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PHILIPPINES Background The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Filipino: Republika ng Pilipinas), is a Southeast Asian archipelago. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean and consists of approximately 7,641 islands divided into three major geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The Philippines is surrounded to the west by the South China Sea, to the east by the Philippine Sea, and to the southwest by the Celebes Sea. Taiwan to the north, Japan to the northeast, Palau to the east and southeast, Indonesia to the south, Malaysia to the southwest, Vietnam to the west, and China to the northwest share maritime borders. The Philippines has a land area of 300,000 km2 (120,000 sq mi) and a population of roughly 109 million people as of 2021, making it the world's thirteenth-most populous country. The Philippines has a wide range of nationalities and civilizations spread over its islands. The capital of the country is Manila, and the largest city is Quezon City; both are located within the Metro Manila urban region. Table of Contents Nature 1 Background The islands are home to a diverse range of flowering plants and ferns, including hundreds of orchid species. Tall grasses 2 Hues of Culture have replaced the trees that were destroyed by logging, mining, 3 Morning In Nagrebcan and industrialization. More than 200 species of mammals live in the Philippines, including monkeys, squirrels, lemurs, mice, Most well-known pangolins, chevrotains, mongooses, civet cats, and red and 5 literary works of the brown deer, among others.Hundreds of bird species, including peacocks, pheasants, doves, parrots, kingfishers, sunbirds, Philippines tailorbirds, weaverbirds, and hornbills, dwell in the Philippines for 9 Tourists Destination all or part of the year. Deforestation is threatening the rare 11 Filipino Foods Philippine eagle, which feeds on monkeys. People & Culture Filipinos are largely Malay, with Chinese and, on occasion, American or Spanish origins. Because of a 19th-century Spanish law requiring them to use Spanish surnames or last names, many Filipinos have Spanish names. Parents frequently name their children after the saint whose feast day they were born on. Elementary education in the Philippines begins at the age of seven, is mandated by law, and lasts six years. Secondary school normally begins at the age of 13 and lasts four years; undergraduate college teaching is typically four years. PHILIPPINES 1

Hues of Culture The family is the foundation and focal point of Filipino culture. During severe economic times, the family serves as a safety net for individuals, particularly older people. Children frequently remain with their parents into adulthood, only departing when they marry. Family ties frequently impact political and corporate interactions. The Philippines is a civilization where East and West collide. The Filipinos have a unique Asian heritage as well as a strong Western tradition. Chinese traders, Spanish conquistadors, and American rulers all had an impact on current Filipino society. Filipinos are notoriously friendly, especially to foreign tourists. Filipinos are emotive and enthusiastic about life in a way that looks more Latin than Asian, owing to their close links to Spanish culture. This is seen in contemporary artists' works, such as Rody Herrera's painting Unahan Sa Duluhan. Pakikisama and Utang na Loob are two characteristics that many international tourists find difficult to grasp. Pakikisama, which roughly translates to \"getting along,\" demands persons to overlook minor improprieties or transgressions in order to maintain harmony within the familial, personal, or commercial connection. Utang na Loob is the practice of repaying one favor with another. These characteristics highlight the value Filipinos place on maintaining positive interpersonal interactions and putting the needs of the group ahead of the individual. 2 PHILIPPINES

Morning in Nagrebcan ni Manuel E. Arguilla It was sunrise at Nagrebcan. The fine, bluish cheeks. When it licked his mouth, Baldo “There is the fire, mother,” he said. “Is father mist, low over the tobacco fields, was lifting straightened up, raised the puppy on a level awake already?” and thinning moment by moment. A ragged with his eyes. “You are a foolish puppy,” he Nana Elang shook her head. Baldo went out strip of mist, pulled away by the morning said, laughing. “Foolish, foolish, foolish,” he slowly on tiptoe. breeze, had caught on the clumps of bamboo said, rolling the puppy on his lap so that it There were already many people going out. along the banks of the stream that flowed to howled. Several fishermen wearing coffee-colored one side of the barrio. Before long the sun shirts and trousers and hats made from the would top the Katayaghan hills, but as yet no The four other puppies awoke and came shell of white pumpkins passed