While Filipino food might be difficult to describe as a whole, it's a relatively simple task to outline why specific dishes are delicious and worth seeking out. Here's a good place to start.
Ever since I was a child growing up in the suburbs of Long Island, I've had a love-hate relationship with the question of what, exactly, Filipino food is. As the only Filipino-American in my elementary school class, I was both elated and nervous whenever someone asked me about it.
While Filipino food might be difficult to describe as a whole, it's a relatively simple task to outline why specific dishes are delicious and worth seeking out. And I've found that it's at its most approachable when described through the lens of its most popular dishes, like adobo, pancit, and lumpia.
Since courses aren’t characteristic of Filipino meals, I've grouped dishes into four overarching categories―rice, soups and stews, pulutan, and fiesta food―which represent the main ways in which we share food, and provided a few recipes as examples for each category. Although this list is far from exhaustive, it serves as a good starting point for becoming better acquainted with this rich and nuanced cuisine.
In Filipino homes, food is served family-style in large bowls or platters and everyone is encouraged to help themselves. There's always plenty of white rice, and the dishes meant to be served with that rice line the center and, sometimes, the perimeter of the table. Any empty space is usually taken up by small bowls of vinegar, fish sauce, bagoong , and slices of calamansi , all of which are used to season the food to each diner's individual taste.
White rice―steamed and served plain―accompanies every meal. “I cannot imagine a meal without rice,” says Elizabeth Ann Besa-Quirino, a cookbook author, journalist, and food writer. “Every Filipino dish was meant to be eaten with rice. A lot of our dishes are saucy in nature and rice was meant to catch those sauces.” Yana Gilbuena, a Philippines-born chef, says plain rice serves a purpose. “Our dishes are already very bold in flavor.
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