Bringing Filipino cuisine, culture & community to Australians: A chat with Fides Mae Santos-Arguelles from The Entree.Pinays

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