Filipino food is sweet, savory, and cooked slowly, and it is one of the easiest cuisines in Asia for a child who is not sure. Rice with everything, nothing too spicy, and a dessert that is a whole event.
Adobo is the national dish. Chicken or pork simmered in soy sauce, vinegar and garlic until it falls apart, served with rice. Every family has a version and every child eats it. Order it the first night and then order it every night the kids ask, which will be most of them.
Lechon is the roast pig, whole, with crackling skin, the feast dish for every celebration. Cebu is famous for it and a plate of lechon with rice at a stall is a meal. Sinigang is the sour tamarind soup with pork or prawns and vegetables, and it is the one to order when someone is under the weather.
Snacks, sweets and the mango
Lumpia are the spring rolls, fried, dipped in sweet chili. Pancit is the noodle dish, stir fried with vegetables and meat, served at every birthday. Fried chicken from Jollibee with rice and the sweet spaghetti is the Filipino fast food and every child in the country loves it. Yours will too.
Halo halo is dessert. A tall glass of shaved ice with condensed milk, sweet beans, jellies, fruit, purple yam ice cream and a slice of flan on top, mixed with a spoon. The name means mix mix. It is the afternoon in the Philippines.
The mango is the thing to know. The Philippine mango is small, yellow, and sweeter than any mango anywhere. Dried mango from Cebu in the suitcase home. Buko juice from a fresh coconut, calamansi juice, and a bottle of water with every meal.
Planning Philippines with kids? Start with the full Philippines family travel guide, or send me the ages and the dates and I will come back with what is really available.
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