Filipino Food

Macapuno Strings

Photo By Toyang Noresa of Suman Topped With Macapuno Strings

Can you tell the difference between authentic macapuno and young coconut being passed off as macapuno?

Cuchinta

Cuchinta are rice “cakes” with a dense, sticky texture. They’re almost like thick flat circular pieces of very firm jello.

Have you ever seen black-colored kutsinta? With yema sauce and brown toasted coconut?

Pindang Damulag

Photo by Angie Pastor.

Note that this brand is not the one of the OMGpeke company in the USA… This is the ORIGINAL Pampanga’s Best of the Philippines, in business since 1967.

Pindang Damulag is a Kapampangan delicacy… what the Tagalogs might refer to as Tosinong Kalabaw… Tocino is the Filipino term for any cured meat.

Pritong Talakitok

Filipinos use the word talakitok for various species of fish, most commonly

The First Banquet

In the year 1521, Ferdinand Magellan was met by a friendly Filipino chief and a feast laid out in his honor. Two dishes were brought, one of fish in its sauce and the other of rice.