Tinola a Filipino culinary term which normally indicates a boiled chicken dish, in which the chicken is first fried with garlic, ginger, and onion, then boiled and given a distinctive flavour by the use of green papaya, salt or fish sauce, and sili (chilli, hot pepper) leaves. In Cebu, however, it is a kind of sinigang, usually fish with vegetables, lightly soured with tomatoes.
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