- Oh my gosh, I'm so freaking happy.
I'm just feasting over here.
- Definitely something I wish my mom would have made
a little bit more.
♪ (French accordion music) ♪
- (FBE) So, we have some popular Filipino dishes
for you to try today. - I get to eat something?
- (FBE) Yes. - So exciting and Filipino?
That's even more exciting.
- Oh my gosh. I have been waiting for this.
I am so freaking hyped.
- Ooh, this is fun. This is really fun.
I did a project on the UN in my sophomore year
of high school and our country was the Philippines.
- The Philippines was conquered by Spain at one point,
so the foods are all different because all these European
influences clashed with Asian influences.
- (FBE) The foods we're presenting you with today
were made from a local, authentic Filipino restaurant
called the Kalesa Grill here in Los Angeles, California.
We know there are a lot of popular Filipino dishes,
so we are just having you sample a few.
- Okay,
- (FBE) And I'm gonna do my best to pronounce
these meals correctly. - You do that
to the best of your ability. I can't even do it.
- I am half Filipino. I am a big fan of sinigang,
which is this soup. It's so good,
probably the best type of food ever.
- I don't know if I've actually tried proper Filipino food.
I wish I knew more, but I don't,
so maybe this will educate me.
Maybe I'll have my new favorite food.
Who knows?
- I've eaten a lot of Filipino food
because I have Filipino friends. I don't really know the names
of the specific things. It's not about the name,
it's about the taste.
- Let's do it!
- (FBE) Here is your first Filipino dish.
- Thank you. I don't like hard-boiled eggs,
so that automatically makes me sad.
- We have egg, which is great.
If anything, I'll enjoy that. We have some sort of meat.
- It's yellow rice, which is also--
oh wait, no. It's noodle.
Oh my gosh.
- Let's dig in.
It's so good.
- Okay, yeah. I like this.
- The meat in this is too soft and it just
kinda melts when it touches my tongue,
so I don't really like that.
- It's a lot of different textures, but they're kinda fun.
- Every single Filipino party, you will find this right there
and it'll be gone in three seconds, too.
- (FBE) This is called pancit palabok.
In Filipino cuisine, pancit is noodles
with shrimp sauce topped with ingredients
like hard-boiled eggs, green onion, and pork.
- Oh, it's pork, okay. They like a lot of pork
in the Philippines, so I'm okay with that.
I like pork.
- (FBE) The term "pancit" is derived from
the Chinese Hokkien word, which literally means
"convenient food." - I do kinda see how this
would be a convenient food. It's simple ingredients
and this is definitely something that I could see someone
just make for lunch and just kinda take it on the go.
- That's why it's at every single party.
Every single lola makes it. They'll just shove it
onto your plate and be like, "Eat your pancit
or else you're not leaving this table if you don't eat pancit."
- (FBE) All right, here's your next one.
- A stew?
- This is sinigang! Oh my gosh,
I'm so freaking happy. I'm just feasting over here.
- It looks like maybe fish or something
and I really, really, really hate fish.
- It smells kinda sour.
- Oh my gosh, this is literally my favorite thing ever.
I love it. It's just the right amount of sour,
'cause it's a sour soup and it's so good.
- This is good. It just tastes like
a chicken broth. It's really simple.
I do like this weird vegetable looking thing.
It does kinda add a tinginess to the flavor.
- Not my favorite. Definitely fish, I was right.
Fish just has that weird aftertaste.
- It's gingery and it feels very nice on the mouth.
- I like the flavors in this and I like how fresh
everything is and it tastes really good.
- (FBE) So this is called sinigang, which is a kind of soup or stew
characterized by its sour and savory taste
most often associated with tamarind.
- Tamarindo, that's a fruit. I liked it.
This is definitely something I wish my mom would
have made a little bit more.
- I think the sweet and sour part of it really makes it different
along with the vegetables, 'cause you usually don't
see that many vegetables in American soup.
