It's weird for FilAms to think that Filipino food is meat heavy when the majority of Filipinos are too poor to be regularly eating pork and beef on a daily basis. The idea that vegan Filipino food is a cultural innovation at odds with our culture is false and screams colonial mentality. As an example, jackfruit as a meat substitute was probably stolen by white vegans from South and Southeast Asian cuisine. Ginataan and adobong langka are staples in Filipino food that can be bought at most karinderyas in Manila. (This is why statements going "I made a vegan version of adobo using jackfruit" is very annoying, because adobo has never been limited to meat and adobong langka has existed for centuries before the idea of veganism was even born.) Other forms of "veganizing" Filipino food already exist in the cuisine: lumpiang togue is more popular in the PH than lumpiang Shanghai. Filipinos are also familiar with many different vegetables unknown in the West: palm hearts, banana hearts, bamboo shoots, water spinach, etc. Tofu is a mainstay in Filipino cuisine, and has a Tagalog translation. Friday monggo or laing is part of Filipino food culture. The reason why FilAms associate Filipino food with meat boils down to middle class privilege. A vegetable heavy diet is seen as a mark of poverty, and regular meat consumption is seen as a differentiator by middle class Filipinos from working class Filipinos who get by with adobong sitaw and nilagang talbos. Most FilAms are from the middle class, and thus, carried the same biases with them to the US. However, claiming that Filipino cuisine abhors vegetables is wrong when most Filipinos have vegetable- and fish-heavy diets. The idea that we have to "veganize" Filipino food by replacing meat with vegetables is wrong when the vegetable forms of these dishes already exist and has been part of Filipino cuisine for centuries, from sinigang na ubod to kare-kareng gulay to tinolang papaya, to adobong tokwa't kangkong or adobong puso ng saging. In fact, what vegans need to work on isn't replacing the meat, it's replacing the fish sauce and fish paste. PS. Another pet peeve is the notion that Filipino food isn't spicy, when the standard way for cooking most Filipino main dishes call for the use of long green chilies which are 30-50K SCU or 10 times the heat of jalapenos. Filipinos just don't consider that as spicy, because we're used to it, we only consider things spicy when it starts using Thai red chilies.
I'm sure many Filipinos never try "Puso ng Saging" or called the heart of the banana when they are making lumpia. In the southern Philippines, some regions use this kind of dish and it's healthy. And vegetables also could use for lumpia.
There are more Filipino dishes other than Adobo and Lechon. The Philippines is a tropical country, which means vegetables are easily grown. We have an abundance of vegetable dishes in the Philippines. It's just not popular in the mainstream media.
@@topherpadilla and the thing is, the popular Filipino food isn't even Tagalog food. Tagalog food is Batangas food, and to emphasize how unknown it is, the adobo of Batangas uses turmeric instead of soy sauce, or coconut milk instead of soy sauce. People barely know adobong dilaw and adobong puti exists.
@@marconjakecanonoy but we have many vegan dishes that doesn't make it on the spotlight. Go to Philippine provinces and you will see that lechon and crispy pata is not an everyday meal for a typical filipino household. It is only for fiesta and special occasions
We actually rarely eat meat. Fish and chicken is the common meat here in our place but even those meat don't get to the table everyday. We usually eat leafy veges from our backyard or from the forest. We love tinola and malunggay. We also have many free veges that are just growing everywhere here so we don't find meat as a necessity in the table. The only time meat is the star is for when we have occasions 😂😂😂.
its ironic that peopIe think filipinos eat alot of meat. actually, most filipinos barely eat meat. meanwhile, modern filipinos are so unhealthy with many health issues. for some reason though, we blame the meat for the health issues. ALWAYS.
Northern part of the Philippines has lots vegetable dishes. It's just isn't getting enough attention, just ask anyone who at least lived in a farm with relatives in their childhood they can tell a few vegetable dishes.
Yung video, it's not about PH has veggie dishes, it's about the "usual" food of Filipinos daily. We have a lot of veggie dishes but it's not a common meal or usual "handaan" during parties or get together with friends. Tingnan mo Yung Usual binebenta sa carinderia. They're usually chicken/pork. Usual party food are lechon baboy, lechon manok, bihon, spaghetti, salad, kare kare, menudo, adobo, cordon Bleu. Meron nga veggie pero usually it's chopsuey. Sige, maglagay ka Jan Ng sinabawang isda, Hindi yan masyodong gagalawin pag nanjan yung menus mentioned above.
@@frenchpotato5661 well, vegetables are expensive here, and prices skyrocket even more every time typhoons hit, like when a kilogram of chili cost around PHP900 (USD18).
Omg my Filipino girlfriend is vegan and we get a lot of our recipes from Astig Vegan!! 🥰 And I love that you point out the fact that Filipino food is not always Tagalog & so diverse ❤️ It is next to Vietnamese food (my own cuisine) my favorite!
There's no need to "veganize" when Filipino Cuisine is lit rally sooooo flexible that any of our dishes have vegetable forms. In just Western Visayas (my region) alone we have some, most of the foods listed here (not including desserts) are from my province Antique, with the exception of some which may be shared with neighboring Iloilo: Adobo nga Tangkong (Water Spinach Adobo) Adobo nga Latoy (String Bean Adobo) Lumpia nga may Ubod (Lumpia stuffed with stir fried coconut heart) Utan/Linapwahan (Any combination of veggies in a soup, most commonly using okra, pumpkin, moringa and jute) Ensalada nga Batwan (Pickled Batwan) Kinilaw nga Kamatis (Tomato salad with soy sauce, sliced red onions, green onions) Ginat-an nga Langka (Jackfruit soup with coconut milk) Ginat-an nga Kamansi (Breadfruit Soup with coconut milk) Sinabawan nga Monggo (Mung bean soup with either string beans, papayas, malabar nightshade, moringa, kamote leaves and gaway-gaway flowers or pumpkin flowers) Kadyos kag Kamulusun (Beans Soup) Atsara nga Kapayas (Pickled Papaya) Atsara nga Tambo (Pickled Bamboo Shoot) Ginat-an nga Tambo (Bamboo shoot soup with coconut milk and jute) Steamed Kamote Leaves Steamed Kangkong Leaves
I'm a filipino and we rarely eat those filipino unhealthy foods. Most of the time they are only served during special occasions like birthdays and fiestas. As someone who lives in the province we usually eat vegetarian foods like abraw and pinakbet which consists of vegetables we grow in our yard. Fish is also very popular, we cook use it on sinigang and even adobo. About the western influence in our use of proccessed meat, they are only eaten for breakfast. There are a variety of healthy filipino foods that doesn't get the western spotlight. Personally, I think it's because they may not satisfy the western palate.
right? Only on Fiestas do we indulge with protein. And history shows that we made papaya-heavy condiments to ease this huge rush of protein whose frequencies were in weeks, not days.
@@zephdo2971 random leafy greens and vegetables from the yard boiled with a fish(can be a leftover) and fish paste. typical vegetables includes squash, squash blossoms, moringa leaves or fruit, spinash, sponge gourd, bitter guord. anything that are on the yard.
I guess I am happy to be born from a Bicolano Father and an Ilongga Mother. We do have our share of meat at home, but the week never ends without a helping of fish or vegetables cooked in coconut milk (my Father's specialty) or stewed veggies (my Mother's specialty). Our Pangasinan neighbor always gives us pinakbet or diningding for lunch or dinner. So yeah, Filipino food can be vegan.
Hoping you do more research the Filipino food because as of now all the Filipino food was upgraded is more healthier but it depends to the person the way of cooking.
This type of filipino food is usually consumed in the cities..but for me as an islander the people where is more likely eating,seafoods like fish,seashells,clumbs and sea orchain,and sea cucumbers and in the morning we eat stir fry vegies and paksiw na isda..in the noon we eat fish soup freshly cook from the sea to our plate..in the night we eat vegetable soup or in the tagalong sinabawang gulay with oil on it..pair grilled fish..we seldome eat meat like 2 or 3 times in a month..
Zambales, Philippines. Way better cuisine that your average fiesta offerings (lumpia, pancit, adobo). With provincial influence, get your taste buds prepped for appetite destruction in the form of PINAKBET, TINOLA, BULALO, sitaw, etc.
Im not a Filipino but married to a native filipina for 12 years. Part of me wants to say it loud that Filipino food is not meat heavy. My wife cooks variety of course like soured bangus, siningang, dinengdeng, steam okra with mango, torta eggplant, steamed and grilled sea bass with sawsaw, coconut milk with vegetables, pakbet and a lot more. This video is poorly research.
Thats because the meaty dishes are the majority. Even here in America. As a raw vegan filipino, i see all my kababayan and they all look void of nutrients and vitamins.
Thank you for this content but I do believe the researchers need to dig in more on the rural side of the Philippines, in order to explore more with the Filipino cuisine not just only stating that Filipino foods focused more on proteins. If you have tried living in the province or barrios in the Philippines then you will know that the topic being discussed in the video is just a toppings of it.
