Like most oriental cuisines, Philippino cooking poses a paleo-challenge. The cuisine embraces rice, rice noodles and egg noodles as its caloric mainstay. However, there are a few green shoots for the paleogastronomer.
No less then Anthony Bourdain proclaims Lechon, a pig roasted over a hand turned rotisserie, the best pig in the world.
Sinigang, the national soup of the Philippines, is a seafood and tamarind based concoction, akin to hot and sour soup in chinese cuisine, is also paleo compliamt.
Finally, the national dishes of the Phillippines, chicken adobo, pork adobo, and chicken and pork adobo are all completely paleo-compliant. Try out this paleo-delicacy.
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