- I don't know if this is a cold remedy,
but in the winter time, I would pull up with some of this
and then be all good.
- (FBE) Here is your next Filipino dish.
- Ooh. Oh my gosh,
I just had this the other day and it's good, too.
I forgot what it is, though.
- The sauce is definitely a lot creamier.
It looks a lot thicker. The meat, again,
is really, really soft.
- Is there peanuts in this?
- I'm pretty sure that's beef. It's actually really not spicy,
but it looks spicy.
- Why does it taste like peanut butter to me?
- I really like this so far. I feel like they took
some peanut butter and went, (imitating whooshing)
- It's like a whole party in my mouth.
It's so good.
- (FBE) This is kare-kare, a Philippine stew
with beef and tripe complemented with a thick
and savory peanut sauce. - Oh, is that what that is?
That makes sense. It's kinda just that slight
salt taste that you would have in peanuts.
- I didn't know that peanuts could be made into a sauce
like this that complements a meat well.
Definitely something that I'm glad the Filipinos thought of,
'cause now we get to enjoy it.
- (FBE) Here's your next dish. - Oh, it's dry.
- This looks like chicharron, which is pork rinds.
- It's chicharron. I love this stuff.
- Oh, crunchy. That is really salty.
- It is. It's chicharron!
I don't know if it has a different name,
but it's dry, it's crispy, and it tastes like bacon.
- Literally my favorite snack, probably.
I think Mexican chicharron is a little spicier,
'cause they like their spices, but us, we just--
we like the saltiness of it.
- They taste like pork rinds that you would buy
at a convenience store, or the bodegas at the street corner.
- (FBE) This is pork chicharron. - Chicharron, hm.
- (FBE) It's a dish generally consisting of fried pork belly
or fried pork rinds. Also popular in Spain,
Latin America, and other places with Spanish influence.
- I didn't know it was called the same thing.
You definitely can't go wrong with this food.
This is something you take everywhere.
It's really good. It makes your breath
smell really bad though.
- The Spanish colonizers, I forgot about that.
The pork rinds are good and it's just slightly different
than how the Spanish or Latinx countries do it,
which is interesting.
- (FBE) All right, last one. - Ooh.
Looks like a honey cake.
- It's gotta be a dessert, 'cause it's yellow.
- This is good. Sweet and sticky.
- It's really good and it's not a sweet as American cakes,
which is refreshing.
- It's a little sweet, but not too much.
It's not bad, but I'm not gonna like, "Oh man,
I really want this."
- It does have sugar and it is kinda sweet.
Not overpowering like the cakes that we make
here where they're just all whipped cream
and all chocolate and vanilla. It's gross,
so this is definitely a good change.
- (FBE) This is cassava cake made with cassava root, sugar,
and coconut or condensed milk. - That's interesting.
Where do they get these freaking weird ideas
to make cakes out of roots?
- (FBE) This is traditionally from Vietnamese origin,
but the Philippines adopted this treat, putting their own
twist on it. - That's cool.
I think of it more of a spice or something you put
in a more savory dish that I never would have expected
it to be in a cake or a dessert.
- I do like the consistency. It's not slimy or anything.
This was amazing. I think this might be
my new favorite cake.
- (FBE) What did you think of this Filipino food today?
- I really liked it. The different makes
of different meats and stuff like that, that's super
interesting to me and so different from
what we're used to here.
- I've never had Filipino food or I've never gone
to a Filipino restaurant and after this, I would
100% consider going to it because it was all
really, really good and interesting and nothing like what I expected.
- This was clearly just probably one of my favorite episodes.
All you lolas out there, keep making that dank food.
- Thanks for watching Teens Vs Food
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- Let us know in the comments what your favorite
Filipino meal is.
- Bye, guys.
- Hey friends, Alyssa here, a producer from the React Channel.
Hope you enjoyed this Filipino foods today
and I hope I didn't butcher the pronunciation too bad,
right Jay? - Eh.
- Salamat. See you next time.