Fil-Am WWE wrestlers try out Filipino meals together

Filipino-American WWE wrestlers Kayden Carter, Joaquin Wilde and Shotzi Blackheart ate Filipino meals together as they recalled their favorite moments growing up with a Filipino family.

The group ate halo-halo, lumpia, pancit, dinuguan, mango and bagoong, chicken adobo and even balot in Orlando, Florida, as seen in Kayden's video released on Wednesday.

Back in elementary school, Shotzi shared, she was so popular because her mom would bring a huge tray of lumpia to school on Fridays and everyone would fight for the last piece.

However, she was made fun of in her lunch table because she would have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich but with pandesal as the bread.

"The girls were like, 'What is that? You're eating some weird stuff,'" Shotzi said.

Joaquin recalled the time when he brought halo-halo to school for his health class in ninth grade where everyone was asked to bring a dish to share with everyone.

He thought everyone would love it, but apparently nobody even knew what it was.

Filipino pride

Kayden said that they were really proud to be Filipinos and even showed her tattoo of the Philippines' national flower, sampaguita, on her left shoulder.

Even Joaquin has his own tattoo that grounds him to his Filipino roots, and its the image of none other than Jollibee!

Out of the three professional wrestlers, only Shotzi was able to visit the Philippines.

Their Filipino parents, they shared, came from a hard background and barely knew the English language when they migrated to the United States.

Joaquin's mom, who was from Pampanga, especially had a hard time when she moved and was only able to visit the Philippines 25 years after.

Within one year of moving to the United States, she got pregnant with him already, then his brother, then his sister.

"Then my dad died when I was five, so my mom was like an immigrant who barely spoke English, wasn't even an American citizen then, had to raise three small children in a foreign land," Joaquin shared.

Both her parents and some of her siblings died without her by their side since she was alone in the US, said Joaquin. Thankfully, his brother bought her a ticket back to the Philippines for Christmas back in 2012 and she was able to visit her living siblings and other relatives one more time.

Kayden said that they were all proud to be Filipinos.

"People don't actually get it because they see you and they're not sure what to think, what we are, but getting this shirt and that tattoo means so much pride and that's an amazing quality to have for our people," she said. —Kaela Malig/MGP, GMA News