Sunday, September 29, 2024

Can you recommend a traditional noodle dish for a Filipino family?


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That would be pancit palabok:

This is a staple noodle dish for Filipino families everywhere. It’s a rice noodle dish with pork, shrimp, chicharon (fried pork rind), hard boiled eggs, green onions, and a sauce made of shrimp/pork stock, patis, garlic, onions and achuete.

Another really popular one is pancit canton:

This is a simple Chinese-style noodle dish fried in some soy sauce, some MSG, a bunch of vegetables and meat. The things you can put in it are pretty diverse and depends on you and your taste, but common ingredients include garlic, onion, cabbage, carrots, celery, labuyo, chicharo, pork, shrimp and chicken.

There’s also the instant noodle version:

I favor pancit canton because I’m allergic to shrimp, and palabok is always served with shrimp. Pancit canton has a much better chance of not having the accursed shrimp in it.

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