About this Language Chat

How much do you know about Filipino food, culture and language? Did you know that Australians of Filipino heritage make up the fifth largest group of Australians born overseas*?

In this Language Chat, we speak with Fides Mae Santos-Arguelles, independent business consultant and co-founder of The Entree.Pinays, a food-loving entrepreneurial group of Filipinas working together to bring Filipino cuisine, culture and community to the hearts, minds and tastebuds of Australians on Wurundjeri country.

We chat about growing up with Filipino heritage in Australia, pride for community and identity, the diversity of Filipino languages and dialects, and how The Entree.Pinays aims to improve the representation and celebration of Filipino food, culture and community in Australia.

Do you have any questions or thoughts to share with us or Fides? Let us know!

Episode Links

• The Entree.Pinays

  Website: entreepinays.com

  Instagram: @entree.pinays

  merkado-market.com

  A Christmas Message in our diverse dialects

• Curious about Filipino food? Try cooking some dishes:

  Gourmet Traveller: The Entree.Pinays make Silog
  SBS Food: Calamansi Gin and Calamansi Tart, and adobo (pork & chicken) or mushroom adobo (with Yasmin Newman on Adam Liaw's The Cook Up)

  The Calamansi Story

  In My Kusina #isocooking IGTV series Try Fides’s Dad's Bistek Kapampangan
  Turon Banoffee Pie by Grace Guinto, Co-Founder and Chief Baking Officer of Sweet Cora

• Filipino restaurants to dine in Melbourne:

  Chibog West Footscray

  Mama Lors Werribee

Episode published: 20 Sept 2021

*Australian Bureau of Statistics, Migration, Australia, Statistics on Australia's international migration, internal migration (interstate and intrastate), and the population by country of birth, 2019-20 financial year