Lunar New Year (aka Spring Festival) was Tuesday, kicking off a weeklong celebration for Asians worldwide (about a quarter of the global population). It was also Fat Tuesday, aka Shrove Tuesday or ...

Spit-roasted pig, or lechón, is one of the most popular dishes in the Philippines. Lechón comprises a whole pig spit-roasted over charcoal and flavored with oil and spices. It's a dish typically ...

Forget the eggnog, the Christmas ham, and the hot buttered rum. For many Filipino families, no Christmas Eve dinner can be complete without one crucial, crispy-skinned centerpiece: a whole roast pig. ...

A Puerto Rican flag and a Philippines flag flank the ordering window of the Yammy’s Filipino Letchon truck, in Round Rock, just north of Austin. Meriam Soto, the matriarch of the family business, ...

This video dives into one of Cuba’s most surprising lechón cooking methods: the pork hammock. The technique suspends the entire pig above the fire, allowing slow roasting with intense smoky flavor.

Melt butter in frying pan. Put in onion and then cook for 2 minutes or until soft. Add the pork lechon. Stir. Put soy sauce, salt, and pepper. Stir. Cook for 5 to 6 minutes in high heat. Add ...

El Bohio Restaurant #3 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, has an awning blazoned with the word “lechonera,”–meaning a place that specializes in crackly-skinned roast pig. And indeed, hefty hunks of burnished ...

When I asked about what foods to eat in the Philippines, most of my local friends said LECHON(Roast Suckling Pig), not just any Lechon, but Lechon from the city of Cebu. In fact, they love it so much ...