Amansinaya Cookbook
Staying in our resort combines an eco friendly lifestyle close to nature without giving up infrastructure (we have electricity, tapwater and warm watershowers and and 5G wifi- in case you are working while kiting and traveling) and a lot of sports and healthy activities and food. And for people, who want to remember their memories and cook at home Mindoro Style or want to read some of our story- download the book!
Staying in our resort combines an eco friendly lifestyle close to nature without giving up infrastructure (we have electricity, tapwater and warm watershowers and and 5G wifi- in case you are working while kiting and traveling) and a lot of sports and healthy activities and food. And for people, who want to remember their memories and cook at home Mindoro Style or want to read some of our story- download the book!
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Philippine Cuisine
local specialities and useful things to know
What you must know about
the traditional Filipino cuisine
Filipinos are constantly eating. Three meals a day isn’t
enough, so they have added two meryenda, which
literally means snack. The afternoon snack can
include pan de coco (sweet bun with a coconutfilling)
or Bibingka (fluffy race cakes topped with cheese)
and super sweet 3 in 1 instant coffee.
Filippino food is compared to other Asian countries
poor in reputation. Have you ever heard
of a Philippino restaurant in the Western World.
If you ask Filipinos though, they think their
home cooked food is the greatest thing in the world.
When I travelled with Filipino friends for the international
kite competitions like the World Championships
in Sardinia, they were the happiest people to
meet other Filipinos there and to get invited for rice
and chicken Adobo.
If you ask me, Pinoy food is not as bad as the
international reputation, nor as delicious as locals
consider it. For Western taste it is normally
too sweet, too much meat, not enough vegetable
and too heavy. Influence of American food
are very obvious with fast food on every corner
and their Filippino version of Mc Donalds,
Jollibee with sweet hamburgers or sweet spaghetti.
What to order if you travel around
the philippines
Breakfasts
Let’s start with the breakfasts.
Rice, very often garlic rice with a fried egg on top
(Eggsilog), rice with honey-cured pork (Tocinolog),
Tapsilog is Rice served with salty beef stripes or
Longsilog is rice with pink coloured sausages.
Main dishes
No matter where you are in the Philippines you will
always find Adobo in versions of Chicken Adobo, Pork
Adobo any meat stewed in vinegar, soysauce and
garlic. Very often you find in the restaurants Bulaloa
beef soup or Sinigang- a meat or seafood tamarind
flavoured soup. Pancit Canton are fried noodles
with vegetable. Lumpia rolls are springrolls with
normally vegetarian filling of cabbage, sprouts
or carrots. Lechon, roasted pig, is served at
Celebrations.
Desserts
I must admit though I am a fan of Philippino desserts.
My favourite – and even my favorite dessert
worldwide – congrats to the Pinoy cuisine is
Mangofloat. It’s a frozen icecream cake with layers
of sweet condense milk and all-purpose cream,
graham cookies and mangos.
Halo-Halo ia a glass with fruit preserves, sweet corn,
young coconut, sweet condense milk and crushed ice.
Leche Flan is similar to Crème Brulee in Italy and
Inipig is glutinous riceflour fried with caramalized
sugar on top.
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