I think filipino food isn’t that fatty in general. However if you live in the NCR, the case is that the food tends to be heavy-meat meal since meat is cheaper than vegetable there. In contrast to the provinces wherein vegetable and fruits are much more available and easy to get or buy. Hence, meat consumption is decreased. Also, Filipinos tend to make the food healthier by replacing the meat with tofu or fish.
I like the "save". When in fact we were sold. Well we have an organic backyard garden where we source our greens. Like pechay, moringa, kangkong an others. We have access to fresh seafood as well. Most of the time we cook meals tgat are already has meat and veggies. It really boils down on where you live in the country and access to fresh produce meat and etc. Try going to a carenderia you will see a variety of food. Not just unhealthy food.
Thank you for mentioning "Carenderia". Carenderia is our homegrown street food. Pinoys should stop using the phrase "street food" We should use "carenderia". Again, carenderia got no class but street food does
i dont think so. filipinos used to be fit and have great body even eating the same traditional food for hundreds of years. its only thru the booming of fast food wc is definitely heavily influenced by western food that makes filipinos fat and obese.
This just makes me sad, why not include chopseuy, ilocano/bisaya veg dishes? Yes I am not into vegs but we do have dishes that is just mainly vegetables
I admire the intent & discussion of this video even if I disagree with some things said. A cousin & I were actually talking a few months back about the numerous health issues many family members have due to poor eating habits/diets. We live in Canada, though. I can understand the frustration behind the comments to this vid around the stereotyping that Filipino foods are heavily meat-based & unhealthy. If you live in the Philippines or have spent a significant amount of time there, for sure, it's not true that people don't have access to fruits & veggies (they are waaay cheaper than meat when you walk to the nearby tindahan and from experience, veggies/fruits are way more accessible if you are not going to a big market or mall). However, in N. America, we don't have easy access to Filipino fruits/veggies; families are not teaching their kids how to cook Filipino dishes nor does the younger generation particularly want to learn; and the food you associated with being Filipino food are the ones you see at family gatherings or at Filipino restaurants, ,mainly crispy chicken or deep-fried stuff. I've been guilty of commenting in the past, to my parents, that I found Filipino food to be too meat-heavy. Feels odd to say that now 'cause I grew up with and still exposed to lots of veggie/seafood-based Filipino dishes...maybe this was what I was seeing at bigger family parties and eat-outs. For instance, Max's Restaurant here in Edmonton, AB got rid of laing on the menu shortly after it opened 5+ yrs ago due to how pricy it was to get the taro leaves plus few people ordering it...I was choked since that was my favourite dish). I think we have to remember that the folks behind the video are speaking from a Fil-Am perspective, which is just as valid. They probably shouldn't have tried generalizing for the entirety of the Philippines, but it's also a fact that in the Phils., there's a growing chronic disease problem. Lots of people eating at malls and buying prepackaged foods loaded with sugar, sodium and hydrogenated oils. I love my Filipino pastries and disheartened everytime I see margarine being used over butter. White rice has become synonymous with Filipino identity (at least in USA and Canada) but is being eaten in too large of a portion size or in the absence of veggies (not to mention white rice lacks the nutrients that say, brown rice or wild rice have). Disagree with the dietitian that cholesterols and saturated fats are bad for you - it depends on the type of food & quality. Coconut oil is high in saturated fats but very healthy and part of native Filipino diet. The prob is when people consume the cheap, processed stuff that requires high heat to make (ie. margarine, canola oil) - mainly in fast foods. I personally don't think the answer is to turn vegan but for sure, to go back to eating more natural foods and doing more home cooking if possible.
Provincials have a lot more plant-based food and dishes. We have bulanglang, ginataan, dinengdeng, pinakbet, too many to mention vegetable dishes. It's just that the highlighted foods in these foodie videos are the more of westernized and meat-based.
I don't think it's unhealthy, most people who have never been in the Philippines only know the foods that were popular or the foods they can find online. As a Filipino who grow up in the Philippines, i grow up eating vegetables like kangkong, patola, kalabasa, sitaw and many more. For me growing up meat is like a luxury, it's not like every day we have adobo or fried pork. We eat the food we had access to or the food we can afford. Vegetables were affordable back then so i grow up eating different dishes of mix vegetables, eating any kind of meat is like a price for the long time of only eating vegetables. I don't think many of these people have been into many Filipino houses as they are only basing their view on one perspective, not every filipino get to eat meat or the kind of dishes that was shown on the video. You can only expensive pork and chicken when there's a birthday or someone finally gets their paycheck.
There are many dishes with vegetables in the Philippines like in rural areas in Samar and Batangas. It taste so good than foods in Manila or Filipino-American very foreign, party foods and meat-based. Hope they put effort to emphasize provincial foods like what Thailand, Indonesia or Vietnam did.
Chopsuey, laing, pancit bihon, lumpiang toge, misua with patola, tokwa sisig, biernes monggo, kare kare is still kare kare with just veggies. adobong sitaw cause you can adobo anything, and they all taste good! ... look for other pinoy dishes cause we have lots to offer not just usual menu in filipino restaurants in the west
Dinengdeng, laswa, pakbet, kinilaw na gulay like ampalaya, laing, bicol express... lechon and beef are rich people food. Please dont confuse Manila as representative of the whole Philippines
Most of the foods you talked about are party foods, not your everyday foods. Regular filipino consume vegetables and fish. I can attest to that since I’ve lived with a middle class family in the philippines as a foreign exchange student. Sorry but this is just poor research or no research at all.
This. My family would even sometimes go through the whole week or month without meat(pork, chicken, beef) just vegetables and sometimes fish. They probaboy just encountered Filipinos who're trying to impress them through feeding them meat dishes.
Our fast food here in Bicol is going to the backyard and see what we have. We use so much vegetables in our dish and only a little bit of meat. Filipino food depends on which part of Philippines you are from and what fruits or vegetables are available to you.
Do your research before claiming that Filipino only eat those mentioned meal. I grew up in the rural area and we only get to eat meat at least once a week. Our meal usually consists of either stir fried vegetables or vegetables cooked in coconut milk with fried fish or fish soup. Also when we cook meat we always incorporate vegetables in it. Bicolanos eat: Ginataang langka Ginataang puso ng saging Ginataang ubod ng kawayan o saging Ginataang papaya Ginataang Malunggay Ginataang Santol Ginataang Lubi-lubi Ginataang Kamoteng kahoy Adobong Sitaw Adobong Kangkong Ginataan o stir fried na talong Ginataan o stir fried na mustasa (mustard) , pechay Stir fried cabbage Stir fried baguio beans Nilagang talong, talbos ng kamote, with kamatis The list go on plus we have a variety of fish dishes We only eat meat on salary days and special occassion
there are more to filipino food than adobo, lechon, and lumpia. the ph is so diverse that each region has their own representation of what filipino food is, and you'd be surprised to know that most of them are with fish and vegetables. when you have a platform like this, please be more aware and educated about the culture. a lot of fil-ams in my opinion are rarely immersed to the filipino food and culture and it's videos like that prove that.
Me as a local think the major problem in our food tourism is that, we ourselves are not properly marketing our cuisine, celebrity chefs and food business got way too lazy and complacent to feature more of our cuisine that they just played safe and keep on highlighting select dishes so much to the foreign market that most of them got conditioned these type of food only represents Filipino cuisine. 1. adobo 2. sinigang 3. sisig 4. lechon 5. crispy pata 6. balut 7. halo halo 8. lumpia 9. pansit 10. "silog" meals 11. chicken inasal 12. bicol express 13. all items in Jollibee I've watched endless amounts of food channels/reviews that includes "foreigners try Filipino food" or "foreigners visiting Philippines" and I have never yet watched foreigners try Filipino food outside of the list above mentioned. Why are the solid 4 comprised of menudo, afritada, caldereta and mechado not yet featured despite these dishes are so familiar and everyday Filipino household? dishes like laing, dinuguan, kare kare, pinakbet, dinengdung, pochero, binagoongan, relleno, embotido, hardinera, lomi, pinoy style chicken curry, biko, casava cake, ube halaya; these are one of the few as there are just too many more to mention, these dishes are not entirely niche or regional to be labeled as "rare finds", they are familiar to everyday Filipino life yet a lot of our supposed local food influencers are not highlighting them to the foreign market, which is sad and disappointing.
