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Achara - pickled fruits or vegetables served as a relish

Adobo - meat, fish or vegetables cooked in garlic, vinegar, soy sauce and pepper

Alimango - a variety of crab

Apritada - meat dish with tomato sauce and vegetables or potatoes

Arroz - Spanish word for "rice"

Asado - a meat dish cooked with tomatoes, onions and other seasonings

Baboy - pork

Bagoong - salty, fermented sauce or paste made from small shrimps or fish, used with main dishes; also known as anchovy sauce

Buko - a young or green coconut

Calamansi - a small limelike fruit found in the tropics

Cassava - an edible, starchy root used in making bread or cakes

Caldereta - goat-meat stew

Camaron rebosado - shelled shrimps (with tail on) dipped in a batter and deep fried

Embutido - ground meat roll/loaf

Empanada - meat pastry turnover

Empanadita - honey & nut pastry

Ensalada - salad

Escabeche - fish in sweet & sour sauce

Estofado - stewed meat dish cooked with vinegar, tomato sauce and spices

Flan - custard made of milk & egg yolks

Kangkong - green, smooth-leafed vegetable native to the Philippines

Kare-Kare - meat-vegetable stew with ox tail or beef and other vegetables cooked in peanut or coconut sauce

Labong - bamboo shoots

Lechon - roast pork

Longaniza - Filipino-style sausage

Lumpia - egg rolls

Manok - chicken

Mechado - meat cooked in tomato sauce and spices

Menudo - diced pork and liver stew

Mongo - mung beans/lentil

Morcon - beef meat roll stuffed with eggs, ham, pickles and sausages

Nilaga - Tagalog for boiled

Paksiw - fish or meat cooked in vinegar and garlic

Pansit - noodle dish

Pipino - cucumber

Pochero - casserole dish of boiled beef, chicken, dumplings and vegetables

Pusit - squid

Puto - steamed rice cake

Relleno - dish with stuffing

Salabat - ginger tea

Sinigang - sour soup dish

Siomai - dumplings

Sitao - string beans

Sotanghon - transparent bean noodles

Sugpo - giant tiger prawn

Talaba - oyster

Talong - eggplant

Tapa - dried meat cured with salt and vinegar

Tinola - fish or meat dish flavored with ginger

Togue - bean sprouts

Tokwa - soy bean cake