Filipino Dishes

Hearty, delicious and authentic

Kinilaw is a raw seafood dish native to the Philippines, similar to
ceviche. It is more accurately a cooking process that relies on
vinegar to denature the ingredients, rather than a dish, as it can
also be used to prepare meat and vegetables.
 Ginataan is a Filipino food cooked with 'gata' and
vegetables or even with seafoods or meats.
Kare-kare is a Philippine stew complemented with a thick savory peanut
sauce. It is made from a variation base of stewed oxtail, pork hocks, calves
feet, pig feet, beef stew meat, and occasionally offal or tripe.
 Chicken inasal, commonly known as Inasal, is a local variant roast
chicken marinated in a mixture of lime, pepper, vinegar and annato then
grilled over hot coals while basted with the marinade. It is served with rice,
vinegar and soy sauce.
 Gising-gising is a Pinoy vegetable dish made
with coconut milk and chilies.
Crispy pata is a Filipino dish consisting of deep fried pig trotters
or knuckles served with a soy-vinegar dip. It can be served as
party fare or an everyday dish.
 Bulalo is a beef dish from the Philippines. It is a light colored soup
that is made by cooking beef shanks and marrow bones until the collagen
and fat has melted into the clear broth. Bulalo is native to the Southern
Luzon region of the Philippines.
Bicol Express is a popular Filipino dish which was popularized in the district
of Malate, Manila but made in traditional Bicolano style. It is a stew made
from long chilies, coconut milk, shrimp paste or stockfish, onion, pork, and
garlic.
 Arroz caldo is a hearty Filipino congee made with chicken and
rice and seasoned with onion, garlic, ginger, and fish sauce and
topped with crunchy fried garlic.