Apart from fishing and the lunch, visitors are entertained with dances and songs, all Ilocano, of course. Vegetables make Ilocano cooking distinct from other regions’ cuisines. But the cooking ...

Make it Guinataang Pinakbet by adding gata (coconut milk) to it. It’s a creamy version of the Ilocano vegetable dish to which many variations have already been made. You’d be surprised at how ...

Real pinakbet is made with vegetables cooked before they mature. Looking back, Ilocano food expert and chef Nic Rodriguez reminisced on the pinakbet of his youth that had eggplants the size of his ...

Pinakbet' (local vegetables like snake beans ... One of the most popular dish from the North is 'bagnet', a popular Ilocano dish, where pork is boiled and deep fried until it is crispy.

The pizza looked like it was topped with tiny smiley faces. The vigan longganisa gave it a garlicky taste and of course, you can’t miss the addition of peppers and other vegetables, the mark of a true ...

This dish is a mix of colorful vegetables, parboiled in water and bugguong. You may be surprised that Ilocano pinakbet is different from what you might find at Filipino restaurants where the ...

It’s been said that the combination of contrasting tastes, flavors, and textures make Ilocano vegetable dishes one of the most exciting in the country. Pinakbet (seasoned vegetables with bagoong ...

Ilocos Sur cuisine connoisseurs know that Bagnet is very un-Ilocano. That is because Ilocanos love to eat vegetables. Despite this, Ilocanos (and Filipinos in general) truly enjoy bagnet.

According to the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI), “dinengdeng” is a traditional Ilocano vegetable stew, its flavors deeply rooted in a savory “bagoong”-based broth and often accompanied by the ...

The kalding (Ilocano for goat) suffices for gatherings ... are pangkaadawan so that the food have less ingredients like vegetables.” Ello Cabrera, 77, is a rice farmer who has mastered the ...

This boiled vegetable soup, known as sinabawang gulay, is often compared to the Batangueño dish Bulanglang. Laswa's soup base can either be a clear broth or coconut milk, whereas Bulanglang uses rice ...