Adobo is the national and staple dish of which country?

The national dish of the Philippines and a staple in Filipino restaurants and households is adobo. For Filipinos, adobo refers specifically to a dish and a style of cooking pork or chicken, and sometimes seafood and vegetables. Its ingredients are the pantry basics of soy sauce, white vinegar, garlic, peppercorns, and bay leaves.

According to Martha Rose Shulman, author of "The Food Lover's Atlas of the World," unlike many other dishes in the Philippines, which have a Spanish or American influence, adobo is believed to be a Filipino-Malay original. And since there is no definitive history of Filipino adobo, some Filipinos of Malaysian descent say the dish evolved out of the need to preserve meat in the tropics by using vinegar. It is known in the Philippines that the vinegar technique is a common one used throughout all of Southeast Asia.