Sisig Centro

Authentic Sisig Kapampangan.

Manyaman ine!

Pampanga, being the center of cuisine in the Philippines has a lot of dishes to offer. One of these dishes is the famous sisig. Sisig in Kapampangan language means ‘sour’. Sisig is an original kapampangan dish more than 2 centuries before the sizzling sisig version was accidentally invented by Lucia “Aling Lucing” Cunanan (Sisig Queen) from Angeles City. Based from Aling Lucing during her interview in Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho, her invention of sisig was an accident. She burned a pig’s ear accidentally while grilling it and she did not want it to be a waste, so she chopped the pig’s ear and put other ingredients on it. Sisig is composed mainly of grilled pig’s ears or head, with a lot of calamondin (also known as calamansi), onions, hot peppers and soy sauce. It happened that people who eats in her carinderia loved it, thus the birth of the dish sisig.

Sisig became part of Kapampangan’s culture. It is not only famous in Pampanga or in the whole Philippines but in different parts of the world too. It is one of the dishes that us as Filipinos, Kapampangans, can proudly say it is our own.