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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 ...
Filipino cuisine is composed of the cuisines of more than a hundred distinct ethnolinguistic groups found throughout the Philippine archipelago.A majority of mainstream Filipino dishes that comprise Filipino cuisine are from the food traditions of various ethnolinguistic groups and tribes of the archipelago, including the Ilocano, Pangasinan, Kapampangan, Tagalog, Bicolano, Visayan, Chavacano ...
American-based multinational chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. Cabalen: Buffet: 1986 Cabalen Group of Companies Chooks-to-Go: Fast food: 2008 Chowking: Chinese cuisine: 1985 Jollibee Foods Corporation: Classic Savory [7] Casual Dining: 1950 Congo Grille: Casual dining: 1999 Congo Grille Bar & Restaurant Conti's Bakeshop & Restaurant ...
A piaya (Hiligaynon: piyaya, pronounced; Spanish: piaya, [2] pronounced; Hokkien Chinese: 餅仔; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piáⁿ-iá) is a muscovado-filled unleavened flatbread from the Philippines especially common in Negros Occidental where it is a popular delicacy. [3] It is made by filling dough with a mixture of muscovado and water.
Chinese restaurants in the United States began during the California Gold Rush, which brought twenty to thirty thousand immigrants across from the Canton (Kwangtung or Guangdong) region of China. The first documented Chinese restaurant opened in 1849 as the Canton Restaurant. [34] By 1850, there were five restaurants in San Francisco. Soon ...
In Baguio, Cantonese Chinese were known for their carpentry, masonry, and culinary skills, where they were employed in hotels and places like Camp John Hay and they set up businesses like restaurants, grocery stores, bazaars
The Hungry Ghost Festival (known as Poh Toh in Hokkien Chinese: 普渡; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phó͘-tō͘) is also observed by devotees in the temple. The bell of the Bell Church is primarily used for spiritual purposes. The 1997 book The Ethnic Chinese in Baguio and the Cordillera Philippines, asserts the
Hopia (Tagalog: [ˈhop.jɐʔ]; Chinese: 好餅; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hó-piáⁿ; lit. 'good pastry' - the name it is known by in the Philippines) or Bakpia (Javanese: ꦧꦏ꧀ꦥꦶꦪ, romanized: bakpia; Chinese: 肉餅; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bah-piáⁿ; lit. 'meat pastry'- the name it is known by in Indonesia) is a popular Indonesian and Philippine bean-filled moon cake-like pastry originally ...