carnivore here. I eat nose to tail (which is very healthy, I eat all parts of the animal) meat does not have to mean processed or fried. thanks to my Filipina mother, I am not afraid of eating liver like I know many of my peers were.. I also love all kind of fish (my mom is ilocana after). I just avoid the carbs. I don't need to veganize. I just eat all kinds of meat and fish sauteed in coconut oil. Also this filipina had the highest cholesterol in the world without a dx of hypercholesterolemia, It was the highest any doctor had ever seen, yet my Calcium score was zero. Awesome filipino genetics? Perhaps. :) High cholesterol doesn't have to mean heart disease especially when your HDL is high and trigs are low. And most importantly INSULIN is low. It's the sugar not the fat that is the culprit. Usually in people suffering from heart disease, this pattern is different with LDL being high, trigs high and ldl low and their A1c, SUGAR HIGH. Insulin and sugar are the bad guys. Not cholesterol. With my cholesterol having been the highest in the world, I am what is known as a lean mass hyperresponder. My bp is also EXTREMELY low. High cholesterol but LOW blood glucose = low bp. Others like me have low bp as well. I am being studied by cardiologists, my blood was sent to Mayo and my arteries are free and clear. Cancer? My crp is ROCK BOTTOM. AND high cholesterol with this pattern can be associated with extremely HIGH immunity. Who wouldn't want that? During Covid, I turned my back on this eating pattern and ate fried processed foods and my cholesterol actually fell. But my bp rose. Went back to eating nose to tail and many meats my fellow Americans are too afraid to touch, but not me. My filipina mother taught me not to waste ANYTHING. Filipina carnivore here who had the highest cholesterol in the world. ua-cam.com/video/SXrV1Kjt8Xc/v-deo.html
Such a missed opportunity. Halloween is around the corner and Sapphire already does ghost stories... could've went the Filipino Folklore route to wrap up Fil Am History Month
Ok.. we can say that Filipino food is all meat but that's just on the surface. What Filipino food do foreigners know? They are food for occasions and we don't eat them all the time. One thing that many have forgotten is what we eat on ordinary days. One characteristics of Filipino cuisine is that Filipinos eat vegetables and fish in most days (weekdays) and we eat pork and beef on the weekend. Now the meat that we eat on the weekend usually goes with vegetables such as sinigang, chopsuey, inihaw with ensalada among others. The most oily food such as lechon, lechon kawali, crispy pata are usually consumed when there are special events. Filipino cuisine is so diverse that we don't eat the same food every time. With the influence of foreign and local cultures the choices are so wide.
Pushing veganism isn't the solution. Sometimes, it's the mentality that we should change. We Filipinos should put greater importance in our different interesting regional cuisines. We can be more creative by using what are present and available in our environment. The increase of obesity and metabolic diseases in the Philippines like diabetes, cardiovascular diseases are mainly due to the fact that Filipinos do eat a lot of junk foods + alcohol and Filipinos give more importance into those foods than healthy meals that other regions offer! Filipinos like the thought of festivity & fun while eating which is not really bad but we also forget a lot of times to think about our health. We should glorify more our different cuisines than all those junkfoods and processed foods. It isn't true that eating healthily cost way more, we have lots of low cost varieties of vegetables, fruits, fish, gibblets that are super nutritious! It's only a matter of how you prepare and cook them, how often you eat them and how much you eat them. As consumers, we need to choose and buy food products more wisely. Personally, I grew up poor too with my other 2 siblings, my dad salary back in the days didnt exceed 5000 pesos a month, but I can attest how my parents didn't use the 'poor' card and feed us with loads of junk, packaged & processed foods. Yes, it's possible my fellow countrymen.
Filipino food is absolutely not fusion food. Modern Italian food is what it is because of the tomatoes from the Aztecs and noodles from China. Pre-colonial Philippines have been trading with a lot of its neighbors so for sure there will be inspiration and adaptation.
My parents were poor. I was born to poor parents, unfortunately. My mother grew up by the beach, literally, beach is their backyard. My father was also born and raised in a tiny island. I knew my parents were in hard times when all day all week we only eat nothing but fried tuna and fried salmon. We cannot afford pork or beef. When my mother made tinola, bouillabaisse in French, she'd throw in plenty of (organic) cabbage, banana, potato to fill up our hungry tummy. We had escabiche, staple in French Carribean. Gosh, how I hate fish back then. Fastforward today, Americans cannot afford deep sea Tuna and Salmon. Instead of tinola we eat bouillabaisse and escabiche. Travel back in time we were wealthy after all because we ate what people of today cannot afford.
Here are $64 questions: 1. Where do Filipinos in America buy their balut from? ANSWER: from duck-raising Vietnamese in Seal Beach, CA 2. Why second-gen American-Filipinos do not eat at Filipino restaurants? Whereas, Korean-American and Chinese-American eat at their restaurants? Why? Oh, why?
All my family dies from massive heart attacks before the age 55 im 45 I have 10 years left !! Thnx America!!! Oh by the way I just had cornbeef for dinner not even 10 mins ago !!! Yummy 😋
As a Filipino, I changed my diet to a more Arabic one which I feel is healthier. I feel eating wraps, grilled chicken, yogurt and salads is healthier. Problem with indulging with Filipino food everyday is that it is by default high in sodium and cholesterol. Consuming rice every meal won’t help me either. Hence, why Filipinos have Highblood Pressure, Diabetes and Stones. Right now, I only indulge with Filipino food during weekends or during celebrations. If I do on a weekday, I’ll make my own lechion manok, or other dessert the leaner part of pork with vinegar but less on the soy sauce part. PS. For me, Filipino food is still the best. It’s just that I changed my relationship with food now and I only treat it as fuel.
My son, Geechee Lion, who retired last year and now lives in the Philippines with a UA-cam Channel, favorite Filipino foods are Law oy( vegetable soup), chicken adobo, chopsuey, kangkong, and bangus fish.
Chapsui, tinola, sinigang, vegetable lumpia, pinakbet, giniling with carrots and potatoes, tofu sisig? Monggo with Malunggay? Ginataang kalabasa? Those are vegetable dishes in the Philippines! You can even find them in carenderia.
It's mostly unhealthy because I feel meat is so prioritized because you can get it if you're rich. The culture around eating so much. The pride in Filipino food
well, not all. Just like any other country dishes, there are healthy and unhealthy ones. depends on the region. Most are actually vegetable base, that's a fact. If you only knew meat base Filipino foods, your mum must have only served you meat dishes while growing up since she wanted to impress you and make you love Filipino dishes more than any other dishes.
But part of the problem here in the states is because a lot of Filipinos came from poor families so it is engrained to them that having meat, poultry and pork are a sign of good health sustenance when infact it can be detrimental to their health. If your fat your seen as mayaman Filipino says.
Here now from the UK. Tried lots of veg and fruit we don't have back home. Limiting the rice intake. Don't understand how it can be unhealthy tbh. Fresh, traditional food not processed. I do only eat fish and chicken tho.
Here is a way to prepare less unhealthy pinoy foods When i am at home I cook karekare with 95% beef shaved the fats away no innards no twalya as they say I only used bone with pure meet no fats, same thing with chicken Adobo shave away the skin and I always add either baby spinach or chinese brocoli so if you want to eat healthy filipino food take away the fatts of any meat do not use innards guts and use pork with out fats that's all i cook bulalo with no fats just meet and bone with lots of veggies.
Most people will say it’s because of poverty? How about those people that can afford healthy foods but are still unhealthy. Can’t eat a meal without a mountain of rice?
That thing with this fil ams lumaki sla sa mga meat heavy filipino food dhl mas accessible yng ingredients ng mga dishes n yun kesa sa mga vegetable dishes. Pero di ibig sbhn meat heavy ang filipino food especially sa mga provinces
Sinigang, pinakbet, nilaga, chopsuey, tortang talong, ensyalada, ginisang puso ng saging, adobong kangkong with sitaw, ginataang langka ginisa or ginataang labong, ginisa or ginataang kamansi, ginisang monggo, tokwa sisig ala max chicken tinola with papaya, tinolang bangos with moringga inon-unan in mindanao and visayas or paksiw na isda in luzon with ampalaya, siling pangsigang and talong and utan. Real healthy in the province.
The most popular filipino foods are unhealthy ngl. Vegan products should be industrialized in this country. However, I agree that calling foods "unhealthy" only means that you are privileged enough to have access to other alternatives in which a lot of Filipinos, especially in the slums do not have that luxury. I mean, processed foods are even "convenient" to cook in a regular monday so that's one thing.
A typical filipino is not conscious about what they eat, they only care that it tastes good. The more rice, the more food volume, the better. Which is a rather unhealthy mindset, so it's no surprise that many are actually nutrient deficient. 'Diet' typically means no rice or skipping meals. Which is even worse. It's great to find a channel that talks more about Filipino food and culture, subscribed!
I would argue that whole food Filipino cuisine is healthy. Veganism is does not promote optimal health. People should not say that a food is bad just because its fatty. More and more research have been published to support high fat and high protein diets.
You are talking about Filipino American food nor Filipino food. We don't eat that much meat in the Philippines. Fish is eaten the most. Please have a disclaimers that this analysis is through a Filipino American lense.
Adobong Sitaw, Laing, Fresh Lumpia, Pakbet, Pansit, Sisig Tofu, Kare-Kareng Gulay, Ginataang Gulay, Ginataang Puso Ng Staging, Ginataang Langka, Monggo, etc these are Filipino veggie foods. These aren't mentioned, instead they said Suman and Puto as veggie food (what!?) Please do u research....kaloka
So what is your mom cooking? Most Filipinos cook adobo with half the dish in potatoes, if they weren't cooking straight up adobo vegetable dishes like kangkong or sitaw. Traditional sinigang has more vegetables than meat, such as taro, okra, kangkong, etc. In fact, most traditional dishes have more vegetables than meat. When I was a kid, I hated Filipino food because I always associated it with spicy vegetable soups with only a little meat. On a related note, traditional sinigang has chilies, and I'm always surprised by foreign-living Filipinos who cook sinigang without chilies. Chili is as essential to sinigang as garlic is to adobo. There's a whole chili cultivar called "chili for sinigang" in the Ph.
