Foreign Influences to Philippine Cuisine

Foreign Influences to Philippine Cuisine Summary: Philippine cuisine is the familiar blended with the exotic, and to understand it better requires some knowledge of the country’s history and its cultural influences. Just as Filipino people are part Malay,... More

Foreign Influences to Philippine Cuisine
Summary:
Philippine cuisine is the familiar blended with the exotic, and to understand it better requires some
knowledge of the country’s history and its cultural influences.
Just as Filipino people are part Malay,
Chinese and Spanish, so is the cuisine of their seven-thousand-island nation.

Article Body:
Imagine a rich, dark, well-marinated stew of chicken and pork, with flavours that hint of that vinegar and
soy sauce in the marinade.
Imagine a steaming mound of sautéed noodles with bits of fresh vegetables,
thinly sliced savory sausages and tiny shrimp laced throughout.
Imagine a whole chicken boned and
stuffed with a mixture of ground chicken, pork and ham plus whole sausages and hard-boiled eggs, so
that when it is sliced and served, the dish looks as good as it tastes.

This is Philippine cooking at it’s finest! These mouth-watering dishes are just a sample of some of the
delights that await the culinary explorer.
But much of the expl Less