Philippine cuisine - is comprise at seafood, pork, chicken, rice, a variety of herbs and spices. Philippine cuisine is often presented as a mild and moderate. White boiled rice is always on the table, it is believed that he replaces bread, which is hardly used. Philippine salads in the kitchen practically no, they consumed mostly intact, or as garnish for meat and fish dishes, but also are part of the complex dishes with rice and meat. But always on the table of sweet-sour sauce, lemon local variety, burning pepper, soy sauce and vinegar traditional local, which in different fields do on its unique recipe. Preparing food at mostly palm oil.
Kitchen is a charming mixture for Malay, Spanish and Chinese cultures. For Filipino food is very important because it is an integral part of the local art and culture.
Morning and afternoon such popular dishes as "merenda" and "pulutan" filed with alcohol. Flambe roasted meat or fish commonly eaten in the evening.
Daily meals, garnish with rice, include meat and vegetables cooked with vinegar and garlic, baked perch, meat broth and large quantities of soups: rice, beef, chicken, liver, bone and intestines, vegetable. Dishes of fish and seafood huge number: fruit flavored broth with shrimp or shellfish, shrimp paste, different pickled fish, including the famous mackerel with vinegar, ginger, onion and chilli pepper in coconut milk, however, the supply of green papaya slices, pickled fish or shrimp paste, and convenient for eating size pieces of pork skin.
Meat dishes are so varied, as well as traditional oriental motifs in these products were subjected to the most heavily influenced by the Spanish traditions. The characteristic dishes are fried chicken "tinola" luxury rice with pork, chicken, seafood, ham, sausages and vegetables, meat rolls "morkon and embutido, boiled in a sour pork broth with vegetables, casserole of pork, chicken and mushrooms with chicken or meat broth, roast chicken with boiled vegetables and curry sauce, the famous stuffed on coal and pig roast, beef tongue in walnut sauce Shape-Shape ", a traditional dish of stewed" adobo "(pickled in vinegar pieces of pork and chicken with garlic , spices and rice), beef bone soup with vegetables "bulalo, stuffed chicken or fish" releno "broth of pork (or fish) and vegetables with Indian figs" sinigang-on-baba, oxen and buffalo meat ( " karabao "), traditionally roasted on coal, and even such exotic dishes, like boiled duck egg to embryo" baluot or dog meat.The various confectionery products - rice cakes, buns and sugar and cheese, sweet sauce soaked fried bananas (in testing, and without), with fruit pies, numerous open with fruit pies, local fruits in syrup (coconuts, santol, guava, mango) dessert of coconut milk and fruit and ice cream famous "halo-halo", which is a mixture of ground ice with fruit pulp and condensed milk.
The traditional drinks are all kinds of drinks, coconut milk "beech and local fruit juices. Hot tea is not accepted to drinking, generally have used a cold drink tea "ice tea" (often it does not even weld, and the use of instant tea factory production). As for coffee, especially its local version of the "barako", enjoys far greater popularity.
Alcoholic beverages generally represented local beer, which of the many varieties of the most famous San Miguel, "a first-class Filipino Roma, a kind of wine fermented coconut milk" tuba ", palm wine, and all kinds of imported wines.