God! Who makes adobong mushroom? Obviously these guys are so misinformed and clueless about Filipino cuisine. Adobo can be made vegan by using sitaw or kangkong. And besides Filipino food is not meat heavy.
Ive been eating filipino foods almost my whole , im still ok .... Actually i worked in saudi arabia for 6yrs, and there i bacame over weight experience a lot of health issues .. story doesnt end on what you eat.in KSA i have a desk job in an aircondition office,went home in an airconditioned home. in the philippines most of the people have no air condition and have physically demanding jobs..its not all about what you eat, harse environment compensates on what you eat...you wont survive on salads and work on a construction site in a hot and humid country
Theres more than adobo and lechon, and some filipino culture is influenced because you know, people colonized the phillipines. My grandma is 89 years old and she doesn’t eat just adobo and lumpia. There’s more other filipino food that isn’t fried :/
Very similar to Indonesia. We don't eat nasi goreng, mie goreng, bakso, and beef rendang every day, but mostly foreigner will answer nasi goreng if you ask them about Indonesian food. In everyday meals, we eat more sayur asem (vegetable in sour tamarind soup, I think Filipino have similar dish just with different name) than nasi goreng or beef rendang. Stir fry tofu and tempeh, mung bean sproud (toge), sayur lodeh (vegetables in coconut milk) are more common for every day dish.
Eat moderately it's simple..and next time ask informatiom from pure filipino who still lives in the philippines because they can tell you the whole truth..unlike her she knew few things about filipino dishes thats why most of her statement are not accurate .
when i was in Philippines last year i saw alot of overweight people. Must be the highest in the Far East, yes the food is unhealthy in comparison with the neighbors. The dishes always lack vegetables.
I eat rice 3x a day and I'm 30 kg. My brother eats thrice the amount and he's not obese either. Here in the province meat based viand is hard to come by for most people and so they would eat rice with oil and soy sauce as a alternative. I don't see anyone obese walking around as well.
Obesity isn't the only consequence of unhealthy eating. The life expectancy in the Philippines is mid 60s while in other parts of the world it's mid 80s. That means dying a whole twenty years earlier. Bad nutrition doesn't show up only in whether a population is overweight or not.
Guys Filipino food can be very fattening true but because of social status quo many Filipinos think that if you only eat vegetables you are considered poor family which is completely untrue, when I went back the Philippines my girlfriend family at the asked her why your boyfriend eat only vegetables is he from a poor family they asked and I laugh at it. This social mindset gets me all the time lol. I grew up in my grandfathers house with four helpers, one driver, one gardener/yardwoker and my grandfather owned a cattle ranch with hundreds of hectares not acres he owned a sawmill but my grandfather loved bittergourd or bitter mellon, we used to eat it grilled and ate kangkong as a salad with garlic or sweet potato green leaves, okra leaves, and fresh chilli leaves with green papaya our lunch and dinner prepared by our nana always comes with meat and vegetables on the side for dessert during mango season is always served in as a side dish for breakfast lunch and dinner because my grandfather had a mango plantation our bodega/warehouse was filled with kaban or sako of mango all the way to the ceiling. To this day my siblings and I are used to eating bittergourd, kankong, and so i say this to other Filipinos kabayan start eating your vegetables there's no shame in it hahaha, leave that stigma out of eating healthy lol.
@@onedownmedia Please stop shoving your American ideology to us real Filipinos. Don't use the Philippines and our culture in clout-chasing. Huwag niyo kaming kasangkapin sa pakikiuso niyo sa Identity Politics and Greenwashing sa Amerika.
Because they feed you what they think you want: meat-centric dishes. Probably also because they think you might turn your nose up at such dishes like saluyot, talbos at dahon ng camote, talbos at dahon ng sayote, malunggay, talbos ng sitaw, talbos ng sili, malunggay, ginataang kalabasa. You probably might too because they are not presented the fancy way.
These food only for occassion. Filipinos eat more seafood and veggies. Meat and pork are expensive. Filipino rich only can afford to cook these food sometimes. In the province can cook adobo using pork or meat once a month or having a paycheck.. Sad foreigners assumed we are that rich to eat this everyday.
I think it's the lack of meal plan. And also the fact that the Philippines still follows the questionable food pyramid which is so outdated and very much not irrelevant on today's world. If the government doesn't do anything about our meal eating habits then yes sadly it's gonna get passed by generation by generation and so on. Also the go, grow and glow foods are also outdated . They need to update the meal plan and such to go to everything. Lastly Filipinos love MSG. Ajinomoto and Aji ginisa is just some of the food enhancing spices that are contributing to the health problems in the country .
Yes it is! Is unhealthy, i grow up eating that.Its no differentt in eating French fries and burger.Yes on my opinion..it is unhealthy. Like shecsais, this not about shaming.
Why are we villainizing meat??? The whole conversation of organic vegetables can be had with meat. It matters what your animal is eating and how it was raised - if your chicken is not eating well and raised in horrible conditions then yes that protein would not be as nutritious. Further, to have a discussion on this topic and not mention one word about sugars in traditional desserts and baked foods is truly not seeing the whole entire picture.
It's weird for FilAms to think that Filipino food is meat heavy when the majority of Filipinos are too poor to be regularly eating pork and beef on a daily basis. The idea that vegan Filipino food is a cultural innovation at odds with our culture is false and screams colonial mentality.
As an example, jackfruit as a meat substitute was probably stolen by white vegans from South and Southeast Asian cuisine. Ginataan and adobong langka are staples in Filipino food that can be bought at most karinderyas in Manila. (This is why statements going "I made a vegan version of adobo using jackfruit" is very annoying, because adobo has never been limited to meat and adobong langka has existed for centuries before the idea of veganism was even born.) Other forms of "veganizing" Filipino food already exist in the cuisine: lumpiang togue is more popular in the PH than lumpiang Shanghai. Filipinos are also familiar with many different vegetables unknown in the West: palm hearts, banana hearts, bamboo shoots, water spinach, etc. Tofu is a mainstay in Filipino cuisine, and has a Tagalog translation. Friday monggo or laing is part of Filipino food culture.
The reason why FilAms associate Filipino food with meat boils down to middle class privilege. A vegetable heavy diet is seen as a mark of poverty, and regular meat consumption is seen as a differentiator by middle class Filipinos from working class Filipinos who get by with adobong sitaw and nilagang talbos. Most FilAms are from the middle class, and thus, carried the same biases with them to the US. However, claiming that Filipino cuisine abhors vegetables is wrong when most Filipinos have vegetable- and fish-heavy diets.
The idea that we have to "veganize" Filipino food by replacing meat with vegetables is wrong when the vegetable forms of these dishes already exist and has been part of Filipino cuisine for centuries, from sinigang na ubod to kare-kareng gulay to tinolang papaya, to adobong tokwa't kangkong or adobong puso ng saging. In fact, what vegans need to work on isn't replacing the meat, it's replacing the fish sauce and fish paste.
PS. Another pet peeve is the notion that Filipino food isn't spicy, when the standard way for cooking most Filipino main dishes call for the use of long green chilies which are 30-50K SCU or 10 times the heat of jalapenos. Filipinos just don't consider that as spicy, because we're used to it, we only consider things spicy when it starts using Thai red chilies.
True that!
I'm sure many Filipinos never try "Puso ng Saging" or called the heart of the banana when they are making lumpia. In the southern Philippines, some regions use this kind of dish and it's healthy. And vegetables also could use for lumpia.
@@sawashakiletomania8955 we cook it as ukoy.
Palakpakan!
well said
There are more Filipino dishes other than Adobo and Lechon. The Philippines is a tropical country, which means vegetables are easily grown. We have an abundance of vegetable dishes in the Philippines. It's just not popular in the mainstream media.
I agree, and this builds up the notion that Filipino food or Tagalog food, according to this video, is unhealthy.
@@topherpadilla and the thing is, the popular Filipino food isn't even Tagalog food. Tagalog food is Batangas food, and to emphasize how unknown it is, the adobo of Batangas uses turmeric instead of soy sauce, or coconut milk instead of soy sauce. People barely know adobong dilaw and adobong puti exists.
Tell that to those vloggers
Yes, every region has their own way of cooking.
True. Sa amin sa bicol kadalasan gulay kami. Nakakapag-karne lang pag bagong sahod. Pang sahog/palasa nga namin sa mga gulay ay tinapa, hindi karne.
Why veganize the meat dishes when there's so many vegetable dishes in Filipino cuisine?
