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Top 10 Popular Caviteñean Cuisines




A list of the top ten most popular Authentic Cavite City Cuisines that is still being cook, serve or sold today in pure Caviteñean households, suking carinderia/turo-turo and some city restaurants.

BACALAO

A popular salted cod fish dish present in every Caviteñean house every Lenten season most especially on Good Friday. This is one the many dish inherited from the Portuguese galleon traders that pre-dates Spanish occupation wich uses dry salted labahita as main ingredient. 


TAMALES

One of the most favorite delicacies of Cavite City and bread filling by pure blooded Caviteno. Made of ground peanuts and galapong that is steamed and wrapped in banana leaves. It looks simple at first sight but requires a very tedious process to make. The most popular brand of tamales is named after the current owner’s great grandfather Henry Benjamin Robinson, a former staff member of the USS Olympia under Admiral George Dewey. 

KILAWIN

Caviteñean kilawin is not made of raw fish but rather of grated green papaya cooked in vinegar with grilled mashed pancreas and chopped librillo of cows. It is one of the most famous and highly favorite dish best eaten and paired with Adobo and Kare-Kare during Sundays.


PANCIT PUSO/PANCIT KAWALI

A Caviteñean style pansit made of combination of bihon and miki bihon cooked in achuete with small slices of pork and thinly sliced green beans, carrots and cabbage. Rather than calamansi as paasim, pansit puso is served with thinly sliced puso ng saging (banana blossom) cooked in generous amount of vinegar.


PANCIT DE CHOCA / PANCIT PUSIT / PANCIT CHOCO EN SU TINTA

Aside Pancit Puso one of the proudly Caviteñean born pancit variety of less popularity and probably not written yet in Philippine Pancit LIST but is well loved by purely breed Caviteño's is the Pancit de Choca or Pancit Pusit. It it like combination of Adobong Pusit and Pancit. 


CALANDRACAS / KALANDRAKAS

The authentic Caviteñean calandracas uses not only chicken bones but as well as pork, beef, ham bones so it’s not surprising the authentic broth is very rich and delicious. The calandracas being cooked and sold today is way much simplier and lesser in flavor.


POCHERO CON SARSA / LAGANG BAKA CON SARSA

In Caviteñean cuisine, lagang baka or pochero con sarsa as how some calls it is not complete without a side dish made of boiled and mashed squash, eggplant, camote, minced garlic and vinegar.


PIPIAN

A highly popular Spanish inspired Caviteñean chicken dish which is similar to kare-kare except it is way lot simpler to cook and has very few ingredients.


MALABANOS

Cavite-style fish adobo dish made of eel (palos) which is meaty like pork. Some do not like this dish since they find it matinik and malansa but if one is a pure Caviteño you simply love it. 


LUMPIA FRESCA


More popularly known as Lumpiang Sariwa which literally means fresh spring roll. This lumpia variation is the most popular among Caviteños.



SPECIAL MENTION:

ALING IKA'S BIBINGKOY

The most famous Caviteñean kakanin that is like a combination of tikoy, buchi and ginataan.


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39 comments:

  1. El lugada di pagi, ung putajo Caviteño qui no pilmi ta cusi el mga jenti. Tieni ba uste recipe di esti putaji? Quilaya ba ta prepara el cusida lugata di pagi?

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    1. Chut Tala, ta quida na San Roque, asi cusi aquel Lugada de Pagui

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    2. ano pong salita yan?hindi kopo maintindihan hehe

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  2. Nuway yo recipe di lugada de pagi si tiene ki dali aqui bweno para pudi cusi y pudi mira el henerasyon ora :)

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  3. Ñra. ta culda yo diquel mi aguela ta coci ella el qui ta llama swam di asojos, (whiting). Esi ung clasi di piscao no malansa. Tieni ba usted recipe del swam di asojos? Gracias.

