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Chowking (Chinese: 超群; pinyin: chāoqún; lit. 'preeminent') is a Filipino fast food restaurant chain that serves Filipino Chinese cuisine. Founded in 1985, Chowking was acquired by Jollibee Foods Corporation in 2000. It is widely considered the country's most popular restaurant of Chinese-Filipino food and was once the second-largest ...
Ling Nam is a Cantonese restaurant. [17] Because it has a short menu, ensuring that customers always know what they want to order, and quickly prepared fare, Ling Nam has been described as a fast food restaurant. [4] [18] Its top-sellers are its noodles, congee, dim sum and siopao. [15]
Chinese sausage chow pao with egg from Chowking in the Philippines [5] In the Philippines, Chinese sausage is an ingredient in some Chinese-Filipino dishes like siopao bola-bola. It is sometimes confused with and used in place of the native sausage Chorizo de Macao (which is also sometimes known as "Chinese chorizo").
The Chinese influence goes deep into Philippine cooking, and way beyond food names and restaurant fare. The use of soy sauce and other soybean products (tokwa, tahuri, miso, tausi, taho) is Chinese, as is the use of such vegetables as petsay (Chinese cabbage), toge (mung bean sprout), mustasa (pickled mustard greens).
The restaurant started expanding in 1989 and became very successful, growing to half the size of market leader Jollibee. Kuan served as Chowking's president until 2000, when he sold his 50% equity stake to the Jollibee Foods Corporation ; Jollibee creator Tony Tan Caktiong was a founding business partner.
There is an urban legend about the snack alleging that cat meat is used in the production of siopao.According to historians, this story could have came from a certain sentiment towards the Chinese Filipino community or it was theorized that it could have been a smear campaign by competitors or illegitimate children from a Chinese family which runs a siopao business.
A common variant of the siopao, the siopao asado, is derived from the char siu bao and has a filling which uses similar ingredients to char siu. It differs in that the Filipino asado is a braised dish, not grilled, and is more similar in cooking style to the Hokkien tau yu bak (Chinese: 豆油 肉; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tāu-iû bah).
Mami (pronounced: MAH-mee) is a popular Filipino noodle soup made with wheat flour noodles, broth and the addition of meat (chicken, beef, pork) or wonton dumplings.It is related to the pancit class of noodle dishes, and the noodles themselves are sometimes called pancit mami.