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Asado

Cooking style with Spanish and Chinese influences. Pork is simmered in sauces and spices then thinly sliced.

Barbecue

Marinated meat skewered with bamboo sticks and grilled. Dishes include: barbecue pork, barbecue chicken and korean beef barbecue.

Lumpia

Filling is wrapped in an egg roll or crepe wrapper; comes in the soft crepe variety and the deep fried crispy variety.

Vegetarian Spring Rolls

All-vegetable deep-fried‏ spring rolls.

Pancit Palabok

White fine noodles topped with palabok sauce and sauteed pork, vegetables, spices, and garnished with green onions, boiled eggs, flakes of smoked fish (tinapa) , and ground chicharon (fried pork rind) .

Arroz Caldo

Thick soup of rice and meat, (usually chicken) ; similar to the Chinese congee.

Dinuguan

A special stew made from diced pork and entrails, simmered in pork blood, vinegar, and spices including chili peppers; as a merienda, it is great when accompanied by puto.

Fresh Lumpia

A delightful mixture of bean curd, carrots, heart of palm, and turnips rolled up in a thin wrapper, served with tangy garlic sauce.

Lumpiang Shanghai

Small, finger size spring rolls filled with shrimps, meat, garlic, and spices, and deep fried to a crisp golden brown roll. It is served with a sweet-sour sauce.

Sotanghon Guisado

Fine glass noodles made from mungbeans topped with vegetables, green onions, and eggs

Pork Entrees

Asado

Cooking style with Spanish and Chinese influences. Pork is simmered in sauces and spices then thinly sliced.

Bopis

Pork entrails simmered in vinegar and spices.

Embotido

Meatloaf made from pork, ham, vegetables, and spices wrapped in foil to form a plump sausage-shaped roll. Served with gravy on the side.

Longanisa

Mild, sweet, pre-cooked pork sausage, great for dinners, sandwiches, quick and easy snack, barbeques and hord' oeuvres.

Binagoongang Baboy

Boneless pork chunks simmered in bagoong (shrimp paste) .

Crispy Pata

Pork hocks deep-fried to a crisp golden brown served with a dipping sauce and lechon sarsa.

Higado

Pork meat and liver cut into strips simmered in tomato sauce, garbanzos (chick peas) and onions.

Beef Entrees‏

Cantonese Beef

Top sirloin strips stir-fried with vegetables.

Beef Mechado

Beef simmered in tomato sauce, vegetables and spices.

Spicy Beef Strips

Strips of beef stir-fried with onions, red bell peppers and hot chili peppers.

Carne con Huevo

Beef tri-tips with light brown sauce topped with sliced hard boiled eggs.

Beef Stew

Beef stew with mixed vegetables simmered in a light sauce.

Tapa

Flat beef pieces marinated with spices, served as a breakfast food with fried eggs and garlic rice.

Chicken Entrees

Chicken Relleno

From the Spanish word "rellenar" which means "to stuff"; the whole chicken is stuffed with ground pork, ham, vegetables, hard boiled egg, etc. And then either fried or baked.

Chicken Honey Pan

Fried chicken pieces with a sauce made from honey, soy sauce, and spices.

Chicken with Green Peas

Chicken pieces with green peas and bell peppers simmered in light tomato sauce.

Chicken with Sausage

Chicken pieces with sausage simmered in light tomato sauce.

Chicken Teriyaki

Chicken pieces‏ with broccoli, carrots, bell peppers, onions simmered in Japanese teriyaki sauce.

Chicken Curry

Chicken simmered in coconut milk and curry.

Chicken Family Style

Chicken with bean curd in oyster sauce.

Chicken with Oyster Sauce

Chicken pieces simmered in oyster sauce and spices; usually black mushrooms are included.

Chicken with Spanish Sauce

Chicken pieces with diced tomatoes, onions, and garlic simmered in tomato sauce.

Bakeshop

Breads‏

Biko

Glutinous rice pudding cooked in coconut milk and brown sugar, garnished with latik; also comes in the Ube flavored variety.

Cutchinta

Steamed chewy light brown to deep orange rice cakes.

Puto

Steamed rice muffins; comes topped with cheese or Ube flavored.

Raisin Bread

Sweet bread‏ with raisins.

Ube Bun

Sweet bread bun filled with Ube halaya (purple yam) .

Hopia

Paper-thin layers of flaky pastry filled with either black beans, yellow beans, taro, Ube, or flavored with pork.

Cassava

Native cake made from the yucca plant (kamoteng-kahoy) and coconut milk, topped with macapuno (coconut strings) and cheese.

Leche Flan

Creme caramel but with a Spanish influence. It is heavier and creamier than the commercially available variety.

Pandeciosa

Loaf of soft sweet bread topped with a sugar glaze.

Ensaymada

Sweet brioche; sweet butter bread twisted and twirled into a turban. Special fillings include ham, macapuno, and Ube. It is topped with melted butter and grated cheese and sugar after baking.

Cream Cheese Bun

Sweet bread bun filled with cream cheese. It is topped with melted butter and sugar after baking.

Meat Filled Breads

Beef Pie (Empanada)

Sauteed ground beef wrapped in flaky pastry.

Pork Bun

Bread filled with sauteed chunks of pork in sweet gravy.

Chicken Pie (Empanada)

Sauted chicken wrapped in flaky pastry.

Siopao

Literally means "hot bun" in chinese; steamed white bread filled with sauteed pork in sweet gravy. Other fillings available are chicken and bola-bola.

Native Cakes‏

Biko

Glutinous rice pudding cooked in coconut milk and brown sugar, garnished with latik; also comes in the Ube flavored variety.

