humbas

Noun

humba (usually uncountable, plural humbas)

1. (usually) A Filipino braised pork dish from the Philippines especially popular in the Visayas, traditionally made with fatty cuts of pork belly slow-cooked until very tender in soy sauce, vinegar, peppercorns, garlic, bay leaves, and fermented black beans (tausi) sweetened with muscovado sugar, and also commonly including hard-boiled eggs and banana blossoms.
   • A most sought-after “correct” humba has the skin jelly-soft, with the fork-tender meat swimming in its own fat.2014 November, Claude Tayag, Mary Ann Quioc, “Humba: Braised pork”, in Linamnam: Eating One’s Way Around the Philippines, 2nd edition, Mandaluyong: Anvil Publishing, →ISBN, “Central & Eastern...