by. The smoke people were around. In the grey shadow of scrambling about Baldo’s legs. He put down of their home-made cigars floated behind the hills, the barrio was gradually awaking. the black-spotted puppy and ran to the them like shreds of the morning mist. Women Roosters crowed and strutted on the ground narrow foot bridge of woven split-bamboo carrying big empty baskets were going to the while hens hesitated on their perches among spanning the roadside ditch. When it rained, tobacco fields. They walked fast, talking the branches of the camanchile trees. Stray water from the roadway flowed under the among themselves. Each woman had goats nibbled the weeds on the sides of the makeshift bridge, but it had not rained for a gathered the loose folds of her skirt in front road, and the bull carabaos tugged restively long time and the ground was dry and sandy. and, twisting the end two or three times, against their stakes. Baldo sat on the bridge, digging his bare feet passed it between her legs, pulling it up at the In the early morning the puppies lay curled up into the sand, feeling the cool particles back, and slipping it inside her waist. The together between their mother’s paws under escaping between his toes. He whistled, a women seemed to be wearing trousers that the ladder of the house. Four puppies were all toneless whistle with a curious trilling to it reached only to their knees and flared at the white like the mother. They had pink noses and produced by placing the tongue against the thighs. pink eyelids and pink mouths. The skin between lower teeth and then curving it up and down. their toes and on the inside of their large, limp The whistle excited the puppies; they ran to Day was quickly growing older. The east ears was pink. They had short sleek hair, for the boy as fast as their unsteady legs could flamed redly and Baldo called to his mother, the mother licked them often. The fifth puppy carry them, barking choppy little barks. “Look, mother, God also cooks his breakfast.” lay across the mother’s neck. On the puppy’s He went to play with the puppies. He sat on back was a big black spot like a saddle. The Nana Elang, the mother of Baldo, now the bridge and took them on his lap one by tips of its ears were black and so was a patch appeared in the doorway with handful of rice one. He searched for fleas which he crushed of hair on its chest. straw. She called Baldo and told him to get between his thumbnails. “You, puppy. You, The opening of the sawali door, its uneven some live coals from their neighbor. puppy,” he murmured softly. When he held the bottom dragging noisily against the bamboo “Get two or three burning coals and bring black-spotted puppy, he said, “My puppy. My flooring, aroused the mother dog and she got them home on the rice straw,” she said. “Do puppy.” up and stretched and shook herself, scattering not wave the straw in the wind. If you do, it dust and loose white hair. A rank doggy smell will catch fire before you get home.” She Ambo, his seven-year old brother, awoke rose in the cool morning air. She took a quick watched him run toward Ka Ikao’s house crying. Nana Elang could be heard patiently leap forward, clearing the puppies which had where already smoke was rising through the calling him to the kitchen. Later he came down begun to whine about her, wanting to suckle. nipa roofing into the misty air. One or two with a ripe banana in his hand. Ambo was She trotted away and disappeared beyond empty carromatas drawn by sleepy little almost as tall as his older brother and he had the house of a neighbor. ponies rattled along the pebbly street, bound stout husky legs. Baldo often called him the The puppies sat back on their rumps, whining. for the railroad station. son of an Igorot. The home-made cotton shirt After a little while they lay down and went Nana Elang must have been thirty, but she he wore was variously stained. The pocket was back to sleep, the black-spotted puppy on looked at least fifty. She was a thin, wispy torn, and it flipped down. He ate the banana top. woman, with bony hands and arms. She had without peeling it. Baldo stood at the threshold and rubbed his scanty, straight, graying hair which she “You foolish boy, remove the skin,” Baldo said. sleep-heavy eyes with his fists. He must have gathered behind her head in a small, tight “I will not,” Ambo said. “It is not your banana.” been about ten years old, small for his age, knot. It made her look thinner than ever. Her He took a big bite and swallowed it with but compactly built, and he stood straight on cheekbones seemed on the point of bursting exaggerated relish. his bony legs. He wore one of his father’s through the dry, yellowish-brown skin. Above a “But the skin is tart. It tastes bad.” discarded cotton undershirts. gray-checkered skirt, she wore a single wide- “You are not eating it,” Ambo said. The rest of sleeved cotton blouse that ended below her the banana vanished