Philippine Cuisine: Preserving Culinary Traditions

[Lili]

Originally Posted by hornnieguy

Sorry guys Filipino foord ( although good) is not a world cusine.

From where are you @hornnie? And what is your preferred cuisine?

[kiretoce]

Originally Posted by dinabaw

I read an article of known filipino food gurus that Filipino food is too much sweet or too much salty . but Margarita Fore et al. are trying to change that.

Salty and Sweet are typical of Pinoy tastes, that's why diabetes and hypertension abounds in Pinoy communities/enclaves. I remembered one time we went to this Pinoy restaurant and my aunt commented that the chef "Americanized" the chicken adobo and bistek because they were lacking the salty taste to it.

[dinabaw]

Originally Posted by Lili

From where are you @hornnie? And what is your preferred cuisine?

well he prefers durian i suppose

[dinabaw]

Originally Posted by kiretoce

Salty and Sweet are typical of Pinoy tastes, that's why diabetes and hypertension abounds in Pinoy communities/enclaves. I remembered one time we went to this Pinoy restaurant and my aunt commented that the chef "Americanized" the chicken adobo and bistek because they were lacking the salty taste to it.

so its not adobo anymore its adobe .does that apply to Filipino attitude ,sometimes too sweet and sometimes to salty

[hornnieguy]

I like Fiilipino cusine...but you have to promote it more for it to be a world cusine. I have only seen a hand full of Filipino restaurants in LA only one or two look nice. This in spite of the 100's of thousands of filipinos in Los Angeles.

[kiretoce]

Part of the reason too is that most Pinoys are good/excellent cooks and can replicate these dishes at home, also the frugal side of Pinoys comes into play, why go out to eat the same thing when you can make it yourself in the comforts of your own kitchen.

[Lili]

Originally Posted by hornnieguy

I like Fiilipino cusine...but you have to promote it more for it to be a world cusine. I have only seen a hand full of Filipino restaurants in LA only one or two look nice. This in spite of the 100's of thousands of filipinos in Los Angeles.

I would have to agree with this. Philippine cuisine quite lacks presentation. But I wonder why Carribean and Jamaican cuisine is gaining following when the presentation is also not as palatable. You know ox tail stew, goat stew, beef patties.

[dinabaw]

Originally Posted by Lili

Meron. Yung Alamat ng Lanzones. If you look at the flesh of each lanzones strip, you will see what seems like nail marks there. According to the legend, there was famine and the only fruit left were those bitter, poisonous fruits of the lanzones. Because Mother Mary looked kindly on a Filipino couple who gave her food despite having very little, she blessed the lanzones tree and pinched its fruits to make it sweet. Hence, the luscious and sweet fruit of the lanzones with pinched flesh but very bitter seeds.

ok @lili next time i try to see the 'kurot ni MM' never noticed it. pag ako kasi kumakain la ng tingin2x gulp kaagad lalo na kapag lanzones

[Lili]

Originally Posted by dinabaw

well he prefers durian i suppose

Lagot ka. May nagalit nga sa iyo dyan.

[hornnieguy]

Originally Posted by Lili

From where are you @hornnie? And what is your preferred cuisine?

I am a troll with no home. Hoping from place to place.

[normandb]

Originally Posted by hornnieguy

I am a troll with no home. Hoping from place to place.

you are the horniest troll we've ever met

[dinabaw]

a hornie troll thanks for hoping

[Manila-X]

Originally Posted by tsinoy

I believe there are 2 Fine Dining restaurants in San Diego that serves Filipino dishes. One is Villa Manila and I don't remember the other one ( Aling Pacing?).
If you think that Max's here in the US is a fine dining restaurant, there might be a lot more all around here that still serve dishes to the table of the customers. In New York, I'm not sure if you can count Cendrillon as a Filipino fine dining restaurant, it might still be owned by a Pinoy couple.

Back to the question: Is Filipino food a world cuisine?

Sure it is, we are part of the world. Bulalo, Sisig, Kare-Kare, Kinilaw na kambing, Batchoy, Hototay, Lumpiang Sariwa, Sotanghon, Luglug, Laing, Azucena, Pinadapang baka...etc, I'm sure some foreigners must have tried them. I can not guarantee that they would like the flavor but at least they know that we have our own local dishes.

To be honest when I was in the US, I rarely go to Filipino restaurants except if my cousins there bring me to one usually at night. When I was in NY I usually had NY style pizza and Philly cheesesteaks. You can get a nice pizza here in HK but you can't get those Philly cheesesteaks.

[tigidig14]

the only thing the other race knows from our food specialty are our pancit and our lumpia. they always ask me about these food. it isnt even from pnas. dont they?

[bitoy]

Originally Posted by WANCH

To be honest when I was in the US, I rarely go to Filipino restaurants except if my cousins there bring me to one usually at night. When I was in NY I usually had NY style pizza and Philly cheesesteaks. You can get a nice pizza here in HK but you can't get those Philly cheesesteaks.

I don't blame you for not experiencing the Pinoy food shops here in the US. Some are really not to the taste of even our own Filipinos alike.
But so far, Goldilocks and DJ's Bibingkahan brought out the real Pinoy in us when we eat at their locations.

There is really no need to have the Pinoy restaurants to comform into fine dining that will suit foreigners, it is what we are, casual, happy or rowdy when it comes to eating in places within our boundaries.
Just as what people says "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" - so we do the same, we become Romanians.... hehehe!

Seriously, I have brought a lot of Americans friends and other nationalities in our Pinoy restos when I was still in LA, most of them love the food and the ambience but some have a hard time and it took them awhile to adjust to some native dish with bagoong or patis.

Jollibee lang ata ang maraming complaints talaga from Pinoys and foreigners.

[Lili]

^ Also we serve fish with heads and skin, so they don't like that.

[bitoy]

Originally Posted by tigs

the only thing the other race knows from our food specialty are our pancit and our lumpia. they always ask me about these food. it isnt even from pnas. dont they?

That's why I did not add those on my list as Pinoy food, but we have some variations of those that we can call our own.

Just in Flickr alone has a lot of photos of different Lumpia's Pinoy style.

Even our puto has some Asian counterpart except our sapin-sapin.
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puto.... hehehe! I mean it in a good way..

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di ba may movement na para i-standardize ang 'adobo' and other popular pinoy food?

[bitoy]

Okay, dinner time here in the West Coast.... I will be eating standardized Adobong baboy....but ...but... I need to call it Special Adobo...sasampalin ako ni Misis pag sinabi kong standard ito. or Hindi ako pakakainin ng isang linggo but I can handle that but being cold in bed at night, that's bad.

[crappypants]

pinoy food is mostly salty and bitter. boiled with msg or sauteed garlic, onion, tomato, that's it . No spice, with exception of bicol food maybe. Mainstream have gotten used to foods with lots of spices to hide the aroma and taste of fishy smell. that is exactly what we like the fishy taste. The classic spicy sweet and sour foods ,curryof SE asians is what mainstream associates with asian food.
Our food is more islander food. I don't think dinuguan ,pinapaitan, and all other innards consisting foods will catch on anytime soon other than to a few brave souls.