Travel your Tastebuds

Are you the type of person who eats everything serve to you? Do you have the stomach to eat whatever and is willing to try weird foods? We Filipinos we pretty much eat everything that is taste good and used almost all parts of the animal meat such as intestines from the pig and chicken, tongue, ears, and more. If you plan to travel and experience different cuisine the Philippines is a good place for culinary daredevils. If you're after a few good "been there", "tried that" stories, the Philippines is sure to satisfy. Some of the more challenging Filipino culinary treats include Balut, a boiled duck egg containing an embryo that sometimes already has down or feathers.

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Likewise the white meat of bayawak (monitor lizard) is a prized delicacy, but you will most probably have toget drunk first on lambanog (rough coconut wine) in order to beable to stomach the idea of biting into some reptilian meat. Beetles, fried or floatingin soup, and steamed tree-ant nests are two other gastronomic specialties found in the Philippines, though these havebecome quite rare, perhaps because of the drastic drop in beetle and ant populationsfrom pollution and habitat loss.


Lambanog is wine made from coconut. Lambanog is famous for its potency that normally carries about 80 to 90 proof variations. It is mostly produced in the Quezon Province, Philippines. It has been passed down throughout generations of coconut plantation farmers. The process involves collecting the sap from the coconut flower, similar to rubber tree tapping. The sap is then cooked and fermented to become tuba, a popular coconut toddy. The tuba is then distilled to make lambanog.
The same is true for frogs and freshwater snails (kohol). Finally, if youare really hankering for something out of the ordinary, you could dig into nice helping of bopis. An item on the menu of many eateries specialising in Filipino food, bopis is made of pig's lungs, chopped and stir-fried. Quite tasty, really, once you get over your initial feeling of revulsion.

Bopis is a uniquely Filipino dish that is made out of pork lungs and heart sauteed in tomatoes, chilies and onion. It is a spicy food that is traditionally prepared from assorted parts of pig, usually, the heart, kidneys, lungs and intestines. See Recipe Online