NATIVE FILIPINO FOOD AND ITS CHINESE ORIGINS

By: Mark Cua

Food had been an integral part of the Filipinos and the foreigners who come to stay in the Philippines. They brought with them their dishes and this made Philippines one of the melting pots in Asia. The very first people to introduce different food taste in the Philippines was the Chinese. Along with the barter trade of the old centuries, they brought along Chinese culinary cooking. As you can see, you can find many similarities in Native Filipino Cuisine.  

As you can see the history and where the native Filipino foods originated are long and dates back the Han Dynasty. The following foods are:

Sisig is somehow similar to the cooking of hot and chilly delicacy in Sichuan province. This was an ancient Chinese delicacy back from the Tang and Han Dynasties. Since the early Han Dynasty Chinese had travelled all over the continents bringing with them the Chinese way of cooking and barter trading.

Suman is the most obvious native Filipino food with Chinese Origins. The Chinese had Ma Chang which had meat and sticky rice inside the leaves. This was brought to the Philippines by our forefathers during early Han Dynasty. The Filipinos after learning from our forefathers made their own versions by making sticky rice cakes without any fillings inside. In China Rice Cakes was made as a delicacy in honour of the loyal court official who killed himself in the River so not to let the fishes eat his body.

Of course there are many other kinds of Native food but making business out of these historical, and Native foods is easy and it only needs one word 'Passion'. Its the Passion for food and its creation. Many tried to make money out of it but didn't succeed. Many had their fun out of it yet they lasted and succeeded. This is called 'Passion'.

You also don't need much capital on selling these Native foods cause all you need is ingridients and where you sell them. The costs of each unit of these in the local market is only P25(twenty five pesos). As for the Filipino version it would be P5 (five pesos). The Chinese version was much more expensive because it has meat fillings, and other ingridients inside.

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