Sili Ice Cream

If ever you find yourself in Albay, do yourself a favor and indulge your taste buds with Albay’s ice cream collection in First Colonial Grill in Daraga town. With flavors like gabi, malunggay, and pili,you will notice right away that the selection is not what you’d normally find in a regular ice cream parlor. This […]

Pinangat of Camalig

There’s something in that combination of fresh taro leaves, creamy coconut milk, a few grams of pork or crabmeat or shrimp, and the assortment of flavorful spices that makes you crave for more of pinangat. So much so that it has spawned its own industry.

Guinobatan Longganisa

Don’t be fooled by its small size. This longganisa or pork sausage definitely packs a wallop when it comes to taste. It comes in regular and spicy flavors and is definitely irresistible.

Sinarapan of Polangui

Sinarapan (Mistichthys luzonensis) is considered as the world’s smallest commercially-harvested edible fish. Thriving in the waters of Danao Lake in Polangui, this is best cooked as ukoy (fritters).

Sinapot

Sinapot is a banana dish also known as maruyaor baduya for non-Bicolanos saba (Cardaba banana). The bananas are peeled and sliced and then mixed with flour, salt, baking powder, eggs and water. The mixed ingredients are then fried in boiling cooking oil.

Ginataang Santol (Santol Cooked in Coconut Milk)

Almost all kinds of fruit, vegetable, or meat is possible to cook with coconut milk or locally known as “gata”. Bicolanos tend to use coconut milk to any dish because of the abundance of coconut in the region. One of the famousginataan (a dish with coconut milk) from Bicol is the ginataang santol. The meat […]

Dinuguang Bikol

Dinuguan is a dish that uses pig’s blood as ingredient in cooking pork. The process of preparing this dish is mainly the same with the original dinuguan. What makes it Bicolano is the hot and spicy flavor. Chili pepper is added to the dinuguan to add spice to it. Dinuguan is usually eaten with puto.

Pili Nut

With pili being endemic to the Bicol region, Bicolanos have found different uses of the pilinut. The easiest to cook pili dish is the tinolang pili. In this dish, the nuts are soaked in boiling water until the covering is soft. When the external coverings are already soft, the “tinolang pili” is ready. Fish sauce […]

Tilmok

Tilmok is another famous food from the Bicol region. Tilmok is the Bicolano term for coconut meat. The other main ingredient of the dish is crab meat. The preparation of tilmok starts with the mixing of coconut meat and the crab meat together. Garnishing is added after the meats are mixed. The mixed “meats” are […]

Guinataang Labong

Labong refers to a bamboo shoot which can be bought in any Philippine market mostly during the rainy season. It is also the main ingredient of Guinataang Labong which is a popular dish from the Bicol region. The bamboo shoots are cooked in coconut milk with shrimp paste or sardines. Fresh shrimps can also be […]