Bananaque, a popular Filipino street food and a favorite afternoon snack, is skewered fried banana with brown sugar coating.
Saba, or Saging na Saba is used, which is the most common cooking variety of banana in the Philippines.
BUSTOS, Bulacan—”Minasa,” an original food delicacy the rich exclusively prepared for them and their guests and was told as a product borne out of Spanish-inspired houses of the wealthy folks here during the old times which recently have been one of the Overseas Filipino Workers and Balikbayans most favorite Bulacan sweets pasalubong will take center stage recognition during a Minasa Festival here was started last Jan. 16.
One of the all-time favorite “pasalubong” is the Buko pie. This sweet and rich pie is made from young coconut meat which is locally known as “Buko” meat. “Pasalubong”, on the other hand, is a gift for a family member or friend bough by a traveler returning from a trip.
When you’re in the Summer Capital of the Philippines, Baguio, never ever miss to try their famous “Strawberry Taho”. Yep, it's Pinoy's all time favorite “Taho” with a twist - made from soya beans (fresh soft/ silken tofu), topped with sago pearls or tapioca and sweetened with generous amount of strawberry jam instead of the usual arnibal or caramelized sugar syrup.
lechon kawali. This boiled and deep-fried pork belly is perhaps the best example of just how well Filipinos know their pork.
The exterior is salty and extra crispy, while the interior is tender and moist with fat and juicy meat. It's a rich combination that pairs extremely well with the mild tartness of cane vinegar, which cuts through the fat just enough to make eating a whole plate of fried pork a dangerously simple task.
Philippine Adobo is a popular dish and cooking process in Philippine cuisine that involves meat, seafood, or vegetables marinated in vinegar, soy sauce, and garlic, which is browned in oil, and simmered in the marinade. It has sometimes been considered as the unofficial national dish in the Philippines.
A popular Filipino dessert, halo-halo (literally means “mixed together”), is a surefire hit during these hot days of summer. With its mixture of shaved ice and evaporated milk and a concoction of everything you can actually think of – boiled sweet beans, bananas, jello, sweet preserves and other fruits – it’s a perfect way to beat the summer heat. Anthony Bourdain even described it as “oddly beautiful”, having tasted one during a visit to the famous Filipino fastfood Jollibee branch in Los Angeles, USA.
