Grilled Baby Back Ribs

What really is Philippine food? Indigenous from its geographical environment: food from land and sea, field and forest. Also and of course: dishes and culinary methods from China, Spain, Mexico, and the United States, and more recently from further abroad.

What makes them Philippine?

The history and culture that introduced and adapted them; the people who turned them to their tastes and accepted them into their homes and restaurants, and especially the harmonizing cultural heritage that combined them into contemporary Filipino fare.

As man learned to conquer fire, grilling came to be one of the early indigenous cooking methods in the Paleolithic age of Philippine cuisine.