10. Tinola - another satisfying comfort food that is a complete meal in a bowl with protein, vegetables, fruit, soup and flavor - lots of rice, patis and kalamansi on the side, please.

9. Monggo - Definitely a top 10 though possibly one of those highly adapted/adopted dishes from the Chinese Mainland…Nutritious, delicious and economical.

8. Lumpiang Sariwa - Yes. Ever since those Americans pushed all those coconut plantations we had to figure out how to use palm hearts…and this is a brilliant manifestation. Some family friends send over this stuff at Christmas after a long, slow simmer in pork lard and it is stunningly delicious and stunningly deadly on the cholesterol meter. I like the accompanying sauce, but oddly, keep my chopped peanuts on the side.

7. Inihaw na Isda - Yes. This was a difficult one to lump into one as voters sometimes specified the fish, but suffice it to say that grilled fresh fish is on most folks Top 10 list.

6. Daing or Pritong Bangus - Yes. And Marketman says you MUST have a fish pan to go with that, Mylai Dimaculangan's aside…heehee.

5. Pinakbet - Yes. Yes. Yes. An Asian ratatouille? No. A native vegetable dish that can range from horrific to sublime depending on how it is cooked. Acquired taste because of the bagoong, I think. This is definitely in my personal top 10.

4. Lechon - No wonder this is the stuff of Fiesta dreams, folks really do place it in a super high regard. I personally would have it lower on the list. Though I LOVE good lechon skin and ribs, I just don't think it should be that high up in the rankings…

3. Kare-kare - A surprise for me, but nearly 50% of all voters had this on their list and it garnered the third largest number of votes. I was never a big fan and perhaps I always got bum examples of this dish so after seeing these results I read up on kare-kare and spent nearly four hours trying to make the ultimate version (in a post up next!).

2. Adobo - Duhh. Nearly 60% of all respondents had this on their list of Top 10 Pinoy Putahes. No wonder they say it should be the national dish. And yes, I believe it existed before the Spaniards got here and they named it so due to similarities with dishes in Mexico/Spain.

1. Sinigang - Sinigang na Baboy was the third largest individually voted dish. However, 4 Sinigang versions were in the top 13 dishes so if you grouped them as a "Sinigang" option, this was far and away the absolute favorite. Approximately 80% of all respondents had one or more types of Sinigang in their Top 10 list. I totally agree with this choice. Whether pork, beef, prawn, shrimp, bangus, talakitok or other protein with the sour broth of tamarind (or guava, kamias, etc.) and fresh vegetables, this is truly the number 1 Pinoy dish in my book.