Yes. They should explore more
Because filipino foods are unhealthy, that’s why it needs to be Veganize
@@marconjakecanonoy but we have many vegan dishes that doesn't make it on the spotlight. Go to Philippine provinces and you will see that lechon and crispy pata is not an everyday meal for a typical filipino household. It is only for fiesta and special occasions
@@marconjakecanonoy not our fault that you're oblivious to healthy filipino food.
@@Siddhartha040107 actually it is not your fault blame it on philippine media that anf philippine food industry that corrupts your mind
We actually rarely eat meat. Fish and chicken is the common meat here in our place but even those meat don't get to the table everyday. We usually eat leafy veges from our backyard or from the forest. We love tinola and malunggay. We also have many free veges that are just growing everywhere here so we don't find meat as a necessity in the table. The only time meat is the star is for when we have occasions 😂😂😂.
Yes. Malunggay. Halos maubos pa mga dahon kakapitas po haha
Yeahh same here. Tinola and sinigang na hipon or Bangus tapos may kangkong. Yum 😋. Pero favorite ko Chopsuey with quail eggs.
Not true.
its ironic that peopIe think filipinos eat alot of meat. actually, most filipinos barely eat meat.
meanwhile, modern filipinos are so unhealthy with many health issues. for some reason though, we blame the meat for the health issues. ALWAYS.
marunggay! OMG! SO healthy.
Northern part of the Philippines has lots vegetable dishes. It's just isn't getting enough attention, just ask anyone who at least lived in a farm with relatives in their childhood they can tell a few vegetable dishes.
True that! Eating vegetables are only for the poor, whereas, in the U.S. eating greens is classy
me gulay nga, me karne naman, lol!
Yung video, it's not about PH has veggie dishes, it's about the "usual" food of Filipinos daily. We have a lot of veggie dishes but it's not a common meal or usual "handaan" during parties or get together with friends. Tingnan mo Yung Usual binebenta sa carinderia. They're usually chicken/pork.
Usual party food are lechon baboy, lechon manok, bihon, spaghetti, salad, kare kare, menudo, adobo, cordon Bleu. Meron nga veggie pero usually it's chopsuey. Sige, maglagay ka Jan Ng sinabawang isda, Hindi yan masyodong gagalawin pag nanjan yung menus mentioned above.
@@frenchpotato5661 well, vegetables are expensive here, and prices skyrocket even more every time typhoons hit, like when a kilogram of chili cost around PHP900 (USD18).
ikr? Both my parents are from Ilokano stock from Zambales. They introduced me to vegetarian-pescatarian GOODNESS.
The moment when the actual Filipino food at home is mostly vegetables and fish
Omg my Filipino girlfriend is vegan and we get a lot of our recipes from Astig Vegan!! 🥰 And I love that you point out the fact that Filipino food is not always Tagalog & so diverse ❤️ It is next to Vietnamese food (my own cuisine) my favorite!
That's interesting. What are similarities of filipino and vietnamese food?
There's no need to "veganize" when Filipino Cuisine is lit rally sooooo flexible that any of our dishes have vegetable forms. In just Western Visayas (my region) alone we have some, most of the foods listed here (not including desserts) are from my province Antique, with the exception of some which may be shared with neighboring Iloilo:
Adobo nga Tangkong (Water Spinach Adobo)
Adobo nga Latoy (String Bean Adobo)
Lumpia nga may Ubod (Lumpia stuffed with stir fried coconut heart)
Utan/Linapwahan (Any combination of veggies in a soup, most commonly using okra, pumpkin, moringa and jute)
Ensalada nga Batwan (Pickled Batwan)
Kinilaw nga Kamatis (Tomato salad with soy sauce, sliced red onions, green onions)
Ginat-an nga Langka (Jackfruit soup with coconut milk)
Ginat-an nga Kamansi (Breadfruit Soup with coconut milk)
Sinabawan nga Monggo (Mung bean soup with either string beans, papayas, malabar nightshade, moringa, kamote leaves and gaway-gaway flowers or pumpkin flowers)
Kadyos kag Kamulusun (Beans Soup)
Atsara nga Kapayas (Pickled Papaya)
Atsara nga Tambo (Pickled Bamboo Shoot)
Ginat-an nga Tambo (Bamboo shoot soup with coconut milk and jute)
Steamed Kamote Leaves
Steamed Kangkong Leaves
True. I love everything ginat-an! And batwan is very rare you can only find it in western visayas.
it's almost like Western Society members need to re-market our culture. Well, it was already good and if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
There’s so much vegetables you can adobo, sitaw and kangkong are my fave 🤤
talong too!
omg i love adobong bawang!
@@gibberishboner8776 What?
@@allysadamalerio5798 bawang teh. hindi mo alam yun? aswang ka ba???
@@gibberishboner8776 Alam ko. Pero hindi pa ako nakarinig na ang bawang i-adobo. Kasi ang ang bawang kadalasan ay rekado lang sa adobo.
I'm a filipino and we rarely eat those filipino unhealthy foods. Most of the time they are only served during special occasions like birthdays and fiestas. As someone who lives in the province we usually eat vegetarian foods like abraw and pinakbet which consists of vegetables we grow in our yard. Fish is also very popular, we cook use it on sinigang and even adobo. About the western influence in our use of proccessed meat, they are only eaten for breakfast. There are a variety of healthy filipino foods that doesn't get the western spotlight. Personally, I think it's because they may not satisfy the western palate.
oooh i haven't heard of abraw, what does it taste like?
right? Only on Fiestas do we indulge with protein. And history shows that we made papaya-heavy condiments to ease this huge rush of protein whose frequencies were in weeks, not days.
@@zephdo2971 random leafy greens and vegetables from the yard boiled with a fish(can be a leftover) and fish paste. typical vegetables includes squash, squash blossoms, moringa leaves or fruit, spinash, sponge gourd, bitter guord. anything that are on the yard.
I guess I am happy to be born from a Bicolano Father and an Ilongga Mother. We do have our share of meat at home, but the week never ends without a helping of fish or vegetables cooked in coconut milk (my Father's specialty) or stewed veggies (my Mother's specialty). Our Pangasinan neighbor always gives us pinakbet or diningding for lunch or dinner. So yeah, Filipino food can be vegan.
What about your daily meal?
Hoping you do more research the Filipino food because as of now all the Filipino food was upgraded is more healthier but it depends to the person the way of cooking.
This type of filipino food is usually consumed in the cities..but for me as an islander the people where is more likely eating,seafoods like fish,seashells,clumbs and sea orchain,and sea cucumbers and in the morning we eat stir fry vegies and paksiw na isda..in the noon we eat fish soup freshly cook from the sea to our plate..in the night we eat vegetable soup or in the tagalong sinabawang gulay with oil on it..pair grilled fish..we seldome eat meat like 2 or 3 times in a month..
Zambales, Philippines. Way better cuisine that your average fiesta offerings (lumpia, pancit, adobo). With provincial influence, get your taste buds prepped for appetite destruction in the form of PINAKBET, TINOLA, BULALO, sitaw, etc.
Im not a Filipino but married to a native filipina for 12 years. Part of me wants to say it loud that Filipino food is not meat heavy. My wife cooks variety of course like soured bangus, siningang, dinengdeng, steam okra with mango, torta eggplant, steamed and grilled sea bass with sawsaw, coconut milk with vegetables, pakbet and a lot more. This video is poorly research.
coz they just tried the meaty dishes, we also have vege dishes prepared in salad, steam or soup not just fried.
Thats because the meaty dishes are the majority. Even here in America. As a raw vegan filipino, i see all my kababayan and they all look void of nutrients and vitamins.
Thank you for this content but I do believe the researchers need to dig in more on the rural side of the Philippines, in order to explore more with the Filipino cuisine not just only stating that Filipino foods focused more on proteins. If you have tried living in the province or barrios in the Philippines then you will know that the topic being discussed in the video is just a toppings of it.
I think filipino food isn’t that fatty in general. However if you live in the NCR, the case is that the food tends to be heavy-meat meal since meat is cheaper than vegetable there. In contrast to the provinces wherein vegetable and fruits are much more available and easy to get or buy. Hence, meat consumption is decreased. Also, Filipinos tend to make the food healthier by replacing the meat with tofu or fish.
I like the "save". When in fact we were sold.
Well we have an organic backyard garden where we source our greens. Like pechay, moringa, kangkong an others. We have access to fresh seafood as well. Most of the time we cook meals tgat are already has meat and veggies. It really boils down on where you live in the country and access to fresh produce meat and etc. Try going to a carenderia you will see a variety of food. Not just unhealthy food.
Thank you for mentioning "Carenderia". Carenderia is our homegrown street food. Pinoys should stop using the phrase "street food" We should use "carenderia". Again, carenderia got no class but street food does
i dont think so. filipinos used to be fit and have great body even eating the same traditional food for hundreds of years. its only thru the booming of fast food wc is definitely heavily influenced by western food that makes filipinos fat and obese.
