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Filipino Party Food Recipes

These are the dishes that fill party trays: crisp, grilled, sizzling, and made for sharing.

8 recipes in this collection.

Lechon Kawali

Lechong Kawali

Crispy deep-fried pork belly cubes with blistered skin, fried garlic, and green onions—served with lechon sauce and calamansi.

Sisig

Kapampangan sisig on a screaming-hot plate—chopped grilled pork, liver, onion, and chili with a cracked egg on top and garlic rice on the side.

Lumpiang Shanghai (Prito)

Thin, crispy pork lumpia fried golden and arranged around sweet-sour dipping sauce—the birthday-party finger food every Filipino kid fights over.

Inihaw na Baboy (Pork BBQ)

Filipino pork barbecue—overnight-marinated kasim on bamboo skewers, charcoal-grilled with caramel basting, served...

Bihon na Guisado

Filipino pancit bihon with golden rice noodles, chicken, cabbage, carrots, and snow peas—a birthday and handaan staple.

Palabok na May Sawsawan

Filipino pancit palabok with bright orange shrimp sauce, bihon noodles, shrimp, chicken, tinapa, chicharon, egg, and calamansi.

Crispy na Pata ng Baboy

Filipino crispy pata with boiled-then-fried pork leg, crackling skin, and soy-vinegar dipping sauce—a fiesta centerpiece.

Tokwa at Baboy

Filipino tokwa't baboy with fried tofu, boiled pork, onions, and soy-vinegar sawsawan—classic pulutan.