The document describes many exotic foods that are considered delicacies in the Philippines, including farm rats, frogs, crickets, grasshoppers, bats, beetles, bettle larvae, snails, horse meat, snakes, pythons, field crickets cooked in soy sauce and vinegar, goat or beef innards stew flavored with bitter bile, bull's testes soup believed to have aphrodisiac properties, chicken beaten to death and burned over fire then boiled with pork, pork blood stew, ostrich meat, sea urchin gonads, and fried pigeon. Many of these foods can be cooked in coconut milk, adobo style, roasted, or deep fried.

1. Philippines’ Exotic Food Main
Ingredients

2. Farm Rats
-good source of protein, can be
cooked with coconut milk which
is called in the Philippines as
“ginataang daga,” or with
tamarind which is called
“sinampalukang daga.”
-can also be cooked into adobo
or simply deep-fried with
breading to make it taste real
good.

3. Farm Frogs
-green creatures can be cooked
the same way as the rats
mentioned earlier, although it
can be roasted and made into
“rellenong palaka” or stuffed
frogs.

4. Crickets
-rich in nutrients and it is juicy
and flavorful.

5. Grasshoppers
-tastes like shrimp.

6. Bats
- tastes like chicken for the nth
time
- best cooked in adobo or fried
- The bats can be boiled using
various flavorings and this is
considered a delicacy all over
Asia.

7. Beetles and Bettle Larvae
-roasted, cooked in adobo or
sauteed with salt and seasonings.
-rich in protein and juicy and the
tenderness of these humble
insects will truly leave a good
taste to the local folks here.
- "salangubang“
- The cooked beetle is crisp and
juicy can be accompanied with
hard liquor.

8. Farm Snails
-
-Best cooked with coconut milk

9. Horse meat dishes in
Dumaguete

10. Snakes and pythons
-also taste like chicken when
cooked in an adobo dish or when
grilled or roasted.

11. Philippines’ Exotic Dishes

12. Camaro
-field crickets cooked in soy
sauce, salt, and vinegar as it is
popular in Pampanga.

13. Papaitan is goat or beef
innards stew flavored with bile
that gives it a bitter (pait) taste.

14. Soup No.5 / Soup #5
-is a soup made out
of bull's testes
-It is believed to
have aphrodisiac properties.
-can be found in restaurants in
Ongpin St., Binondo, Manila

15. Pinikpikan na manok
-involves having a chicken
beaten to death to tenderize the
meat and to infuse it with blood.
-It is then burned in fire to
remove its feathers then boiled
with salt and itag (salt/smoke
cured pork).

16. Dinuguan
-pork blood stew

18. Ostrich A La Pobre
- Moomba Bar and Restaurant,
Quezon Ave., Metro Manila

19. Tamilok at Kinabuch in Puerto
Princesa

20. Croc Adobado at Kinabuch in
Puerto Princesa

21. Sea Urchin Gonads in Cordova,
Cebu

22. Salawaki (sea urchin) at Virgin
Island in Bohol sold by locals

23. Fried pigeon @ Mr. Poon, Pedro
Gil, Metro Manila