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.
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.
Fusion in Philippine Cuisine
A casual overview of the history of foreign influences in Philippine cuisine. It is said that 80% of the dishes prepared in Filipino kitchens today can be traced to Spain. The Spaniards introduced tomatoes and garlic along with the technique of sautéing them with onions in olive oil.
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!
Lechon Manok 707 Crackers
Photo of Lechon Manok crackers & Ma’am Inasal ulam crackers by Soundtech27. This is a type of chichirya (munchable junk food). Ingredients: Chicken Flavor, Flour Rice, Salt, Coconut Oil, Hot Chili. Lechon Manok crackers are manufactured by Pan Fisher Enterprise of Caloocan City, Philippines.