INFOGRAPHIC: Popular soup dishes in the Philippines

The Philippines is a tropical country, which means our climate is limited to mostly warm, hot, and rainy. Cold nights are experienced very rarely, if not at all.

But no matter what season it is, soup dishes are always present on our dining tables. In fact, our go-to karinderyas offer unlimited servings of soup to match with our choice of fried or saucy dishes.

In some countries, soup is served as an appetizer before the main dish. But in the Philippines, soup dishes itself take the role as the star of the dining table. Soup dishes are one of the most popular types of dishes in the Philippines because it matches well with another Filipino staple—rice. Who eats sinigang without drowning their serving of rice with its soup anyway?—CM, GMA News