in his mouth. The boy descended the ladder, leaning flat breasts. Sometimes when she stooped or He sat beside Baldo and both played with the heavily on the single bamboo railing that reached up for anything, a glimpse of the flesh puppies. The mother dog had not yet returned served as a banister. He sat on the lowest step at her waist showed in a dark, purplish band and the puppies were becoming hungry and of the ladder, yawning and rubbing his eyes where the skirt had been tied so often. restless. They sniffed the hands of Ambo, one after the other. Bending down, he She turned from the doorway into the small, licked his fingers. They tried to scramble up his reached between his legs for the black- untidy kitchen. She washed the rice and put it breast to lick his mouth, but he brushed them spotted puppy. He held it to him, stroking its in a pot which she placed on the cold stove. down. Baldo laughed. He held the black- soft, warm body. He blew on its nose. The She made ready the other pot for the mess of spotted puppy closely, fondled it lovingly. “My puppy stuck out a small red tongue, lapping vegetables and dried fish. When Baldo came puppy,” he said. “My puppy.” the air. It whined eagerly. Baldo laughed – a back with the rice straw and burning coals, Ambo played with the other puppies, but he low gurgle. she told him to start a fire in the stove, while soon grew tired of them. He wanted the He rubbed his face against that of the dog. she cut the ampalaya tendrils and sliced the He said softly, “My puppy. My puppy.” He said eggplants. When the fire finally flamed inside it many times. The puppy licked his ears, his the clay stove, Baldo’s eyes were smarting from the smoke of the rice straw. 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black-spotted one. He sidled close to Baldo Tang Ciaco approached with the piece of ran to the fallen boy and picked him up, and put out a hand to caress the puppy firewood held firmly in one hand. He is a big, brushing his clothes with her hands to shake nestling contentedly in the crook of his gaunt man with thick bony wrists and stoop off the dust. brother’s arm. But Baldo struck the hand away. shoulders. A short-sleeved cotton shirt “Don’t touch my puppy,” he said. “My puppy.” revealed his sinewy arms on which the blood- Tang Ciaco pushed Baldo toward her. The vessels stood out like roots. His short pants boy tottered forward weakly, dazed and Ambo begged to be allowed to hold the showed his bony-kneed, hard-muscled legs trembling. He had ceased to cry aloud, but black-spotted puppy. But Baldo said he would covered with black hair. He was a carpenter. he shook with hard, spasmodic sobs which he not let him hold the black-spotted puppy He had come home drunk the night before. He tried vainly to stop. because he would not peel the banana. Ambo was not a habitual drunkard, but now and then then said that he would obey his older brother he drank great quantities of basi and came “Here take your child,” Tang Ciaco said, next time, for all time. Baldo would not believe home and beat his wife and children. He thickly. him; he refused to let him touch the puppy. would blame them for their hard life and Ambo rose to his feet. He looked longingly at poverty. “You are a prostitute,” he would roar He faced the curious students and neighbors the black-spotted puppy in Baldo’s arms. at his wife, and as he beat his children, he who had gathered by the side of the road. Suddenly he bent down and tried to snatch would shout, “I will kill you both, you bastards.” He yelled at them to go away. He said it was the puppy away. But Baldo sent him sprawling If Nana Elang ventured to remonstrate, he none of their business if he killed his children. in the dust with a deft push. Ambo did not cry. would beat them harder and curse her for He came up with a fistful of sand which he being an interfering whore. “I am king in my “They are mine,” he shouted. “I feed them flung in his brother’s face. But as he started to house,” he would say. and I can do anything I like with them.” run away, Baldo thrust out his leg and tripped Now as he approached the two, Ambo cowered him. In complete silence, Ambo slowly got up behind his elder brother. He held onto Baldo’s The students ran hastily to school. The from the dust, getting to his feet with both undershirt, keeping his wounded hand at his neighbors returned to their work. hands full of sand which again he cast at his back, unable to remove his gaze from his older brother. Baldo put down the puppy and father’s close-set, red-specked eyes. The puppy Tang Ciaco went to the house, cursing in a leaped upon Ambo. with a yelp slunk between Baldo’s legs. Baldo loud voice. Passing the dead puppy, he looked at the dog, avoiding his father’s eyes. picked it up by its hind legs and flung it Seeing the black-spotted puppy waddling Tang Ciaco roared at them to get away from away. The black and white body soared away, Ambo