Cutchinta

Steamed chewy light brown to deep orange rice cakes.

Puto

Steamed rice muffins; comes topped with cheese or Ube flavored.

Cassava

Native cake made from the yucca plant (kamoteng-kahoy) and coconut milk, topped with macapuno (coconut strings) and cheese.

Leche Flan

Crème caramel but with a spanish influence. It is heavier and creamier than the commercially available variety.

Native Treats & Candies

Anana Chips

Thin slivers of sweet bananas glazed with caramel and cooked to the right crispness and golden color.

Candies

Tropical fruits made into chewy candies and rolled in sugar. Comes in Langka, Macapuno, Ube.

Chicharon

Seasoned fried pork skin with two flavors, salt and vinegar and hot and spicy.

Boat Tarts

Boat-shaped tarts made from short pastry and filled with tropical fruit fillings: macapuno, langka (jackfruit) , Ube (purple yam) .

Caramel Popcorn

Caramel coated popcorn.

Fresh Pastillas

Soft candy made from milk and suger

Cookies‏

Broas

Light cookies similar to lady fingers.

Chocolate Crinkles

Deliciously soft, fudge-like chocolate cookie that is encased in a coating of confectioners (powdered or icing) sugar.

Lengua de Gato

Literally, the "cat's tongue" in spanish; thin crisp tongue-shaped cookie with a prominent buttery taste. Can come in different flavors (vanilla, mocha, chocolate, and marble) .

Camachile

Yellow finger cookies.

Galletas

Egg crackers.

Polvoron

Similar to‏ the english shortbread; a mixture of toasted flour, milk, butter, and sugar cooked and then molded; available in the plain and flavored variety ( with cashew, pinipig-rice crispy, peanut) ; name is derived from "pulbos" in tagalog to denote a powdery candy.

Snack Cakes

Brownies

Chewy chocolate squares with hazel nuts.

Pound Cake

Dense smooth buttery cake; the marble variety has swirls of chocolate; comes in a loaf and in individual slices.

Chiffon Slice

Light buttery cake with two flavors, mocha and vanilla, joined together with butter icing.

Mamon

A soft and fluffy french sponge cake; the "special" variety is brushed with butter and sprinkled with cheese and sugar; also comes in mocha flavored variety.

Rolls‏

Rolls

Sheets of‏ sponge cake filled with a specific filling and icing, then rolled to form a log. Available in the following flavors : mocha, chocolate, vanilla, mocha-macapuno, Ube, Ube-macapuno.

Brazo de Mercedes

Rolled meringue filled with lemon flavored custard. Literally, it means "the arm of mercedes" in Spanish.

Specialty Cakes

Premium Cakes‏

All Chocolate

Moist devil's food cake, filled and iced with swedish chocolate buttercream, finished with crumbled chocolate cake.

Burnt Almond

Yellow cake layers with a light almosd-flavored buttercream filling and finished with roasted almond slices.

Chocolate Almost Fudge

Devil's food cake layers filled with coffee-flavored whipped cream and ganache, finished with toasted almod slices and caramel.

Chocolate Raspberry

Chocolate and‏ vanilla chiffon cake layers with rasberry preserves, chocolate whipped cream and bavariam cream. Decorated with crisp wafer rolls.

Halo- Halo

Vanilla and ube cake layers filled with a medley of red, white and garbanzo beans, kaong (suger palm) , langka (jackfruit) and macapuna (young coconut) .

Macapuno- Pandan

Vanilla chiffon cake filled with macapuna strings (young coconut) and pandan-flavored cream filling.

Mocha Almond

Mocha chiffon cake with a light mocha cream filling, finished with thin slices of toasted almonds and dark chocolate triangles.

Rocky Road

A light chocolate chiffon cake with miniature marshmallows, cashew nuts and chocolate whipped cream.

Sansrival

Four layers of cashew flavored meringue filled and iced with French buttercream and chopped cashew nuts.

Black Forest

Chocolate chiffon cake filled with raspberry preserve and dark sweet cherries soaked in rum and finished with swedish chocolate shavings.

Carrot

Layers of moint carrot filled and iced with cream cheese frosting and finished with chopped walnuts.

Chocolate Mocha Crunch

Chocolate chiffon cake filled and topped with a light mocha butter-cream and praline

Fruit Charlotte

A light vanilla cake with strawberry preserves and bavarian cream filling, decorated with fresh strawberries, kiwi, grapes, slices peaches and mandarin orange slices.

Hazelnut Praline

Moist vanilla cake with pralines and cream filling, lined with ribbon sponge cake and decorated with swedish chocolate and pralines pieces.

Mango

A light vanilla cake filling and iced with a mixture of whipped cream and chopped fresh mangoes.

Neopolitan

Layers of chocolate, strawberry and vanilla chiffon cakes filled with strawberry preserves, chocolate whipped cream and bavarian cream.

Chocolate Tres Leches

Moist chocolate cake layers soaked in three types of milk, filled and finished with chocolate whipped cream and suger coated cornflakes.

Ube

Ube chiffon cake with uba mousee filling, lined with ribbon sponge.

Wedding Cakes

2 Hearts

A Garden Wedding

Autumn in Love

Blushing Bride

Chantilly Bouquet

Delightful Lilies

Fascination

Fruitful

Garden Romance

Glorious Love

Grace Carousel

24 Carat Gold

A San Francioco Wedding

Bells of Joy

Carmela's First

Daisy Romance

Fairytale

Field of Daises

Garden Bouquet

Gift of Love

Grace

Graceful Embrace

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