# The best Filipino dishes

The Filipino dishes locals want visitors to try, from adobo to halo-halo, chosen from Filipino food guides and food bloggers' must-eat lists.

- 36 votes · 17 items
- Sep 4, 2026 · Paolo Flores
- https://even.best/en/l/392/the-best-filipino-dishes

## Top 12

1. **Sinigang** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Sour tamarind soup with pork, shrimp or fish and vegetables.
2. **Dinuguan** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Savory pork stew cooked in pig's blood with vinegar and chili, often eaten with puto.
3. **Kare-kare** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Oxtail or beef in peanut sauce with vegetables, eaten with bagoong shrimp paste.
4. **Pancit** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Stir-fried noodles (canton, bihon, palabok), eaten for long life at birthdays.
5. **Lumpiang Shanghai** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Thin fried spring rolls with pork, a party must.
6. **Chicken inasal** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Bacolod grilled chicken marinated in calamansi and annatto.
7. **Bulalo** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Beef shank and marrow soup from Batangas.
8. **Tapsilog** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Cured beef, garlic rice and fried egg: the silog breakfast.
9. **Adobo** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Chicken or pork braised in soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, bay leaf and peppercorns; the unofficial national dish.
10. **Lechon** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Whole roast suckling pig with crackling skin; Cebu's (especially Carcar's) is said to be the best.
11. **Halo-halo** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Shaved ice with sweet beans, jellies, ube, leche flan and evaporated milk.
12. **Sisig** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sizzling chopped pig's face and ears with calamansi and chilli, from Pampanga.
13. **Laing** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Dried taro leaves slow-cooked in coconut milk with chili, from the Bicol region.
14. **Balut** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Boiled fertilised duck egg, the famous street snack.
15. **Kinilaw** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Raw fish cured in vinegar or calamansi with ginger, onion and chili, the Filipino cousin of ceviche.
16. **Bicol Express** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Pork in coconut milk with lots of chillies, from Bicol.
17. **Pinakbet** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Ilocano vegetable stew with bitter melon, squash, okra and eggplant in shrimp paste.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.