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10 Filipino Food Content Creators To Add To Your Scrolling List

by Alexa Villano
September 24, 2024

These food content creators are making waves online for their recipes, food recommendations, and their respective lifestyles

Food is essential to the family. With different palates to think about parents are often challenged by the prospects of what they have to cook for their families. Sometimes, they get pressured with ideas that they often end up serving the usual meals.

Thanks to social media, parents can now check on Filipino food content creators whose recipes they can scroll and try for their kids. Food content creators like Ninong Ry, Erwan Heussaff, Modern Nanay, and Hazel Cheffy have gained a following because of their recipes, cooking styles, and lessons for viewers.

These 10 content creators have been making waves online for their cooking, food promotions, and lifestyle ideas. Read on why they are worth watching.

Kusinela

Imagine yourself cooking and preparing ingredients with the abundance of nature. This is the concept the people behind Kusinela show in their videos. The recipes they cook are generally Filipino dishes from lugaw to papaitan, which can be followed easily.

What’s interesting about their content is that despite the bustle of cooking food for many people, they make it very relaxed in viewers’ eyes. Check out how they cook their inasal chicken.

Chef Obang

With 2.3 million followers on TikTok, 208,000 followers on Instagram, 4.9 million on Facebook, and 330,000 on YouTube, Chef Obang has earned herself a niche in the food content category. With her witty personality in cooking and transforming ingredients to food that families and amateur cooks can try, it’s no wonder that she has been approached for collaborations and partnerships with brands and her fellow content creators.

Fred Quieng

Fred Quieng is perhaps known for calling her followers “best friend.” With close to a million followers on TikTok and 301,000 on Instagram, Fred has become one of the go-to collaborators of food companies. Some of the recipes she made include corn muffins, ube mamon, and buttered garlic shrimp.

The Chef YLYT TV

Ylyt Frixiah Manaig, known on social media as Chef Ylyt is a private chef who has lent her expertise in whipping up healthy and delicious dishes. Some of the dishes she has shared on her account include various soups, smoothies, and curry.

On top of cooking, chef Ylyt has shared some part of her life including returning to culinary school and her wedding to her longtime boyfriend. She is currently signed to GMA Sparkle Artist Center.

Naomi Peña

Naomi Peña would be recognizable to audiences as one of the former 26K Girls from Kapamilya: Deal or No Deal. She also appeared as an extra in some shows.

Now married and with kids, Naomi is popularly known for promoting food and collaborating for her food blogs. Her YouTube channel boasts of 350,000 plus followers and was awarded as one of TikTok’s Top Food Creator of 2023.

Naomi, who is part of a group of food vloggers called Team Patakam also shared some advice in a 2023 interview with Philstar about being a food content creator.

“Pag first time ka pa lang nag-vlog at hindi ka naman artista, dapat nakiki-trending ka lang muna. Kailangan mo munang makiuso ka talaga. Nag-content ako ng mukbang tapos don ko nakita na dumami ‘yung followers ko at subscribers. Talagang nag-boom ‘yung channel ko.”

Ralph Villacorte aka Daddycooks PH

Based in Leyte, Ralph Villacorte or Daddycooks PH has collaborated with several food brands, ranging from a fastfood chain to spam. He and his wife Regen also share their family life on their social media accounts.

Some of Ralph’s recipes include his version of afritada, bang bang shrimp, and his versions of homemade sauces and spreads such as nutella and peanut butter. Three of his content – homemade adobo, homemade spam, and paklay Visaya are the most viewed on his TikTok account.

Panlasang Pinoy

Vanjo Merano, known as Panlasang Pinoy has become synonymous with food in the US. Based in Chicago, he has his own website panlasangpinoy, where he shares many Filipino recipes.. He has also been featured in several publications.

With a following of 7.6 million on YouTube alone, it’s no wonder Panlasang Pinoy is one of the go-to food vloggers. Aside from his recipes, he has also collaborated with some of his contemporaries. Vanjo also occasionally shares updates on his family, including his two daughters.

Chef Mark Joseph

Looking on his Instagram feed, Chef Mark Joseph‘s cooking presentation is very much minimalist. He’s one of today’s popular food content creators and he’ll gladly share recipes he made such as his Cheesy baked aubergines and Grilled Pork Steaks with Pineapple rice.

On top of his food, Chef Mark also shares photos of his family and lifestyle events he gets invited to. He has a large following on TikTok at 573,000 plus.

Kath and Gene

Couple Kath Lim-Barcelo and Gene Anthony Barcelo or Kath and Gene on social media not only share their love for food but lifestyle in general. Their love of food and cooking made them part of the Top 10 food creators of 2021 in TikTok with a following of close to 617,000.

The couple has also been approached by several food brands including a seasoning brand, graham, and chips to name a few.

Grace Tanfelix

If Grace Tanfelix‘s family name sounds familiar, it’s because she is the mom of Voltes V actor and Sparkle Artist Miguel Tanfelix. On her TikTok, Grace shares some of her family’s favorite dishes including kalderetang spareribs, a favorite of Miguel.

Aside from food, Grace would share a bit of happenings with her two sons. Sometimes, she and Miguel would do a TikTok dance or their outings during their free time.

Some of her must-watched food recipes include chicken tendon, beef pares, and tuna steak.