Teens Try Filipino Food | People Vs. Food

- Oh my God, I'm so happy. I'm just celebrating here. - Definitely something I wish my mom had done a little more of. ♪ (French accordion music) ♪ - (FBE) So, we have some popular Filipino dishes for you to try today. - Can I eat something? - (FBE) Yes. - So exciting and Filipino? That's even more exciting. - Oh my God. I've been waiting for this. I'm fucking excited. - Oh, this is fun. This is really fun. I did a project on the United Nations in my second year of high school and our country was the Philippines. -The Philippines was conquered by Spain at one point, so the

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s are all different because all these European influences clashed with the Asian influences. - (FBE) The

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s we present to you today were made at an authentic local Filipino restaurant called Kalesa Grill here in Los Angeles, California.

We know there are many popular Filipino dishes, so we only invite you to try a few. - Okay, - (FBE) And I will do my best to pronounce these foods correctly. - Do the best you can. I can't even do it. - I'm half Filipino. I'm a big fan of sinigang, which is this soup. It's so good, probably the best kind of food ever. - I don't know if I've really tried proper Filipino food. I wish I knew more, but I don't, so maybe this will help educate me. Maybe I have my new favorite food. Who knows? - I have eaten a lot of Filipino food because I have Filipino friends.

I don't really know the names of the specific things. It's not about the name, it's about the taste. - Let's do it! - (FBE) Here is your first Filipino dish. - Thank you. I don't like hard-boiled eggs, and that automatically makes me sad. - We have egg, which is great. In any case, I will enjoy it. We have some kind of meat. - It's yellow rice, which is also... oh wait, no. They are noodles. Oh my God. - Let's go deeper. It's so good. - Okay, yeah. I like this. -The meat in this is too soft and just melts when it touches my tongue, so I don't like that very much. - There are a lot of different textures, but they are kind of fun. - Every Filipino group will find this right there and it will disappear in three seconds too. - (FBE) This is called pancit palabok.

In Filipino cuisine, pancit is noodles with shrimp sauce topped with ingredients such as hard-boiled eggs, green onion, and pork. - Oh, it's pork, okay. In the Philippines they really like pork, so I'm okay with that. I like pork. - (FBE) The term "pancit" is derived from the Chinese word Hokkien, which literally means "convenient food." - I understand that this would be a convenient meal. They are simple ingredients and this is definitely something I could see someone making for lunch and taking to go. - That's why he's at all the parties. Every lola achieves it. They'll just put it on your plate and tell you, "Eat your pancit or you won't leave this table if you don't eat pancit." - (FBE) Alright, here's the next one. - A stew? - This is sinigang!

Oh my god, I'm so fucking happy. I'm just celebrating here. - It looks like maybe it's fish or something and I really, really, really hate fish. - It smells a little bitter. - Oh my god, this is literally my favorite thing. I love it. It has just the right amount of acid, because it is a sour soup and it is very good. - This is good. It just tastes like chicken broth. It's really simple. I like this weird vegetable looking thing. It adds a little nuance to the flavor. - It's not my favorite. Definitely fish, he was right.

Fish just has this weird aftertaste. - It is ginger and feels very pleasant in the mouth. - I like the flavors of this and I like how fresh everything is and tastes great. - (FBE) This is called sinigang, which is a type of soup or stew characterized by its sour and salty flavor most often associated with tamarind. - Tamarind, that's a fruit. I liked. This is definitely something I wish my mom had done a little more of. - I think the sweet and sour part really makes it different along with the vegetables, because you don't normally see that many vegetables in American soup. - I don't know if this is a cold remedy, but in winter, I would take a little of this and then everything would be fine. - (FBE) Here's your next Filipino dish. - Oh.

OMG I tried it the other day and it's good too. Although I forgot what it is. - The sauce is definitely much creamier. It seems much thicker. The meat, again, is very, very soft. - Are there peanuts in this? - I'm pretty sure it's beef. It's not really spicy, but it looks spicy. - Why does it taste like peanut butter to me? - I really like this so far. I feel like they took a little bit of peanut butter and said, (imitating a whistle) - It's like a whole party in my mouth. It's so good. - (FBE) This is kare-kare, a Filipino stew with beef and tripe complemented by a thick and flavorful peanut sauce. - Oh, is that what it is?

That makes sense. It's that slight salty taste that peanuts would have. - I didn't know that you could make a sauce like this with peanuts that complements the meat well. It's definitely something I'm glad Filipinos thought of, because now we can enjoy it. - (FBE) Here's your next dish. - Oh, it's dry. - This looks like chicharrón, which is chicharrones. - It's pork rinds. I love these things. - Oh, crispy. That's very salty. - It's. It's pork rinds! I don't know if it has another name, but it's dry, crunchy, and tastes like bacon. - Literally my favorite snack, probably.

I think Mexican chicharrón is a little spicier, because they like spice, but we just... we like the salty flavor. - They taste like chicharrón that you would buy at a convenience store, or at the corner bodegas. - (FBE) This is pork rinds. - Chicharrón, hm. - (FBE) It is a dish that generally consists of fried pork belly or fried pork rinds. Also popular in Spain, Latin America and other places with Spanish influence. - I didn't know it was called the same. You definitely can't go wrong with this meal. This is something that is carried everywhere.

Is very good. Although it makes your breath smell really bad. - The Spanish colonizers, I already forgot about that. The chicharrones are good and it's slightly different than how Spanish or Latin countries make it, which is interesting. - (FBE) Very good, the last one. - Oh. It looks like a honey cake. - It has to be a dessert, because it's yellow. - This is good. Sweet and sticky. - It's very good and it's not sweet like American pastries, which is refreshing. - It's a little sweet, but not too much. It's not bad, but I'm not going to like, "Oh man, I really want this." - It has sugar and is somewhat sweet.

Not overpowering like the cakes we make here, where it's just whipped cream, chocolate and vanilla. It's gross, so it's definitely a good change. - (FBE) This is a cassava cake made with cassava root, sugar and coconut or condensed milk. - It's interesting. Where do they get these strange ideas for making cakes with roots? - (FBE) This is traditionally of Vietnamese origin, but the Philippines adopted this delicacy and put their own spin on it. - That's great. I think it's more of a spice or something that goes into a tastier dish that I would never have expected to be in a cake or dessert. - I like the consistency.

It's not slimy or anything. This was amazing. I think this might be my new favorite cake. - (FBE) What did you think of this Filipino food today? - I really liked it. The different brands of different meats and things like that, that's very interesting to me and very different from what we're used to here. - I have never tried Filipino food or been to a Filipino restaurant and after this I would 100% consider going because everything was very very good and interesting and nothing like what I expected. - This was clearly probably one of my favorite episodes.

All you lolas, keep making that wet food. - Thanks for watching Teens Vs Food on the React channel. - Do not miss it. Make sure to subscribe to receive new videos. - Tell us in the comments what your favorite Filipino food is. - Bye. - Hello friends, this is Alyssa, a producer on the React channel. I hope you enjoyed this Filipino food today and I hope I didn't mess up the pronunciation too much, right Jay? - Huh. - Salamat. See you next time.