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New poll out, remember you can vote for multiple items. Not that any explanation of the dishes should be needed because we're all true filipinos here, but here you go courtesy of Wikipedia:

1. Adobo - consists of pork and/or chicken stewed in a broth of soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, and peppercorns, a favorite dish among many.
   
2. Pancit - a dish primarily consisting of noodles, vegetables, and a bit of meat or shrimp with variations primarily distinguished by the type of noodles used.
   
3. Lechón - whole roasted suckling pig. Sometimes, either a piglet (lechonillo, or lechon de leche) or cattle calf (lechong baka) is baked instead.
   
4. Kare-kare - also known as "peanut stew," boiled oxtail and/or ox tripe in a peanut-based stew of mixed vegetables, served with alamang (fermented shrimp paste).
   
5. Sinigang - tamarind-soured soup typically made with pork, beef, or seafood. But tamarind is not the only souring ingredient used: Variants include guava and miso, but these are only used on seafood.
   
6. Kaldereta - beef or goat simmered in vinegar and tomato sauce. There is a variant that uses dog meat.
   
7. Afritada - made of pork or beef and vegetables simmered in tomato sauce.
   
8. Dinuguan - a stew made from pig blood, entrails, and meat.
   
9. Balut - is a partially-developed duck embryo boiled then served in its shell.
   
10. Halo-halo - composed of shaved ice, milk, coconut sport, purple yam pudding, caramel custard, sweetened plantains, and jackfruit.
    
11. Bibingka - hot rice cake topped with a spread of butter, slices of kesong puti (white cheese), itlog na maalat (salted duck eggs), and sometimes grated coconut.
    
12. Leche Flan - caramel custard made with eggs and milk.
    
13. Puto - sweet steamed rice muffins.
    
14. Dinengdeng - consists of malunggay leafs and bittermelon similar presentation to pinakbet.
    
15. Pinakbet - vegetables stewed with bagoong.
    
16. Arroz caldo - a Spanish inspired rice porridge cooked with chicken, ginger and cheap saffron, garnished with spring onions (chives).
    
17. Soup No. 5 (Also spelled as "Soup #5") - a soup made out of testicles. Found in restaurants in Ongpin St., Binondo, Manila.

And others that didn't make the cut include:

1. Camaro - are field crickets cooked in soy sauce, salt, and vinegar. It is popular in Pampanga.
   
2. Asocena - Dog meat, is especially popular in the Cordillera Administrative Region.
   
3. Pinikpikan chicken - chicken which has been beaten to death. Cooks do this to tenderize the meat and to infuse it with blood. It is then burned in fire to remove its feathers then boiled with salt and pork.