turned around and made a dive the dog: “Fools! Don’t you see it is mad?” Baldo through the sunlit air; fell among the tall corn for it. Baldo saw his intention in time and both laid a hand on Ambo as they moved back behind the house. Tang Ciaco, still cursing fell on the puppy which began to howl loudly, hastily. He wanted to tell his father it was not and grumbling, strode upstairs. He threw the struggling to get away. Baldo cursed Ambo true, the dog was not mad, it was all Ambo’s chunk of firewood beside the stove. He and screamed at him as they grappled and fault, but his tongue refused to move. The puppy squatted by the low table and began eating rolled in the sand. Ambo kicked and bit and attempted to follow them, but Tang Ciaco the breakfast his wife had prepared for him. scratched without a sound. He got hold of caught it with a sweeping blow of the piece of Nana Elang knelt by her children and dusted Baldo’s hair and ear and tugged with all his firewood. The puppy was flung into the air. It their clothes. She passed her hand over the might. They rolled over and over and then rolled over once before it fell, howling weakly. red welts on Baldo, but Baldo shook himself Baldo was sitting on Ambo’s back, pummeling Again the chunk of firewood descended, Tang away. He was still trying to stop sobbing, him with his fists. He accompanied every blow Ciaco grunting with the effort he put into the wiping his tears away with his forearm. Nana with a curse. “I hope you die, you little demon,” blow, and the puppy ceased to howl. It lay on its Elang put one arm around Ambo. She sucked he said between sobs, for he was crying and side, feebly moving its jaws from which dark the wound in his hand. She was crying he could hardly see. Ambo wriggled and blood oozed. Once more Tang Ciaco raised his silently. struggled and tried to bite Baldo’s legs. arm, but Baldo suddenly clung to it with both Failing, he buried his face in the sand and hands and begged him to stop. “Enough, father, When the mother of the puppies returned, howled lustily. enough. Don’t beat it anymore,” he entreated. she licked the remaining four by the small Tears flowed down his upraised face. bridge of woven split bamboo. She lay down Baldo now left him and ran to the black- Tang Ciaco shook him off with an oath. Baldo in the dust and suckled her young. She did spotted puppy which he caught up in his arms, fell on his face in the dust. He did not rise, but not seem to miss the black-spotted puppy. holding it against his throat. Ambo followed, cried and sobbed and tore his hair. The rays of Afterward Baldo and Ambo searched among crying out threats and curses. He grabbed the the rising sun fell brightly upon him, turned to the tall corn for the body of the dead puppy. tail of the puppy and jerked hard. The puppy gold the dust that he raised with his kicking feet. Tang Ciaco had gone to work and would not howled shrilly and Baldo let it go, but Ambo Tang Ciaco dealt the battered puppy another be back till nightfall. In the house, Nana kept hold of the tail as the dog fell to the blow and at last it lay limpy still. He kicked it Elang was busy washing the breakfast dishes. ground. It turned around and snapped at the over and watched for a sign of life. The puppy Later she came down and fed the mother hand holding its tail. Its sharp little teeth sank did not move where it lay twisted on its side. dog. The two brothers were entirely hidden into the fleshy edge of Ambo’s palm. With a He turned his attention to Baldo. by the tall corn plants. As they moved about cry, Ambo snatched away his hand from the “Get up,” he said, hoarsely, pushing the boy among the slender stalks, the corn-flowers mouth of the enraged puppy. At that moment with his foot. shook agitatedly. Pollen scattered like gold the window of the house facing the street was Baldo was deaf. He went on crying and kicking dust in the sun, falling on the fuzzy· green pushed violently open and the boys’ father, in the dust. Tang Ciaco struck him with the leaves. Tang Ciaco, looked out. He saw the blood piece of wood in his hand and again told him to from the toothmarks on Ambo’s hand. He get up. Baldo writhed and cried harder, clasping When they found the dead dog, they buried called out inarticulately and the two brothers his hands over the back of his head. Tang it in one corner of the field. Baldo dug the looked up in surprise and fear. Ambo hid his Ciaco took hold of one of the boy’s arms and grove with a sharp-pointed stake. Ambo bitten hand behind him. Baldo stopped to pick jerked him to his feet. Then he began to beat stood silently by, holding the dead puppy. up the black-spotted puppy, but Tang Ciaco him, regardless of where the blows fell. shouted hoarsely to him not to touch the dog. Baldo encircled his head with his loose arm and When Baldo finished his work, he and his At Tang Ciaco’s angry voice, the puppy had strove to free himself, running around his