Filipino Food

Hamonado

Meat marinated and cooked in a sweet pineapple sauce.

Granny Goose Kornets

Witch’s hand! Every Filipino must have had some fun in fitting a kornet on each finger of a hand.

Granny Goose Kornets are very crunchy and addictive cone-shaped snacks. 😛

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.

Queso de Bola

Ball of Edam cheese that’s a staple of the Filipino Christmas table

Media Noche

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. 🙂

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