Adobo is also the name of a common and very popular cooking process in the Philippines. It is considered a national group of dishes. Typically, pork or chicken, or a combination of both, is slowly cooked in soy sauce, vinegar, crushed garlic, bay leaf, and black peppercorns, and often browned in the oven or pan-fried afterward to get the desirable crisped edges. This dish originates from the northern region of the Philippines.
Adobo has gone mainstream in the last years. It became a band, a movie, and a name. It has reached the western countries, the deserts and the land down under. It has been chosen as part of birthdays.
It became famous for being famous.
