Alcoholic
There are a wide variety of alcoholic drinks in the diet. This includes brandy as Emperador Brandy is the local favorite. And also variations of them like Brandy-Iced Tea Powder a popular cocktail and a part of several cocktails of liqueurs and juice powders; and Brandy-Grape Juice Powder. Other different alcoholic beverages include rum as Tanduay is the local favorite. Another choice could be serbesa which is a translation for beer. The most popular choices in restaurants and bars are San Miguel Beer, Red Horse Beer and San Mig Light.
Several gins both local varieties like Ginebra San Miguel (as well as GSM Blue and GSM Premium Gin) and the "London Dry" imported types like Gilbey's are consumed. Other variations include Gin-Bulag which literally translates to "gin-blind." It is said that consuming amounts of it will make one blind; Gin-Pineapple Juice Powder, any kind of gin mixed with pineapple juice; Gin-Pomelo Juice Powder, any kind of gin mixed with pomelo juice; Gin-Guy Juice Powder, any kind of gin mixed with guyabano also known as soursop juice; Lambanog is a type of hard liquor made from distilled coconut extract.
Tuba (or toddy) is a type of hard liquor made from fresh drippings extracted from a cut young stem of palm. The cutting of the palm stem usually done early in the morning by a mananguete, a person whose profession involves climbing palm trees and extracting the "tuba" to supply to customers later in the day. The morning accumulated palm juice or drippings from a cut stem is then harvested by noon then brought to buyers then prepared for consumption. Sometimes this is being done twice a day so that there are two harvests of tuba in a day occurring first at noon-time and later in the late-afternoon. Normally, tuba has to be consumed right after the mananguete brings it over or it becomes too sour to be consumed as a drink so that any remaining unconsumed tuba in the day is being stored in jars for several days to become vinegar.
Some shakes that are included in a Filipino diet are fresh mango shake consisting of ripe mangoes blended with milk, ice, and sugar; fruit shakes similar to milkshakes but only contain fruit or flavoring (usually containing Evaporated or Condensed Milk)crushed ice, Evaporated or Condensed Milk, and fruits like Strawberry (which is native in Baguio for it's cold climate), Melon, Papaya, Avocado, Watermelon, and the popular Mango to name a few but has rare fruits like Durian.
Other chilled drinks include gulaman at sago a flavored iced-drink with agar gelatin and sago pearls with banana extract is added to the accompanying syrup; fresh buko juice drink from a young coconut where the coconut is penetrated to allow straw into the membrane allowing a person to drink its juice later opened afterwards to scrape and eat its tender flesh, which a variation of this is made out of coconut juice, scraped coconut flesh, sugar, and water; kalamansi juice juiced Philippine limes sweetened with honey, syrup or sugar; and other tropical fruit drinks that includes dalandan (green mandarin), suha (pomelo), piña (pineapple), banana, and guyabano (soursop). Oranges, apples, grapes, and mangoes are also preferred.
A different class off diet involving the use of shaved ice includes halo-halo which is a dessert featuring a wide variety of sweet ingredients with shredded ice, topped with sugar and milk; saba con yelo which is shaved ice served with milk and minatamis na saging ripe plantains chopped, and caramelized with brown sugar; and mais con yelo which is shaved ice served with steamed corn kernels, sugar, and milk.
Several gins both local varieties like Ginebra San Miguel (as well as GSM Blue and GSM Premium Gin) and the "London Dry" imported types like Gilbey's are consumed. Other variations include Gin-Bulag which literally translates to "gin-blind." It is said that consuming amounts of it will make one blind; Gin-Pineapple Juice Powder, any kind of gin mixed with pineapple juice; Gin-Pomelo Juice Powder, any kind of gin mixed with pomelo juice; Gin-Guy Juice Powder, any kind of gin mixed with guyabano also known as soursop juice; Lambanog is a type of hard liquor made from distilled coconut extract.
Tuba (or toddy) is a type of hard liquor made from fresh drippings extracted from a cut young stem of palm. The cutting of the palm stem usually done early in the morning by a mananguete, a person whose profession involves climbing palm trees and extracting the "tuba" to supply to customers later in the day. The morning accumulated palm juice or drippings from a cut stem is then harvested by noon then brought to buyers then prepared for consumption. Sometimes this is being done twice a day so that there are two harvests of tuba in a day occurring first at noon-time and later in the late-afternoon. Normally, tuba has to be consumed right after the mananguete brings it over or it becomes too sour to be consumed as a drink so that any remaining unconsumed tuba in the day is being stored in jars for several days to become vinegar.
Shakes
Some shakes that are included in a Filipino diet are fresh mango shake consisting of ripe mangoes blended with milk, ice, and sugar; fruit shakes similar to milkshakes but only contain fruit or flavoring (usually containing Evaporated or Condensed Milk)crushed ice, Evaporated or Condensed Milk, and fruits like Strawberry (which is native in Baguio for it's cold climate), Melon, Papaya, Avocado, Watermelon, and the popular Mango to name a few but has rare fruits like Durian.
Chilled Drinks
Other chilled drinks include gulaman at sago a flavored iced-drink with agar gelatin and sago pearls with banana extract is added to the accompanying syrup; fresh buko juice drink from a young coconut where the coconut is penetrated to allow straw into the membrane allowing a person to drink its juice later opened afterwards to scrape and eat its tender flesh, which a variation of this is made out of coconut juice, scraped coconut flesh, sugar, and water; kalamansi juice juiced Philippine limes sweetened with honey, syrup or sugar; and other tropical fruit drinks that includes dalandan (green mandarin), suha (pomelo), piña (pineapple), banana, and guyabano (soursop). Oranges, apples, grapes, and mangoes are also preferred.
A different class off diet involving the use of shaved ice includes halo-halo which is a dessert featuring a wide variety of sweet ingredients with shredded ice, topped with sugar and milk; saba con yelo which is shaved ice served with milk and minatamis na saging ripe plantains chopped, and caramelized with brown sugar; and mais con yelo which is shaved ice served with steamed corn kernels, sugar, and milk.