The remaining few Bicolano dishes that garnered maybe one to two searches a few times a year include the spicy, tangy kandingga, the Bicolano version of bopis, made with pork innards (heart, lungs, spleen) cooked in vinegar and other spices. The rest of the year, it stayed below two searches. Searches for this traditional saltwater fish dish reached its highest in March and April 2021 at over three searches, followed by in January at two and in June 2020 at almost three. Rounding out the top five is the coconut cream-based kinunot, a pescatarian-friendly Bicolano dish made with flaked padi (stingray) or fish, malunggay (moringa) leaves, sili, and coconut cream sauce with spices. It stayed a bit above five searches in April, July, August, and December of 2020 and January, February, and June of 2021. The searches for pancit bato stayed below five the past two years, but the dish was searched for the most in March 2021 at over eight searches. The celebration staple pancit bato is cooked like most pancit dishes, with chopped vegetables like carrot, cabbage, snap peas, and green beans, and the occasional addition of chicken liver, pork, and shrimp. With sinantolan (or ginataang santol) ranking in fourth place, it seems that Filipinos gata have their gata fix! Sinantolan peaked in June 2020 with 12.5 searches, but stayed relatively low (below 10) until August 2021, with a small spike of 10.5 searches on that month.Īs someone who loves sour dishes, sinantolan is a personal favorite – this Bicolano delicacy uses minced santol (cotton fruit), a sour-sweet native fruit that is cooked in coconut cream, sili, onion, garlic, and bagoong until creamy, tangy, and a tad spicy. Pinangat is usually eaten with rice or as a side dish to grilled pork or seafood, just like laing. It is also called tilmok, tinuktok, or tinulmok in some areas of Bicol. Bicolanos also like to use smoked fish for their pinangat. It’s a popular stew originating from Camalig, Albay that showcases Bicol’s abundant resources – aside from coconut milk and sili, it also makes use of taro leaves, which is another key element in many Bicolano dishes. The meat-veggie “pouch” is then slowly steamed in coconut milk, peppers, and spices until everything is tender, soft, tasty, and creamy. Since then, it dwindled in numbers, but then shot back up in March 2021 with 32.5 searches, beating Bicol express that month.Īuthentic pinangat na gabi uses whole gabi leaves that are wrapped around pork or fish (pinangat na isda) using a banana or coconut leaf. We gata hand it to laing – this creamy vegetable dish came in a close second to Bicol express! The dish reached its peak in June 2020 at 44 searches, and stayed strong until August with over 35 searches. Just like many Filipino dishes, Bicol express can be served differently depending on the region or household, but it almost always ends up the same hot, spicy, and filling creamy meat stew that’s perfect with warm rice. It is said that Cely named the dish after the train traveling from Manila’s Paco station to Bicol. Inspired by the creaminess and spiciness of Bicolanos’ native gulay na lada (vegetable with chili), she adapted her own take on the traditional stew at her restaurant in Manila, adding pork belly strips and shrimp paste to the dish but keeping Bicol’s star ingredients of gata (coconut milk/cream) and lots of sili. It was popularized in Malate, Manila by a woman named Cely Kalaw from Laguna, whose childhood was mostly spent in Naga City, Bicol. In March 2021, it was beaten by laing by a mere two searches, as Bicol express had 30 while laing had 32.Ĭontrary to common belief, Bicol express isn’t actually a Bicolano dish. This spicy, creamy dish made it to number one in terms of search popularity – it reached a whopping 81 searches in May 2020 at the height of last year’s lockdown. Which dishes made it to the top five? Here’s what the numbers have to say! Bicol express Coming from the knowledge that Bicolano cuisine is a popular choice among diners and home cooks around the country, data company Nerve did a scan on the most popular Bicolano recipes people around Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao searched for online from January 2020 to August 2021. We wanted to know what kind of recipes people were cooking up from their homes in the past year in lockdown. Despite the convenience of food deliveries and take-out, nothing really beats the taste and comfort of home-cooked food, especially if it’s a recipe from childhood or inspired by a favorite regional delicacy. With most of the country in lockdown since March 2020, home cooks – both new and experienced – saw themselves spending more time in the kitchen.
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