#7 Filipino Food

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Supposedly possessing a predisposition to heart disease, high blood pressure, and other similarly terminal maladies, the fully aware Filipino forges ahead, particulary in special-occasion family gatherings, with his consumption of Asia’s unhealthiest cuisine– Filipino food.

Over three hundred years of Spanish colonial rule and the Filipino’s culinary ingenuity under these tough times have created the perfect storm of deadly cookery:

• Lechon (”whole roast pig”) and its derivative, Paksiw (“leftover Lechon in sweet/sour sauce”)
• Dinuguan (”general pig parts including tripe in pig’s blood”)
• Tocino (”pork slices marinated in sugar and red dye”)
• Crispy Pata (”fried pork leg”)
• Kare Kare (”oxtail / beef / tripe stew in peanut sauce with bagoong“)
• Bagoong (”shrimp paste preserved with salt”)
• Chicharon (”fried pork skin”)
• Lumpia (”fried egg rolls”)
• Turon (”fried plantain in egg roll wrapper with brown sugar”)
• Halo-Halo (”mixed fruit and ice cream in shaved ice and milk”)