Lechon Liempo (Filipino-Style Roasted Pork Belly)

Lechon liempo takes the tastiest portion of the swine—the belly—and gives it the slow-roasted treatment that results in succulent meat and crackling skin. It's enough to just roll up a piece of belly and put it on the spit, but I took the extra step of seasoning the inside with garlic paste.

Lechon Kawali (Filipino Crispy Fried Pork Belly)

Filipino lechon kawali is one of the great pork dishes of the world. Boiled pork belly gets fried until intensely crisp and crunchy on the outside and meltingly tender within.

Sizzling Sisig (Filipino Crispy Pork with Eggs)

A hearty Filipino pork dish that pairs well with beer.

Adobo-Marinated Grilled Pork Chops

Filipino adobo is a classic dish, usually of stewed chicken or pork in a tangy, flavorful sauce made from cane vinegar, soy sauce, and aromatics. But the building blocks of the adobo sauce also make a great marinade for grilled meats, like the pork chops here.

Tocino (Filipino-Style Grilled Cured Pork)

There isn't much to Filipino-style tocino—just thinly sliced pork shoulder cured in salt and sugar for a few days—but the sweet, chewy Filipino breakfast meat that results is amazing, especially when paired with some garlic fried rice and egg.

Kinilaw (Filipino-Style Marinated Fish)

Tuna marinated with vinegar, onions, tomatoes, ginger and chiles.

Pancit Palabok (Filipino Noodles With Smoky Pork and Seafood Sauce)

This classic Filipino noodle dish is packed with pork, chicken, shrimp, and layer upon layer of seafood flavor.

Pork adobo

Today we’re making a Filipino dish called adobo. If you haven’t tried it before, you need to add it to your list. It has so much flavour and the pork comes out extremely tender and juicy.

Chicken Inasal (Filipino Grilled Chicken)

Marinated in coconut vinegar with lemongrass, ginger, and muscovado sugar and then basted with an annatto-infused oil over a hot grill, chicken inasal is smoky, tangy, and savory-sweet.

Zak Pelaccio's Crispy Pork and Watermelon Salad

There's a reason this Crispy Pork and Watermelon Salad is the signature dish at Zakary Pelaccio's Fatty Crab restaurants. It highlights the best of Pelaccio's cooking style, combining his love of Southeast Asian flavors with an irreverent American lean.