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achuete, atswete adobo adobado agahan agkud alak alibangbang alimango alimasag alugbati ampalaya anonas apa apahap aratiles arroz caldo atis ayungin B. babaylan bacalao (a la Vizcania) balbakwa bag-o bagoong bahal, bahalina bakuli balangay balimbing balut balut sa puti banak bangus baon barilis batsoy batuan baya bayabas baye-baye bayawak beche-de-mer betute bia, biya bibingka bignay high priest/priestess in the native religion (Spanish) salted codfish cooked in the style of Biscayne in Luzon, salted fish; in Mindanao, a meat stew (Waray) tuba newly taken from the coconut salted, fermented fish or shrimp paste/sauce fermented tuba weeks, months, or years old ophicephalus striatus, murray fingerling balanghay, a sailboat with 12-16 rowers averrhoa carmbola, star fruit, carambola a fertilized duck's egg 16-19 days old, balut sa puti is still wrapped in white membrane and thus literally "wrapped in white", which is what the phrase means family magulidae, mullet chanos chanos, milk fish a food package from home taken to work or school (Davao Bisayan) neothunnus macropterus, yellowfin tuna a dish of pork internal organs in broth garcinia morella, a small sour green fruit with a large seed high-grade rice wine (tapuy) from the Cordillera psidium guajava, guava (Ilonggo) a snack made of pinipig (young rice, pounded) and young coconut monitor lizard (French) sea slug, trepang, sea cucumber (Pampango) a dish of stuffed frog family gobiidae, goby a rice cake often garnished with salted eggs and carabao (water buffalo) milk cheese antidesma bunius, Chinese laurel bixa orellana, annato seed; also called lipstick plant a dish of meat, seafood or vegetables cooked in vinegar and spices cooked in vinegar and spices breakfast (Manobo) a liquor made from rice, corn, cassava or sorghum the generic Tagalog term for liquor or wine bauhinia malabarica, butterfly-shaped leaves from a tree used for souring mud crab blue crab bassela alba, Ceylon spinach momordica charantia, bittermelon or bitter gourd annona reticulata, custard apple, bullock heart wafer, also cone for ice cream lates calcarifer, silver sea bass muntingia calabura, a little cherry-like wild fruit rice gruel cooked with chicken, often flavored with kasubha annona squamosa, sugar apple datnia plumbea, silver perch

binubudan binuro bodbod brazo de mercedes buan-buan bukayo bulalo bulalohan buuelos de viento burong isda buwad C. cadera caldero caldereta callos con garbanzos camachille camaron rebozado camote canonigo carajay carinderia, karinderia champurrado chicharron chico chorizo churros cocido D. dahon bawang daing dalag dayap de recado dikin dilao, dilaw dinuguan at puto duhat dulang durian E. embutido ensaimada

(Ilokano) yeast for rice wine (Ilonggo) fish salted in layers (Cebuano) glutinous rice cooked iwth coconut milk and wrapped in banana leaf a meringue roll with an egg filling megalops cyprinoides, tarpon a sweet made from mature coconut kneecap; a dish of this and other beef bones and meats boiled with vegetables the eateries that offer boiled bulalo (Spanish) wind puff, a pastry served with syrup fish fermented with rice (Cebuano) dried salted fish

(Spanish) sirloin (Spanish) cooking pot (Spanish) goat stew (Spanish) tripe cooked with chick peas pithecellobium dulce, kamachille, Madras thorn fruit (Spanish) batter-fried shrimp, a Chinese dish ipomoea batatas, sweet potato (Spanish) a dessert of meringue with an egg-butter sauce a native frying pan with a rounded bottom, a wok a low-priced eating place, often at roadsides or markets a dish of rice cooked with chocolate crackling made from pork, beef, or carabao skin manilkara zapote, a brown sweet fruit with black seeds (Spanish) sausage (Spanish) fluted breakfast crullers usually taken with chocolate (Spanish) a stew of mixed meats, sausages, and vegetables

the leaves of the garlic plant, allium sativum fish split open, salted, and dried ophicephalus striatus, murrel citrus aurantifolia, lime (Spanish) spiced; in the Philippines, it refers to spicy sausages the woven rattan ring on which the round-bottomed palayok is set to stand curcuma domestica, turmeric a dish of blood stew with steamed rice cakes syzygium kumini, Java plum a low table, formerly for dining durio zybethinus, a fruit with a strong smell

