2006-10-30 04:31:05 · 11 answers · asked by Rochelle5969 2 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Philippines
It depends on where you are. If in Cebu, try Cafe Laguna, Kinamot sa Escario, Lighthouse and a lot more. There's so many of them.
2006-10-30 04:51:54 · answer #1 · answered by avenus 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many descriptions of our food but you wont understand it unless you taste it.
The best is an all you can eat Filipino food which is called Kamayan, here, you have the options of what to eat.
Cabalen, is an all you can eat Kapampangan foods.
Josephines restaurant is found overlooking Taal Volcano in Tagaytay City. They offer all you can eat breakfast every Sunday for only P240.00++. Do come early! They also serve an all you can eat lunch at a little higher rate! However, this is already cheaper than eating only 1-2 food which cost more & you will be exposed to more authentic Filipino cuisine.
Barrio Fiesta all serves authentic Filipino cuisine.
2006-11-07 02:35:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In finding authentic filipino dishes, it would be first good to understand tha basis for Filipino cuisine. The Philippines was a colony of Spain for more than 300 years and was also a favorite place for chinese immigrants the past 400 years. We have also been a colony under the US (50 plus years) and the Japanese (a decade). All this plus the fact that we are from Asia resulted to a very diverse cuisine that is "uniquely" Filipino.
Here are the most common Filipino dishes and my suggestion as to where you can get it.
1. Sinigang - a sour soup with vegetables and meat (can be fish, beef, pork or prawns - but can not be combinations of). Sour fruits are used from flavoring such as tamarind, "kamias", philippine lemon or guava. Best Sinigang dish for me is Sentro's Sinigang na Corned Beef.
2. Kare Kare - Ox tail and face wth vegetables stewed in a peanut butter sauce served with salted fish paste. Best Kare Kare dish for me can be found in Aristocrat.
3. Adobo - stewed chicken and/or pork in vinegar, garlic and soy sauce.
4. kaldereta - a bit similar to osso buco. beef stewed in tomato and peanut sauce with potatos, carrots and olives.
5. menudo - stewed pork dish.
6. bulalo - beef broth soup.
7. kinilaw
8. laing
Probably the place withe the widest variety of Filipino dishes is Kamayan or Cabalen. You can also try Aristocrat, Sentro, and the Gerry's/Dencio's grill.
Enjoy!
2006-10-30 21:38:19 · answer #3 · answered by akoyikalima 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Choices of restaurants:
1. Barrio Fiesta
2. Cabalen
3. Kamayan
4. Max's
5. Aristocrat
6. Goldilocks
7. Ihaw-ihaw
8. Lydia's Lechon
9. La Paz Batchoy
10. and many others
2006-10-30 20:55:15 · answer #4 · answered by otter2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Filipino Cuisine
Although Philippine cuisine at first sight, does not seem as exotic as other East Asian cuisines, there is no basis for the complaint that there are not enough truly native dishes.
Native food includes a salty tasting fish or shrimp paste (bagoong in Tagalog) which is also found in Thailand and Indonesia, and dried fish (tuyo) which is fried and malodorous. Philippine noodle dishes resemble Chinese noodle dishes. There are also unique dishes like boiled duck embryos, named balut. For details see the food dictionary below. Three meats are commonly available: beef (baka), pork (baboy), and chicken (manok). Many recipes use the intestines or other internal organs.
There are a number of words which describe the manner of cooking: pasingaw (steaming), adobo (stewed in vinegar and garlic), sinigang (sour soup using sour vegetables or fruits), nilaga (boiled), paksiw (stewed in sour fruit or ginger), estofado (with burnt sugar sauce), ginataan or gata (cooked in coconut milk), pesa (sauted and boiled), pangat (simmered with tomatoes), bulanglang (vegetables boiled together), dinuguan (cooked in blood), kilawin (raw).
To make it easy to start, there are some adresses of good
Filipino restaurants in Manila on the following website.
Masaganang pagkain !
Have a good appetite !
2006-10-30 13:35:58 · answer #5 · answered by patrick4true 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Barrio Fiesta
Cabalen
Kamayan
Max's
Aristocrats
Goldilocks
Ihaw-ihaw
Lydia's Lechon
La Paz Batchoy
C2
Lola idang's
Binalot
Go to any region(really, like spicy, go to Bicol)
Spamjam?!?!?!?
Saisaki!
Jolibee(breakfast)
SM, Robinsons, Shangri-la, other mall's Food court
Dencio's(not sure about the spelling)
via-mare(again not sure)
it could be found in Metro/Mega Manila and the rest of your good ole'country(#13)
It doesn't matter where you are because you can find authentic ph quisine in every province/region in the country
2006-11-04 07:37:06 · answer #6 · answered by pugimee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These restos serve great filipino food:
Bacolod Chicken Inasal (lots of branches)
Gilligan's (Glorietta, Makati)
Recipes by Metro (Greenbelt, Makati)
Max's (Makati, UN Ave, Baclaran, etc.)
Mang Sosing (along Dian St, Makati)
2006-11-02 02:40:59 · answer #7 · answered by HK gal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mabuhay! (Welcome!)
If you happen to be in Manila, Kamayan (Padre Faura Street., Ermita) is a good one to go to.
There, you will be greeted by staff in the traditional garb, listen to traditional music, find traditional food, eat on banana leaves using your hands.
Tito Rey (Sunvar Plaza. Pasay Road corner Amorsolo Street), claimed to have started the eating with hands (kamayan) trend in restaurants.
The food preparation meets the public health standards, and the restaurant offers a huge variety of delicious food to choose from.
2006-10-30 14:52:59 · answer #8 · answered by tranquil 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spamjam
2006-10-31 18:59:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anthony V 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kamayan, Josephines to name a couple.
2006-10-31 21:56:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