This just makes me sad, why not include chopseuy, ilocano/bisaya veg dishes? Yes I am not into vegs but we do have dishes that is just mainly vegetables
I admire the intent & discussion of this video even if I disagree with some things said. A cousin & I were actually talking a few months back about the numerous health issues many family members have due to poor eating habits/diets. We live in Canada, though. I can understand the frustration behind the comments to this vid around the stereotyping that Filipino foods are heavily meat-based & unhealthy. If you live in the Philippines or have spent a significant amount of time there, for sure, it's not true that people don't have access to fruits & veggies (they are waaay cheaper than meat when you walk to the nearby tindahan and from experience, veggies/fruits are way more accessible if you are not going to a big market or mall). However, in N. America, we don't have easy access to Filipino fruits/veggies; families are not teaching their kids how to cook Filipino dishes nor does the younger generation particularly want to learn; and the food you associated with being Filipino food are the ones you see at family gatherings or at Filipino restaurants, ,mainly crispy chicken or deep-fried stuff. I've been guilty of commenting in the past, to my parents, that I found Filipino food to be too meat-heavy. Feels odd to say that now 'cause I grew up with and still exposed to lots of veggie/seafood-based Filipino dishes...maybe this was what I was seeing at bigger family parties and eat-outs. For instance, Max's Restaurant here in Edmonton, AB got rid of laing on the menu shortly after it opened 5+ yrs ago due to how pricy it was to get the taro leaves plus few people ordering it...I was choked since that was my favourite dish).
I think we have to remember that the folks behind the video are speaking from a Fil-Am perspective, which is just as valid. They probably shouldn't have tried generalizing for the entirety of the Philippines, but it's also a fact that in the Phils., there's a growing chronic disease problem. Lots of people eating at malls and buying prepackaged foods loaded with sugar, sodium and hydrogenated oils. I love my Filipino pastries and disheartened everytime I see margarine being used over butter. White rice has become synonymous with Filipino identity (at least in USA and Canada) but is being eaten in too large of a portion size or in the absence of veggies (not to mention white rice lacks the nutrients that say, brown rice or wild rice have).
Disagree with the dietitian that cholesterols and saturated fats are bad for you - it depends on the type of food & quality. Coconut oil is high in saturated fats but very healthy and part of native Filipino diet. The prob is when people consume the cheap, processed stuff that requires high heat to make (ie. margarine, canola oil) - mainly in fast foods. I personally don't think the answer is to turn vegan but for sure, to go back to eating more natural foods and doing more home cooking if possible.
Provincials have a lot more plant-based food and dishes. We have bulanglang, ginataan, dinengdeng, pinakbet, too many to mention vegetable dishes.
It's just that the highlighted foods in these foodie videos are the more of westernized and meat-based.
True true
Some of these "plant-based" foods that you mention are still salty and fatty.
@@earli649 But it's way healthier compared to the "mainstream" Filipino cuisine namely; Sisig, Lumpia, Adobo, Lechon, Crispy Pata etc...
I don't think it's unhealthy, most people who have never been in the Philippines only know the foods that were popular or the foods they can find online. As a Filipino who grow up in the Philippines, i grow up eating vegetables like kangkong, patola, kalabasa, sitaw and many more. For me growing up meat is like a luxury, it's not like every day we have adobo or fried pork. We eat the food we had access to or the food we can afford. Vegetables were affordable back then so i grow up eating different dishes of mix vegetables, eating any kind of meat is like a price for the long time of only eating vegetables. I don't think many of these people have been into many Filipino houses as they are only basing their view on one perspective, not every filipino get to eat meat or the kind of dishes that was shown on the video. You can only expensive pork and chicken when there's a birthday or someone finally gets their paycheck.
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There are many dishes with vegetables in the Philippines like in rural areas in Samar and Batangas. It taste so good than foods in Manila or Filipino-American very foreign, party foods and meat-based. Hope they put effort to emphasize provincial foods like what Thailand, Indonesia or Vietnam did.
Chopsuey, laing, pancit bihon, lumpiang toge, misua with patola, tokwa sisig, biernes monggo, kare kare is still kare kare with just veggies. adobong sitaw cause you can adobo anything, and they all taste good! ... look for other pinoy dishes cause we have lots to offer not just usual menu in filipino restaurants in the west
Dinengdeng, laswa, pakbet, kinilaw na gulay like ampalaya, laing, bicol express... lechon and beef are rich people food. Please dont confuse Manila as representative of the whole Philippines
That is so kind you’re Filipino and we love that type of food give it to me now
Most of the foods you talked about are party foods, not your everyday foods. Regular filipino consume vegetables and fish. I can attest to that since I’ve lived with a middle class family in the philippines as a foreign exchange student. Sorry but this is just poor research or no research at all.
Maybe, they cook meat everyday
This. My family would even sometimes go through the whole week or month without meat(pork, chicken, beef) just vegetables and sometimes fish. They probaboy just encountered Filipinos who're trying to impress them through feeding them meat dishes.
Those party foods represent the Filipino cuisine though.
Malamang, di naman sila Pinoy para malaman yan o baka alam nila kaso ginagamit talaga nila tayo sa clout-chasing.
@@earli649 So our EVERYDAY food is not Filipino? LOL
Our fast food here in Bicol is going to the backyard and see what we have. We use so much vegetables in our dish and only a little bit of meat. Filipino food depends on which part of Philippines you are from and what fruits or vegetables are available to you.
Do your research before claiming that Filipino only eat those mentioned meal. I grew up in the rural area and we only get to eat meat at least once a week. Our meal usually consists of either stir fried vegetables or vegetables cooked in coconut milk with fried fish or fish soup. Also when we cook meat we always incorporate vegetables in it.
Bicolanos eat:
Ginataang langka
Ginataang puso ng saging
Ginataang ubod ng kawayan o saging
Ginataang papaya
Ginataang Malunggay
Ginataang Santol
Ginataang Lubi-lubi
Ginataang Kamoteng kahoy
Adobong Sitaw
Adobong Kangkong
Ginataan o stir fried na talong
Ginataan o stir fried na mustasa (mustard) , pechay
Stir fried cabbage
Stir fried baguio beans
Nilagang talong, talbos ng kamote, with kamatis
The list go on plus we have a variety of fish dishes
We only eat meat on salary days and special occassion
there are more to filipino food than adobo, lechon, and lumpia. the ph is so diverse that each region has their own representation of what filipino food is, and you'd be surprised to know that most of them are with fish and vegetables. when you have a platform like this, please be more aware and educated about the culture. a lot of fil-ams in my opinion are rarely immersed to the filipino food and culture and it's videos like that prove that.
Me as a local think the major problem in our food tourism is that, we ourselves are not properly marketing our cuisine, celebrity chefs and food business got way too lazy and complacent to feature more of our cuisine that they just played safe and keep on highlighting select dishes so much to the foreign market that most of them got conditioned these type of food only represents Filipino cuisine.
1. adobo
2. sinigang
3. sisig
4. lechon
5. crispy pata
6. balut
7. halo halo
8. lumpia
9. pansit
10. "silog" meals
11. chicken inasal
12. bicol express
13. all items in Jollibee
I've watched endless amounts of food channels/reviews that includes "foreigners try Filipino food" or "foreigners visiting Philippines" and I have never yet watched foreigners try Filipino food outside of the list above mentioned. Why are the solid 4 comprised of menudo, afritada, caldereta and mechado not yet featured despite these dishes are so familiar and everyday Filipino household? dishes like laing, dinuguan, kare kare, pinakbet, dinengdung, pochero, binagoongan, relleno, embotido, hardinera, lomi, pinoy style chicken curry, biko, casava cake, ube halaya; these are one of the few as there are just too many more to mention, these dishes are not entirely niche or regional to be labeled as "rare finds", they are familiar to everyday Filipino life yet a lot of our supposed local food influencers are not highlighting them to the foreign market, which is sad and disappointing.
Agree. I only see few foreigners try something like Laing or Pinakbet and those are two of the more popular veggie dishes here.
carnivore here. I eat nose to tail (which is very healthy, I eat all parts of the animal) meat does not have to mean processed or fried. thanks to my Filipina mother, I am not afraid of eating liver like I know many of my peers were.. I also love all kind of fish (my mom is ilocana after). I just avoid the carbs. I don't need to veganize. I just eat all kinds of meat and fish sauteed in coconut oil. Also this filipina had the highest cholesterol in the world without a dx of hypercholesterolemia, It was the highest any doctor had ever seen, yet my Calcium score was zero. Awesome filipino genetics? Perhaps. :) High cholesterol doesn't have to mean heart disease especially when your HDL is high and trigs are low. And most importantly INSULIN is low. It's the sugar not the fat that is the culprit. Usually in people suffering from heart disease, this pattern is different with LDL being high, trigs high and ldl low and their A1c, SUGAR HIGH. Insulin and sugar are the bad guys. Not cholesterol. With my cholesterol having been the highest in the world, I am what is known as a lean mass hyperresponder. My bp is also EXTREMELY low. High cholesterol but LOW blood glucose = low bp. Others like me have low bp as well. I am being studied by cardiologists, my blood was sent to Mayo and my arteries are free and clear. Cancer? My crp is ROCK BOTTOM. AND high cholesterol with this pattern can be associated with extremely HIGH immunity. Who wouldn't want that? During Covid, I turned my back on this eating pattern and ate fried processed foods and my cholesterol actually fell. But my bp rose. Went back to eating nose to tail and many meats my fellow Americans are too afraid to touch, but not me. My filipina mother taught me not to waste ANYTHING. Filipina carnivore here who had the highest cholesterol in the world. ua-cam.com/video/SXrV1Kjt8Xc/v-deo.html
Exactly!! I'm 1/4 Pinay and grew up eating Pinoy food. I don't think the food is to blame but people's lifestyle and eating habits.