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    1. Nuway yo recipe Swam Di Asojos di si dagdag yo aqui

      https://www.facebook.com/notes/lutong-cavite/lf-cavite%C3%B1ean-cuisine-recipes/542539685771202

      baka tiene ki sabi recipe :)

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    1. You can search the recipes in the search box po :)

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  5. Ako ay taga Kabite sa Bautista malapit sa Miranda, bunso sa 8 magkakapatid at napadpadsa Los Banos nuong 1966 (tanda na). I rememberna ang nanay ko ay halos sa kusina na nakatira at grabe kasarap mag luto (pag may iluluto). Naghahanap ako ng recipe ng lugada and chanced upon this blogspot na may binanggit na lugadang malabanos pero walang recipe. The lugada I know ay may burong mustasa. Saka may mga pangalan ng pgkain dito sa blogspot na parang hindi tama, like lagang baka wid sarsa is pochero, pancit puso is pancit kawali. I wonder kung yung gumagawa ng tamales sa may checkpoint ay nandun pa rin

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    1. Dear Cavitenyong Laos,
      Iba ang pochero sa lagang Baka.Thicker sauce ang pochero at merong saging saba,kalimitan kung merong natirang nilaga we recycle it and make it into pochero,nilalagyan din ito ng kamote.The pancit puso is also different from pancit guisado. Please take note!

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    2. left over pochero laga is recycled into "ropa vieja"

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    3. tamalis ni Robinson ang masarap sa San Antonio kaya lang wala na siya, mabuti na lang marunong kaming gumawa, tamalis lang talaga, sabrosu na pandesal di Loyal Bakery selka di Pan Antigua
      manda cusi nga yo na mi hija
      esta bien….. 👋

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  6. Sabroso quel comida. Viva caviteno.

    - from Ternate, Cavite

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  7. Present po ba sa mga restaurant in Cavite yung mga cuisines po?

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    1. Malabanos and Pipian are not typically sold in restaurants. The rest are sold occasionally - swertihan kumbaga.

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  8. I miss tamales,kilawin,pansit de choco.

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  9. Calandracas, igual ba esi qui ta llama nisos Chabacano Caldo Gallego?

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    1. Its different. Caldo Gallego is much yummier according to my mother but I haven't tasted it yet.

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  10. Madalas ko marinig yung bibingkoy, I want to try it soon! Thanks for sharing.

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  11. May mga alam po kayong mga resto na nagseserve nire? Gracias!

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  12. San po yung Search this blog box para po makita yung recipe? Thank you

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  13. Search box can be found at the left portion below mising recipe photo :)

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  14. Hi Sir. I've lived so near Cavite all my life but I've never tried any of these. They all look so good and interesting. Is there a tour that I can take to try all these? Or is there a particular market that I can visit?

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    1. Hopefully there will be a city food tour in the near future :)

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  15. I want to try these cuisines. Thanks for sharing

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  16. Saan mahahanap yung ibang pagkain dito?

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    1. There is no single resto serving all tis dishes sadly. Some are available in nearby carinderia. Others by order. Bibingkoy in Cavite City public market.

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    2. how do I obtain these recipes my grandmother is from Cavite but she passed. I was born in the Philippines but raised here in the US. She used to cook this dishes and should have paid more attention to her cooking. I want to keep our roots and her memories alive through our food I am proud to be from Cavite. Please can someone send me these recipes.

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    3. Recipes arevposted in this blog. There is a search box sa left po.

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  17. caviteno dish ba el almondigas?

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  18. Pochero and nilaga is different pancit sa puso ng saging, pancit sa pusit, pancit guisado,pancit sotanghon, pancit mike, maraming pagan sa cabite city usually hindinabibili sa restaurant an mga cook ngayon sa cavity city hindi na silage original kagaya noong maliliit kami usually sa palengke ang mga cook Chinese original na caviteno kame from grandparents to parents to kids marame ng tagalabas na nag migrate sa Caviteno City and they don't know what they're talking about .....

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  19. Magandang araw po! Maari ko po ba na malaman ang petsa kung kailan nyo po ginawa ang blog?(m/d/y)
    Nais ko po na gamitin ang inyong blog para po maging reference sa aking pananaliksik, maraming salamat po!!

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  20. Ako'y taga likod lang ng simbahan ng san roque. Bale tabe ng St. Jo. Bahay namebmn yun may mahjongan sa tabi. 👌

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