Filipino food puns and jokes (short & sweet comics, or komiks)

July 5, 2022

Updated November 17, 2024

Here are some corny Filipino food puns and jokes you can tell your pamangkids when you’re on a road trip and they have no choice but to listen to you.

I drew these comics for my Filipino Food Art project. Enjoy!

We all make mistakes

Taglish joke or pun about bistek — If you would like this as an artprint let me know! Send me a message on Instagram.

Cook 1: “Sayang I put too much salt.”
Cook 2: “You’ve made a big BISTEK.”

Galavanting coconuts

Filipino pun comic about gata and laing — Get this as a printable on my Filipino Food Art Etsy.

Anak: “Sorry, I GATA go!”
Nanay: “No you don’t, why are you LAING?”

Identity issues

Lugaw and goto joke or pun — Get this as a printable on my Filipino Food Art Etsy.

Anak: Ma, I’ve changed my name to Lugaw.
Nanay: What? GOTO your room!

Sweet vacation

Monggo hopia filipino food pun joke — Get this as a printable on my Filipino Food Art Etsy.

Hopia 1: Wow! Two tickets to MONGGOlia!
Hopia 2: I HOPIA like it.

Food fight between Lumpia & Ngohiong

Bisaya filipino food pun joke about Ngohiong or 5-spice ubod or heart of palm lumpia — If you would like this as an artprint let me know! Send me a message on Instagram.

Lumpia: I taste better!
Ngohiong: NGOHIONG don’t!

Korny kakanin (an older comic I made)

Suman and biko food pun joke comic — If you would like this as an artprint let me know! Send me a message on Instagram.

Suman: You gave me SUMANy chocolates! Why?
Biko: BIKOs I love you.

This lumpia is on a roll

A literal fresh lumpia (a fresh lumpia with sunglasses) — Get this as a printable on my Filipino Food Art Etsy.

Nobody:
Fresh lumpia: “Stay fresh pare.”

Pen pun pals being “sili”

Comic of two sili or chili pepper characters. Do you haba pen? Dont be sili I do! — Get this as a printable on my Filipino Food Art Etsy.

Siling Haba: Do you HABA pen?
Siling Labuyo: Don’t be SILI, I do!

Pusit pun

Stay PUSITib, and INKredible!

Pusit pun, the SEAquel

Stay PUSITib and happy, like you’re tenTICKLED!

Tacos and their fear of bats

Takot ka ba Filipino pun art - for web — See the entire comic here.

Na GHOULat sya!

(Takot = scared, matapang = brave in Tagalog, gulat = surprised)

Lechon and turkey are BFFs?

Filipino-American pun - Baste friends forever - lechon and turkey or pabo — See the entire comic here.

They’re all about that baste, no gobble. Tenks kidding.

Photos of funny puns, signs, and more

Make it Kwek food stall. See more photos of funny puns and signs here.

Whenever I travel or simply go out to bike or eat, I’ll find an occasional funny pun on a sign, or a hilarious product. I took photos of some I’ve seen and posted them in a blog post. If you have any you’ve seen on the street, do share them and I’ll cite you as the PUTOgrapher.

More corny jokes to come

I really enjoy making these, or reading corny Filipino dad jokes and puns online. Check out more cringe-worthy Filipino puns and jokes using some of the most random words, from Louis Vuitton to names of provinces, in my blog post here. What corny Filipino puns and jokes do you know that I should make art for? Meanwhile stay tuned for more!