Top 10 Ilocos Delicacies: A MUST TRY!

These are Top 10 Ilocano food that you should definitely not miss! Try these and enhance your Ilocos region experience

10. Miki

Abra Miki
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Miki noodles, chicken stock, and atsuete or annatto powder are used to make the soup. It is typically topped with ground bagnet and served with a boiled egg (which Ilocanos refer to as "chicharon").

9. Igado

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Pig innards, tenderloin, and slices of liver are combined in this meal, which has a distinctive salty, acidic flavor from the vinegar and soy sauce. This meal gets a layer from bell pepper and green peas, giving it a fuller texture.

8. Poqui-poqui

Poqui-poqui
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Vegetarians would undoubtedly adore the simple delicacy known as poqui poqui, found in the Ilocos region prepared with grilled eggplants, onions, garlic, and tomatoes, and it is finished with a whole, beaten egg. The finished dish will have the consistency of a somewhat soupy scrambled egg and is ideal served with a hot cup of rice.

7. Royal Bibingka

Royal Vigan Bibingka
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Using rice flour, coconut, ordinary milk, sugar, eggs, and grated cheddar cheese that melts to create a gooey, crusty topping, the Royal Bibingka is baked in a standard oven. The Royal version is delicious when served warm with a cup of salabat (ginger tea).

6. Sinanglaw

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Because of mixed internal organs (lungs, intestines, and boiled blood) of a cow are boiled by the meat traders before selling them, Ilocanos in La Union refer to it as sinanglaw. a specialty of Vigan made from bovine innards and skin and seasoned with bile.

5. Dinakdakan

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Consists of a mashup of grilled and sliced pig parts, including the face, ears, tongue, liver, and layers of calamansi sauce, ginger, onions, and chili.

4. Pinakbet

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As the foundational components of this vegetable stew, eggplant, okra, bitter gourd, garlic, onions, string beans, winged beans, and tomatoes are used. Usually made by Ilokanos with Bagnet. 

3. Bagnet

Bagnet
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Bagnet, also referred to as chicharon in Ilocos, is a deep-fried pig dish distinguished by its crisp skin and golden brown hue. Bagnet is prepared differently by Ilokanos to make it uniquely their own, although being identical to lechon kawali.

2. Ilocos Empanada & Okoy

Ilocos Empanada & Okoy
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This one is a popular street food made of green papaya, mung beans, egg, and is sometimes made with Vigan Longganisa. Deep fried to perfection and ideal to eat it as soon as it is taken out of the pan, and Okoy, a crunchy snack that is also deep fried made out of glutinous rice batter, shrimp, and various vegetables best served with Suka Iloko (Ilocano vinegar). 

1. Vigan Longganisa

Vigan Longganisa
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An Ilocano list of food will not be complete without the Vigan Longganisa. This is a pork sausage overflowing with salty-spicy and garlicky flavor best served with a tomato.