Chapter 532: Filipino Cuisine

Most of these buildings, built in the late 70s and early 80s, are innovative and unique in design, blending European and Southeast Asian architectural styles, and many of them are dozens of stories high.

Watching the sunset over the boulevard has become a sight to behold in Manila, and at night, street performances and parties bring the boulevard to the scene for tourists from outside to enjoy the quintessential Manila scenery.

Manila also has some famous neighborhoods, but also tourist sightseeing places, as the central business district of Manila Makati City, has including Makati Street, Ayala Street and other financial and commercial streets, Ayala Street was originally the private land of the Spanish chaebol Ayala, after years of continuous expansion and development into the most prosperous business center in the Philippines today.

There are many companies, restaurants, shops, movie theaters and Manila's first-class hotels, and many foreign embassies are located in the area.

The local cuisine of the Philippines is the best reflection of its customs and history, and the local cuisine of the Philippines, in addition to the famous local cuisine, is also heavily influenced by Chinese cuisine and Spanish cuisine, and there are many Chinese restaurants, Japanese restaurants and Western restaurants in the Philippines to cater to the needs of people with different tastes.

The characteristic of the local cuisine of the Philippines is that any dish, even soups, is prepared with vinegar and plenty of spicy spices such as garlic, and the clever fusion of Chinese and Western flavors creates a unique flavor.

The staple food of Filipinos is rice, corn, farmers only scoop rice before cooking, rice is boiled in a clay pot or bamboo tube, and eat with hand pilaf, Filipinos like to eat the most is coconut water boiled cassava, coconut water to cook rice, and then use banana leaves to wrap rice, corn as food, first dried, ground into flour, and then made into various foods. Most of the middle and upper class people in the city eat Western food.

The staple food of the Filipino people is rice, sometimes they also eat corn and potato flour, accompanied by vegetables and fruits, etc., according to the canon, they do not eat pork, do not drink strong alcohol, and like other Malays, they like to eat fish and do not drink milk.

The cooking is simple and prefers to use pungent condiments. Grasp with your hands when eating. The habit of chewing betel nut is very popular among Filipino *** people.

The more representative dishes are, "Lejoan" is a typical Philippine New Year dish, barbecued with pork as the main raw material, and "Adobo" is a home-cooked dish marinated and cooked with chicken and pork, because the main seasoning for pickling is vinegar, so it is not perishable, and it is very flavorful, and some Adobo is made of squid and oysters.

In addition, the "Pak Supinagat" made with fresh fish and vegetables and the unique Filipino vinegar and the "Knilar" made by mashing fish and shrimp are famous dishes with a Filipino flavor.

"Iniha" is a kind of eating similar to charcoal grilling, "Relieno" is a dish made of crab, which looks luxurious, but it is quite cheap, and Philippine rice, I don't know why it tastes fluffy, not glutinous at all, and it is not very delicious. The Philippines is rich in fruits, and there are many types of bananas alone, and they are eaten in different ways, such as steaming and sprinkling black sugar, which has the flavor of taro, and snacks such as fried banana sticks or roasted bananas can also be found everywhere. Others, such as mango and rambutan, are both cheap and tasty fruits.

In addition, there is a fruit lime that resembles kumquat but has a green peel, which is usually used by Filipinos when cooking, and is called the Philippine lemon.

Minced pork, garlic and chili peppers are stir-fried, and teppanyaki seasoned with vinegar is added, pork is generally made of pork face meat, which is rich in fat and flavorful, whether it is a snack for beer or a set meal with rice, it is an absolutely popular dish in the Philippine study tour cuisine, and it is super delicious.

Roast suckling pig is an indispensable heavyweight guest during the Philippine festival, grilled by charcoal, the skin is crispy, the inside is juicy, and you can enjoy the feeling of eating meat and can also dip it in the sweet sauce that is delivered.

Stewed with vegetables such as eggplant and lentils and peanut butter, it is more like a Western-style stew, and the appearance and name are easily reminiscent of curry, but the taste is definitely not tasted in China, so you must try it when you come to the Philippines to study!

A sour soup with a variety of vegetables and meat, rich in content, a home-cooked Filipino meal. A bowl of white rice topped with a spoonful is especially good, and the secret lies in this addictive sourness.

The soup will generally add shrimp, grouper, salmon and pork, etc., the ingredients are diverse, basically everyone in the Philippines loves a dish, I don't know how the Chinese eat the evaluation, if you feel bad appetite during the study tour in the Philippines, you can try this appetizing sour soup delicacy!

Chicken and pork stewed with potatoes, soy sauce and vinegar seasoning, home-cooked dishes on the Filipino table, stewed soft and glutinous meat blended with vinegar flavor, make you can't stop eating, and there are subtle differences in taste made by different restaurants and families.

As long as I can eat a few large bowls of rice with this soup, this dish may be able to put an end to this problem if I feel that I don't eat anything during my study tour in the Philippines.

It's almost what we call spring rolls, the difference lies in the size and seasoning, a common snack in street stalls in the Philippines and Indonesia, rolled into a cylinder, easy to eat, can be dipped in hot sauce to eat, in addition to spring rolls, there are also some snacks that are often eaten in China, such as siu mai.

Similar to fried noodles, not stir-fried with sauce, but fried with soy sauce, homemade fish sauce, salt and pepper, etc., fried noodles are different from place to place, and there are also fried rice noodles in China, in addition to noodles with cabbage, carrots, onions, green peppers, garlic and pork, squeezed into the small lime distributed and mixed with food, I liked this combination of food during my study tour in the Philippines.

A common dessert in the region, which means "hodgepodge" in Filipino, contains taro ice cream, jelly, fruits, pearls, coconut, grains, beans, etc., and is served with shaved ice.

It is mainly based on coconut-flavored taro ice cream. Not only can you eat in Filipino restaurants, but you can also eat it at fast food restaurants. And the ingredients put on it in each store are also different, after eating many restaurants and finally found your favorite taste, for the friends who are studying in the tropical Philippines, this ice cream dessert must be very suitable for you.

A civilian snack wrapped in banana fried in spring roll wrappers. In the Philippines, there are many street foods like this banana as an ingredient. The skin is crispy, and the banana is fluffy and fluffy, about 10-30 pesos each, and you can fill your stomach with one when you are hungry.

Although I was worried about gaining weight, I often went to the school commissary to buy food during recess during my study tour in the Philippines.

That is, hairy eggs, hatched to half of the eggs, there is half a chick inside, the maturity of the chicks in each hairy egg is different, the size is also different, the street shops in the Philippines often sell, the hot hairy eggs are wrapped in paper outside, and there is a pinch of coarse salt inside, sprinkled with this salt and then eaten.

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