food in the Philippines?

Okay, I am a frequent visitor of the Philippines and I have been around filipino people for 20 years and I am married to lovely filipina. The is good really.
Most poor filipino people eat a lot of pork, dry fish and rice.
Still, there are plenty of options and some philippine cuisines taste very good. Most filipino’s are very good cooks and they are very clean from what I observed. I never became sick eating filipino food.

Chances are your friend knows that Americans can be very narrow minded about things they dont understand or have perspective on. Most filipinos eat pretty normal food, rice, fish, and pork. There are some foods in the filipino diet that would seem gross or disgusting to Americans such as dog (only eaten in certain areas) or balot (even i wont try that). Americans would not understand and thus belittle and insult.

Where heck did she come from?

I’m a Filipino- American living in the Philippines and I eat the same thing Americans eat. Although rice and a viand is the usual meal. There are thousands of American fastfood restaurants here. McDonald’s alone has hundreds of stores here in the Philippines, in every main street actually. There are a lot of fast food chain and restaurants here like Pizza Hut, Carl’s Jr., Friday’s, KFC, Popeye’s, El Pollo Loco, Shakey’s, Kenny Rogers, Wendy’s, etc. We even have Krispy Kremes here. Starbucks on every corner, Seattle’s Best, Gloria Jean’s, etc.

Although I do miss In ‘n Out (we don’t have it here).

She must be referring to the native dishes. (which if you think about it is also from the Chinese, Japanese and Spanish) We eat paella, adobo, mechado, and we eat a lot of Chinese and Japanese food. Most of the dishes we eat here are adapted from the native Spanish and Chinese foods. She must also be talking about exotic foods (fried insects, balut, dog meat, etc), which honestly very few people eat. I actually love the food here and it’s considerably cheaper than in US.

I’m a Filipino and since I’ve been here which is 2 years ago i still miss Filipino foods and wish I’m back in my mom’s kitchen.

We love to eat rice…rice…rice… breakfast,lunch,dinner there should always be rice.

We like fired fish, pork , and fish cooked with soup. (like you boiled water put some tomato,onions, and then put slices of fish that your friend prefer and seasoned with salt & green vegetables)

if you have Pilipino store there, take her there and let her shop.

Aronlaemersons’ answer is pretty good. Most of the food is normal, but ask her if she eats balot / balut.

What Phillippina ladies are doing behind the closed doors is their discrete confidential bussiness. We have to go there to find out.

Yeah, your friend’s probably talking about Balut (duck embryo). It’s a delicacy in the Philippines that originated in China. My cousins and uncles used to eat em when they drink beer. I could never get myself to try it.

you got most of the answers here but I heard that in a certain district of Manila, there are Dog-meat restaurants opposite side to the dog market where the poor canines are hung alive and beaten to death (just to tenderise the meat) and only the patrons are quite affluent (not the poor).

Where did she came from?

Maybe it’s balut and dinuguan.

we have traditional food but there are also american foods… we have fast foods also like mcdonalds…

In fairness to you friend, it really can be embarrassing if you think about it, the food we eat here are chick embryo (balot), dinuguuan (chicken blood), chicken intestines on a stick (isaw), cow’s intestines in creamy peanut sauce (kare-kare) and bagoong (rotting shrimp that is turned into a shrimp paste). So to those who answered this question and asked “where the hell did she come from?”… didnt you read the question, from the Philippines. Like they say “only in the Philippines”… these are the things that you can only find in the Philippines

EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW!!!!!! EXCUSE ME? WE DO NOT EAT DOGS!!!!!! OKAY!!!!!!! THAT IS SOOOO GROSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe she’s an aswang…

Yes you did spell it right.
I will try to set right a few of the answers that you have received.
big P—All Filipino’s eat pork,dry fish and rice not just the poor. Yes Filipino cuisine is rather tasty my favourite is calderretta. Dog meat is eaten in the Phil’s–it is not a rumour. I have seen it being BBQ’D-it smells and gives off a yellowish smoke. It is not only the poor who eat it. Dog meat is eaten during many drinking sessions as is balot.
Elphaba if only a few people eat balot why is it that every street has its wandering balot sellers.
Leo de Grump you are spot on. I watched an expose’ on TFC about a dog abattoir–it was sickening.
Gameplan gives a good run down of some of the embarrassing foods but more about that further down.
Dong ai rui sorry my dear but dog meat is eaten in the Phils. maybe you are so embarrassed that you are going into self denial.
Woah your friend should not be overly embarrassed about the food because:
eating beef or pork in certain cultures is taboo,
Europeans eat a sausage that is mainly made of intestine casing and congealed blood and fat (salami), and also ferment cabbage in water till it basically goes rotten,
the Poms eat their black pudding and the Scots eat their haggis both are basically offal and blood,
sheep is eaten but to a lot of people it stinks to high heaven.
This list could probably go on for a long time but what I am trying to say is not everybodies’ taste buds are the same and that one man’s meat is another man’s poison.
Oh I better not leave out the Yanks after all they gave us the hot dog and McDonalds and the Aussies gave us the meat pie and only God knows what is in that.

Well im filippino.. come to think of it we do eat weird foods.. most of the times we eat rice and noodles.. But we also eat dogs.. and farm frogs.. cooked pig’s blood.. sounds yuck.. but they actually taste nice..

Just to make it clear i havent eaten dog.. but i have eaten all the above..

They eat better than most Americans do, that’s for sure.
Filipino eat three times a day consist maily with white steam rice and one or two dishes, it could be a fish or other seafood, vegetables and they have in between snack in the afternoon and at night called merienda.

That’s really one of the attitude of being Filipinos, the denial of one’s identity, Kayla is like a traitor.

we’ll maybe kayla just want to fit in in your culture, but unfortunately she just pretend to do so, the reality is, she’s just insecure on you she is ashame of herself, and he blame it for being a filipino, what a pity girl!!