Filipino cuisine — , Adobo as method
Decide the order of Filipino cuisine before the pan is hot. “Adobo as method” in names that order, and 20 is heat, salt, or time. Do not treat a restaurant photo’s gloss as a quantity. Black pepper in adobo is older than chili in many houses.
The home pantry around Adobo and the labour behind Sinigang rarely fit a takeaway box. Are restaurant versions "authentic"? Restaurant Filipino cuisine is one register. Home pots and market stalls are others. Authenticity is a marketing word; technique is not. Lutuing Filipino is the local name used in this atlas beside Filipino cuisine.
Filipino cuisine tastes first of sour and garlic: adobo, sinigang, kinilaw. Chili exists (Bicol, Mindanao) but the national bass is suka and tamarind, not nam prik. Street food is barbecue sticks, fishballs and halo-halo. Jollibee is a genuine popular taste, not a joke about colonialism — though colonialism is in the gravy.
Filipino cuisine is organised by bagoong / suka and rice. Pampanga claims a culinary capital. Ilocos salts and bagoong; Bicol cooks chili-coconut; the Visayas roast lechon that Manila argues about; Mindanao holds Muslim-Filipino and lumad tables. Ilocano vegetable austerity and a Kapampangan fiesta spread are not one "Filipino flavour".
20 belongs to “Adobo as method” in . Filipino cuisine is not a sentence about taste until that measure is there.20
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