with other ingredients, such as with mung beans.

Photos by SuperNam25… Binutong is a native treat from Bicol province… Here seen wrapped and arranged on a bilao.

Goldilocks is a Philippine company with bakeshop locations throughout its home country and overseas.

The company has been around for more than four decades and is considered a Philippine institution.

Pinangat na Kitang by Leon Natalie.

In Philippine cuisine, kitang is the name of a fish, while pinangat is the method of cooking by simmering with vinegar.

Featured photo by ohlanv235.

The fish called sapsap in Tagalog belongs to the family Leiognathidae. It is often identified by the scientific name Gazza achlamys.

In English, it’s been called slipmouth fish or ponyfish.

Spaghetcharon by Jeric Travis

Yes… it’s spaghetti with chicharon. 😛