Filipino cuisine — Jollibee scale · 221
Restaurant Filipino cuisine is one register. Home pots and market stalls are others. Authenticity is a marketing word; technique is not. 221 Raw fish in vinegar and citrus, often with coconut or chili. On the table, Filipino cuisine follows “Jollibee scale” with amount 1980. Stars are not cook times. Kinilaw is cooked from Manila to diaspora rooms as a reference plate of Filipino cuisine.
Vinegar, garlic and a fiesta table: adobo, sinigang and the Chinese-Spanish-American pantry of the islands. Filipino cuisine is sour more than chili-hot: adobo in vinegar and soy, sinigang in tamarind. Chinese noodles, Spanish fiesta roasts and American sweet-sauces sit on an Austronesian rice-and-bagoong base.
Filipino cuisine sits at spice 52 in this atlas. Adobo and Sinigang show the range better than a single heat number. Adobo plus one regional plate — not only the export icon. A fiesta is lechon and a table that does not run out. A Tuesday is rice, a sour soup and leftover adobo that tastes better on day two.
The home pantry around Adobo and the labour behind Sinigang rarely fit a takeaway box. 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 needs 1980s, “Jollibee scale,” and 1980. Without them the plate is an advertisement. On the table, Filipino cuisine follows “Jollibee scale” with amount 1980. Stars are not cook times. 19801980s
Figures to keep
- Year of the method
- 1980s
- Measure
- 1980
- Dish
- Filipino cuisine
- Cooking line
- Jollibee scale
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