Beef Meatballs

Filipinos are fond of repeating syllables to make new words, like Halo-Halo, a dessert named for its mix-mix of ingredients, and Turo-Turo, steam-table joints where you point-point at the dishes you want. (Linguists call this reduplication, and it’s characteristic of Austronesian languages like Tagalog, although English speakers do it too: no-no, hush-hush, boo-boo.) So bola-bola, little deep-fried garlicky meatballs, get the