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That means showing off recipes he grew up eating at home in Metro Manila. Dayrit’s great grandfather was from Spain, and the family cooked what he knew from his homeland. Over the years, many of these dishes have since become firmly embedded into the Filipino culinary lexicon. Tradicionale pays homage to that legacy.

“Growing up, I ate kaldereta, callos, lengua — dishes that are very Spanish-influenced,” Dayrit says, adding that while Tradicionale’s menu still features icons like sisig and sinigang, those were dishes he learned about outside the house.

“Tradicionale is Tradisyon 2.0,” he explains. And in leveling up, he hopes that Tradicionale can help people understand just how vast the Philippines’ customs and traditions are when it comes to food. There are regional varieties as well as ancestral treasures that go beyond adobo, lumpia, and pancit.

Here are the five dishes you need to order, in Dayrit’s own words.

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