father, brother gently placed the puppy in the hole. crouched back snarling, its pink lips drawn plunging backward, ducking and twisting. Then they covered the dog with soft earth back, the hair on its back rising. “The dog has “Shameless son of a whore,” Tang Ciaco roared. and stamped on the grave until the disturbed gone mad,” the man cried, coming down “Stand still, I’ll teach you to obey me.” He ground was flat and hard again. With hurriedly. By the stove in the kitchen, he shortened his grip on the arm of Baldo and laid difficulty they rolled a big stone on top of the stopped to get a sizeable piece of firewood, on his blows. Baldo fell to his knees, screaming grave. Then Baldo wound an arm around the throwing an angry look and a curse at Nana for mercy. He called on his mother to help him. Elang for letting her sons play with the dogs. Nana Elang came down, but she hesitated at \"shoulders of Ambo and without a word they He removed a splinter or two, then hurried the foot of the ladder. Ambo ran to her. “You down the ladder, cursing in a loud angry voice. too,” Tang Ciaco cried, and struck at the fleeing hurried up to the house. Nana Elang ran to the doorway and stood Ambo. The piece of firewood caught him behind The sun had risen high above the there silently fingering her skirt. the knees and he fell on his face. Nana Elang Baldo and Ambo awaited the coming of their Katayaghan hills, and warm, golden sunlight father with fear written on their faces. Baldo filled Nagrebcan. The mist on the tobacco hated his father as much as he feared him. He fields had completely dissolved. watched him now with half a mind to flee as 4 PHILIPPINES

Most Well-known Literary Works of the Philippines NOLI ME TANGERE FLORANTE AT LAURA Mga Ibong Mandaragit by: Dr. Jose Rizal by: Francisco \"Balagtas\" Baltazar by: Amado V. Hernandez Noli me Tangere is the first Amado V. Hernandez, a novel written and published in Filipino writer and social activist, Germany in 1887 by Filipino Florante and Laura's Life in wrote Mga Ibong Mandaragit patriot and national hero Dr. the Kingdom of Albania: Culled (Birds of Prey). It has a José P. Rizal. The plot delves from a publicly displayed relationship to Rizal's previous into the society of the \"cuadro histórico,\" or historical works, Noli Me Tángere and El Philippines during the Spanish picture, that chronicles events in Filibusterismo, because it deals colonial period, revealing the the Greek empire throughout with social-political concerns, nobility behind poverty and ancient times, and written by notably the Philippine revolution imperialist oppression. The tale someone who appreciates and neocolonialism. In the story, sparked outrage among Tagalog verse. During Francisco protagonist Mando Plaridel was Filipinos, who likewise felt Baltazar's captivity in Pandacan, examined by Tata Matyas on his abused by the Spanish. Noli me Manila, he wrote this literary knowledge of Rizal's Tangere was followed by El masterpiece (he used the controversial novels. Readers Filibusterismo (1889), when pseudonym Francisco Balagtas). will see how Hernandez had common Filipinos crossed the Florante at Laura was reported great aspirations for big reforms border and began the terrible to be the result of Balaggtas' that would enhance Philippine Philippine Revolution in 1896, a heartbreak after losing the lady society as he described the few months before Dr. Rizal's he most loved, whom he living realities of Filipinos at the hanging. referred to as \"Celia.\" time. PHILIPPINES 5

“I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.” - Dr. Jose Rizal, Noli Me Tangere The Woman Who Had Po-on Banaag at Sikat Two Navels by: F. Sionil Jose by Lope K. Santos by Nick Joaquin F. Sionil Jose's writings, like Banaag at Sikat (From Early Nick Joaquin, one of the most those of Hernandez and Dawn to Full Light) has been respected writers in Philippine Joaquin, were heavily affected labeled the \"bible of the Filipino literature, was named National by Rizal. This was represented in working class.\" As one of Lope Artist of the Philippines for his books and short tales, K. Santos's early novels, it is Literature in 1976. Joaquin notably the five-part novel regarded as one of the most investigates the repercussions series Rosales Saga, which important books in Philippine and influence of the past on portrayed Filipinos' class literature in 1949 by Filipino post-war events in the struggles and colonialism. Po-on critic Teodoro Agoncillo. This is Philippines in his historical book A Novel is the first book of the because, according to The Woman Who Had Two Rosales Saga, which relates Agoncillo, it prepared the way Navels. Connie Escobar, the stories about the Philippines' for the establishment of a main female character, believes Rosales, Pangasinan. While this method for writing Tagalog she has two navels and is the final book produced and novels. The novel tells the consequently