had a case of deja vu, i feel like i've made a soup thread a few months ago too x)
anyway i love soup! filipinos have so many dishes we call
"ulam" that incorporate soup (adobo, sinigang, tinola, menudo, nilaga, lechon paksiw, pares... the list goes on) so i have soup almost daily. i personally love putting soup on my rice, it helps me down the rice better and it's sooo yummy.
pics not mine, but this is what my family had the past few days: adobo, sinigang, menudo. we also have our daily vegetables with soup (yesterday it was kalabasa/squash and malunggay).
and lemme introduce to you guys one of my favorite local noodles, la paz batchoy!! it's so good and flavorful
i also got to try pancit molo once but it's not really "noodles" in a sense, it's more of soup with dumplings in it. still super good!! we also have our version of chicken noodle soup that we call chicken mami.
i also don't know if some would rice porridge as soup, but i'm including it anyway!! we don't necessarily call these soup, but they're liquid-y enough i guess. arrozcaldo & champorado are favorite filipino breakfasts!! i remember whenever i'd ride the bus going back to the province, the bus would stop by a small eatery at 4 in the morning and i'd wake up and go down and have a steaming hot bowl of arroz caldo. good times.
champorado on the other hand is a chocolate rice porridge/pudding and we often pair it with fried fish (tuyo), but i personally dont hehehe. i put lots of milk and brown sugar on mine!
sorry i said a whole lot, i grew up with sooo many dishes with soup and i need people to know that it's more than just an appetizer!! it can be mixed with rice, with noodles, with meat, with vegetables! i love soup so much that i always prefer my rice to be swimming in soup
and i forgot to mention but we have what we call "carinderias" which are very small eateries with homemade food, and many carinderias serve soup for free because they make their dishes with a loooooot of soup. even some local fast food chains here serve free soup because we like them so much.
also i forgot to answer the question! my favorite soup dish is sinigang, i become an absolute monster whenever i see it
i get so excited when they serve sinigang soup for free!