Filipino Community & Lifestyle News
If there’s one song that gets taught to the majority of Pinoy kids everywhere, it’s “Bahay Kubo”: a catchy song about the various vegetables growing outside a bahay kubo (nipa hut). While some of the vegetables mentioned in the song are familiar to most people—sibuyas (onion), kamatis (tomato), bawang (garlic) and luya (ginger) comes to […]
Filipino food, to the uninitiated, may seem unhealthy. While vacationing in the Philippines, many visitors may think that way as it is hard to find vegetable-based dishes. Restaurants offering Filipino dishes often have a typical menu of adobo, kare-kare, crispy pata—all meat-based dishes. However, many local produce have high nutritional density and are rich in […]