demands that one published in the series, it is the narrative of Delfin and Felipe, be removed - a sign for her book that begins the five-part who have opposing viewpoints. desire to avoid a tragic past. saga. Learn about Eustaqio Delfin is a socialist, and Felipe, She subsequently discovers that \"Istak\" Samson, who abandoned the son of a wealthy landowner, her husband, Macho Escobar, his family to join rebel troops leans toward anarchist. Themes was her mother's lover. She and escape the tyranny of of love, livelihood, and societal escapes, hoping to escape after Spanish authorities. Tree, My standing are interwoven being deceived, only to uncover Brother, My Executioner, The throughout the story. more secrets. Pretenders, and Mass are the remaining four volumes in the series. 6 PHILIPPINES

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Eat.Sleep. SIARGAO SIARGAO PHILIPPINES There are plenty of white-sand beaches in the Philippines' archipelago of 7,107 islands. The rich elements at the Philippine beaches, such as underwater rivers and cave formations, give your trip a sense of exotic adventure. The dry season in the Philippines, which lasts from November to April, is the ideal time to travel there in order to enjoy this underwater wonderland. Take in the majestic sight of imposing structures poking out of the blue and green ocean and explore secret coves by taking the winding routes through mangrove woods. Watch the Buena Suerte Beach sands become a soft peach color as the sun sets, or gaze in awe as surfers from all over the globe attempt to ride the Cloud Nine waves on Siargao Beach. 9

Travel . Repeat TUBBATAHA REEF MARINE NATIONAL PARK The beaches in the Philippines are all beautiful, with soft sand and warm winds, but what sets them apart from other beach resorts is a variety of unusual and accessible extras like caves, coral, and marine life that are spread out across so many places so close together. For this reason, island hopping is one of the most popular activities in the Philippines. \"W H E N I N D O U B T, TRAVEL!!!\" PUERTO PRINCESA UNDERGROUND RIVER 10 PHILIPPINES

LECHON KAWALI BISTEK TAGALOG SINIGANG LECHE FLAN KAMAYAN SA DAHON NG SAGING ALSO CALLED BOODLE FIGHT DINUGUAN PINAKBET While the cuisine of the Philippines is one of the most distinct in the world, fueling LECHONG BABOY the countless culinary and gourmet tours in the nation, it has been so enigmatic \"K A I N N A ! \" that it is prone to misinterpretation or distortion until recently. To understand why, it's necessary to first grasp the Philippines' cuisine culture, history, and influences. Some claim that Filipino food was \"one of the world's first fusion cuisines,\" and although this may be accurate to some extent, it may also be an oversimplification. Most Filipino meals and specialties were created by using whatever ingredients they could find (typically within a 1-2 mile radius) and crafting a dish from them. Because the Philippines is one of the world's biggest archipelagos, Filipino cuisine and traditional Philippine meals are particularly local and regional. This implies that not only are there hundreds (if not thousands) of distinct meals, but there are also some Filipino cuisines that are served throughout the nation yet have varied preparations and even names. PHILIPPINES 11

CHOP SEUY SISIG ADOBO BICOL EXPRESS PALABOK Several foreign influences have PANSIT GUISADO KARE KARE effectively merged with local, indigenous cuisine in Philippine cuisine and food LUMPIANG SHANGHAI culture. Indigenous Filipino cuisine has been \"Even though the list above is amazing, it is only a small sample strongly affected by Chinese cuisine, of all the delicious Filipino cuisine there is to discover in the which was carried along by different Philippines. The breathtaking scenery and warm hospitality of the traders and, subsequently, Chinese Filipino people are the ideal complements to Filipino cuisine. The immigrants, primarily from the Fujian most enjoyable adventure is to sample every variation of adobo, province of China and Cantonese. kilawin, or batchoy, even if it could be impossible.\" There is also indigenous food from the country's Islamic areas, which has been inspired by surrounding Southeast Asian nations. Cataloging Filipino meals is difficult, especially for foreigners, due to their being local, regional, seasonal, and inspired by a variety of various international cuisines. This also means that it is difficult to really characterize Filipino food in a few phrases, but there are certain fundamentals to get you started. When discussing Filipino cuisine and well- known Filipino foods, the term \"adobo\" typically refers to the cooking technique of stewing in vinegar, peppercorns, and bay leaves. The majority of contemporary versions include soy sauce, however, even in Luzon, there are many places where it is not used. 12 PHILIPPINES

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