Comments on: Puerto Rican Bistec, Filipino Bistek

By: Lina

Lina — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:45:42 +0000

I grew up eating both Asian and Puerto Rican food. My mother is Cambodian and Thai, and my father is from Puerto Rico. So i grew up eating all kinds of great food and learning very different cultures as well. Although many different countries were influenced by spanish cuisine Puerto Rican cuisine is influenced by other cultures as well. Puerto Rican food is influenced by native Puerto Rican Indians (Tainos), Spaniards, and Africans. So its different in many ways from Central and South American food. I love different cultures and am constantly fascinated by their influences in other countries!

By: Phở Kinh Yue

Phở Kinh Yue — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:32:58 +0000

Nice. I like how you made a post that also brings out the other cultural influences in your own Filipino one.

Perhaps someone can make a blog about how Vietnamese has foods influenced from the French as well, or even the words like Daixa has kindly mentioned how Spanish is influenced in Tagalog. Vietnamese also has its own influences in their alphabet and language. .

By: Daixa

Daixa — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:20:41 +0000

We have a lot in common including a lot of words in tagalog are same words in spanish…Hope you enjoyed every inch of our Island and our food!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:57:11 +0000

Food porn, and by a “Rosemary” no less! “Sol Food” sounds like a place that I want to try out.

The Spanish colonial connection is an explanation for a lot of the commonalities between Filipino and Latin American cuisines – food like Flan and Cerviche are obvious examples. The Spanish also brought over food like corn from the Americas to the Philippines.

By: Efren

Efren — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:34:55 +0000

What is it with us and food porn?! That looks amazing…

There actually is a lot in common though between Filipino and South/Central American cuisines…so this isn’t much a surprise to me.

By: ro

ro — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:36:30 +0000

i’m salivating looking at the pic this early in the morning.

By: Ernie

Ernie — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:02:35 +0000

mmmm. Food porn. mmmmmm.