Food Calories by Country
Filipino food is built around rice, pork, and sauce, then rice again. A cup of garlic rice under a serving of lechon kawali is 700 calories before the drink. A bowl of sinigang with the same rice is under 450. That gap, on the same carinderia counter, is the whole point of this page. Every dish is ranked lightest to heaviest inside each category, from silog breakfasts to Jollibee.
Calorie figures come from the FNRI Philippine Food Composition Tables and published chain nutrition data where it exists, sized to a normal carinderia serving. Click any dish for the macro breakdown, where the calories hide, and how to eat it lighter.
There are 38 dishes ranked on this page. The lightest is Isaw at 45 kcal per 1 stick (chicken), the heaviest is Longsilog at 700 kcal per 1 plate, and the average lands around 372 calories a serving. 13 of them come in under 300 calories, and 4 are 600 or more.
That spread is the whole point. Two dishes off the same menu can be 655 calories apart, which is more than most people's entire daily deficit. Knowing which is which costs you nothing and changes the outcome.
Calorie and macro figures are estimates for a typical carinderia or restaurant serving, based on the FNRI Philippine Food Composition Tables (PhilFCT) and published fast food chain nutrition data for standard servings. Actual numbers vary by stall, recipe and portion size. Use them as a guide, not gospel.
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