Filipino Food

Latundan

One of the three popular banana varieties in the Philippines

Diolyn's Bakery: Special Hopia (Ube Flavor)

Hopia are inexpensive Filipino pastries filled usually with either munggo (dark beans) or kundol (white gourd cooked in lard to pass as baboy or pork). It was introduced by Fukienese immigrants from southern China.

Buto Ng Kalabasa

Pumpkin seeds? More like squash seeds!

Kalabasa = squash

Sigarilyas

Photo of Sigarilyas by Angie Pastor.

Sigarilyas (winged bean) is one of the vegetables mentioned in the popular Filipino folk song Bahay Kubo. It is also known as kalamismis in Tagalog and as parlang or pallang in northern Luzon.