Food is a part of the Filipino culture. Middle-class Filipinos worry about what they are going to prepare and eat for the next meal. This foresees the pleasure particularly in the Kapampangans for being meticulous when it comes to food. As a matter of fact, Kapampangans choose spouses with great cooking abilities not just to have good cooks at home but a lifetime partner in sharing and spending time preparing food and making the family’s table refined and with grace.
The concern and passion of Kapampangans in preparing food made them famous in the culinary industry of the Philippines. Kapampangan cuisines are hosts of delectable and mouth-watering dishes. With its tempting looks, aroma and taste, everyone must try Kapampangan Cuisines because it is all worth it! Why? Delicious native dishes flood the culinary fare of Pampanga. Exotic dishes also make Kapampangan cuisine different from any other food trend. Betute (stuffed frog) and Kamaru (mole crickets) are only some of the extraordinary foodstuffs of Pampanga. You may wonder why Kapampangans cook dishes out of the weirdest ingredients on earth. Believe it or not, Kapampangans use things that no one will think to be edible as main course of their food. Aside from native dishes, Pampango cooking also manages to concoct up its version of the latest food craze using new ingredients. There are a lot to see and try in Angeles City. You can opt for the usual ordinary fast food or you may try exotic or fine dining. We always got what your tongue desires here!
If you’re having a hard time finding a Filipino dish that’s tasty, captivating and appetizing, it’s time for you to try real Kapampangan goodness! Kapampangan dishes will not fail to tickle your appetite!
EXOTIC DISHES
Kapampangans are known for their distinctive talents and specializations in preparing mouth-watering dishes. Angeles City not only offers local and international cuisines because varieties of exotic native dishes also flood Kapampangan Culinary Fare. This makes some Pampango foods to be very eccentric. Due to revolts, floods, disasters and the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, Kapampangans experienced extreme famine, hunger and poverty in the 18th century mainly in Angeles City. This is the reason why Kapampangans create dishes out of the most horrible creatures and weirdest ingredients. Most of these ingredients are usually found in nature which conserves both money and time. The way Kapampangans lived many years ago proves how wise they are in making delicious and incomparable dishes in town!
Kapampangan cuisine is incomplete without the presence of exotic dishes. This kind of foods makes the culinary fare of Pampanga unique from any other types all over the Philippines! Where else can you find humans who eat insects, frogs and many other weird delicacies? Only in here in Pampanga! Angeles City serves delicious and tasty Kapampangan exotic dishes. Angeleños are experts in preparing these unusual exotic foods that’s why it is not new when you see these foods on the menu of Kapampangan restaurants here in Angeles City. There are many variations of exotic dishes in Angeles City. From the noxious –looking buro (fermented meat or fish in rice which is likened to be a cat’s vomit), to betute (stuffed frog) and kamaru (mole cricket) comes many other extraordinary dishes that is worth trying for!
Kapampangans are born to cook and eat frogs, locusts, crickets and many other ugly creatures that Mother Earth has. They can even eat everything that swims, flies and crawls if they want to. Kapampangans eat anything edible they know. Tugak (field frogs), daguis pale ampong atbu (field mice found in rice field and sugarcane plantations), durun (locusts), barag (monitor lizard) and kamaru (mole cricket) are just some of the matchless ingredients Angeles City can add to your daily appetite. If you’re an adventurous person who seeks more than what is usual, Angeles City where both gourmet and indigenous food exist is the best place for you!
