What does "humba" mean?

A Filipino braised pork dish from the Philippines especially popular in the Visayas, traditionally made with fatty cuts of pork belly slow-cooked until very tender in soy sauce, vinegar, peppercorns, garlic, bay leaves, and fermented black beans (tausi) sweetened with muscovado sugar, and also commonly including hard-boiled eggs and banana blossoms.

What is a synonym for "humba"?

Common synonyms include: kwanyama, kwanyama.

Humba

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Noun

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A Filipino braised pork dish from the Philippines especially popular in the Visayas, traditionally made with fatty cuts of pork belly slow-cooked until very tender in soy sauce, vinegar, peppercorns, garlic, bay leaves, and fermented black beans (tausi) sweetened with muscovado sugar, and also commonly including hard-boiled eggs and banana blossoms. uncountable, usually
"A most sought-after “correct” humba has the skin jelly-soft, with the fork-tender meat swimming in its own fat."

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kwanyama kwanyama

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"A most sought-after “correct” humba has the skin jelly-soft, with the fork-tender meat swimming in its own fat."

Etymology

From Cebuano humba and Tagalog humba, from Hokkien 封肉 (hong-bah, “braised (pork) meat”).

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