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Tap to Learn
Tap any ingredient to hear Lola pronounce it in Tagalog
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Drag the right ingredients into the kawali to cook the dish
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Lola — your Filipino grandmother guide — walks you through each recipe. Drag the correct Tagalog ingredients into the kawali (wok) to complete each dish. Tap any ingredient to hear its Tagalog pronunciation with a real Filipino voice.
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Learn Tagalog with Usap →20 Filipino Recipes to Master
From Adobo to Halo-Halo, cook your way through the most beloved dishes in Filipino cuisine.
Ulam — Main Dishes
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Adobo
Soy sauce & vinegar stew
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Sinigang
Sour tamarind soup
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Pancit Canton
Stir-fried noodles
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Tinola
Ginger chicken soup
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Kare-Kare
Peanut stew with oxtail
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Lumpia
Crispy spring rolls
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Bistek Tagalog
Filipino beef steak
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Pinakbet
Mixed veggie stew
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Bicol Express
Spicy coconut pork
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Kaldereta
Tomato beef stew
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Mechado
Braised beef in tomato
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Laing
Taro leaves in coconut
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Tokwa't Baboy
Tofu & pork in soy vinegar
Sopas — Soups
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Arroz Caldo
Rice porridge with chicken
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Bulalo
Bone marrow soup
Merienda — Snacks
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Lugaw
Simple rice porridge
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Turon
Banana spring rolls
Panghimagas — Desserts
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Halo-Halo
Shaved ice with toppings
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Leche Flan
Caramel egg custard
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Champorado
Chocolate rice porridge
100+ Tagalog Words You'll Learn
From kitchen basics to exotic ingredients, build your Tagalog food vocabulary one recipe at a time.
🍗 Manok Chicken
🧄 Bawang Garlic
🧅 Sibuyas Onion
🍅 Kamatis Tomato
🐖 Baboy Pork
🥩 Baka Beef
🫗 Toyo Soy sauce
🍶 Suka Vinegar
🫚 Luya Ginger
🥥 Gata Coconut milk
🌶️ Sili Chili
🍆 Talong Eggplant
🥔 Patatas Potato
🍚 Bigas Rice
🥚 Itlog Egg
🍌 Saging Banana
🥛 Gatas Milk
🍬 Asukal Sugar
🍫 Tsokolate Chocolate
🫙 Bagoong Shrimp paste
🎃 Kalabasa Squash
🥬 Kangkong Water spinach
🐟 Patis Fish sauce
🍠 Ube Purple yam
🌽 Mais Corn
💧 Tubig Water
🧊 Yelo Ice
🥜 Mani Peanut
...and many more across all 20 recipes!