The most simple, yet so delicious Pancit from the Philippines

In Filipino cuisine, a pancit or just simply pansit in tagalog, is just a noodles, it can either be cooked from using a pancit bihon which is the transparent noodles, pancit canton which is the dried and yellowish version of it, pancit miki which is the thick and yellowish version of it, or any variance of it.

Pancit canton

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The pancit was introduced to us by the Chinese people, since the tightness of us between them during the old era was too strong and evident, we are greatly influenced by them in terms of cooking, and many food from the Philippine cuisine was also inspired by them, like this pancit. Now, we can see a lots of types of pancit in the super market, and they are widely used in our country.

You can also eat a pancit in an instant, if you don't want to prepare for it, then you can buy a lucky me pancit canton from a convenient store, it is an instant pancit canton, you can cooked it by just adding some hot water in it, then wait for a few minutes until its noodles becomes tender. Your hunger will going to be ease by eating this kind of pancit canton, affordable but its taste is also good too, but eating too much of this kind of pancit isn't that healthy, since it's engridients is not natural. There are also other types of pancit in our country, they are called pancit luglog, pancit palabok, pancit malabon, pancit miki, pancit miki bihon and many especial variances of it.

Pancit bihon

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Pancit palabok

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The pancit bihon is always associated with any types of events, you can see this at birthdays, family reunion, wedding, snack time and more especial occasions.

Pancit is also a healthy food, because many of the engredients are vegetables. They said that eating pancit regularly, will going to longer your life span too, "ang pansit ay pampahaba ng buhay". That is why cooking it, is affordable too. The way of cooking it, is also easy.

Eating this Filipino food will help you, to become healthier, stay away from hunger, and the most important is, it will make you smile while eating it, because one of its main ingredient is the Filipino's love for our cuisine and culture.