Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
GENERAL TERMS
can I see the menu?
pugo
quail
patingin ng menu?
tenga ng baboy
pig's ears
I would like …
gusto ko …
delicious
sarap
COMMON MEAT DISHES
adobo
hot (spicy)
maanghang
chicken and/or pork
can I have the bill please?
puwede kunin ang
simmered in soy sauce
check
and vinegar with
I'm vegetarian
vegetarian ako or gulay
pepper and garlic
lang ang kinakain ko
beef tapa
beef marinated in vinegar,
(literally “I only eat
sugar and garlic, then
vegetables”)
dried in the sun
breakfast
almusal
and fried
lunch
tanghalian
Bicol Express
fiery dish of pork ribs
dinner
hapunan (rare) or dinner
cooked in coconut milk,
fork
tinidor
soy sauce, vinegar,
knife
kutsilyo
bagoong
and hot chillies
plate
plato
bistek tagalog
beef tenderloin with
spoon
kutsara
lime and onion
glass
baso
bulalo
beef shank in onion broth
dinuguan
pork cubes simmered
STAPLES AND COMMON INGREDIENTS
bread
in pig's blood with
tinapay
garlic, onion and
bread rolls
pan de sal
laurel leaves
butter
mantikilya
ginisang monggo
any combination of
cheese
keso
pork, vegetables or
chillies
sili
shrimp sautéed with
coconut milk
gata
mung beans
egg
itlog
kaldereta
spicy mutton stew
fermented fish/
bagoong
kare-kare
rich oxtail stew with
shrimp paste
fish sauce
eggplant, peanut
patis
and
puso ng saging
garlic
bawang
(banana hearts)
ginger
luya
lechon (de leche)
roast whole (suckling)
noodles
pancit
pig, dipped in a liver
onion
sibuyas
paste sauce
pepper
paminta
longganisa/longganiza
small beef or pork
rice
bigas (the uncooked
sausages, with a lot
grain) or kanin
of garlic
(cooked rice)
longsilog
longganisa with garlic
salt
asin
rice and fried egg
soy sauce
toyo
mechado
braised beef
sugar
asukal
pochero
boiled beef and
vegetables
tomato
kamatis
vegetables
gulay
sinigang
Sour fish, pork, beef,
shrimp or chicken
MEAT
KARNE
AND POULTRY
baboy
soup or stew flavoured
with tamarind
pork
baka
beef
sisig
fried chopped pork
(usually including pig's
crispy pata
deep-fried pig's knuckle
kambing
goat
head), liver and onions
tapsilog
beef tapa with garlic rice
kordero/karnero
lamb
lengua
tongue
and fried egg
tinola
tangy soup with chicken,
manok
chicken
pato
duck
papaya and ginger
