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Sisig
Filipino Cuisine
Chopped pig's face and ears, boiled, grilled, then seared on a sizzling plate with onions, chili, calamansi, and often a raw egg on top.
Category
Street Food
Main Ingredient
Pork
Cooking Method
Griddled
Spice Level
Medium
Region
Pampanga
Cuisine
Filipino
Fun Fact
Lucia 'Aling Lucing' Cunanan of Angeles City is credited with inventing sizzling sisig in the 1970s. The word originally meant a sour salad — a 1732 Kapampangan dictionary defined 'sisig' as green fruit eaten with salt and vinegar.