Quezo Real Ice Cream
This is cheese flavored ice cream with real cheese bits inside. Absolutely heavenly!
Filipino-style Spaghetti
This is a sweet bolognese-style spaghetti sauce with another unusual main ingredient: hot dogs!
Coffee and Bread
Filipinos love dipping pandesal (morning bread) into coffee. It’s like having coffee with donuts, but we’re not just content to eat them together, the coffee is an actual dipping sauce for the bread.
Puto and Dinuguan
Puto is a rice cake (similar to man tou buns from China) and it goes hand in hand with Dinuguan, which is, basically, dried pig’s blood. So we basically like to eat rice with blood. (and no, I don’t like this particular dish hah!)
Fried Chicken and Banana Ketchup
Do you think making ketchup with bananas is weird? Well we go even further than that! We eat that great American staple, fried chicken, with ketchup, and not just any ketchup, we like it with banana ketchup! There’s also a specific Filipino dish called Chicken Acarahai which is basically chicken cooked with ketchup, but that’s another story.
Champorado with Tuyo
Rice porridges and congees are common in Asian cuisine, but it’s only in the Philippines where you’ll get chocolate mixed with rice! That’s champorado, one of my favorite dishes. It’s made with milk, rice and chocolate. But wait, there’s more! To add some character to the dish we also add some dried fish to it, known as Tuyo. Mmmm!!
Bagoong and Mangoes
What do you like to eat with mangoes? I’ll tell you what FIlipinos like with it. They take a green, unripe mango and eat it with a concoction known as bagoong, made out of shrimp ground into a fine paste! (I am allergic to this, so I never eat it).
French Fries and Ice Cream
I absolutely blame McDonald’s for this. Most people who order at McDonald’s get a combo meal with fries. If they opt for dessert, they almost certainly will get a Sundae. Oh, but this fries is too hot and salty and this sundae is too cold and sweet. Oh, I know!