Such a missed opportunity. Halloween is around the corner and Sapphire already does ghost stories... could've went the Filipino Folklore route to wrap up Fil Am History Month
Ok.. we can say that Filipino food is all meat but that's just on the surface. What Filipino food do foreigners know? They are food for occasions and we don't eat them all the time. One thing that many have forgotten is what we eat on ordinary days.
One characteristics of Filipino cuisine is that Filipinos eat vegetables and fish in most days (weekdays) and we eat pork and beef on the weekend. Now the meat that we eat on the weekend usually goes with vegetables such as sinigang, chopsuey, inihaw with ensalada among others.
The most oily food such as lechon, lechon kawali, crispy pata are usually consumed when there are special events.
Filipino cuisine is so diverse that we don't eat the same food every time. With the influence of foreign and local cultures the choices are so wide.
Pushing veganism isn't the solution. Sometimes, it's the mentality that we should change. We Filipinos should put greater importance in our different interesting regional cuisines. We can be more creative by using what are present and available in our environment. The increase of obesity and metabolic diseases in the Philippines like diabetes, cardiovascular diseases are mainly due to the fact that Filipinos do eat a lot of junk foods + alcohol and Filipinos give more importance into those foods than healthy meals that other regions offer! Filipinos like the thought of festivity & fun while eating which is not really bad but we also forget a lot of times to think about our health. We should glorify more our different cuisines than all those junkfoods and processed foods. It isn't true that eating healthily cost way more, we have lots of low cost varieties of vegetables, fruits, fish, gibblets that are super nutritious! It's only a matter of how you prepare and cook them, how often you eat them and how much you eat them. As consumers, we need to choose and buy food products more wisely. Personally, I grew up poor too with my other 2 siblings, my dad salary back in the days didnt exceed 5000 pesos a month, but I can attest how my parents didn't use the 'poor' card and feed us with loads of junk, packaged & processed foods. Yes, it's possible my fellow countrymen.
Filipino food is absolutely not fusion food. Modern Italian food is what it is because of the tomatoes from the Aztecs and noodles from China. Pre-colonial Philippines have been trading with a lot of its neighbors so for sure there will be inspiration and adaptation.
Me as ilonggo living in western visayas we like vege soup with fish cuz i don't have any options my family both fisherman and farmers
Good 👍 Job ' and thanks for sharing ❤ Greetings from Fairfield, California 😊
ugggh made me hungry! Filipino food is still the best cuisine for me! The variety is limitless! 🥳
My parents were poor. I was born to poor parents, unfortunately. My mother grew up by the beach, literally, beach is their backyard. My father was also born and raised in a tiny island. I knew my parents were in hard times when all day all week we only eat nothing but fried tuna and fried salmon. We cannot afford pork or beef. When my mother made tinola, bouillabaisse in French, she'd throw in plenty of (organic) cabbage, banana, potato to fill up our hungry tummy. We had escabiche, staple in French Carribean. Gosh, how I hate fish back then. Fastforward today, Americans cannot afford deep sea Tuna and Salmon. Instead of tinola we eat bouillabaisse and escabiche. Travel back in time we were wealthy after all because we ate what people of today cannot afford.
Here are $64 questions:
1. Where do Filipinos in America buy their balut from? ANSWER: from duck-raising Vietnamese in Seal Beach, CA
2. Why second-gen American-Filipinos do not eat at Filipino restaurants? Whereas, Korean-American and Chinese-American eat at their restaurants? Why? Oh, why?
Keep making content! Awesome work as always
All my family dies from massive heart attacks before the age 55 im 45 I have 10 years left !! Thnx America!!!
Oh by the way I just had cornbeef for dinner not even 10 mins ago !!! Yummy 😋
As a Filipino, I changed my diet to a more Arabic one which I feel is healthier. I feel eating wraps, grilled chicken, yogurt and salads is healthier. Problem with indulging with Filipino food everyday is that it is by default high in sodium and cholesterol. Consuming rice every meal won’t help me either.
Hence, why Filipinos have Highblood Pressure, Diabetes and Stones.
Right now, I only indulge with Filipino food during weekends or during celebrations. If I do on a weekday, I’ll make my own lechion manok, or other dessert the leaner part of pork with vinegar but less on the soy sauce part.
PS. For me, Filipino food is still the best. It’s just that I changed my relationship with food now and I only treat it as fuel.
My son, Geechee Lion, who retired last year and now lives in the Philippines with a UA-cam Channel, favorite Filipino foods are Law oy( vegetable soup), chicken adobo, chopsuey, kangkong, and bangus fish.
The UA-cam Channel is Geechee Lion's Journey.
We have vegetarian versions of some of our dishes!.!. I’d love to cook some of these dishes to these FilAms!.!.
Chapsui, tinola, sinigang, vegetable lumpia, pinakbet, giniling with carrots and potatoes, tofu sisig? Monggo with Malunggay? Ginataang kalabasa? Those are vegetable dishes in the Philippines! You can even find them in carenderia.
Yes it's unhealthy. Even our nutritionist here in PH have outdated information regarding diet and fitness.
It's mostly unhealthy because I feel meat is so prioritized because you can get it if you're rich. The culture around eating so much. The pride in Filipino food
well, not all. Just like any other country dishes, there are healthy and unhealthy ones. depends on the region. Most are actually vegetable base, that's a fact. If you only knew meat base Filipino foods, your mum must have only served you meat dishes while growing up since she wanted to impress you and make you love Filipino dishes more than any other dishes.
But part of the problem here in the states is because a lot of Filipinos came from poor families so it is engrained to them that having meat, poultry and pork are a sign of good health sustenance when infact it can be detrimental to their health. If your fat your seen as mayaman Filipino says.
But here in Metro Manila there are a lot of fat shaming
In America there is lots of processed foods and instant meal which are unhealthy
Here now from the UK. Tried lots of veg and fruit we don't have back home. Limiting the rice intake. Don't understand how it can be unhealthy tbh. Fresh, traditional food not processed. I do only eat fish and chicken tho.
Here is a way to prepare less unhealthy pinoy foods When i am at home I cook karekare with 95% beef shaved the fats away no innards no twalya as they say I only used bone with pure meet no fats, same thing with chicken Adobo shave away the skin and I always add either baby spinach or chinese brocoli so if you want to eat healthy filipino food take away the fatts of any meat do not use innards guts and use pork with out fats that's all i cook bulalo with no fats just meet and bone with lots of veggies.
Most people will say it’s because of poverty? How about those people that can afford healthy foods but are still unhealthy. Can’t eat a meal without a mountain of rice?
In visayas there's laswa and fish sinigang...
That thing with this fil ams lumaki sla sa mga meat heavy filipino food dhl mas accessible yng ingredients ng mga dishes n yun kesa sa mga vegetable dishes. Pero di ibig sbhn meat heavy ang filipino food especially sa mga provinces
Sinigang, pinakbet, nilaga, chopsuey, tortang talong, ensyalada, ginisang puso ng saging, adobong kangkong with sitaw, ginataang langka ginisa or ginataang labong, ginisa or ginataang kamansi, ginisang monggo, tokwa sisig ala max chicken tinola with papaya, tinolang bangos with moringga inon-unan in mindanao and visayas or paksiw na isda in luzon with ampalaya, siling pangsigang and talong and utan. Real healthy in the province.
The most popular filipino foods are unhealthy ngl. Vegan products should be industrialized in this country. However, I agree that calling foods "unhealthy" only means that you are privileged enough to have access to other alternatives in which a lot of Filipinos, especially in the slums do not have that luxury. I mean, processed foods are even "convenient" to cook in a regular monday so that's one thing.
A typical filipino is not conscious about what they eat, they only care that it tastes good. The more rice, the more food volume, the better. Which is a rather unhealthy mindset, so it's no surprise that many are actually nutrient deficient. 'Diet' typically means no rice or skipping meals. Which is even worse. It's great to find a channel that talks more about Filipino food and culture, subscribed!
You have really GREAT content! Kudos!!
I would argue that whole food Filipino cuisine is healthy. Veganism is does not promote optimal health. People should not say that a food is bad just because its fatty. More and more research have been published to support high fat and high protein diets.
I love this content!!!
I don't know why I was in my feelings with this video.... Filipino Food is Food for the SOUL! 💖
no its not
You are talking about Filipino American food nor Filipino food. We don't eat that much meat in the Philippines. Fish is eaten the most. Please have a disclaimers that this analysis is through a Filipino American lense.
