/ck/ - Food & Cooking

can we all agree that pancit is fucking garbage

it's literally the worst noodle dish I've ever eaten

>>12522114
I agree. Plus it's oily as shit

>>12522114
I like pancit tho

>>12522114
fuck you. pancit is delicious

>>12522114
I'm currently visiting my wife's family, and yeah all Filipino food is basically trash except seafood sinigang, that's okay. But nothing is delicious or even really appealing in smell, texture, flavor or appearance.

>>12522107
As east asian it makes me extremely awkward to eat with filipinos because all i see is the same sort of ingredient we would use but in a painful simplicty, almost african levels. Its like youre dining with a devolved ancestor. If youre australian you might look at an aboriginal and have an unsettling feeling that you two are not the same species at all. Its that sort of thing, a cloud of vague notions emerging inside you that contains gratefulness toward a higher power, awe of life, fear, humility, the works.

>>12523266
the japanese feel the same way about you

>>12522107
Aristocrat or Savory mirrors Filipino cuisine more than Max's. Max's is literally what Americans think when someone says Filipino cuisine. Nothing native about the resto at all. Bad pretender vibes.

>>12522107
Filipino food is inedible unless you like eating offal. They love things like pig feet, tripe, intestines. Even the "good" dishes like pork adobo are fucking disgusting because the pieces of pork are like 80% fat and 20% meat. If you get soup, the broth will taste of nothing but vinegar.

They also rely heavily on overprocessed food, almost to the extent Americans do. The difference being that Americans are at least aware that their junk food is junk. If a filipino offers you juice it'll be a sachet of powder that they dissolve in water. They literally don't even understand the difference between that and real juice. Instead of beef they eat "beef loaf", some sort of pink reformed meat similar to American sausages.

That said, they do have some good dishes. These also happen to be the dishes that Filipinos eat once every few months, whereas the rest of the time they eat their usual crap.

A typical meal for a filipino is plain fried or boiled meat or fish, with a side of rice if they're lucky and cornmeal porridge if they're not.

>>12522107
I shamelessly love the Filipino take on spaghetti. It's so fuckin insanely trashy, just ketchup and hotdogs on spaghetti but god fuckin damn I can't help myself but order it every single time I go to that Jollibee off Kennedy road

>>12524286
>A typical meal for a filipino is plain fried or boiled meat or fish, with a side of rice if they're lucky and cornmeal porridge if they're not.
S-surely there are indigenous spices they can use as well?

>>12524286
Can confirm. I married a Flip and I have to graciously volunteer to cook every time we visit her family since most of the shit her mom makes is just random ingredients..... eggs, peanut butter and pork skin with vinegar is a dish

The only saving grace is lechon but that's universal

funniest thing was when mark wiens was in the philipines
he mostly just featured and got excited about the fancy hotel buffets
the street food was absolute trash and he couldn't even fake enthusiasm for it like he normally does
the restaurant food was just endless adobos every one basically the same as the last but being talked up as some special gourmet thing
watching him try to keep up his appetite for the 100th bowl of adobo was hilarious

>>12524348
Is that your hapa kid? Fuck what are you feeding him

>>12524388
he's heir apparent to the throne of Chinggis Khan, father of Mongolia

>>12524348
My filipina girlfriend comes from extreme poverty, they live in a small village not accessible by road, they have no running water and they cook by chopping down nearby trees and burning the wood as their heat source. So it's hard to blame her family for not cooking well considering their situation.

It's actually quite awkward because they were trying really hard to make food I'd like but it was still some of the worst food I've ever had. Apparently meat and rice were luxury foods for them, normally they eat maize with leafy vegetable soup.

>>12522107

Lechon Kawali (crispy deep fried pork belly) and Dinuguan (pork blood stew) are my go to Filipino foods. That stuff would scare of most folks though.

filipino american here
i cant stand most of the food, especially the fucking spaghetti. i was extremely fortunate to have a mother that made traditional italian spaghetti.

i mostly stick to the meme food like lumpia, lecheon, pork bbq, tocino. i cant into kare kare or adobo or a lot of other shit.

When I went to Manila, I mostly stick to Chinese-Filipino food.

Fillipino here. I would never describe our food as cuisine, but at least good for people on a budget.

I recommend
>Caldereta
>Chicken Tinola
>Sinigang
>Bistek (Beef steak)
>Lumpia
>Kare kare
>Tocino

Our meme food is balut and diniguan

>>12528255
>I would never describe our food as cuisine
hay naku wala namang kaso kung puro karinderya lang ang kinakainan mo ngunit huwag mo kaming lahat idamay.

There was a place I used to eat at that rolled and fried banana lumpia and it was the fucking best.

Dinuguan (pork blood stew) and Pork Sisig (dunno what to call it, a spicy pork salad?) are my go to flip food.

>>12527489
>lumpia, lecheon, pork bbq, tocino
same. t.brit

>>12530576

this had better not be more than $2.50 or i'm going to overthrow duterte

>>12522114
Are you referring to pancit bihon?
There's so many kinds of pancit, anon. Pancit is just a catch-all term for non-soup noodle dishes here.
>>12523266
Sure, Huang. You might enjoy the dogs alcoholics here eat all the time.
>>12524250
Haven't tried Aristocrat, but Savory is based.
>>12528255
>Bistek (Beef steak)
I've yet to see a bistek that's actually beef, much less cooked like steak. It's usually just pork chop on an onion/calamansi/soy sauce mixture.

>>12522114
there's a kind of pancit that is topped with crushed pork rinds