Filipina Soul

Ooh, yummy! I can imagine the taste and smell of this pancit malabon… nakakagutom…

Eligio of Wow Paradise Philippines featured this short history and picture of pancit malabon, of course originating from Malabon, Bulacan, where else.

Pancit, a common dish of stir-fried noodles, fits right in with the Filipino palate, cuisine and diverse culture.

There is that pancit habhab from Lukban, Quezon.

And of course, we have pancit palabok, pancit bihon, pancit canton, pancit luglog, pancit miki, bihon guisado, sotanghon guisado, and even miswa.

We are a REPUBLIC OF PANCIT, as Nancy Lumen pointed out. And we just love to concoct all different sorts of varieties and ingredients to make the plain noodle into a cuisine. Gosh, we even use the packaged ramen noodles to quickly cook a dish with a few leftover meat, a few slices of vegetables, soy sauce, calamansi juice, and viola! Food is served!

The word “pancit” was derived from the Hokkien “pian i sit” to mean “something conveniently cooked fast”, which it really is! Eating pancit is also thought to make your life longer as noodles represent long life and good health as our Filipino-chinese brothers taught us.

Now although pancit is traditionally made of either rice or egg noodles, a Filipina Soul reader actually submitted a really good “pastanghon” made from.. you guessed it – pasta! It’s pinoy cooking with Italian flair.

So enough, talk, go whip up a batch of pancit for an easy 30-minute dinner recipe. OR, submit your own innovations of the pancit here and we’ll feature it!

Have a long and happy life eating pancit!

Tags: pancit, recipes, culture, food, pinoy, Filipino, cuisine

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