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Filipino Chinese cuisine
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{{wikify-date|January 2006}}
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There are many types of Chinese food here in the Philippines because of the inhabitants residing in the country. Most of these Filipino Chinese are the ones who have businesses in Chinese food and service restaurants. Restaurants are freqently seen at places where there is a great amount of Chinese Filipino living in that area or somewhere nearby. The food is usually Cantonese where the chefs are from Hong Kong. Typically the chinese name of a particular food is given a Filipino name or close equivalent in name to simplify pronunciation.
Examples of dishes, pastries, and others
* Pansit
* Hopya (''hopia'')
* Syopaw (''siopao'')
* Kwapaw (''cuapao'')
* Mami (''bami'', invented by Ma Mon Luk)
