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Kinilaw
Filipino Cuisine
Raw fish cured in coconut or cane vinegar with ginger, onion, chili, and calamansi — the Philippine counterpart to ceviche.
Category
Seafood
Main Ingredient
Fish
Cooking Method
Cured
Spice Level
Medium
Region
Visayas, Mindanao
Cuisine
Filipino
Fun Fact
Kinilaw is one of the oldest documented Filipino dishes. Excavations in Butuan uncovered tabon-tabon fruit seeds, a traditional kinilaw ingredient, dated to the 10th–13th centuries — long before Spanish arrival.