Calling all Filipino Inventors

This is your chance to showcase your invention! We will feature one (1) Filipino inventor/invention quarterly in our printed magazine and our website. Simply email me your personal profile or click here to contact us.

Daigdig Pinoy's Maiden issue

This is it! We will be coming up with our maiden issue (hopefully) by the end of April 2007 featuring eight (8) faces of the Philippines.

We will be distributing this magazine globally for FREE. If you are interested to get a copy or distribute it in your area, just CLICK HERE.

What's new in Daigdig Pinoy?

PHILIPPINE ACHIEVER Filipinos have unlimited array of skills, talents, and perseverance to push themselves to be the best they can be and bring honor to the Philippines. These individuals showed what one person can do to make a difference.

PHILIPPINE FOOD Eating is one Filipino’s favorites. It brings families together, time to unwind, time to share, time to enjoy, or to simply, indulge on the native delicacy that brings good memories, mouth-watering, sumptuous food that will surely satisfy you, not only because of its taste, but its flavors and stories behind each masterpiece.

PHILIPPINE ENTERTAINMENT The latest on what’s happening to your favorite stars in the Philippines. Their achievements, latest shows, movies and lovelife.

PHILIPPINE HERBAL AND TRADITIONAL REMEDIES Herbal medicine is defined as the use of natural herbs from plants for the treatment or prevention of diseases, disorders and the promotion of good health. The use of medicinal herbs has been gaining popularity this past few years in the Philippines and worldwide as more clinical proof emerges that validates many of the age-old alternative medicines used by Filipino folks that has been passed on from generation to generation.

PHILIPPINE INVENTOR Filipinos are very resourceful. It is their nature to make life a little bit easier. With this, Daigdig Pinoy will feature such individuals that offered their time, knowledge and skill to create things and contributed to a better world. We are opening our doors for such remarkable individuals for the whole world to know.

PHILIPPINE SCENIC AND TOURIST SPOTS The Philippines is composed of 7,100 beautiful islands rich in culture and art. Daigidig Pinoy will show off the beauty and richness of each island.

PHILIPPINE FIESTA Fiestas are celebrated according to the region. It is usually celebrated associated with their patron saint. Feasting, parade and merrymaking are part of these festivities and most often visited by many devotees and tourists for their colorful and artistic presentations.

PHILIPPINE ART AND CULTURE Philippines have a rich culture. Basically a combination of Malay stock with a sprinkling of Chinese, American, Spanish, and Arab blood. From a long history of Western colonial rule, interspersed with the visits of merchants and traders, evolved a people of a unique blend of east and west, both in appearance and culture.

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PHILIPPINE FIESTAS

Fiesta is part and parcel of Filipino culture. Each city and barrio has at least one local festival of its own, usually on the feast of its patron saint, so that there is always a fiesta going on somewhere in the country. Check out the lists of Philippine Fiestas in DAIGDIG PINOY.

PHILIPPINE FOOD

In ancient times before the outside world had added its ingredients to the primeval Filipino cooking pot, the food of the Philippines was a simple affair of whatever nature provided: food from the sea and forest and rice from the paddies.

Over the centuries, foreign traders and invaders introduced new ingredients, new cooking styles and new food combinations to indigenous Filipino food staples and methods of food preparation. But despite these outside influences on Filipino culture and diet, modern Filipino cuisine has developed its own distinct characteristics.
What makes them Philippine? The history and society that introduced and adapted them; the people who turned them to their tastes and accepted them into their homes and restaurants, and especially the harmonizing culture that combined them into contemporary Filipino fare.

Traditional Filipino Food
Chicken Adobo is cooked in vinegar and garlic with soy sauce flavoring.
Kare-kare is an oxtail stew in peanut butter sauce, served with bagoong (preserved anchovies) or shrimp paste
Pancit is an Asian-influenced noodle dish with sautéed shrimp, it can be served as a vegetable dish or mixed with sautéed strips of pork, beef, chicken or savory sausage
Rellenong Manok is Baked chicken often stuffed with ground pork, ham, frankfurters, pepperoni, onion, garlic, raisins, hard-boiled eggs; stuffing ingredients vary among regions
Pork Inihaw are pork chops or spareribs marinated in white vinegar, soy sauce, garlic and red hot peppers, grilled and served with a vinegar dip
Halo-halo (from "halo" = mix) is a favorite Filipino dessert or snack. It is basically a mixture of sweet preserved beans(red beans, chick peas), coconut meat (macapuno), jackfruit (langka), pounded dried rice (pinipig), sweet yam (ube), cream flan (leche flan), shreds of sweetened plantain (saba), filled with crushed ice, milk (or coconut milk) and topped with ice cream. The halo-halo basically is sweet, creamy, and a filling dessert.
Bibingka is a rice cake similar to the Western pancake in appearance. In taste, texture and way of cooking, however, they are very much different from each other. Bibingka is made from galapong, baked in a special clay pot, lined with a piece of banana leaf, with live coals on top and underneath. It is topped with slices of kesong puti (white cheese) and itlog na maalat (salted duck eggs). The newly-cooked bibingka is spread with butter and sometimes sprinkled with sugar then served with niyog (grated coconut). Galapong is glutinous rice soaked in water then ground with the water to form either a batter or a dough, depending on what the cooked dish is supposed to be.