Adobong Sitaw, Laing, Fresh Lumpia, Pakbet, Pansit, Sisig Tofu, Kare-Kareng Gulay, Ginataang Gulay, Ginataang Puso Ng Staging, Ginataang Langka, Monggo, etc these are Filipino veggie foods. These aren't mentioned, instead they said Suman and Puto as veggie food (what!?) Please do u research....kaloka
Western diet also effed up aboriginal diet as well.
just cut your carbs(like rice and desserts) and increase eating healthy greens... on your way to a longer life..
Why you pronounce Sevilla as Seviya? Are you Mexican? It should be Sevilya as it is the original pronunciation of the -ll- in Philippine Spanish.
mostly what my Filipino mom would cook its mostly adobo sinigang etc.. i barely see any veggies in my moms dishes ( sorry mom haha)
So what is your mom cooking? Most Filipinos cook adobo with half the dish in potatoes, if they weren't cooking straight up adobo vegetable dishes like kangkong or sitaw. Traditional sinigang has more vegetables than meat, such as taro, okra, kangkong, etc. In fact, most traditional dishes have more vegetables than meat. When I was a kid, I hated Filipino food because I always associated it with spicy vegetable soups with only a little meat.
On a related note, traditional sinigang has chilies, and I'm always surprised by foreign-living Filipinos who cook sinigang without chilies. Chili is as essential to sinigang as garlic is to adobo. There's a whole chili cultivar called "chili for sinigang" in the Ph.
God! Who makes adobong mushroom? Obviously these guys are so misinformed and clueless about Filipino cuisine. Adobo can be made vegan by using sitaw or kangkong. And besides Filipino food is not meat heavy.
Meron actually. If you're familiar with u-ong, it's the mushroom preferred in making adobong kabute.
It never was meat heavy to begin with.
Chicken Tinola my favorite food for body building. All you need in one dish. sided with brown rice of course 👍 use skinless chicken breast though 😅
Ive been eating filipino foods almost my whole , im still ok .... Actually i worked in saudi arabia for 6yrs, and there i bacame over weight experience a lot of health issues .. story doesnt end on what you eat.in KSA i have a desk job in an aircondition office,went home in an airconditioned home. in the philippines most of the people have no air condition and have physically demanding jobs..its not all about what you eat, harse environment compensates on what you eat...you wont survive on salads and work on a construction site in a hot and humid country
Filipino are good in experiment on food.This is what I watched in local network.
who is she to speak for our couisine?
“Everyone loves lumpia... including Karen!” 😂🤣
Tinolang manok, sinigang, paksiw, adobong kangkong or sitaw, laswa, dinengdeng, pakbet, tortang talong, itlog na may ampalaya, ginataang langka, dahon ng gabi na ginataan, ginisang dahon ng kamoteng kahoy, sinampalukang isda, etc..dami kayang filipino vegan food.
The only time I feel like I'm eating healthy is when I'm eating Mongo, tinola, nilaga, chicken adobo and pinakbit
Theres more than adobo and lechon, and some filipino culture is influenced because you know, people colonized the phillipines. My grandma is 89 years old and she doesn’t eat just adobo and lumpia. There’s more other filipino food that isn’t fried :/
Very similar to Indonesia. We don't eat nasi goreng, mie goreng, bakso, and beef rendang every day, but mostly foreigner will answer nasi goreng if you ask them about Indonesian food. In everyday meals, we eat more sayur asem (vegetable in sour tamarind soup, I think Filipino have similar dish just with different name) than nasi goreng or beef rendang.
Stir fry tofu and tempeh, mung bean sproud (toge), sayur lodeh (vegetables in coconut milk) are more common for every day dish.
Eat moderately it's simple..and next time ask informatiom from pure filipino who still lives in the philippines because they can tell you the whole truth..unlike her she knew few things about filipino dishes thats why most of her statement are not accurate .
Oh ok. This is vegan propaganda.
when i was in Philippines last year i saw alot of overweight people. Must be the highest in the Far East, yes the food is unhealthy in comparison with the neighbors. The dishes always lack vegetables.
I eat zero vegetables. But I also eat zero carbs. Just the meat. Not overweight . Lost weight.
Due to eating rice 3x a day and soft drinks. A majority of filipinos eat veges and fish base food. Rice and soda is the cause of the obesity.
I eat rice 3x a day and I'm 30 kg. My brother eats thrice the amount and he's not obese either. Here in the province meat based viand is hard to come by for most people and so they would eat rice with oil and soy sauce as a alternative. I don't see anyone obese walking around as well.
Obesity isn't the only consequence of unhealthy eating. The life expectancy in the Philippines is mid 60s while in other parts of the world it's mid 80s. That means dying a whole twenty years earlier. Bad nutrition doesn't show up only in whether a population is overweight or not.
Lmao what part of PH you went to? Did you travel the overall places in the dountry?
You never hear people say “Let’s go for Filipino Food” there is a reason why.
Guys Filipino food can be very fattening true but because of social status quo many Filipinos think that if you only eat vegetables you are considered poor family which is completely untrue, when I went back the Philippines my girlfriend family at the asked her why your boyfriend eat only vegetables is he from a poor family they asked and I laugh at it. This social mindset gets me all the time lol. I grew up in my grandfathers house with four helpers, one driver, one gardener/yardwoker and my grandfather owned a cattle ranch with hundreds of hectares not acres he owned a sawmill but my grandfather loved bittergourd or bitter mellon, we used to eat it grilled and ate kangkong as a salad with garlic or sweet potato green leaves, okra leaves, and fresh chilli leaves with green papaya our lunch and dinner prepared by our nana always comes with meat and vegetables on the side for dessert during mango season is always served in as a side dish for breakfast lunch and dinner because my grandfather had a mango plantation our bodega/warehouse was filled with kaban or sako of mango all the way to the ceiling. To this day my siblings and I are used to eating bittergourd, kankong, and so i say this to other Filipinos kabayan start eating your vegetables there's no shame in it hahaha, leave that stigma out of eating healthy lol.
This channel is fucking amazing
Lumpia, Pancit Canton or Pancit Bihon. When the kids have Birthday, they want Filipino Food.
Is there going to be a season 2?
YES! More than likely in October, but feel free to check out our new series, The Chismis, now out on our channel!
@@onedownmedia Please stop shoving your American ideology to us real Filipinos. Don't use the Philippines and our culture in clout-chasing. Huwag niyo kaming kasangkapin sa pakikiuso niyo sa Identity Politics and Greenwashing sa Amerika.
I never feel like I get enough veggies when I visit the Philippines.
Laing and apan apan are two examples
Well you probably eat out in a restaurant or fast food joint. A Typical Pinoy dish is mostly rice, vege, and fish/chicken( small portion).
Go to kuya J restaurant or karenderia there's sinigang and other dish with freaking vegetables
Because they feed you what they think you want: meat-centric dishes. Probably also because they think you might turn your nose up at such dishes like saluyot, talbos at dahon ng camote, talbos at dahon ng sayote, malunggay, talbos ng sitaw, talbos ng sili, malunggay, ginataang kalabasa. You probably might too because they are not presented the fancy way.
Go live with common Filipino family. AND not in a hotel
I love this video. Thanks 😁
Sisig can be made with chicken or fish sisig bangus specifically is better alternative
Been in the Philippines for 2 months. My meals? Inabraw, pinakbet, monggo, fish sinigang almost every fucking day
These food only for occassion. Filipinos eat more seafood and veggies. Meat and pork are expensive. Filipino rich only can afford to cook these food sometimes. In the province can cook adobo using pork or meat once a month or having a paycheck.. Sad foreigners assumed we are that rich to eat this everyday.
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Everything to much is unhealthy and It's up to people how to control. Isa PA lahat naman ng tao namamatay kahit gaano kapa kahealty.
I think it's the lack of meal plan. And also the fact that the Philippines still follows the questionable food pyramid which is so outdated and very much not irrelevant on today's world. If the government doesn't do anything about our meal eating habits then yes sadly it's gonna get passed by generation by generation and so on. Also the go, grow and glow foods are also outdated . They need to update the meal plan and such to go to everything. Lastly Filipinos love MSG. Ajinomoto and Aji ginisa is just some of the food enhancing spices that are contributing to the health problems in the country .
Yes it is! Is unhealthy, i grow up eating that.Its no differentt in eating French fries and burger.Yes on my opinion..it is unhealthy. Like shecsais, this not about shaming.
We're all have food close to each other both are too good food 😅👍
Vegan Filipino food. I had to laugh so hard
Same 😂 I mean why make vegan Filipino food if we already have lots of variety of Filipino vegetable dishes? 🤯
Leche flan came from spanish not mexico.
Tortang Talong is Life.
Why are we villainizing meat??? The whole conversation of organic vegetables can be had with meat. It matters what your animal is eating and how it was raised - if your chicken is not eating well and raised in horrible conditions then yes that protein would not be as nutritious.
Further, to have a discussion on this topic and not mention one word about sugars in traditional desserts and baked foods is truly not seeing the whole entire picture.