Palabok means garnishing — fried pork belly, fried shrimp, fried tofu, crushed chicharrón, smoked fish, hard boiled eggs, and green onions — everything that’s laid on top of the bed of rice noodles doused with shrimp-flavored achuete-colored sauce. Pancit palabok is pancit luglog, which is noodles shaken in hot water and not stir-fried like pancit bihon [bee-hon]. Luglog [loog-log] means to dip and shake in water. Rice noodles that can be as thin as vermicelli or as plump as egg noodles are first soaked in water so they can soften. Then they are doused in hot water for a quick minute immediately before the pancit is served.