Food of Guam
Chamorro cuisine from Guam combines native ingredients such as coconut, taro, breadfruit, and fish with Spanish, Filipino, and American influences. Red rice colored with achote, grilled meats with finadene sauce, and sweet coconut candy appear at every fiesta table, and barbecue is a way of life.
Red rice with BBQ
- Main dishes (10)
- Breakfast (4)
- Street food (4)
- Soups (3)
- Salads (3)
- Desserts and sweets (5)
- Drinks (4)
- Fruits and produce (7)
Staples
- rice, pork, chicken, fish, coconut, taro
Signature flavors
- finadene, achote, lemon, soy sauce, vinegar, coconut
Main dishes
Rice colored and flavored with achote.
Key ingredients: rice, achote
Grilled chicken mixed with lemon, onion, and coconut.
Key ingredients: chicken, lemon, coconutSame method with beef.
Key ingredients: beef, lemonMarinated meat grilled over coals with finadene.
Key ingredients: chicken, ribs, soy sauceFried shrimp fritters.
Key ingredients: shrimp, flourGround beef cooked in coconut milk.
Key ingredients: beef, coconut milk
Soy-lemon dipping sauce with chili.
Key ingredients: soy sauce, lemon, onionSpicy chicken stew.
Key ingredients: chicken, chiliMeat stewed with vinegar.
Key ingredients: meat, vinegarCustard cake.
Key ingredients: eggs, milkBreakfast
Noodles for gatherings.
Key ingredients: noodles, vegetablesFull guide →Flat coconut bread.
Key ingredients: flour, coconutIsland favorite.
Key ingredients: spam, eggsWith coconut milk.
Key ingredients: taroStreet food
Filled pastry.
Key ingredients: flour, fillingFull guide →
Fried rolls.
Key ingredients: pork, vegetablesFull guide →Grilled.
Key ingredients: chicken
Rice with grilled spam.
Key ingredients: rice, spamSoups
Dumpling soup.
Key ingredients: pork, broth
Ginger chicken soup.
Key ingredients: chicken, gingerWith coconut.
Key ingredients: pumpkinSalads
Citrus-cured meat salad.
Key ingredients: chicken, lemonVinegar dressed.
Key ingredients: cucumberGreen papaya.
Key ingredients: papayaDesserts and sweets
Custard cake with cinnamon.
Key ingredients: eggs, milk, cinnamonBanana donuts.
Key ingredients: banana, flourSweet coconut and corn pudding.
Key ingredients: corn, coconut milk, sugarChewy confection.
Key ingredients: coconut, sugarCreamy.
Key ingredients: tapioca, coconutDrinks
Fresh.
Key ingredients: young coconutFresh.
Key ingredients: lemonIsland style.
Key ingredients: teaGuava and mango.
Key ingredients: guava, mangoFruits and produce
Used widely.
Key ingredients: milk, waterFull guide →
Roasted or boiled.
Key ingredients: roastedFull guide →
Many kinds.
Key ingredients: eaten freshFull guide →
Sweet.
Key ingredients: eaten freshFull guide →
Seasonal.
Key ingredients: eaten freshFull guide →
Creamy tangy fruit.
Key ingredients: eaten fresh, juice
Crisp.
Key ingredients: eaten freshDish guides from Guam
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Descriptions written by Intercontinental Chef. Dishes are listed as commonly eaten today; many are shared across neighbouring countries.
- Rice, red-rice, AIVANAM-like: Sengai Podhuvan, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kelaguen 1534 (14529937155): photosbybonbon671, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Must have fina'denne! (3914403469): Janine from El Paso, TX, United States, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Pancit Ilonggo Style - 12110747826: pulaw, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Tapa de empanadillitas: Tamorlan, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Loenpia Semarang: Midori, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Homemade Spam Musubi: Chris Hackmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Chicken tinola: Anne Molina, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Cocos nucifera - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-187: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Artocarpus altilis (fruit): Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 14-QWSTION-BANANATEX-STRIPPING-LAUSCHSICHT: BANANATEX, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Carica papaya - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-029: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Mangos - single and halved: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Annona muricata 1: Damien Boilley from suburbs of Paris, France, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Averrhoa carambola ARS k5735-7: Unknown, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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