(Spanish) a ground pork roll (Spanish) a brioche-like roll that is buttered, sugared, and cheese-sprinkled

escabeche G. gabi galletas gata' ginataan guisa, mag-guisa guisar guyabano H. halabos halo-halo hamonado hapunan hibe hipon at kasuy hojaldres humba I. inday-inday inihaw inihaw na panga inuman inumin inun-unan itlog J. jamon jamon en dulce jamonado K. kadyos kaimito, caimito kakang gata kakanin kalamansi kalan kalkag

(Spanish) fish cooked with vinegar, garlic, onions, and ginger

colocasia esculenta, taro root (Spanish) very thin biscuits coconut milk cooked in coconut milk; the dishes so cooked to saut (Spanish) to saut annona muricata, soursop

to steam shrimps or prawns in their own juice a mixture of sweetened beans and fruits topped with crushed ice or ice cream; a refresher served in a tall glass ham-cured; usually referring to sausages supper, dinner small shrimps, peeled and dried shrimps cooked with cashew nuts (Spanish) a thin pastry, sometimes of puff paste a dish of stewed pork

(Ilonggo) a snack made of glutinous rice and coconut roasted, charcoal-broiled or grilled roasted or charcoal-broiled jaw of yellowfin tuna a drinking session a drink (could be plain water, soda, beer, juice, wine) taken together with a meal (Cebuano) fish cooked in vinegar; in Tagalog, paksiw egg

(Spanish) ham (Spnaish) ham cooked in and/or coated or glazed with sugar (Spanish) ham-cured

cadjanus cadjan, pigeon pea chrusophillum caimito, star apple coconut cream snacks, light cakes, usually made of rice citrus madurensis, a small lime indigenous to the Philippines; also called Chinese orange, Panama orange a clay stove for wood or charcoal fuel (Ilonggo) tiny shrimps, lightly salted and dried

kamachille kamaru kamayan kamias kanduli kangkong kaong kari kari-kari karihan karinderia kasim kasubha kasuy katuray kawa kesong puti kinchay kinilaw kiping kolis kulitis kundol kutsay kutsinta L. lagundi laksoy lakub lambanog langkawas lanzones lapu-lapu laswa lawot-lawot leche flan lechon, letson lechon manok lengua estofada liempo lina lomi lomo longaniza lugaw

see camachille (Pampango) mole cricket eating with hands instead of Western utensils (see comic strip below) averrhoa bijimbi, a small acidic fruit family ariidae, sea catfish ipomoea aquatica, swamp cabbage, also called potato vine the fruit of a sugar palm pre-cooked food a stew of ox tail/feet/tripe with vegetables and a sauce thickened with ground roasted peanuts and rice an eatery selling pre-cooked food an eatery selling pre-cooked food lean pork, picnic the dried stigmas of a plant, used for coloring and flavoring food; a kind of saffron anacardium occidentale, cashew sesbania grandiflora, a white flower used in salads a vat used for cooking large amounts of food literally "white cheese", a cottage cheese made of carabao's (water buffalo) milk apium graveolens, Chinese celery a dish of fish, seafood, meat or vegetables dressed with vinegar or lime juice, but not cooked over fire a rice wafer used for decoration in Lucban and other towns in Quezon pisonia alba, lettuce tree, also called maluko in Tagalog amarnthus viridis, slender amaranth benicasa hispida, wax gourd allium odorum, Chinese chives a little cake made of steamed mixture of sugar, rice, lye

