It sounds like the same thing with the Vietnamese food here. It's all absolutely terrible, and that's likely because every woman from Vietnam tends to cook really well. So they stay home and cook it, instead of patronizing restaurants.morenangpinay wrote: I also don't eat at the restos here lol because i can cook it myself.
You talking about these?nakatago wrote:This.zzm9980 wrote:So they stay home and cook it, instead of patronizing restaurants.
@x9200: sounds like a charming idea; we just need to sort out the logistics. Suddenly, I remember SMS cooking crabs...
One reason why I feel you dont find Filipino cuisine very commonly is because it is pork heavy. Indians, even though some are non-vegetarian, but pork and beef is big no no to most. The Malays will never ever get even close to pork. The chinese I am not sure, but I believe they too digress pork.x9200 wrote:I realized that probably I have not eaten anything from the Pinoy typical food (at least consciously) and actually as per rather large community around it is strangely unheard. You can daily hear about Chinese, Thai, Indian, Indonesian, Balinese and dozen of other more or less local cuisines but nothing about Philippine. What is the reason and what place could you recommend to get the right flavour?
The pork is not an issue why Filipino restaurants are not common. Note how other cuisine would be pork heavy as well (e.g. German?). Even in other cities where there isn't a lot of Hindus, Buddhists, Jews or Muslims, Filipino restaurants are not that common. Singapore, if you think about it have a lot of Filipino restaurants already--mainly because of the percentage of Filipino residents.revhappy wrote:One reason why I feel you dont find Filipino cuisine very commonly is because it is pork heavy. Indians, even though some are non-vegetarian, but pork and beef is big no no to most. The Malays will never ever get even close to pork. The chinese I am not sure, but I believe they too digress pork.x9200 wrote:I realized that probably I have not eaten anything from the Pinoy typical food (at least consciously) and actually as per rather large community around it is strangely unheard. You can daily hear about Chinese, Thai, Indian, Indonesian, Balinese and dozen of other more or less local cuisines but nothing about Philippine. What is the reason and what place could you recommend to get the right flavour?
So Filipino food will essentially cater to only Filipinos and unless there are lots of them in a particular place, I think it may not make business sense.
Another reason and the more important one is what Nak already has mentioned, that Filipinos are not so fussy about getting their own food, like the Indians for example. Just a case in point, my office foodcourt, in Signature building in changi, had no Filipino food untill all this while. There was 1 Indian and several others like Japanese, Korean, western etc. The Indian one always had a huge queue kind of like 80% ate Indian and the rest non-Indian. Recently a Filipino joint opened in the food court called "Lutong Pinoy" and boy now there is big queue for it as well almost equal to the Indian one.
But why? If there is a business opportunity there would people willing to earn some money. Hard to believe Filipinos are differentFilipinos just don't bother putting up restaurants to cater to other than Filipinos
More and more Chinese are acquiring the taste for really heavy flavours (hint: me!). To be honest, Philippine cuisine is not readily available everywhere, and without having to walk into Lucky Plaza. My area unfortunately doesn't have any restaurant or even stall serving such in hawker centres. I would have been able to sample more frequently if it is more common.x9200 wrote:But why? If there is a business opportunity there would people willing to earn some money. Hard to believe Filipinos are differentFilipinos just don't bother putting up restaurants to cater to other than Filipinos![]()
IMO what revhappy said makes good sense. The only other local majority eating pork are Chinese but they don't like heavy stuff. Indians like heavy stuff but not pork. Malay cuisine partly overlaps with Chinese and Indian (in the food textures and some flavor patters at least) so there is no clear contradiction here. These are the cuisines catering for cross-culture majorities and the Filipino cuisine only seems to suit one single major group and some Western minorities (still did not try it but looks good).
@SMS, your daughter?
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