Popular Filipino Dishes

To help familiarize our website’s visitors with Filipino food in an easy way, we’ve drawn up a simple list of a few Philippine dishes and foodstuff commonly eaten in the Philippines. We’re still working on adding more pronunciation audio and photos. Do remember to check back soon! 

 Adobo: pork or chicken marinated in soy sauce and vinegar

 balutduck egg with a developed embryo

Bagoong

 Bagoong: fermented paste made from small fish or tiny shrimps

 Pansit: Chinese-influenced noodles

Sinigang na Hipon

 Sinigang: sour stew, with the souring ingredient usually being tamarind

Bicol Express (iconic dish of the Bicolano people)

Bicol Express: pieces of pork stewed in gata (coconut milk) with sili

Filipino Lumpia with sawsawan

Lumpia: spring roll / eggrolls

Longganisa: Filipino sausages

Longganisa: sausages

Tapsilog: combination of tapa (dried meat), sinangag (fried rice) and itlog (egg); a popular Filipino breakfast

Tortang Talong (Eggplant “Omelet”)

Torta: omelet

Tinola: chicken stew with papaya

Afritada: meat stew with green peppers, onions, tomatoes, and potatoes

Kare-kare: ox tail stew with banana blossoms cooked in a peanut sauce

Escabeche: sweet and sour fish dish

Menudo: ox tail stew with chickpeas

Pinakbet: vegetable dish cooked with bagoong

Arroz Caldo: rice porridge with chicken

Kaldereta: goat stew

Kilawin: raw fish

Daing: dried fish

Dinengdeng: boiled vegetables with bagoong

Dinuguan: blood pudding with internal organs

Embutido: porkloaf sausage

Estofado: beef stew with beans, carrots and tomatoes

Ginataan: cooked with gata (coconut milk)

Inihaw: barbecued

Laing: taro leaves cooked in gata

Mechado: beef and onions cooked with tomato sauce

Paksiw: stew of fish marinated in vinegar

Pochero: chicken and pork stew with bananas and vegetables

Relyenong bangus: stuffed milkfish

Sinaing: boiled / steamed rice

Sinangag: fried rice

Tapa: seasoned dried meat

Tinapa: smoked fish

Tokwa: tofu

Ukoy: fried shrimp cakes

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