Filipino cuisine rests on a Malay and Austronesian base, built around rice, tropical fruit, coconut and seafood, layered over centuries with Chinese trading influence from around the eleventh century, more than three hundred years of Spanish colonial rule, and American influence following the Spanish American War. No single flavor dominates, and family and regional recipes for the same dish vary widely. The cuisine includes the food traditions of more than a hundred ethnolinguistic groups across the archipelago, with the most widely known dishes drawn from Ilocano, Pangasinan, Kapampangan, Tagalog, Bicolano, Visayan, Chavacano and Maranao culinary practices.
Facts
Signature TechniqueSouring and preserving dishes with vinegar, a technique that predates Spanish contact and that Spanish colonizers later named after their own adobar marinade. 1 Origin RegionThe Philippine archipelago, maritime Southeast Asia. 2 Connections
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Chinese and Japanese traders reaching the archipelago from around the eleventh century contributed stir fried noodles that became pancit and dumplings that became lumpia.
Source The Filipino Food Wave Is Coming (National Geographic)April Fulton
More than three hundred years of Spanish colonization introduced fiesta foods, wheat pastries and a name that came to be attached to the pre existing native vinegar cooking technique, adobo.
Source Filipino Cuisine Was Asian Fusion Before Asian Fusion Existed (Smithsonian Magazine)
Features Dish
Adobo, Dishes Source Filipino Cuisine Was Asian Fusion Before Asian Fusion Existed (Smithsonian Magazine)
Used By
Source Fish Sauce (Wikipedia)
Uses Ingredient
Source Filipino Chicken Adobo (America's Test Kitchen)
Coconut, Ingredients Coconut milk is central to many Filipino dishes.
Source Coconut (Wikipedia)
Source Filipino Chicken Adobo (America's Test Kitchen)
Source The Filipino Food Wave Is Coming (National Geographic)April Fulton
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Philippines, originated there.
Sources
1. Filipino Cuisine Was Asian Fusion Before Asian Fusion Existed (Smithsonian Magazine)
2. The Filipino Food Wave Is Coming (National Geographic)
Filipino cuisine (Wikipedia)
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Filipino cuisine includes the food traditions of more than a hundred ethnolinguistic groups across the Philippine archipelago.
Filipino Chicken Adobo (America's Test Kitchen)
America's Test Kitchen- Uses Ingredient: Garlic
- Uses Ingredient: Black Pepper
View the Source Coconut (Wikipedia)
Fish Sauce (Wikipedia)
WikipediaUsed By: Fish Sauce, Regional variations, Southeast Asia, PhilippinesQuote, Used By: Fish Sauce, Regional variations, Southeast Asia, Philippines
It is one of the most important ingredients in Filipino cuisine.
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