1. Because our breakfasts look like this:
2. Or like this:
3. Because we won't judge when you inhale a dozen lumpia in one sitting:
Since that is, in fact, the proper serving size.
Recipes here: Lumpia with shrimp | Lumpia with ground chicken
4. Because we know there's no problem that a little garlic and vinegar can't solve:
6. Because we like our fish extra crispy:
7. The same goes for pork belly:
8. Because we've mastered the art of sweet rice:
9. And savory rice, for that matter:
10. Because we know that there's nothing like a hot bowl of stew or soup on a cold day:
Recipes here: Beef Mechado | Sinigang
12. Because when life gives us calamansi, we make lemonade (or whiskey cocktails):
Lemons are so 2012 anyway.
Recipes here: Calamansi juice | Calamansi whiskey sour
13. Because we take snacking seriously:
14. And we take ~stacking~ seriously:
15. Because we're not afraid of color:
16. Or of texture:
17. Or of using every part of the animal:
18. Because rice is the ultimate culinary canvas:
20. Because we know that nothing compares to halo halo:
21. And that when your meals are filled with Filipino food? Life is pretty sweet.
Ube for president.
Recipes here: Ube macapuno empanadas | Ube macapuno cupakes