vitex negundo, a medicinal plant liquor distilled form the sap of a nipa palm the bamboo tube attacked to the coconut bud to catch the sap for tuba liquor distilled from the sap of coconut palm galingale, galenggal lansium domesticum, a small fruit that grows in bunches, with translucent flesh in segments enclosing seeds family serranidae, grouper (Ilonggo) a dish of mixed leafy, pod and fruit vegetables steamed with bagoong and dried shrimps (Waray) a dish of mixed leafy, pod, and fruit vegetables (Spanish) milk custard; creme caramel (Spanish) pig; in the Philippines, split-roasted pig chicken roasted on a split (Spanish) stewed ox tongue pork belly (Ilonggo) newly-gathered tuba wide noodles in broth (Spanish) beef loin (Spanish) long sausage rice porridge or gruel

lumpia M. macapuno mameng, maming mami manamis-namis marang mazapan mechado menudo merienda merienda-cena minoron miso mole morisqueta tostada munggo musang mustasa N nata de coco nilaga P paella pahiyas

Chinese-style eggroll; meat and/or vegetables wrapped in thin crepe

sport coconut family labridae, wrasse a dish of noodles, chicken or beef, and broth (adjective) mildly sweet, not the sweetness of sugar but of freshness artocarpus odoratissima, a large aromatic fruit containing segements each enclosing a seed (Spanish) marzipan (Spanish) beef cooked with pork lardoons a stew dish of diced pork, chicken, sausage, potatoes, carrots, peas, and tomato sauce usually eaten with rice on the side a mid-afternoon snack a late afternoon meal; an early supper or dinner a snack of glutinous rice cooked with a streak of chocolate soybean cake or mash (Spanish) a Mexican dish of chicken cooked with peanuts (Spanish) rice fried with vegetables and other condiments phaseolus aureus, green mung bean civet cat brassica juncea v. integrifola, mustard greens

a sweet made by growing a culture on coconut water boiled; a dish of boiled beef, or pork, or chicken, and vegetables

(Spanish) a dish of rice cooked with meats and/or seafood and vegetables the feast of San Isidro Labrador on May 15, celebrated in Lucban, Quezon by decorating the houses with food. In Madrid, Spain, the same feast is celebrated on the same day, and San Isidro Labrador is also the patron saint of Madrid. arthyrium esculentum, edible fern a dish cooked in vinegar and garlic pork trotters cooked in vinegar unhusked rice a round-bottomed clay pot small cakes made from glutinous rice

pako paksiw paksiw na pata palay palayok palitaw

pan de sal, de limon, de coco, de leche, (Spanish) bread respectively with salt, lemon, coconut, and milk; sliced loaf bread americano pandan panga panghimagas pancit, pansit pandanus odoratissimus, screw pine literally jaw; the jaw of yellowfin tuna dessert; a sweet taken after meals a dish of noodles and shrimps, fish, meat, or vegetables, with many variations, e.g., luglog (shaken in hot water, flavored with sauce), molo (with pork-filled wontons and broth), Malabon (with shrimps, oysters, and squid), habhab (eaten off a banana leaf), Canton (with egg noodles), bihon (with rice noodles), buko (with coconut strips instead of noodles) peperomia pellucida, a scculent herb, the leaves of which have medicinal properties literally "for pushing"; refers to drinks, which "push" the pulutan down

pansit-pansitan pantulak, panulak

pasalubong pastel de pollo pastillas pata tim patis patola patupat pavo embuchado pesa pesang manok pescado en salsa agrio-dulce petsay pili pinya, pia pimientos morrones pinais pinakbet pinamalhan pinapaitan pinaupong manok pochero polvoron postre puchero pulutan punta y pecho pusu puto puto bumbong R relleno rellenong alimasag rellenong manok rellenong bangus S sa malamig sahog salabat saluyot sangke santol sapin-sapin sarten sawa

