TOP 5 FILIPINO FOOD THAT YOU SHOULD TRY!
1. Lechon
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Lechon is derived from Spanish word means roasted suckling pig, it is one of the most popular food in the Philippines. Lechon is usually stuffed inside with lemongrass, garlic, onion, chives and other spices. It is slowly cooked in a large bamboo over a charcoal.
Lechon is traditionally served at different celebration and festive events, it is served with liver sauce and if there is leftover it can cook again called lechon paksiw. It's cooked by simmering the left over meat from lechon with vinegar, soy sauce, peppercorns, bay leaves, salt and liver sauce.
2. Adobo
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Adobo is a popular in traditional Filipino food, it has a different way of cooking and version. The meat can be pork or chicken with a mixture of vinegar, soy sauce, bay leaf, salt and pepper, it can be marinated or slowly cook. This dish can be found in different restaurants and when you smell it, if feels like home.
3. Sinigang
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Sinigang is a Filipino sour tamarind-based soup, it is considered as a comfort food of Filipino because of its sourness. This dish consists of meat, it can be pork, bangus (milk fish), shrimp or beef. Also, vegetables such as, kang kong (water spinach), labanos (radish), onion, gabi (taro), okra and eggplant. Siling haba or green long peppers can add if they want some spice.
4. Bulalo
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Bulalo is one of the most favorite dishes in the Philippines, it is a beef boiled soup comprised with beef shanks and bone marrow. It includes with pechay, corn cob, scallions, potatoes, peppercorn, fish sauce, Also, it is one of the comfort food especially during cold and rainy days.
5. Sisig
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Sisig is a Kapampangan delicacy, but as time goes by it can be eaten as a viand partner with rice and pulutan (beer food) and served on sizzling plate. It comprises pig mask, ears and pork belly, siling labuyo (red chili pepper), siling haba (green long pepper), calamansi juice or lemon juice and topped with a raw egg.









