You haven't experienced the full Filipino food spectrum of flavours if you haven't tried one or more the of the following dishes which lead with sour: Sinigang, Paksiw, Adobo, Kinilaw, Dinuguan and many others I haven't tried I but and/or used vinegar (or soy sauce with citrus like calamansi) as a dipping sauce with Filipino beer food or Filipino food in general

• Draft created: Aug 31, 2026 03:02 (UTC).
• If adobo doesn’t have a sour component that you can discern, then it’s not really Filipino adobo. It can still be delicious of course :-)
• And if you don’t like sour then that’s valid of course :-) I do still recommend trying one of those canonical Filipino dishes that lead with sour. Maybe you will like it :-)
• My favourite of the canoncial sour dishes is sinigang (tamarind souring is amazing) of course, I do like a very sour adobo though (most of my non Filipino friends don’t like adobo or sinigang as sour as I like it!)

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• August 7, 2026: Non Filipino people: Filipino food leads with sour despite the delicious adobo, lumpia and pancit you have tried :-) Those 3 dishes are great but because they don’t lead with sour, they don’t represent the full Filipino flavour spectrum. Also, the super sugary stuff is American colonial brainwashing and big food, it is not really representative of Filipino food and Filipino bread is amazing despite what Spanish colonizers thought, just like the Vietnamese they took the colonial bread and made it work for them. Finally, leylut manuk over arroz caldo :-) and I hated pinakbet growing up but now I love it despite the bitter melon ; Vanjo Merano:: Filipino Food - Panlasang Pinoy

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