a gift brought home from a trip (Spanish) a chicken pie; a dish of chicken with crust (Spanish) pastilles; usually pastillas de leche, sweets made of milk a Chinese dish of stewed pork leg fish sauce luffa cylindrica, sponge gourd (Ilokano) a rice cake wrapped in banana leaf (Spanish) stuffed turkey a dish of fish or chicken cooked with vegetables, often served with a miso sauce (Spanish) fish in a sweet and sour sauce brassica chinesis, pakchoy, bokchoy canarium ovatum, a hard nut indigenous to the Philippines, with an oil-rich kernel pineapple (Spanish) red bell peppers a dish native to Quezon province, of shrimps and coconut wrapped in banana leaf and steamed in coconut water a dish of Ilokano origin, of ampalaya, okra, eggplants, and tomatoes steamed with fish bagoong (Ilonggo) fish cooked in vinegar, which is allowed to evaporate (Ilokano) a dish of goat meat with goat bile chicken steamed in a bed of salt (Spanish) a stew of mixed meats, sausages and vegetables with tomatoes a sweet of powdery texture made of powdered milk and sugar (Spanish) dessert a native stew of meat, sausage and vegetables with an eggplant relish any cooked dish (meat, chicken, pork, seafood) taken with beer, wine, liquor during a drinking session; could also be nuts; a pulutuan is similar to Spanish tapas-tapas (Spanish) beef brisket rice cooked in a fist-sized woven-leaf basket; "travelling" or "hanging" rice steamed rice cake a cylindrical cake of violet rice (pirurutung) steamed upright in a bamboo tube

(Spanish) stuffed food, dish crab sauteed and stuffed into the crab shell stuffed chicken milkfish stuffed with its own flesh that has been sauteed

cold drinks sold at streetside the shrimps, meat, etc. used to flavor vegetables or noodle dish ginger tea/brew corchorus olitorius, Jew's mallow star anise sandoricum koetjape, a fruit with a thick rind and pulp enclosing whitish, furry seeds, sour-sweet in taste a rice sweet of blanc-mange consistency, made of several layers, usually of different colors (Spanish) frying pan snake; python or boa constrictor

sayote shawarma sili sinalok sinampalukang manok sinangag sineguelas, sinegwelas sinigang singkamas solasi, sulasi solomillo sotanghon guisado suam suha suki sugpo suman T tabon-tabon tagay, tagayan, tagatagayan, tagaytagay taho tahuri talbos tamales tanghalian tanglad tapa tapey tapoi tapuy tausi, tawsi tilapia tinapa tinolang manok tinowa tocino toge, togue tokwa torta de cangrejo torta del rey tortilla de patatas tuba tupig tuyo

sechium edule, chayote, mirliton pear a Middle Eastern snack of sliced meat (beef, lamb, chicken) and condiments served with pita bread capsicum annuum, chili (Cebuano) a steamed corned cake eaten with kinilaw chicken cooked with tamarind leaves and sprouts garlic-fried rice spondias purpurea, Spanish plum a stew of meat/fish/seafood and vegetables in a sour broth pachyrrhizus erosus, yambean ocimum sanctum, holy basil (Spanish) tenderloin mungbean noodles sauteed with meats and vegetables soups and dishes made of rice water citrus grandis, pomelo a vendor from whom one buys regularly; also a regular customer prawn a rice cake from glutinous rice, often wrapped in palm or banana leaves

hydrophytune orbiculatum, a fruit, the juice of which is used in kinilaw, and for finishing baskets the measure, the practice, and the one in charge of drinking at a drinking session a drink made of soybean curd and syrup soy bean cake the young sprouts or tendrils of squash, camote or sayote plants a rice cake flavored with peanuts, pork, eggs, etc. and wrapped in banana leaves the noon meal; lunch cymbopogon citratus, lemon grass slices or strips of dried meat; tapang usa is dried venison (Manobo) the yeast for making rice wine (Igorot) the yeast for making rice wine (Igorot) rice wine salted soybeans tilapia zili, a fast-growing fish smoked fish a dish of chicked cooked with vegetable (green papaya, chili leaves) and broth (Cebuano) a dish of fish and vegetables in a lightly soured broth (Spanish) salt pork; in Tagalog or Pampango it is sweet cured pork mung bean sprouts firm soy bean curd, also fried soy bean curd (Spanish) crabmeat cooked with egg (Spanish) a cake of many thin layers (Spanish) potato omelet palm toddy (Ilocano) a kind of rice cake wrapped in banana leaves whole fish, dried and salted

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