Influences of filipino food philippines
Some would like to call Filipino food as ??one of the world ? s earliest fusion cuisines ? and while that may be true up to a certain point it may also be an oversimpli ?cation Most Filipino dishes began with their creators making use of whatever ingredients they could ?nd usually within a - mile radius and creating a dish from those ingredients With the Philippines being one of the world ? s largest archipelagos Filipino cuisine is highly local and regional This not only means that there are hundreds if not thousands of individually di ?erent dishes but also there are some Filipino dishes served throughout the country but often have di ?erent preparations and even names In uences of Filipino Food Philippine cuisine has several foreign in uences that have successfully melded with local indigenous cuisine Indigenous Filipino food is heavily in uenced by Chinese cuisine brought along by the various traders and later on Chinese immigrants mainly from Fujian region of China and the Cantonese Filipino food is also heavily in uenced by the cuisine of its di ?erent colonizers like the Spanish who ruled the Philippines for years the Americans who ruled the Philippines for a number of decades the Japanese who ruled a few years during World War II and the British for a couple of years bringing along Indian workers with them There are also Mexican in uences as workers and traders from the galleon trades brought ingredients and dishes to Philippine shores Plus there are native food from the country ? s Islamic regions which were in uenced by the neighboring Southeast Asian countries By virtue of it being local regional seasonal and being in uenced by a number of di ?erent foreign cuisines cataloging Filipino dishes is a little bit of a challenge especially for foreigners This also means that it is di ?cult to truly de ?ne Filipino food in just a few sentences but there are some basics to give you a clearer picture CMost Filipino dishes are named for cooking techniques and not speci ?c ingredients or dishes For example the dish adobo refers to the technique of stewing in vinegar with peppercorns and bay leaf This means saying adobo could mean a host of di ?erent dishes When ordering it ? s better to be more speci ?c like chicken pork adobo or adobong pusit squid adobo Unlike the rest of Southeast Asia Filipino food is rarely spicy Instead most Filipino dishes are a combination of salty sour sweet and bitter Most of the spicy dishes are found in just main regions the province of Bicol and in the Muslim areas of Mindanao Among the avors sourness is the most prevalent in Filipino food Filipinos draw sour avors from main sources fruits leaves and fermentation The Philippines has one of the most varied selections of vinegar in the world Varieties include coconut sap pineapple sugar cane palm and banana among others The cuisine is best enjoyed with
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