"It's just starting. I think it's going to take another year and a half to get up to critical mass, but everybody loves Chinese food, Thai food, Japanese food, and it's all been exploited. The Filipinos combined the best of all of that with Spanish technique. The Spanish were a colonial power there for 500 years, and they left behind adobo and cooking in vinegar - techniques that, applied to those tropical Asian ingredients, are miraculous."

Source : "Andrew Zimmern: Filipino food is the 'next big thing'". Interview with Veronica Meewes, www.today.com. June 12, 2012.

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