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Menudo

A hearty meat (usually pork or chicken), sausage and vegetable stew. Adapted from Spanish cuisine.

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Morcon

Simmered, steamed or braised rolled flank steak stuffed with assorted ingredients including chopped sausage and boiled eggs.

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Pan de Sal

Slightly sweet bread roll. Despite its Spanish name ("salt bread"), it is minimally salty.

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Pinakbet

Vegetable stew made with tomatoes, bittermelon, eggplant and okra. Seasoned with Bagoong (fermented fish paste).

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Puto

Sweet steamed rice-flour cake. Usually vividly colored (see photo above).

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Rellenong Manok

Deboned whole chicken stuffed with a meat mixture and boiled eggs.

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Sinangag

Leftover steamed rice fried with garlic. Popular at breakfast.

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Tapa

Marinated, then fried air-cured beef.

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Tinola

Meat or seafood soup-stew flavored with ginger and garlic.

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Tocino

Cured, slightly sweet pork. A popular breakfast meat.

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Ukoy

Shrimp and mung bean sprouts are battered and shaped into a disk, then deep fried.

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